The Charles A. Stuart Memorial Lectureship was established in 1963 in memory of the nationally recognized Dr. Charles A. Stuart.

Doc Stuart earned his bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University. He then joined the Brown faculty and worked his way up the academic ladder to Full Professor. He retired in 1960 after a 45 year career at Brown.

Doc Stuart was the professor of microbiology within a small biology department without a medical school.  Because of his research and diagnostic skills in pathogenic bacteriology, he gained national recognition.  Doc has a bacterium named for him:  providencia stuartii – a source of the pst.1 restriction endonuclease.

His wife, Helen Brintzenhoff Stuart, often assisted Doc in the lab.  Among some of his students are Stan Falkow, Merrill Chase, and Sam Formal.  Doc served as President of the Society of American Bacteriologists, now known as the American Society of Microbiology.

Upon his death in 1962, the Brintzenhoff family endowed this lectureship known today as the Annual Charles A. Stuart Memorial Lectureship and two named chairs in microbiology & immunology.  Paul M. Knopf has the honor of holding the 1st Charles A. & Helen B. Stuart Chair and Christine A. Biron has the honor of holding the Esther Elizabeth Brintzenhoff Chair. 

The list of past lecturers is most impressive and contains some of the most distinguished scientists in the fields of microbiology and immunology.

44th Annual
November 29, 2007  
                            
Mary K. Estes, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
"Host Determinants for Norwalk Virus Susceptibility"

43rd Annual
March 15, 2007  
                            
Edward A. Berger, Ph.D.
Chief, Molecular Structure Section
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID
National Institutes of Health
TBA

42nd Annual
September 8, 2005  
                            
George R. Stark, PhD, FRS
Professor of Genetics
Department of Molecular Biology
Lerner Research Institute
Case Western Reserve University
"Use of forward genetics to help unravel mammalian signaling pathways"

41st Annual
February 17, 2005    
                                   
Ralph M. Steinman, M.D.
Henry G. Kunkel Professor and Senior Physician
Director, Chris Browne Center for Immunology
and Immune  Diseases
The Rockefeller University
"Harnessing dendritic cells as a new approach to vaccine biology"

40th Annual
October 14, 2003

Laurie Glimcher, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology
Harvard School of Public Health
"Lineage Commitment in Lymphocytes"

39th Annual
December 2, 2002

Irving L. Weissman, M.D.
Professor of Cancer Biology, Pathology,
and Developmental Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine
 “Biology of Stem and Progenitor cells”

38th Annual
September 20, 2001

Charles A. Janeway, Jr., M.D.
Professor of Immunology
Yale University School of Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"How the Immune System Works to Protect the Host from Infection"

37th Annual
December 2, 1999

John M. Coffin, Ph.D.
ACS Research Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology,
Tufts University School of Medicine                                                          
“Evolution of Retroviruses”

36th Annual
December 10, 1998

Louis H. Miller, M.D.
Section Head, Malaria Cell Biology Section
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
National Institutes of Healther (NIH)
"The Road to a Malaria Vaccine"

35th Annual
May 14, 1998

Don C. Wiley, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
Harvard University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Structural studies on the mechanism of viral infection and the cellular immune response."

34th Annual
March 20, 1997

Barry R. Bloom, Ph.D.
Dean of the Faculty
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health
"Pathogenesis and Protection in Tuberculosis"

33rd Annual
December 8, 1995

Melvin Cohn, Ph.D.
Professor, Conceptual Immunology Group
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
"An Integrative View of the Humoral Immune System"

32nd Annual
October 17, 1994

Michael B. A. Oldstone, M.D.
Member, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation
Head, Viral Immunobiology Laboratory
The Scripps  Research Institute
"The Anatomy of Viral Persistence"

31st Annual
December 1, 1993

Philippa Marrack, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"T-Cell Specificity and Development"

30th Annual
October 16, 1992

**J. Michael Bishop, M.D.
Director, The G. W. Hooper
Research  Foundation,
University of California, San Francisco
"Cancer Genes:  Bench to Bedside"

29th Annual
March 20, 1991

**David Baltimore, Ph.D.
President, California Institute of Technology                   
“Control of Differentiation of Immune Cells”

28th Annual
May 22, 1990

Dr. Fritz Melchers
Director, Basel Institute of Immunology
Basel, Switzerland
“Molecular and Cellular Controls of B Cell Development"

27th Annual
May 8, 1989

Hugh O. McDevitt, M.D.
Chairman, Department of
Microbiology and Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
“The Role of MHC Class II Molecules in Immunity and Autoimmunity"

26th Annual
May 27, 1988

Dr. Stanley Falkow
Department of Medical Microbiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
“Genetic and Biochemical Aspects of Microbial Entry into
Eucaryotic Cells"

25th Annual
December 10, 1987

Bernard Moss, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of the Laboratory of Viral Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
“Vaccinia Virus:  From Jenner to Genetic Engineering"

24th Annual
October 23, 1986

Boris Magasanik, Ph.D.
Jacques Monod Professor of Microbiology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
“Nitrogen Control of Gene Expression"

23rd Annual
February 5, 1986

Dr. Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Biology
New York University
“Rationale for the Development of Malaria Vaccines"

22nd Annual
January 31, 1985

Robert Weinberg, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
“Oncogenes and the Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis"

21st Annual
November 10, 1983

Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Cancer Center
California Institute of Technology
“Genes of the Major Histocompatibility Complex"

20th Annual
October 29, 1982

Joan Steitz, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University School of Medicine
“Small Ribonucleoproteins and RNA Biogenesis in Mammalian Cells"

19th Annual
October 23, 1981

**Baruj Benacerraf, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
“The Role of MHC Gene Products in Immune Regulation"

18th Annual
October 24, 1980

Philip Leder, M.D.
Head, Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
“The Immunoglobulin Genes of Mice and Men "

17th Annual
October 23, 1979

**Harold E. Varmus, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
University of California, San Francisco
“What Have We Learned from RNA Tumor Viruses?  A 10-Year Perspective"

16th Annual
October 27, 1978

**Walter Gilbert, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology
Harvard University School of Medicine
“Expression of Higher Cell Genes in Bacteria"

15th Annual
October 21, 1977

Sol Spiegelman, Ph,D.
Director, Institute of Cancer Research
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
“Genes, Viruses and Cancer"

14th Annual
October 22, 1976

Ken Warren, M.D.
Director, Division of Geographic Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
“The Schistosome Egg and I:  The Immunopathogenesis of
Schistosomiasis from the Clinical to the Molecular Level"

13rd Annual
October 24, 1975

Alwin Max Pappenheimer, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Harvard University School of Medicine
“Molecular Biology of Diphtheria"

12th Annual
October 25, 1974

Robert A. Good, M.D., Ph.D., DSc, FACP
President and Director
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
“The Immunity Systems - Abnormalities and Corrections"

11th Annual
October 26, 1973

Byron H. Waksman, M.D.
Department of Pathology
Yale University School of Medicine
“The Biological Role of Suppressor T-cells"

10th Annual
October 20, 1972

Merrill W. Chase, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University
“Immunological Responses to the Tubercle Bacillus"

9th Annual
October 29, 1971

Stanley Falkow, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
Georgetown  University
“Extrachromosomal Elements in Enteric Bacteria"

8th Annual
December 14, 1970

George Klein, M.D., D.Sc.
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
“Immunological Studies on Burkitt Lymphoma”

7th Annual
October 23, 1969

Rupert E. Billingham, F.R.S.
Department of Medical Genetics                                                        
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
“Some Anomalies in Transplantation Immunology"

6th Annual
November 14, 1968

Dr. Roger Y. Stainer
The University of California,  Berkeley
“Evolution of Regulatory Mechanisms in Bacteria"

5th Annual
October 19, 1967

Dr. James G. Hirsch
The Rockefeller University
“Phagocytic Cells"

4th Annual
October 17, 1966

Dr. Robert M. Pike
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
“Antibody Heterogeneity and Immune Reactions"

3rd Annual
October 21, 1965

John F. Enders, Ph.D.
Harvard University and Children's
Hospital Medical Center
“A Consideration of the Role of Oncogenic Viruses in the Development of Malignancy in vitro  Based on Experiments with Simian Virus 40"

2nd Annual
November 4, 1964

Samuel B. Formal, Ph.D.
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
“Pathogenesis and Immunity in Bacillary Dysentery"

1st Annual
November 7, 1963

Merrill W. Chase, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University
“Concepts of Hypersensitivity"


**Denotes recipients of the Nobel Prize

J. Michael Bishop
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989
"for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"

David Baltimore
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975
"for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"

Baruj Benacerraf
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980
"for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"

Harold E. Varmus
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989
"for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"

Walter Gilbert
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980
“for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"

John F. Enders
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954
"for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"