John Wilfred Jenkinson (1871–1915) was a pioneer in the field of comparative

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(the forerunner of

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) and one of the first to introduce experimental embryology to the UK at the start of the 20th century. He originally studied Classics as an undergraduate student at Oxford, before switching his attention to Zoology under the guidance of

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at University College London. He also travelled to Utrecht University in the Netherlands, to work with

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, and was exposed to new methods and approaches in embryology. In 1905, he was appointed the first lecturer in Embryology at the University of Oxford in England, and in 1909 published the first English textbook on experimental embryology in which he summarized recent work in the emerging scientific discipline and criticized neo-vitalist theories of Hans Driesch. At the outbreak of war in 1914, Jenkinson joined the Oxford Volunteer Training Corps. In January 1915 he was assigned to the 12th Battalion of the

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and was soon promoted to the rank of captain.Marett, R.R. (1917) Biographical note. In Jenkinson, J.W. Three Lectures on Experimental Emrbyology. Oxford: Clarendon Press Jenkinson left England with his regiment in May, posted to the Dardanelles in Turkey. On 4 June 1915, just days after arriving on the Gallipoli peninsula, Jenkinson was killed. After Jenkinson's death at

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in June 1915, the University of Oxford established the John Wilfred Jenkinson Lectureship in his memory. The original statutes required the lecturer or lecturers, appointed annually, to deliver “one or more lectures or lecture demonstrations on comparative or experimental embryology”.Statutes and Regulations of the University of Oxford http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/354-051a.shtml Each year, a Board of Electors selects one or two Jenkinson Lecturers who are invited to Oxford to present a lecture in the broad area of developmental biology. The list of Jenkinson Lecturers includes many distinguished names, including

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(marked with *).

Holders of the J. W. Jenkinson Lectureship

* 1961 Michail Fischberg * 1962 P. H. Tuft * 1963 Wolfgang Beerman * 1964 Jean Brachet * 1965 Rupert E. Billingham, * 1966 Jan Erik Edstrom * 1966 Alberto Monroy * 1967 *

Bob Edwards Robert Alan "Bob" Edwards is an American broadcast journalist, a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He hosted both of National Public Radio's flagship news programs, the afternoon ''All Things Considered'', and '' ...

* 1968 Georg Klein * 1969 R. M. Gaze * 1969 H. Chantrenne * 1970 * Sydney Brenner * 1970 Niels Kaj Jerne * 1971 Ernst Hadorn * 1971 J. M. Mitchison * 1972

Anne McLaren Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, (26 April 1927 – 7 July 2007) was a British scientist who was a leading figure in developmental biology. Her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation (IVF),

* 1972 G. Gerisch * 1973 Susumu Ohno * 1974 Ruggero Ceppellini * 1975 Andrzej Tarkowski * 1976 No formal lecture was held * 1977 Nils R. Ringertz * 1978 Martin Luscher * 1978 Armin C. Braun * 1980 Pasko Rakic * 1980 Walter Fiers * 1980

Nicole Le Douarin Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (born 20 August 1930) is a developmental biologist known for her studies of chimeras, which have led to critical insights regarding higher animal nervous and immune systems. Le Douarin invented an embryo manipulation ...

* 1981 Werner Reichardt * 1981 Antonio Garcia-Bellido * 1982 Lionel Jaffe * 1982 Maurice Sussmann * 1983 Stanley M. Crain * 1984 Rudolf Jaenisch * 1984 * Robert G. Edwards * 1985 G. S. Dawes * 1985 * François Jacob * 1985 Hans G. Schweiger * 1986

W. Maxwell Cowan William Maxwell Cowan (27 September 1931 – 30 June 2002) was a South African neuroscientist known for his work on developmental plasticity and neural connectivity. He is credited with helping to contribute to the growth of modern neuroanatomy ...

* 1986

Marc Kirschner Marc Wallace Kirschner (born February 28, 1945) is an American cell biologist and biochemist and the founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He is known for major discoveries in cell and developmental biolog ...

* 1986 Peter A. Lawrence * 1987 *

Gerald Edelman Gerald Maurice Edelman (; July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concern ...

* 1988 Corey Goodman * 1989 Josef Schell * 1989 * John Gurdon * 1989 Webster K. Cavenee * 1990

Kai Simons Kai Simons (born 24 May 1938) is a Finnish professor of biochemistry and cell biology and physician living and working in Germany. He introduced the concept of lipid rafts, as well as coined the term ''trans-Golgi network'' and proposed its role ...

* 1991 Carla Shatz * 1991 Harold Weintraub * 1992 Manfred Schartl * 1992 Noriyuki Satoh * 1992 Bruce Cattanach * 1993 Chuck B. Kimmell * 1993 Andrew Lumsden * 1994 Peter Gruss * 1995

Brigid Hogan Brigid L. M. Hogan FRS is a developmental biologist noted for her contributions to mammalian development, stem cell research and transgenic technology and techniques. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Duke Unive ...

* 1996

Ray Guillery Rainer Walter "Ray" Guillery FRS (28 August 1929 – 7 April 2017) was a British physiologist and neuroanatomist. He is best known for his discovery that in Siamese cats with certain genotypes of the albino gene, the wiring of the optic chia ...

* 1996 Susan K McConnell * 1997 James C Smith * 1997 Cliff Tabin * 1997 * Tim Hunt * 1998 Peter J. Bryant * 1999 Davor Solter * 1999 Françoise Dieterlan-Lievre * 2000 Peter Holland * 2000 Max Bear * 2000 Eduardo Boncinelli * 2001 Marc Tessier-Lavigne * 2002 *

Roger Tsien Roger Yonchien Tsien (pronounced , "'' CHEN''"'';'' February 1, 1952 – August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist. He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego and was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

* 2002

Enrico Coen Enrico Sandro Coen (born 29 September 1957) is a British biologist who studies the mechanisms used by plants to create complex and varied flower structures. Coen's research has aimed to define the developmental rules that govern flower and lea ...

* 2003

Mike Bate Christopher Michael Bate FRS (born 21 December 1943) is an Emeritus Professor of developmental biology at the Department of Zoology and fellow at King's College, Cambridge. The son of John Gordon Bate, M.B. Ch.B., an R.A.F. doctor, of Holmbu ...

* 2004

Cheryll Tickle Cheryll Anne Tickle (born 18 January 1945) is a distinguished British scientist, known for her work in developmental biology and specifically for her research into the process by which vertebrate limbs develop '' ab ovo''. She is an Emeritus ...

* 2004 Rudy Raff * 2005 Gerd Jürgens * 2005 David Weisblat * 2006 Stephen Cohen * 2006

Michael Akam Michael Edwin Akam Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (born 19 June 1952, in Bromley, Kent) is a British zoologist. He is professorial fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, and he is a director, University Museum of Zoology. He was Damon Runyan fell ...

* 2007 Shigeru Kuratani * 2007

Janet Rossant Janet Rossant, (born 13 July 1950) is a developmental biologist well known for her contributions to the understanding of the role of genes in embryo development. She is a world renowned leader in developmental biology. Her current research inte ...

* 2008 Richard Gardner * 2008 Didier Stainier * 2009

Sean B. Carroll Sean B. Carroll (born September 17, 1960) is an American evolutionary developmental biologist, author, educator and executive producer. He is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland and professor emeritus of molecul ...

* 2009

Wendy Bickmore Wendy Anne Bickmore (born 28 July 1961) is a British genome biologist known for her research on the organisation of genomic material in cells. Early life and education Bickmore was born at Shoreham-by-Sea on 28 July 1961 to Beryl and Keith B ...

* 2010 Nick Hastie * 2010 Paul Sternberg * 2010 David Kingsley * 2011 Jurgen Knoblich * 2012 Caroline Dean * 2012 Hopi Hoekstra * 2013 Olivier Pourquie * 2013 Nipam Patel * 2014

Gero Miesenböck Gero Andreas Miesenböck (born 15 July 1965) is an Austrian scientist. He is currently Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (CNCB) at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen C ...

* 2014

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*2015 * John Gurdon *2016 Detlef Weigel *2016 Linda Partridge *2017 * Jennifer Doudna * 2018

Liqun Luo Liqun Luo (; born January 1966) is a neuroscientist in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, where he is the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical ...

*2018

Elizabeth Robertson Elizabeth Jane Robertson is a British developmental biologist based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. She is Professor of Developmental Biology at Oxford and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. She is ...

* 2019 Andrea Brand * 2019 *

Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto ...

* 2022

Nancy Papalopulu Athanasia Papalopulu (born 1962) is a Wellcome Trust senior research fellow and Professor of Developmental Neuroscience in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester. Education After completing her undergraduate degree in Pha ...

* 2023 Denis Duboule * 202
Ben Lehner
* 2024 Elly Tanak

Forthcoming

Lectureship management

The lecturers are elected by an electoral board consisting of: the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford; the rector of Exeter College, Oxford; the Regius Professor of Medicine; the Linacre Professor of Zoology; the Waynflete Professor of Physiology; Dr. Lee's Professor of Anatomy; and a member of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board elected by that board.

References

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