Rodney Porter Memorial Lectures

The
Rodney Porter
Memorial Lectures

The Rodney Porter Memorial Lectures were inaugurated in 1998 as the premier event in the scientific calendar of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, and take place in the lecture theatre of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (photographs).

The lectures were named after Rodney Porter, Nobel Laureate 1972 and Head of the Department of Biochemistry 1967-1985, in recognition of his outstanding contributions both to scientific research and to Oxford University.

12th Rodney Porter Lecture

2010

Elizabeth Blackburn

4pm, Wednesday 5th May


	1st Rodney Porter Lecture 1998 John Walker “The Rotary Mechanism of ATP Synthesis” Photographs
	2nd Rodney Porter Lecture 1999 John Gurdon “From Clones to Signals: The Redirection of Cell Fate”
	3rd Rodney Porter Lecture 2000 Richard Lerner “Antibodies Yesterday - Antibodies Today - Antibodies Tomorrow” Photographs
	4th Rodney Porter Lecture 2001 Stanley Prusiner “The Mad Cow Crisis” Photographs
	5th Rodney Porter Lecture 2002 Andrew McMichael “Towards an AIDS Vaccine: Science, Trials and Tribulations” Photographs
	6th Rodney Porter Lecture 2003 Paul Nurse “Controlling the Cell Cycle” Photographs
	7th Rodney Porter Lecture 2005 Sydney Brenner “Biological Complexity and Protein Biochemistry” Photographs Postponed from 2004 due to illness
	8th Rodney Porter Lecture 2006 Edwin Southern “Is there Life in Genomics?” Photographs
	9th Rodney Porter Lecture 2007 Kim Nasmyth “The chemistry of chromatid segregation: bound together by a ring and separated by a protease that cleaves it” Photographs
	10th Rodney Porter Lecture 2008 Frances Ashcroft “Ion channels and diabetes: a rollercoaster ride” Photographs
	11th Rodney Porter Lecture 2009 Roger Tsien “Genetically encoded and synthetic molecules for in vivo and clinical imaging”