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The John Daly Lecture Series resumed this year after a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. NIDDK initiated the series in 2009, a year after Daly’s death, to honor his memory and maintain his goals in science. Daly’s almost 50-year illustrious research career at NIH began in Bernhard Witkop’s lab. Witkop commissioned him to go in search of frog alkaloids in the rainforests of South America. Little did Daly know that this would be the start of a lifelong quest with monumental impact. Daly took on the trappings of an “Indiana Jones” character in trading his comfortable lab for the harsh and at times dangerous environment of the rain forest—although unlike Indy, he loved snakes. Throughout his career he personally collected NP treasures from exotic places, providing abundant samples for research in chemistry, pharmacology, and natural sciences for generations to come. 

LECTURE SUMMARY: Carole Bewley, chief of the NIDDK Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, will deliver a lecture on the topic of natural products. Bewley specializes in the discovery of biologically active natural products, and she has harvested such samples in underwater dives in marine environments. Indeed, this named lecture honors John Daly, who himself captured poison dart frogs for study. Bewley's lecture will be in the Lipsett Amphitheater from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

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