The Department of Biomolecular Chemistry and the MCP Program co-hosted the 3rd Annual Paul Bertics Memorial Lecture on March 20th, 2017 featuring Dr. Pietro De Camilli, HHMI investigator and Professor and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Yale University School of Medicine (https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/decamilli/) and President of the American Society for Cell Biology. Dr. De Camilli is a luminary in the fields of membrane dynamics and synaptic transmission. His talk was entitled “Contact sites between organelles in the control of lipid transport and membrane identity” and brought a large audience from all over campus and beyond.