The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has scheduled Andy Fire, of the Carnegie Institute, to be the speaker at this year’s DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Lecture.

Fire’s one-hour presentation is entitled “RNA-Triggered Genetic Silencing Mechanisms”, and will be held on Oct. 22 in the Masur Auditorium of the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center at the NIH. It is slated to begin at 3 p.m.

According to an NIGMS spokeswoman, the decision to invite Fire “reflects our view that [RNAi] is a very exciting research area.”