What: International genome authority Eric Lander will answer media questions before he speaks to the annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers. Who: Eric Lander, a leading researcher on the international Human Genome Project and lead author of this week's landmark scientific paper in the journal Nature. Lander is director of the Whitehead Center for Genome Research in Cambridge, Mass., and a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology When: 12:30 p.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14 Where: Krutch Theater, Clark Kerr Campus Center, 2601 Warring St., Berkeley Background: Today (Feb. 12) in Washington, D.C., Eric Lander joined other leaders of the public and private genome sequencing projects to announce the first detailed analyses of the human genome, the set of chemical code that governs the activities of all our living cells. Biologists say the new analyses will begin a new era of medicine, in which the genetic origins of diseases will be understood and better treatments will be invented. On Wednesday (Feb. 14), Lander will be the keynote speaker at a genomics workshop organized by UC Davis for the National Association of Science Writers. To accommodate interest in Lander from Bay Area media who are not attending the workshop, UC Davis is adding a news conference before his keynote lecture. The news conference will be the only opportunity for unregistered media to question Lander, but they may stay for his lecture, which will be in the same room. The afternoon's other workshop sessions are full. Directions: The conference center entrance is on Warring Street between Derby Street and Dwight Way in Berkeley. Other: An audio mult-box will be available.