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Lucy Shapiro Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research, School of Medicine, Stanford University Lecture I: Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health Tuesday, March 31, 2009 – 4:10 p.m. International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley  Lecture II: The Systems Architecture of a Bacterial Cell Cycle Wednesday, April 1, 2009 – 4:10 p.m. International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley  Lucy Shapiro is renowned for her contributions to the fields of developmental biology, molecular biology, and genetics. Her research focuses on the cell cycle of a developing microorganism, particularly on the process by which the cells divide into dissimilar, rather than identical, “daughter” cells. This process remains, in Shapiro’s words, “one of the most fundamental questions of developmental biology.”  Shapiro's pioneering work has revealed the genetic circuitry controlling a bacterial cell with 3,767 genes, providing the basic principl