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.
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" 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" 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’
See also Biffen Lecture Chatt Lecture Darlington Lecture Haldane Lecture List of genetics awards
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