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 Community Outreach
Several initiatives through our Department of Development continue to go well. The Next Generation Initiative (NGI) is a series of lectures and tours designed to inspire interest in basic research in people in their 30s and 40s. The Young President's Organization (YPO) provides similar experiences for young leaders of industry and companies, and the Harbor Society is a small group of Laboratory supporters who have contributed to the Laboratory's planned giving program.
For the general public, the Laboratory holds lectures and concerts throughout the year. Jan Witkowski continues to host Lloyd Harbor Seminars at the Banbury Conference Center, and periodically, scientists who are attending scientific conferences at Banbury will deliver a public talk on their area of expertise in Grace Auditorium. In April, Mary-Claire King did just that with her talk, "Breast Cancer Update." Dr. King, professor in the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle, was responsible for locating the first breast cancer gene, BRCA1; she gave her lecture while participating in The Biology of BRCA1 meeting at the Banbury Center.
In October, Dr. Svante Paablo, Professor of General Biology at University of Munich, presented a lecture entitled "DNA, Neandertals, and Us." In November, we presented the third Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Lyme Disease Forum. Moderators of the discussion were Steven E. Schutzer, M.D., of the New Jersey Medical School Department of Medicine, and John Dunn, Ph.D., of Brookhaven National Laboratory's Department of Biology. The speakers, Patricia K. Coyle, M.D., of the University Hospital at Stony Brook Department of Neurology and Raymond Dattwyler, M.D., of the University Hospital at Stony Brook Department of Allergy and Lyme, discussed current research and clinical treatment of the disease and answered questions from the audience.
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