# Bateson Lecture

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The **Bateson Lecture** is an annual genetics lecture held as a part of the John Innes Symposium since 1972, in honour of the first Director of the [John Innes Centre](/source/John_Innes_Centre), [William Bateson](/source/William_Bateson). [1]

## Past Lecturers

Source: [John Innes Centre](https://www.jic.ac.uk/about-us/friday-seminars/the-bateson-lecture/)

- 1951 [Sir Ronald Fisher](/source/Sir_Ronald_Fisher) - "*Statistical methods in Genetics*"
- 1953 [Julian Huxley](/source/Julian_Huxley) - "*Polymorphic variation: a problem in genetical natural history*"
- 1955 [Sidney C. Harland](/source/Sidney_C._Harland) - "*Plant breeding: present position and future perspective*"
- 1957 [J.B.S. Haldane](/source/J.B.S._Haldane) - "*The theory of evolution before and after Bateson*"
- 1959 [Kenneth Mather](/source/Kenneth_Mather) - "*Genetics Pure and Applied*"
- 1972 [William Hayes](/source/William_Hayes_(geneticist)) - "*Molecular genetics in retrospect*"
- 1974 [Guido Pontecorvo](/source/Guido_Pontecorvo) - "*Alternatives to sex: genetics by means of somatic cells*"
- 1976 [Max F. Perutz](/source/Max_Perutz) - "*Mechanism of respiratory haemoglobin*"
- 1979 [J. Heslop-Harrison](/source/J._Heslop-Harrison) - "*The forgotten generation: some thoughts on the genetics and physiology of Angiosperm Gametophytes* "
- 1982 [Sydney Brenner](/source/Sydney_Brenner) - "*Molecular genetics in prospect*"
- 1984 [W.W. Franke](/source/Werner_Franke) - "*The cytoskeleton - the insoluble architectural framework of the cell*"
- 1986 [Arthur Kornberg](/source/Arthur_Kornberg) - "*Enzyme systems initiating replication at the origin of the E. coli chromosome*"
- 1988 [Gottfried Schatz](/source/Gottfried_Schatz) - "*Interaction between mitochondria and the nucleus*"
- 1990 [Christiane Nusslein-Volhard](/source/Christiane_Nusslein-Volhard) - "*Axis determination in the Drosophila embryo*"
- 1992 [Frank Stahl](/source/Frank_Stahl) - "*Genetic recombination: thinking about it in phage and fungi*"
- 1994 [Ira Herskowitz](/source/Ira_Herskowitz) - "*Violins and orchestras: what a unicellular organism can do*"
- 1996 [R.J.P. Williams](/source/Robert_Williams_(English_chemist)) - "*An Introduction to Protein Machines*"
- 1999 [Eugene Nester](/source/Eugene_Nester) - "*DNA and Protein Transfer from Bacteria to Eukaryotes - the Agrobacterium story*"[2]
- 2001 [David Botstein](/source/David_Botstein) - "*Extracting biological information from DNA Microarray Data*"
- 2002 [Elliot Meyerowitz](/source/Elliot_Meyerowitz)
- 2003 [Thomas Steitz](/source/Thomas_Steitz) - "*The Macromolecular machines of gene expression*"
- 2008 [Sean Carroll](/source/Sean_B._Carroll) - "*Endless flies most beautiful: the role of cis-regulatory sequences in the evolution of animal form*"
- 2009 [Sir Paul Nurse](/source/Sir_Paul_Nurse) - *"Genetic transmission through the cell cycle"*[3]
- 2010 Professor [Joan Steitz](/source/Joan_Steitz), Yale University - *Viral noncoding RNAs: master regulators of RNA decay*
- 2011 Professor [Philip Benfey](/source/Philip_Benfey), Duke University - *Development rooted in interwoven networks*
- 2013 Professor [Ottoline Leyser](/source/Ottoline_Leyser), University of Cambridge - 'Shoot branching plasticity, how and why'
- 2014 Professor [Michael Eisen](/source/Michael_Eisen), University of California, Berkeley – ‘Embryonic adolescence: control of gene expression during early fly development’
- 2015 Professor [George Church](/source/George_Church_(geneticist)), Harvard Medical School – ‘Outer limits of genetic technologies’
- 2017 Professor [Frederick M. Ausubel](/source/Frederick_M._Ausubel), Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital – ‘Modelling Plant-Microbe Interactions’

## See also

- [Biffen Lecture](/source/Biffen_Lecture)
- [Chatt Lecture](/source/Chatt_Lecture)
- [Darlington Lecture](/source/Darlington_Lecture)
- [Haldane Lecture](/source/Haldane_Lecture)
- [List of genetics awards](/source/List_of_genetics_awards)

## References

1. ["The Bateson Lecture"](https://web.archive.org/web/20131109155313/http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/whats-on/named-lectures/bateson.htm). John Innes Centre. Archived from [the original](http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/whats-on/named-lectures/bateson.htm) on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 13 November 2010.

1. ["BSPP News"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415062210/http://www.bspp.org.uk/publications/bsppnews/bsppnews36/bsppnews36-10.htm). Archived from [the original](http://www.bspp.org.uk/publications/bsppnews/bsppnews36/bsppnews36-10.htm) on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-12-11.

1. ["ISPPweb Plant Pathology Online"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120103204619/http://www.isppweb.org/nlmay09.asp). Archived from [the original](http://www.isppweb.org/nlmay09.asp) on 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2011-12-11.

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