Led by biochemist/toxicologist Bruce Hammock.
Staples Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Maine. A generous gift from the late Basil and Jeanette Staples allows us to invite distinguished scientists to our campus as visiting Lecturers in Biochemistry. Past recipients of this lectureship include Tom Maniatis (1988), Harvey Lodish (1989), Stuart Kornfeld (1990), Lee Hood (1990), Nick Cozzarrelli (1992), Phil Cohen (1996), Maxine Singer and Paul Berg (1997), Susan S. Taylor (2005), Joan Brugge (2006), Melanie Cobb (2011), Lew Cantley (2012) and Nobel Laureates Tom Cech (1993) and Rod MacKinnon (2011).