May 4, 2010 No. 15/10-G ELEVENTH WILLIAM G. DEMAS MEMORIAL LECTURE TO BE DELIVERED BY JAMAICAN-AMERICAN SCIENTIST Professor Patricia Martin-DeLeon will deliver the Eleventh William G. Demas Memorial Lecture. Her topic will be Increasing the Caribbean's Human Capital in the Stem (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Fields: The Pivotal Role of Mentoring. Professor DeLeon is Trustees Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Delaware, where she has worked for the last 34 years, and where she serves as Faculty Representative on the Board of Trustees. She has been a Visiting Scientist in the Pediatrics Department of Johns Hopkins University, a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Pennsylvania, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Penn State University College of Medicine. Professor DeLeon is a reproductive geneticist whose research interests focus on genes involved in sperm development and function as well as sperm membrane and epididymal proteins. She attended Excelsior High School in Kingston, Jamaica. She graduated with a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. from the University of the West Indies, and with a Ph.D. in Microscopic Anatomy from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. She was a Medical Research Council (MRC) of Canada postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in Montreal. Professor Patricia Martin-DeLeon will deliver the Eleventh William G. Demas Memorial Lecture. Her topic will be Increasing the Caribbean's Human Capital in the Stem (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Fields: The Pivotal Role of Mentoring. Professor DeLeon is Trustees Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Delaware, where she has worked for the last 34 years, and where she serves as Faculty Representative on the Board of Trustees. She has been a Visiting Scientist in the Pediatrics Department of Johns Hopkins University, a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Pennsylvania, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Penn State University College of Medicine. Professor DeLeon is a reproductive geneticist whose research interests focus on genes involved in sperm development and function as well as sperm membrane and epididymal proteins. She attended Excelsior High School in Kingston, Jamaica. She graduated with a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. from the University of the West Indies, and with a Ph.D. in Microscopic Anatomy from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. She was a Medical Research Council (MRC) of Canada postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in Montreal. She has served as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, NIH Study Sections, National Science Foundation Review Panels, and on the Executive Council of the American Society of Andrology, where she was recognized for her scientific contributions. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of four journals in Andrology/Reproduction, has published widely in the field, and has three patents issued or pending. She is the recipient of the 2007 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, at the Wyndham Nassau Resort and Crystal Palace Casino. CDB inaugurated the lecture series to honour the life and work of its second President, the late William Gilbert Demas. She has served as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, NIH Study Sections, National Science Foundation Review Panels, and on the Executive Council of the American Society of Andrology, where she was recognized for her scientific contributions. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of four journals in Andrology/Reproduction, has published widely in the field, and has three patents issued or pending. She is the recipient of the 2007 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, at the Wyndham Nassau Resort and Crystal Palace Casino. CDB inaugurated the lecture series to honour the life and work of its second President, the late William Gilbert Demas.