The Wilhelmine Key Lecture

The annual Wilhelmine Key Lecture is sponsored by the American Genetic Association and is made possible by a bequest from the late Dr. Wilhelmine Entemann Key to the AGA to be used in support of lectures on the implementation of genetics for human welfare and improvement. Dr. Key earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1901 and was one of the first women to do so. Dr. Key taught at New Mexico Normal University and Belmont College before joining the faculty of Lombard College. Sewall Wright took his first biology course from Dr. Key as a senior at Lombard College.

She was an inspiring teacher and greatly influenced Sewall Wright in pursuing a career in genetics.

The 2009 Wilhelmine Key Lecture will be given on Tuesday 9 June 2009 on the first morning of the Symposium.

Previous Key lecturers are:

    2008	Mariana Wolfner
    2007	Sally Otto
    2006 	Allen Orr
    2005 	June Nasrallah
    2004 	Walter Gehring
    2003 	James F. Crow
    2002 	Barbara Schaal
    2001 	Masatoshi Nei
    2000 	Terry Burke
    1999 	Walter Fitch
    1998 	Jeffrey Palmer
    1997 	John Avise
    1996 	Hampton Carson
    1995 	Fotis Kafatos
    1994 	Michael Clegg
    1993 	Charles S. Levings III
    1992 	Theodore R. F. Wright
    1991 	Margaret G. Kidwell
    1990 	William Provine
    1989 	Normal Giles
    1988 	Allan Wilson
    1987 	Robert W. Allard
    1986 	Bruce Wallace
    1985 	Francisco J. Ayala
    1984 	Harry Harris
    1983 	Ray D. Owen
    1982 	James V. Neel
    1981 	Clement L. Markert
    1980 	Edward O. Wilson
    1979 	Victor A. McKusick
    1978 	D. K. Balyaev
    1977 	Margery Shaw
    1975 	Jack R. Harlan
    1974 	Walter E. Heston
    1972 	James F. Crow
    1971 	Harold H. Smith
    1970 	Marvin S. Legator
    1969 	John H. Heller
    1968 	Arno G. Motulsky
    1967 	Samuel H. Boyer
    1966 	Leslie C. Dunn
    1965 	Rollin D. Hotchkiss
    1962 	Sheldon C. Reed