Bateson Lecture
Annual genetics lecture in England
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’