In “A Million Shades of Green,” Anne Osbourn, professor and group leader at the John Innes Centre, will discuss ways to harness metabolic diversity in plants for food and health applications. Osbourn investigates natural product biosynthesis in plants. Her discovery that the genes for many of these pathways are organized in clusters like “beads on a string” in plant genomes has greatly accelerated the ability to find new pathways and chemistries of potential importance for the development of drugs and other useful compounds. Lecture 4:00 p.m.; cookies & coffee 3:30 p.m.

Michelle Monje, the Milan Gambhir Professor in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology and a professor of neurology at Stanford University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, will deliver the lecture, “Neuron-Glial Interactions in Health and Disease: From Cognition to Cancer.” Dr. Monje works at the intersection of neuroscience and brain cancer biology, with a particular focus on mechanisms and consequences of neuron-glial interactions in health, glial dysfunction in neurological disease and neuron-glial interactions in malignant glioma. Lecture 4 p.m.; cookies & coffee 3:30 p.m.; post-lecture reception 5 p.m.