Lands Lectureship Speaker Named

The William E.M. Lands Lectureship, sponsored by the Department of Biological Chemistry, is pleased to announce that it has invited Richard Wurtman, M.D. to give the 2009 lecture. Dr. Wurtman is the Cecil H. Green Distinguished Professor of Neuropharmacology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, at MIT. Dr. Wurtman's discourse, Administering Phosphatide Precursors Increases Synaptic membrane, Dendritic Spines, and probably, Brain Synapses, will be on Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 12:00 pm, North Lecture Hall, MS II.