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 The John Innes Centre (JIC), located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, is an independent centre for research and training in plant and microbial science founded in 1910. It is a registered charity (No 223852) grant-aided by the Biotechnology and ...

William Bateson William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscove ...

Past Lecturers

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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 John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biolog ...

- "''The theory of evolution before and after Bateson''" * 1959

Kenneth Mather Sir Kenneth Mather CBE FRS (22 June 1911 – 20 March 1990) was a British geneticist and botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949, and won its Darwin Medal in 1964. He was the second vice chancellor of the University of Sout ...

- "''Genetics Pure and Applied''" * 1972 William Hayes - "''Molecular genetics in retrospect''" * 1974

Guido Pontecorvo Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo FRS FRSE (29 November 1907 – 25 September 1999) was an Italian-born Scottish geneticist. Life Guido Pontecorvo was born on 29 November 1907 in Pisa into a family of wealthy Italian industrialists. He was on ...

- "''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 Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work ...

- "''Molecular genetics in prospect''" * 1984 W.W. Franke - "''The cytoskeleton - the insoluble architectural framework of the cell''" * 1986

Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic ac ...

- "''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 Franklin (Frank) William Stahl (born October 8, 1929) is an American molecular biologist and geneticist. With Matthew Meselson, Stahl conducted the famous Meselson-Stahl experiment showing that DNA is replicated by a semiconservative mechanism, ...

- "''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 David Botstein (born September 8, 1942) is an American biologist serving as the chief scientific officer of Calico. He served as the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003 to 2013, where ...

- "''Extracting biological information from DNA Microarray Data''" * 2002

Elliot Meyerowitz Elliot Meyerowitz (born May 22, 1951) is an American biologist. Career Meyerowitz did his undergraduate work at Columbia University (A.B. in biology, 1973), where he worked part-time in the laboratory of Cyrus Levinthal on combined microscopic a ...

* 2003

Thomas Steitz Thomas Arthur Steitz (August 23, 1940 – October 9, 2018) was an American biochemist, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, best known for his ...

- "''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 Joan Elaine Argetsinger Steitz (born January 26, 1941) is Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is known for her discoveries involving RNA, incl ...

, 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 Dame Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser (born 7 March 1965) is a British plant biologist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge, Chief Executive Officer of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Sainsbury Laboratory, ...

, University of Cambridge - 'Shoot branching plasticity, how and why' * 2014 Professor

Michael Eisen Michael Bruce Eisen (born April 13, 1967) is an American computational biologist and the editor-in-chief of the journal eLife. He is a professor of genetics, genomics and development at University of California, Berkeley. He is a leading advocate o ...

, 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’

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Past Lecturers

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