The time and location will be announced later. During his session with the students, the director will discuss the importance of students at the Laboratory and give the audience a chance to ask questions, express concerns or comment on policy. Browne meets with students every summer, a tradition started about four years ago by former Laboratory Director Sig Hecker. All students are encouraged to attend. Carlson Thirtieth Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture scheduled for Aug. 7 Dr. Samuel Barondes, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of California at San Francisco, will deliver the 30th Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture on Aug. 7.
Admission is free.
Barondes, who earned a bachelor of arts and medical degrees at Columbia University, was trained in clinical medicine and psychiatry. He also conducted research in molecular biology before devoting himself to the application of the then new sciences of molecular biology and molecular genetics to the field of psychiatry. He joined the University of California system at its San Diego campus in 1970 and moved to the San Francisco campus in 1986. He was chairman of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and director of its Langely Porter Psychiatric Institute for seven years. He presently is the Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Professor at UCSF and director of the Center of Neurobiology and Psychiatry.