The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, in conjunction with Temple Judea and Books and Books, will present “Serving Five Prime Ministers,” a lecture by Ambassador Yehuda Avner on Tuesday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Judea, 5500 Granada Blvd., Coral Gables.

Ambassador Avner was born in Manchester, England in 1928 and arrived in British Mandatory Palestine in 1947. He fought in the 1948 War and was among the founders of Kibbutz lavi in the Galilee. During a lengthy career, he served in diplomatic positions at the Israeli Consulate in New York and the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and as Israel’s ambassador to Britain, Ireland, and Australia. Avner served as speechwriter and secretary to Israeli Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir and adviser to Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and Shimon Peres. He is the author of The Young Inheritors: A Portrait of Israel’s Children (1984) and The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (2010), and a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. To RSVP e-mail [email protected] or call 305-284-6882.

The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will host a seminar by Mustafa Tekin, associate professor at the Hussman Institute. Tekin will present “Genetics of Hearing Loss: Symphony of a Thousand” on Tuesday, March 1 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. For more information, contact Lourdes Acosta at [email protected] or Nora Matelis at [email protected].

The Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Management and the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will host a lecture by Luda Diatchenko, associate professor in the Department of Endodontics in the School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on Tuesday, March 1 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center auditorium. Diatchenko will present “Discovery of New Drug Targets for Pain in Genomics Era.”

The Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy will host a seminar by Kai Zinn, professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology, on Tuesday, March 1 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Zinn will present “Signaling Mechanisms Involved in Axon Targeting and Synaptic Plasticity in the Drosophila Neuromuscular System.” For more information, contact Nilcer Aviles at 305-243-6691 or e-mail [email protected].

Gareth Ridall, lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University, UK, will present “Motor Unit Number Estimation Using Trans-Dimensional Markov Chain Monte Carlo” on Tuesday, March 1, from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108.