- 2026: #Dr. Pamela Ronald, University of California- Davis: From Genomes to Grains: Engineering Rice for a Changing Climate
- 2025: >#Dr. Anthony Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics: Phase Separation in Cell Physiology and Disease
- 2024: Dr. Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University: From Microbe to Mind: the Saga of a New Gene in Rememberance and Reproduction
- 2023: #Dr. Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University: Ribosome Collisions as a Signaling Hub to Impact Cell Fate
- 2022: *#Dr. Thomas Südhof, Stanford University: On the Molecular Logic of Synapse Organization
- 2019: Connell Symposium celebrating the opening of the Biological Sciences Building with keynote speakers:
#Dr. Joanne Chory- Salk Institute, *#Dr. Randy Schekman- University of California- Berkeley, and #Jeannie Lee, MD, PhD- Harvard Medical School
and Distinguished alumnus talk: Dr. Robert A. Raguso- Cornell University
- 2017: ^#Dr. Bonnie L. Bassler, Princeton University: Quorum Sensing and its Control
- 2016: #Thomas Pollard, MD, Yale University: Molecular Mechanisms of Cytokinesis
- 2015: ^#Dr. Eve Marder, Brandeis University: Variability, Modulation, & Homeostasis in Neurons and Networks
- 2014: *#Gregg L. Semenza, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Mechanisms of Oxygen Homeostasis
- 2013: #Dr. Arthur Horwich, Yale University School of Medicine: Chaperonin Mediated Folding and Beyond
- 2012: #Dr. Elliot Meyerowitz, California Institute of Technology: Computational Mophodynamics: Understanding Plant Development Through Experimentation and Computer Models
- 2010: ^#Dr. Lucy Shapiro, Stanford University: The Systems of Architecture of the Bacterial Cell Cycle
- 2009: #Dr. Cori Bargmann, Rockefeller University: 50 Years of Solitude: How Genes and Environment Regulate a Circuit for Social Behavior
- 2006: >Dr. David Baulcombe, The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Center, Norwich, UK: Silencing RNA: The Dark Matter of Genetics
- 2005: ^#Dr. Susan Lindquist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: The Amazing Biology of Protein Folding and Misfolding
- 2004: *#Dr. Roger Tsien, University of California- San Diego: Genetically and Proteolytically Targeted Contrast Agents: From Ultrastructure to Clinical Samples
- 2003: *^#Dr. Eric Wieschaus, Princeton University: From Long Range Gradients to Local Changes in the Cytoskeleton: How Drosophila Embryos Control Cell Shape
- 2002: #Dr. Gerald Rubin, University of California, Berkeley: Biological and Computational Annotation of the Drosophila Genome Sequence
- 2001: *^#Dr. Günter Blobel, Rockefeller University: Protein Targeting
6 Nobel Laureats*
6 National Medal of Science Recipients^
19 National Academy of Sciences Members#
2 Royal Society Members>
