Bateson Lecture

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The Bateson Lecture is an annual genetics lecture held as a part of the John Innes Symposium since 1972, in honour of the first Director of the John Innes Centre, William Bateson. ^[1]

Past Lecturers

Source: John Innes Centre

1951 Sir Ronald Fisher - "Statistical methods in Genetics"
1953 Julian Huxley - "Polymorphic variation: a problem in genetical natural history"
1955 Sidney C. Harland - "Plant breeding: present position and future perspective"
1957 J.B.S. Haldane - "The theory of evolution before and after Bateson"
1959 Kenneth Mather - "Genetics Pure and Applied"
1972 William Hayes - "Molecular genetics in retrospect"
1974 Guido Pontecorvo - "Alternatives to sex: genetics by means of somatic cells"
1976 Max F. Perutz - "Mechanism of respiratory haemoglobin"
1979 J. Heslop-Harrison - "The forgotten generation: some thoughts on the genetics and physiology of Angiosperm Gametophytes "
1982 Sydney Brenner - "Molecular genetics in prospect"
1984 W.W. Franke - "The cytoskeleton - the insoluble architectural framework of the cell"
1986 Arthur Kornberg - "Enzyme systems initiating replication at the origin of the E. coli chromosome"
1988 Gottfried Schatz - "Interaction between mitochondria and the nucleus"
1990 Christiane Nusslein-Volhard - "Axis determination in the Drosophila embryo"
1992 Frank Stahl - "Genetic recombination: thinking about it in phage and fungi"
1994 Ira Herskowitz - "Violins and orchestras: what a unicellular organism can do"
1996 R.J.P. Williams - "An Introduction to Protein Machines"
1999 Eugene Nester - "DNA and Protein Transfer from Bacteria to Eukaryotes - the Agrobacterium story"^[2]
2001 David Botstein - "Extracting biological information from DNA Microarray Data"
2002 Elliot Meyerowitz
2003 Thomas Steitz - "The Macromolecular machines of gene expression"
2008 Sean Carroll - "Endless flies most beautiful: the role of cis-regulatory sequences in the evolution of animal form"
2009 Sir Paul Nurse - "Genetic transmission through the cell cycle"^[3]
2010 Professor Joan Steitz, Yale University - Viral noncoding RNAs: master regulators of RNA decay
2011 Professor Philip Benfey, Duke University - Development rooted in interwoven networks
2013 Professor Ottoline Leyser, University of Cambridge - 'Shoot branching plasticity, how and why'
2014 Professor Michael Eisen, University of California, Berkeley – ‘Embryonic adolescence: control of gene expression during early fly development’
2015 Professor George Church, Harvard Medical School – ‘Outer limits of genetic technologies’
2017 Professor Frederick M. Ausubel, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital – ‘Modelling Plant-Microbe Interactions’

References

↑ "The Bateson Lecture". John Innes Centre. Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
↑ "BSPP News". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
↑ "ISPPweb Plant Pathology Online". Archived from the original on 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2011-12-11.

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[1] "The Bateson Lecture". John Innes Centre. Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 13 November 2010.

[2] "BSPP News". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-12-11.

[3] "ISPPweb Plant Pathology Online". Archived from the original on 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2011-12-11.

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Bateson Lecture

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