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Pathogenesis Affinity Group

The Bernard Fields Lectures on Microbial Pathogenesis

The Bernard Fields Lectures on Microbial Pathogenesis is an annual lecture series in memory of Bernard N. Fields (March 24, 1938 — January 31, 1995).  Bernard Fields was a recognized leader in the field of viral pathogenesis and will be remembered for emphasizing the importance of defining molecular parameters that affect disease.  As an architect of an expanded approach to studying viral infections, he along with Michael Oldstone is credited with spearheading the current resurgence of research on how viruses cause damage. Fields used the power of molecular genetic and cellular methods to take viruses apart and identify the functions of specific genes in causing disease.

The Bernard Fields Lectures on Microbial Pathogenesis is sponsored by the Bernard Fields Memorial Lecture Fund, The Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lecture Fund, and the Pathogenesis Affinity Group.

Past Lecturers:

1999 Lecturers

John Skehel, Medical Research Council, Mill Hill
Herbert Virgin, Washington University

2000 Lecturers

Don Wiley, HHMI, Harvard
Max Nibert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, now Harvard

2001 Lecturers

Terence S. Dermody, Vanderbilt
Ari Helenius, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

2002 Lecturers

Bruce Chesebro, NIH Rocky Mountain Labs
Barry Bloom, Harvard

2003 Lecturers

Stephen Harrison, Harvard
Bernard Moss, NIAID, NIH

2004 Lecturers

Rafi Ahmed, Emory
Mary-Claire King, University of Washington

2005 Lecturers

Charles Weissmann, The Scripps Research Institute
J. Michael Bishop, University of California, San Francisco

2006 Lecturers

Robert Webster, St. Jude
Hilary Koprowski, Thomas Jefferson University

2007 Lecturers

Douglas Lowy, NIH, NCI
Bruce Walker, Harvard

2008 Lecturers

Carol Greider, Johns Hopkins
Abner Notkins, NIH

2009 Lecturers

Kevin Campbell, HHMI, University of Iowa
Donald Ganem, HHMI, University of California, San Francisco

2010 Lecturers

Peter Palese, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Malcolm A. Martin, NIAID, NIH

2011 Lecturers

Beth Levine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
John Mekalanos, Harvard

2012 Lecturers

Mary K. Estes, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Beatrice H. Hahn, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania