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Lake Forest, Ill. -- The Lake Forest College Biology Department and its Beta Beta Beta chapter (national undergraduate biology honorary) invite the community to attend the Beta Beta Beta Neuroscience Lecture titled “Sleepless in America” presented by Dr. Fred Turek, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Biology at Northwestern University. The presentation will be held on Monday, November 7 at 4:00 p.m. in Meyer Auditorium, Hotchkiss Hall. A pre-seminar reception will be held at 3:00 pm in the First Floor Lobby at Hotchkiss Hall.

This opening event officially kicks off the 2005 Brain Awareness Week (November 7-11) at Lake Forest College. This educational community outreach event is the collaborative effort of students and faculty at Lake Forest College studying Brain, Mind, and Behavior. The public is welcome to attend the week’s events.

Dr. Turek is a world authority on the biological clock, circadian rhythms and seasonal cycles. His present research interests are on the genetic, molecular and neural basis for sleep and circadian rhythms with a special interest on the relationship between the sleep and circadian clock system at all levels of organization. He has published over 287 full-length articles.

Dr. Turek received his undergraduate degree in the biological sciences from Michigan State University in 1969, and his PhD from Stanford University in 1973 where he carried out research on circadian and seasonal rhythms. After postdoctoral training at the University of Texas at Austin, he took a faculty position at Northwestern University. He was the Chair of the Department of Neurobiology & Physiology from 1987 – 98, and is the founder and current Director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology at Northwestern University.

Dr. Turek was the founding president of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) and served in this capacity for six years. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biological Rhythms from 1995 - 2000. He is presently a Deputy Editor of the journal Sleep. He has served on a number of government advisory bodies and his research on biological rhythms has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, DARPA, as well as a number of private foundations and pharmaceutical companies.

He has received a number of awards in recognition of his academic and research achievements, including an NIH Research Career Development Award, two Senior International Fogarty Fellowships from the NIH, the Curt P. Richter Prize

Lake Forest College is a national liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,400 students representing 47 states and 53 other countries.


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Contact: Irene Ratliff
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