Centenary Symposium

The Department of Biology hosted a "Viktor Hamburger Centenary Symposium" in recognition of Viktor's 100th birthday, October 20, 2000.

Videos of the Symposium are available in the Library collection

Celebrating Viktor Hamburger; Event marks famed biologist's centennial, by Tony Fitzpatrick, WU Record, v.25, no.6, October, 9, 2000.

Speakers

Garland Allen
Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
A Pact With the Embryo: The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Viktor Hamburger

Eugene Johnson
Department of Molecular Biology and Phamacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
The GFLs: the Other Family of Neurotrophic Factors

Martin Raff
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and University College London, London UK
Growth Control in Neural Development

Richard Harland
Department of Molecular Biology, Univniversity of California- Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
The Spemann Organizer

Cliff Tabin
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Signals Patterning the Skeleton and Tendons of the Chick Limb

Ann Burke
Department of Biology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Experimental Embryology: Searching for Intrinsic Mechanisms in the Evolution of Morphology

Sean Carroll
Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Developmental Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Diversity