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High school students in the Washington, D.C., area and throughout the world will learn about biological clocks during the annual Holiday Lectures on Science, December 4 and 5 at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The Institute will host a live audience of approximately 200 high school students at its headquarters in Chevy Chase, Md., and HHMI-supported science education programs will host live student audiences in Miami, Fl. Pa. A group of Russian students and teachers will watch the lectures and participate live from Moscow in an interactive question and answer session with the lecturers. Rosbash and Takahashi have done groundbreaking work in identifying the genes that encode the biological clocks of fruit flies and mice. Drawing on their research, they will demonstrate how their findings apply to humans.