Dr. Carol L. Moberg will present the third and final Heberden Society Lecture of the 2005-2006 academic year. The lecture, entitled "René Dubos, A Soil Scientist in Mr. Rockefeller's Hospital" will be presented at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, in the Uris Faculty Room (A-126) of Weill Medical College at 1300 York Ave. The lecture is open to the public.
Dr. Moberg is author of the recently published biography entitled "René Dubos, Friend of the Good Earth" (ASM Press, 2005). She worked with Dubos, a microbiologist and medical scientist, while he was writing his major works on the environment. Her lecture will elaborate on Dubos' personal and scientific encounters with medicine, disease, hospitals, and particularly some remarkable physicians who influenced his career—extending from his discovery of the first natural antibiotic to his provocative ideas about human and environmental health.
Dr. Moberg is a Senior Research Associate at The Rockefeller University in the laboratory of Ralph M. Steinman where she specializes in research and writing about twentieth-century biomedical sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University. Her articles have been published in Science, Scientific American, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. She was both a contributor and co-editor with Zanvil Cohn for "Launching the Antibiotic Era" (Rockefeller University Press, 1990). She is currently completing a book about the origins of modern cell biology as the science emerged and developed at The Rockefeller University.
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