Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 5, 2000

Volume 28, Number 31

Horstmann Lecturer to discuss biology of phagocytes

Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein, the Dalton Professor and chair of the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, and professor of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, will deliver the ninth annual Dorothy M. Horstmann Lecture on Wednesday, May 10.

Silverstein's address, on the topic "How Do Phagocytes Find Their Prey? Answer: Delicious," will take place at noon in Fitkin Amphitheatre of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The lecture, part of Pediatric Grand Rounds, is co-sponsored by the Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Public Health.

Silverstein is a world renowned expert on the biology of phagocytes. He has studied their response to chemoattractants, their migration through blood vessels, their roles in atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease, and their antibacterial activity against legionella and mycobacteria.

Silverstein has served on the council of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and is currently a member of the boards of directors of the Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation and Research! America. He is the author of more than 160 scientific articles.

This endowed lecture honors Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann, the John Rodman Paul Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, for her distinguished contributions as a biomedical scientist, clinician and teacher. Best known for her work on poliomyelitis and rubella, Horstmann played a major role in developing and evaluating vaccines for these two diseases.

Tibetophile is topic of Humanities in Medicine lecture

Barbara Foster, associate professor of library sciences at Hunter College of the City University of New York, will present a lecture titled "Alexandra David-Neel: Explorer of Tibet & the Human Psyche" at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St.

The public is invited to this free event.

In her lecture, Foster will delineate the life of David-Neel, a petite Parisian woman who became a tantric lama at the age of 52 and was the first European woman to explore Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, at a time when foreigners were forbidden from the city. David-Neel hobnobbed with princes and gurus, and died in 1969 at the age of 100.

Foster will also share some rare information about the secret mystical practices of Tibetan Buddhism, many of which were mastered by David-Neel, including out-of-body travel, telepathy, vampiric shamanism and tantric sex.

Foster is the co-author of two books on David-Neel, "Forbidden Journey" and "The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and Its Forbidden Practices."

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