POTSDAM -- Nenad Ban will present the two lectures of Clarkson University's 21st Shipley Distinguished Lectureship, Feb. 1 and 2.

Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Ban, a Croatian biochemist, is the head of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Ban's lecture "Visualizing the Invisible" will be delivered on Monday, February 1, at 4:15 p.m. in Science Center Room 360 (#18 on the map at http://www.clarkson.edu/about/clarkson_map.pdf). The presentation will be preceded by a 3:30 p.m. reception in the Technology Advancement Center (TAC) Atrium (#17 on the map at http://www.clarkson.edu/about/clarkson_map.pdf).

In describing his lecture, Ban says, "Our ability to visualize the invisible world around us to better understand nature has advanced steadily in the course of history, a development fueled by important technological and methodological breakthroughs." Ban will discuss some of the key advances in this quest and their implications for understanding evolution and the molecular basis of life.

For more information contact Victor LaMer at 268-6658.