President's Lecture Series

Can butterflies and moths reveal the underpinnings of all life, even our own lives as humans? Nick Grishin, Ph.D., is a lepidopterist (someone who studies butterflies or [...]

Lifestyle choices, such as smoking and diet, play critical roles in the development of chronic conditions including heart disease, liver disease, and obesity, which are a[...]

David J. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D., has made a career traversing the road less traveled. For nearly 20 years, his investigations at UT Southwestern have taken divergent paths, a[...]

Sandra Schmid, Ph.D. is considered by her colleagues as a transformative thinker during a time of unprecedented change -- both in her field and in the world of science. D[...]

Sumeet Teotia, M.D., a renowned breast reconstructive plastic surgeon and classically trained artist, discussed the similarities between fine art and well-crafted plastic[...]

Cancer is one of the darkest forces of disease to have affected humankind, and biomedical innovator Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., aims to use the power of light to expose and d[...]

Body fat can seem elusive and confounding, but Dr. Philipp E. Scherer, the director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern, aims to unravel its[...]

The dazzling beauty, the astounding diversity of self-organization -- how do these features reflect a cell's primary function? How do they determine a cell's role as a dr[...]

Efforts to protect the body from the ill effects of alcohol have been the stuff of legends, dating back to the ancient Greeks and their erroneous beliefs around the power[...]

In general, when a virus enters the body, it binds to receptors on a cell's surface. Once the virus and the cell membrane fuse, the genetic material from the virus can en[...]