The 2025 Berg Lecture, "The recognition of partnering symbionts with each new generation: Lessons from the squid-vibrio symbiosis," will be presented by Margaret McFall-Ngai, Carnegie Science and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The lecture begins at 6 p.m., with a reception to follow, 7-8:30 p.m.

McFall-Ngai was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010, a Caltech Moore Scholar from 2011-2013 and an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University between 2010 and 2016. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology.

McFall-Ngai is a Senior Staff Scientist at Carnegie Science and a Faculty Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering at Caltech. She was the first hire for Carnegie’s newly launched research division for Biosphere Sciences & Engineering in November 2021. Before joining Carnegie Science, she was a professor and director emerita at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Pacific Biosciences Research Center.

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This annual microbiology lecture series is made possible by generous support from alumni Ronald and Ann Berg.