 | Timothy Goldsmith |
A symposium featuring talks by leading ,biologists will honor Yale scientist Timothy H. Goldsmith, who recently retired from the University.
The event will take place on Friday, Sept. 26, at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. It is free and open to the public.
Some of the featured speakers have studied under or conducted research with Goldsmith, professor emeritus of molecular, cellular and developmental biology. Among the participants is Donald Kennedy, the Bing Professor of Environmental Science emeritus and president emeritus of Stanford University, who is editor-in-chief of the journal Science.
The symposium will begin at 8:55 a.m. with opening remarks by Robert Wyman, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale.
From 9 a.m. to noon, there will be discussion of the theme "Vision from Molecules to Behavior," chaired by Gary Bernard of the Boeing Company. Speakers include W. Clay Smith '90 Ph.D., assistant professor in the departments of ophthalmology and neuroscience at the University of Florida; Thomas W. Cronin, professor of biological sciences at the University of Maryland; and Rüdiger Wehner, professor and head of the Department of Zoology at the University of Zürich.
"More Threads: Evolution, Law and Education" will be the subject of the second discussion, 1:30-5 p.m. William Zimmerman, professor of biology at Amherst College, will chair this session and will also be one of the speakers. The other speakers are Owen D. Jones '91 J.D., professor of law and biology and the Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar at Arizona State University; and Kennedy, who also served as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the late 1970s.
A reception will follow this session at 5:15 p.m. in the Peabody Museum's New England Diorama Room.
Goldsmith has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1961. His principal interests are in neurobiology (with an emphasis on comparative aspects of vision) and behavioral evolution. His early work showed that although insect eyes are anatomically and developmentally totally different structures from vertebrate eyes, retinol -- a derivative of Vitamin A -- is the chromophore in insect visual pigments, as it is in all animals. He has explored the regeneration of visual pigment after use in insects and crustaceans and the participation of ultraviolet light in the color vision of birds.
Goldsmith is the author or co-author of over 100 papers and two books, "The Biological Roots of Human Nature: Forging Links Between Evolution and Behavior" and the textbook "Biology, Evolution, and Human Nature" (with William F. Zimmerman). For the last decade he has taught a course on this subject for non-science majors in Yale College. He served as the committee chair and principal author of the National Academy of Sciences' report "Fulfilling the Promise: Biology Education in the Nation's Schools." At Yale, Goldsmith held the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship.
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