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International Lectures

The Annual Katzir-Katchalsky lectures on Biological Foundations and Human Behavior, endowed by S. Stulman of New York, have been held in Rehovot, Israel, since 1975.

Previous annual Lectures on Biological Foundations & Human Behavior:

2012, 31st
Genes and the microenvironment: the two faces of breast cancer
Prof. Mina J. Bissell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
 
2011, 30th
<a href="/katzir/node/24">Discovering the electronic circuit diagram of life</a>
Prof. Paul G. Falkowski, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
 
2010, 29th
<a href="/katzir/node/17">Genetic and neuronal networks for flexible behaviors.</a>
Prof. Cori Bargmann, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
 
2010, 28th
Breeding and building molecules to spy on cells and tumors
Prof. Roger Y. Tsien, Nobel Laureate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, San Diego, California, USA
 
2008, 27th
From prediction of structure to design
Prof. David Baker, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
 
2005, 26th
<a href="/katzir/node/18">Honesty to the singular objects: some reflections on ethics, narrative and science</a>
Roald Hoffmann
 
2004, 25th
The many faces of NF-kB
Daniel Baltimore
 
2003, 24th
Intuition and Rationality
Daniel Kahneman
 
2000, 23rd
(a) Molecular and Population Genetics of Evolution; (b) Fidelity of Biosynthetic Processes: Mechanistic and Medical Aspects
Miroslav Radman
 
1998, 22nd
New Directions in Angiogenesis Research: Do Vascular Endothelial Cells Control Organ and Tissue Size?
Judah Folkman
 
1997, 21st
Prion Protein in Health and Disease
Charles Weissmann
 
1996, 20th
Protein Designs for the Regulation of Gene Expression
Aaron Klug
 
1994, 19th
The Challenge of the Structure-Function Relation in Photosynthesis
Joshua Jortner
 
1993, 18th
Rationality and Cognitive Illusion: A New Approach to Subjective Probability
Amos Tversky
 
1992, 17th
Transformation of Information Across Membranes in Biological Systems
Daniel E. Koshland
 
1992, 16th
The Development of the Nervous System Analyzed in the Avian Model: Alternative Methods for Inducing Immunological Tolerance
Nicole Le Douarin
 
1990, 15th
Communications in the Nervous System: From Molecules to Cognitive Functions: Molecular Biology of Synapse Development
Jean-Pierre Changeux
 
1989, 14th
The Neoplastic Microevolution; The Neoplastic Microevolution II: The Role of Viral Transformatiion and Oncogene Activation by Chromosomal Translocation in the Genesis of B-Cell Derived Tumors
George Klein
 
1988, 13th
Understanding Life as Chemistry; Initiation of DNA Replication at the Origin of the Chromosome
Arthur Kornberg
 
1987, 12th
Meaning in Art and Science; Hermeneutics and the Analysis of Complex Biological Systems; The Role of Cell Linage in Embryonic Development
Gunther S. Stent
 
1986, 11th
Complex Dynamics in Chemistry and Biology - New Approaches to the Study of Temporal and Spatial Patterns; Mechanism and Control of Ordered and Chaotic States in Chemistry and Biology
Benno Hess
 
1985, 10th
Epigenesis: The Primary Processes of Development: The Molecular Regulation of Animal Form; The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
Gerald M. Edelman
 
1984, 9th
Steps Toward Molecular Biology of Learning
Eric. R. Kandel
 
1982, 8th
Experiments on Biogenesis
Manfred Eigen
 
1981, 7th
Irreversibility and Evolution: Irreversibility as a Limitation of Classical Quantum Physics
Ilya Prigogine
 
1980, 6th
Sociobiology and Human Nature: How Ant Societies are Organized
Edward O. Wilson
 
1979, 5th
Science and the Human Purpose
Sir George Porter
 
1978, 4th
Origins of Human Diversity
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
 
1977, 3rd
New Evidence on the Behavior of Great Apes, Clues to the Evolution of Human Behavior
David Hamburg
 
1976, 2nd
Evolution and Tinkering
Francois Jacob
 
1975, 1st
Advice to the Young Scientist
Sir Peter Medawar