Lecture to Highlight Mechanisms Behind Development of the Drosophila's Visual System
Dr. Claude Desplan, professor of biology and neural science at New York University (NYU), will deliver the 2025 Joram Piatigorsky Basic Science Lecture on Wednesday, April 23 from 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. ET. The lecture will take place in-person only, in Masur Auditorium in Bldg. 10.
Made possible by the philanthropic support of Lona and Joram Piatigorsky, this endowed series brings special consideration for basic eye and vision scientists who take risks exploring little-studied species and imaginative ideas. Desplan’s lecture will discuss the stochastic (random) mechanisms behind the development of the Drosophila visual system, and the transcriptional networks that regulate these cell fate decisions.
The lecture is sponsored by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and NIH’s National Eye Institute (NEI). A light reception will follow the lecture. Trainees and scientists from all across NIH are encouraged to attend.