GRC is pleased to announce the 2010 Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecturers:

• Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France / INSERM
  Neurobiology of Cognition GRC
• Jorge E. Galán, Yale University School of Medicine
  Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity GRC
• Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University
  Noble Metal Nanoparticles GRC
• Alanna Schepartz, Yale University
  Biopolymers GRC

The Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences established the Alexander M. Cruickshank Lectures to honor the many years of service to the organization by former director, Dr. A.M. Cruickshank. Lecturers are nominated by Conference Chairs and candidates are selected based on their current research and the subject of their proposed lecture. Three to four recipients are chosen annually and have their conference fee and travel expenses supported by GRC. More information about these awards is available here.

This announcement will also appear in the December 18, 2009 issue of Science magazine.