The Haldane Lecture is an award lecture given at the

John Innes Centre The John Innes Centre (JIC), located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, is an independent centre for research and training in plant and microbial science founded in 1910. It is a registered charity (No 223852) grant-aided by the Biotechnology and B ...

in the United Kingdom since 2001. The lecture is named in honour of J.B.S. Haldane, who was employed by the John Innes Trustees from 1927 to 1937 under the directorship of

Alfred Daniel Hall Sir Alfred Daniel Hall, , sometimes known as Sir Daniel Hall (22 June 1864 - 5 July 1942) was a British agricultural educator and researcher who founded Wye College. Hall was born in Rochdale, Lancashire where his father Edwin Hall was a flann ...

Haldane Lecturers

Source
John Innes Centre
* 2017

Eske Willerslev Eske Willerslev (born 5 June 1971) is a Danish evolutionary geneticist notable for his pioneering work in molecular anthropology, palaeontology, and ecology. He currently holds the Prince Philip Professorship in Ecology and Evolution at Univer ...

* 2016 Michael Elowitz * 2014 Michael Lynch * 2011 Simon Levin * 2007 Herbert Jäckle * 2006 Bruce Stillman * 2004

Pat Brown Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco, and he ...

* 2003

Sydney Brenner Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to wo ...

* 2002 Tim Mitchison * 2001

John Maynard Smith John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British mathematical and theoretical biology, theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he ...

All Haldane Lecturers are presented with a print of a work of art by Leonie Woolhouse, wife of Harold Woolhouse. During their visit to the John Innes Centre, Haldane Lecturers are given the opportunity to have their portrait painted by

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 ...

as a memento.

References

{{reflist Genetics awards Genetics in the United Kingdom Science and technology in Norfolk Science lecture series 2001 establishments in England Awards established in 2001 Recurring events established in 2001 John Innes Centre

Haldane Lecturers

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