Darlington Lecture Explained

The Darlington Lecture is a lectureship of the John Innes Centre named after its former director, the geneticist C. D. Darlington.^{[1] [2]}

Lecturers

Source: John Innes Centre

• 2001 Alec Jeffreys
• 2002 Kim Nasmyth
• 2004 Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
• 2005 Frank Grosveld
• 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, 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, Molecular Biology of Plants & Animals, MPI for Developmental Biology – ‘Origin and consequences of genetic and epigenetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives’

See also

• Bateson Lecture
• Biffen Lecture
• Chatt Lecture
• Haldane Lecture
• List of genetics awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Darlington Lecture . John Innes Centre. 5 February 2020.
2. Web site: The Darlington Lecture . 2013-10-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131102170826/http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/whats-on/named-lectures/darlington.htm# . 2013-11-02 . dead.