Rodney Porter Memorial Lectures

21^st Rodney Porter Lecture
2019

Professor Ian A. Wilson, D.Phil, D.Sc, FRS, FRSE Hansen Professor of Structural Biology, Chair Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, US

"Towards Design of Universal Influenza Vaccines and Therapeutics"

Tuesday 9^th April 2019

Main Seminar Room, New Biochemistry Building

20^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2018

Professor Tom Rapoport, Professor of Cell Biology, HHMI Investigator, Harvard Medical School

"Mechanism of ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD)"

Tuesday 8^th May 2018

Main Seminar Room, New Biochemistry Building

19^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2017

Dr. Richard Henderson, FRS MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge

"The cryoEM revolution in structural biology"

Wednesday 24^th May 2017

Main Seminar Room, New Biochemistry Building

18^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2016

Professor Austin G Smith, FRS, FRSE Medical Research Council Professor and Director, Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge

"Principles of pluripotency: from the ground state up"

Tuesday 10^th May 2016

Main Seminar Room, New Biochemistry Building

17^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2015

Dame Professor Carol Robinson, FRS Royal Society Research Professor and Doctor Lee's Professor Elect at the University of Oxford

"Two decades of structural biology in the gas phase"

Thursday 28^th May 2015

Main Seminar Room, New Biochemistry Building

16^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2014

Peter E. Wright: "Intrinsic protein disorder and signaling complexity"

15^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2013

Gabriel Waksman: "Transport through bacterial membranes:
structural and molecular biology of secretion systems"

14^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2012

Kay Davies : "Duchenne muscular dystrophy: from gene to therapy"

13^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2011

Peter Ratcliffe: "Signalling oxygen levels in cells"

12^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2010

Elizabeth Blackburn: "Telomeres and Telomerase: responses to their perturbation"

11^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2009

Roger Tsien: "Genetically encoded and synthetic molecules for in vivo and clinical imaging"

10^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2008

Frances Ashcroft: "Ion channels and diabetes: a rollercoaster ride"

9^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2007

Kim Nasmyth: "The chemistry of chromatid segregation: bound together by a ring and separated by a protease that cleaves it"

8^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2006

Edwin Southern: "Is there Life in Genomics?"

7^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2005

Sydney Brenner: "Biological Complexity and Protein Biochemistry"

(Postponed from 2004 due to illness)

6^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2003

Paul Nurse: "Controlling the Cell Cycle"

5^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2002

Andrew McMichael: "Towards an AIDS Vaccine: Science, Trials and Tribulations"

4^th Rodney Porter Lecture
2001

Stanley Prusiner: "The Mad Cow Crisis"

3^rd Rodney Porter Lecture
2000

Richard Lerner: "Antibodies Yesterday - Antibodies Today - Antibodies Tomorrow"

2^nd Rodney Porter Lecture
1999

John Gurdon: "From Clones to Signals: The Redirection of Cell Fate"

1^st Rodney Porter Lecture
1998

John Walker: "The Rotary Mechanism of ATP Synthesis"

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