First Wriston Lecture planned Friday, March 9

12:45 p.m., March 6, 2007--The inaugural John C. Wriston Jr. Memorial Lecture, honoring the late biochemistry professor who taught at the University of Delaware from 1955-1985, will be held at 4 p.m., Friday, March 9, in 205 Gore Hall.

The featured speaker will be Susan S. Taylor, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and pharmacology at the University of California San Diego, who will discuss the “Dynamics of Signaling by PKA.”
Taylor is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and past president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Wriston joined the UD faculty after earning a doctorate from Columbia University, and was the first biochemist in what was then the Department of Chemistry. He played a major role in the formation and growth of the biochemistry division within the department, which later was renamed the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Wriston conducted research in the structure and function of L-asparaginase and its use in anticancer therapy. He spent sabbatical leaves at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Carlsburg Laboratory in Copenhagen and the National Institute for Medical Research in London. Also, he was active in the American Association of University Professors. He died in November 2004.

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