Francis Crick Lecture
Encyclopedia
The Francis Crick Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society
established in 2003 with an endowment from Sydney Brenner
, the late Francis Crick's close friend and former colleague. It is delivered annually in biology
, particularly the areas which Francis Crick
worked (genetics
, molecular biology
and neurobiology), and also to theoretical work. It is also intended for young scientists, i.e. under 40, or at career stage corresponding to being under 40 should their career have been interrupted.
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
established in 2003 with an endowment from Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner, CH FRS is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H...
, the late Francis Crick's close friend and former colleague. It is delivered annually in biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
, particularly the areas which Francis Crick
Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being one of two co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, together with James D. Watson...
worked (genetics
Genetics
Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
, molecular biology
Molecular biology
Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...
and neurobiology), and also to theoretical work. It is also intended for young scientists, i.e. under 40, or at career stage corresponding to being under 40 should their career have been interrupted.
List of lectures
- 2012 Sarah Teichmann
- 2011 Simon BoultonSimon BoultonSimon J. Boulton is a scientist at Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute studying the mechanisms of DNA damage in metazoan organisms.-Honors and Awards:He gave the Royal Society Francis Crick Prize Lecture in 2011....
- 2010 Gilean McVeanGilean McVeanGilean "Gil" McVean is a professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He is a member of the 1000 Genomes Project steering committee.-Education and employment:...
on Our genomes, our history - 2009 Jason Chin on Reprogramming the code of life
- 2008 Simon Fisher on A molecular window into speech and language
- 2007 Geraint ReesGeraint ReesGeraint Rees FMedSci is Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and a Professor of Cognitive Neurology and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at University College London.-Biography:...
on Decoding consciousness - 2006 Dario AlessiDario AlessiDario Alessi FRS is a British biochemist, Professor of Signal Transduction, at University of Dundee, and Programme Leader in the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, since 1998.-Life:...
on Deciphering disease - 2005 Daniel Wolpert on The puppet master: how the brain controls the body
- 2004 Julie Ahringer on Genes, worms and the new genetics
- 2003 Ewan BirneyEwan BirneyEwan Birney is a senior scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute and joint head of the Protein And Nucleic Acids group with Rolf Apweiler. The PANDA group is responsible for the widely used Ensembl genome browser, and highly-cited research on, for example, sequence analysis tools...
on Being human: what our genome tells us