Biffen Lecture

The Biffen Lecture is a lectureship organised by the John Innes Centre, named after Rowland Biffen.

Lecturers

Source
John Innes Centre
* 2001 John Doebley
* 2002 Francesco Salamini
* 2003 Steven D. Tanksley
* 2004 Michael Freeling
* 2006 Dick Flavell
* 2008 Rob Martienssen – 'Propagating silent heterochromatin with RNA interference in plants and fission yeast'
* 2009 Susan McCouch, Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University – 'Gene flow and genetic isolation during crop evolution'
* 2010 Peter Langridge, University of Adelaide, Australia – 'Miserable but worth the trouble: Genomics, wheat and difficult environments'
* 2012 Sarah Hake, Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS – 'Patterning the maize leaf'
* 2014 Professor Pamela Ronald, Department of Plant Pathology & The Genome Center, University of California Davis – ‘Engineering crops for resistance to disease and tolerance of stress’
* 2015 Professor Lord May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford – ‘Unanswered questions in ecology, and why they matter’
* 2016 Edward Buckler, US Department of Agriculture – ‘Breeding 4.0? Sorting through the adaptive and deleterious variants in maize and beyond’

See also

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

References

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Genetics awards
Genetics in the United Kingdom
Science and technology in Norfolk
Science lecture series
John Innes Centre
2001 establishments in England
Recurring events established in 2001