Upcoming Events:
MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2023
Sonoma Speaker Series: In Conversation with...
Dr. Eric Verdin
President and CEO, Buck Institute
VIP Reception: 5:45pm - 6:45pm
Interview: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: Hanna Center
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Eric Verdin is the President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato. The Buck is the first and the largest independent research institute in the world that is focused solely on aging. At the Buck, his lab studies the relationship between aging and the immune system.
Dr. Verdin was born in Liege, Belgium, received his MD from the University of Liege and did his training at Harvard Medical School. Prior to coming to the Buck Institute, he was a Senior Investigator and the Associate Director of the Gladstone Institute. He is also a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Verdin has published more than 280 scientific papers, holds more than 15 patents, and consults with multiple biotech and pharmaceutical companies. He is in the top 1% of the most highly cited scientists in the world and a global thought leader in the field of aging.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Sonoma Speaker Series: In Conversation with...
David Brooks
VIP Reception: 5:45pm - 6:45pm
Interview: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: Hanna Center
TICKETS ON SALE AUGUST 21, 2023
David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and a contributor to The Atlantic. He is a commentator on “The PBS Newshour."
His most recent book, “The Second Mountain,” shows what can happen when we put commitment-making and relationships at the center of our lives. He is also the author of “The Road to Character,” “Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There” and “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement.”
Mr. Brooks is on the faculty of Yale University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Follow him on Twitter @nytdavidbrooks
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2023
Sonoma Speaker Series: In Conversation with...
Jared Diamond
VIP Reception: 5:45pm - 6:45pm
Interview: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: Hanna Center
TICKETS ON SALE OCTOBER 2, 2023
Jared Diamond is a Pulitzer-prize-winning author of six best-selling books, translated into 38 languages, about human societies and human evolution: Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, Why Is Sex Fun?, The Third Chimpanzee, The World until Yesterday, and Upheaval.
As a professor of geography at UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles), he is known for his breadth of interests, which involves conducting research and teaching in three other fields: the biology of New Guinea birds, digestive physiology, and conservation biology. His prizes and honors include the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Science, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
He is a director of World Wildlife Fund/U.S. and of Conservation International. As a biological explorer, his most widely publicized finding was his rediscovery, at the top of New Guinea’s remote Foja Mountains, of the long-lost Golden-fronted Bowerbird, previously known only from four specimens found in a Paris feather shop in 1895.
SONOMA SPEAKER SERIES: IN CONVERSATION WITH...
