The Darlington Lecture is a lectureship of the John Innes Centre named after its former director, the geneticist

C. D. Darlington Cyril Dean Darlington (19 December 1903 – 26 March 1981) was an English biologist, cytologist, geneticist and eugenicist, who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover, its role in inheritance, and therefore its importance to evoluti ...

Lecturers

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John Innes Centre
* 2001

Alec Jeffreys Sir Alec John Jeffreys, (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolv ...

* 2002 Kim Nasmyth * 2004

Nicholas R. Cozzarelli Nicholas Robert Cozzarelli (March 26, 1938, in Jersey City, New Jersey – March 19, 2006) was an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, and former editor-in-chief of ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences''. Ed ...

* 2005

Frank Grosveld Franklin Gerardus "Frank" Grosveld, FRS (born 18 August 1948) is a Dutch molecular biologist whose research interests are in the regulation of transcription during development with a particular emphasis on mammalian erythroid differentiation. He i ...

* 2007 Susan R. Wessler, University of Georgia, USA - 'It's alive: activation of virtual rice transposable elements in Arabidopsis and yeast' * 2008 Ewan Birney, EMBL, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK - 'Ensembl and ENCODE; understanding genomes' * 2010

Edward Rubin Edward Rubin is the chief scientific officer at Metabiota, a company that works on epidemic risk and infectious diseases. From 2002 to 2016, he was a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the director of the Department of E ...

, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * 2012 David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK – ‘RNA silencing and genome defense of plants’ * 2013 Chad Nusbaum, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA- ‘DNA technology as the engine of scientific discovery’ * 2015

Detlef Weigel Detlef Weigel (born 1961 in Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology. Education Weigel was an undergraduate in biology and chemistry at the universities of Bielefeld ...

, Molecular Biology of Plants & Animals, MPI for Developmental Biology – ‘Origin and consequences of genetic and epigenetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives’

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{{Reflist 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

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