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The Arthur K. Parpart Lectureship
7/18/05 - 4:00 PM - Lillie Auditorium
"Navigating the embryo: Germ cell migration in Drosophila"
Ruth Lehmann, NYU Medical Center
Dr. Lehmann received her MS from the University of Freiburg, Germany, where she worked with Dr. J. Campos-Ortega on neurogenic genes in Drosophila. Her Ph.D. was awarded from the University of Tübingen, Germany, working at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology with Dr. C. Nüsslein-Volhard on maternal and zygotic genes that establish polarity of the early Drosophila body pattern. After postdoctoral training in Tübingen and at the MRC in Cambridge, UK, in the laboratory of Dr. M. Wilcox, she joined the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, to start her own lab.
In 1996 Dr. Lehmann moved to the Skirball Institute at NYU where, she and Dr. Alexandra Joyner established a Program in Developmental Genetics at NYU School of Medicine. Presently, Dr. Lehmann is an HHMI Investigator, the Julius Raynes Professor of Developmental Genetics and a professor of cell biology at New York University School of Medicine. Together with Dr. Dan Littman she directs the Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology at NYU School of Medicine. Her present research interests are focussed on germ line development with particular interest in the origin of germ cells, the migration of primordial germ cells and the establishment, maintenance, and differentiation of germ line
About the Arthur K. Parpart Lectureship
The Arthur K. Parpart Lectureship was established by Dr. Joseph F. Hoffman in memory of Dr. Parpart’s distinguished career as a devoted teacher and able investigator. Dr. Parpart’s interest in the natural sciences began during his early years as an undergraduate student at Amherst College. Although his research over the years encompassed a wide range of subjects, his main concern was the physiology of the red blood cell, in particular the physiological and biochemical architecture of its cell membrane.
In 1931, Dr. Parpart accepted a faculty position at Princeton University shortly after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1948, he was elevated to chairman of Princeton’s Department of Biology, a position he occupied until his sudden death in 1965. Each June, Dr. Parpart transported his laboratory to Woods Hole where he spent summers doing research at the Marine Biological Laboratory. For more than ten years, he was a faculty member of the MBL’s Physiology Course; in 1963, was elected President of the Laboratory.
Widely known for his work in physiology and biochemistry, Dr. Parpart made a vital contribution to medical science during WWII, by directing a top-priority research project, which succeeded in lengthening the time human blood can be stored from three days to a maximum of forty days.
The career of Arthur K. Parpart was a notable one in all respects. He was a productive scientist, a vigorous and preserving leader, and a man who engendered the respect and friendship of scores of students and colleagues.
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