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. [1]

## Past Lecturers

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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’

## See also

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* Biffen Lecture
* Chatt Lecture
* Darlington Lecture
* Haldane Lecture
* List of genetics awards

## References

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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.