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Medal Lectures online
Forthcoming Medal Lectures:
- Keilin Memorial Lecture - John Walker (delivered at Robinson College, Cambridge, on 10 January 2012)
- Early Career Research Award - Tracey Gloster (delivered at Robinson College, Cambridge, on 12 January 2012)
- Biochemical Society Award Lecture - Michael Berridge (delivered at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011)
- Centenary Award Lecture - Nahum Sonenberg (delivered at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011)
- Colworth Medal Lecture - Sarah Teichmann (delivered at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011)
- Early Career Research Award - Alena Krejci (delivered at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011)
- Early Career Research Award - Taufiq Rahman (delivered at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011)
- Novartis Medal Lecture - Angus Lamond (delivered at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011)
- Sir Philip Randle Lecture - Stephen O'Rahilly (delivered at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011)
Medal Lectures published in 2011:
- Morton Lecture
Phosphoinositides and the regulation of tubular-based endosomal sorting
- Peter J. Cullen..........839‑850
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- Early Career Research Award
- Endogenous ion channel complexes: the NMDA receptor
- René A.W. Frank..........707‑718
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- Colworth Medal Lecture
Superfamily I helicases as modular components of DNA-processing machines
- Mark S. Dillingham..........413‑423
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- IAS Medal Lecture
Making biochemistry count: life among the amino acid dehydrogenases
- Paul C. Engel..........425‑429
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- Novartis Medal Lecture
AMP-activated protein kinase: a cellular energy sensor with a key role in metabolic disorders and in cancer
- D. Grahame Hardie..........1‑13
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Medal Lectures published in 2010:
- Early Career Research Award Lecture
- The ESCRT machinery: a cellular apparatus for sorting and scission
- Jeremy Carlton.........38 1397-1412
- Delivered at Charles Darwin House, London, on 13 May 2010
- GlaxoSmithKline Award Lecture
- The O-GlcNAc modification: three-dimensional structure, enzymology and the development of selective inhibitors to probe disease
- Gideon J. Davies and Carlos Martinez-Fleites..........38 1179-1188
- Delivered at Royal Holloway University of London, on 30 March 2010
- Early Career Research Award
- Structure, evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks
- M. Madan Babu..........38 1155–1178
- Delivered at University of York, on 23 March 2010
- AstraZeneca Award Lecture
- Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) spectroscopy: an enhanced method for examining protein conformations and protein interactions
- B.A. Wallace and Robert W. Janes..........38 861-873
- Delivered at University of Sheffield, on 12 January 2010
- Keilin Memorial Lecture
- A pore way to die: the role of mitochondria in reperfusion injury and cardioprotection
- Andrew P. Halestrap...........38 841-860
- Delivered at Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, London, on 26 March 2010
- Rank Prize Funds Lecture
- Barrett's metaplasia: molecular mechanisms and nutritional influences
- Jonathan M.W. Slack, Benjamin J. Colleypriest, Jonathan M. Quinlan, Wei-Yuan Yu, J. Mark Farrant and David Tosh...........38 313-319
- Delivered at University of Bath, on 17 September 2009
Medal Lectures published in 2009:
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Coupling of the NMDA receptor to neuroprotective and neurodestructive events
- Giles E. Hardingham...........37 1147-1160
- Delivered at University of St Andrews on 23 July 2009
- Early Career Research Award
- The emerging complexity of protein ubiquitination
- David Komander..........37 937–953
- Delivered at Appleton Tower, University of Edinburgh on 2 April 2009
- Jubilee Lecture
- miRNPs: versatile regulators of gene expression in vertebrate cells
- Joan A. Steitz and Shobha Vasudevan..........37 931–935
- Delivered at Appleton Tower, University of Edinburgh on 2 April 2009
- Early Career Research Award
- Membrane proteins in nanotechnology
- Paul Curnow..........37 643–652
- Delivered at Robinson College, Cambridge, on 8 January 2009
- Novartis Medal Lecture
- The regulation of protein phosphorylation
- Louise N. Johnson..........37 627–641
- Delivered at Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Cambridge, on 26 January 2009
- Morton Lecture
- Form and flexibility in phosphoinositide 3-kinases
- Roger Williams, Alex Berndt, Simon Miller, Wai-Ching Hon and Xuxiao Zhang..........37 615–626
- Delivered at Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, University of Oxford, on 15 September 2008
- Novartis Medal Lecture
- The search for a human Holliday junction resolvase
- Stephen C. West..........37 519-526
- Delivered at Robinson College, Cambridge, on 17 December 2008
- Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Memorial Lecture
- Functions of p53 in metabolism and invasion
- Karen H. Vousden..........37 511-517
- Delivered at Robinson College, Cambridge, on 16 December 2008
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Control of genome stability by Slx protein complexes
- John Rouse..........37 495-510
- Delivered at Robinson College, Cambridge, on 16 December 2008
- GlaxoSmithKline Award Lecture
- The DNA-damage response: new molecular insights and new approaches to cancer therapy
- Stephen P. Jackson..........37 483-494
- Delivered at Robinson College, Cambridge, on 15 December 2008
Medal Lectures published in 2008:
- Novartis Award Lecture
- The methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 and neurological disease
- Adrian Bird.........36 575–583
- Delivered at the University of Manchester, on 28 March 2008
- Heatley Medal Lecture
- What we have learned from ribosome structures
- V. Ramakrishnan.........36 567–574
- Delivered at the University of Manchester, on 26 March 2008
- Biochemical Society Award Lecture
- Tuberculosis: a balanced diet of lipids and carbohydrates
- Veemal Bhowruth, Luke J. Alderwick, Alistair K. Brown, Apoorva Bhatt and Gurdyal S. Besra.........36 555–565
- Delivered at the University of Birmingham, on 13 March 2008
GlaxoSmithKline Award Lecture
Caspase activation cascades in apoptosis
Susan E. Logue and Seamus J. Martin.........36 19
Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 25 July 2006
Medal Lectures published in 2007:
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- The twin-arginine transport system: moving folded proteins across membranes
- F. Sargent.........35 835-847
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 12 July 2007
Medal Lectures published in 2006:
- Biochemical Society Award Lecture
- The mystery of intracellular developmental programmes and timers
- M. Raff.........34 663-670
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 27 July 2006
- Morton Lecture
- Signalling through Class I PI3Ks in mammalian cells
- P.T. Hawkins, K.E. Anderson, K. Davidson and L.R. Stephens.........34 647-662
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 27 July 2006
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Cellular functions of the BRCA tumour-suppressor proteins
- S.J. Boulton.........34 633-645
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 26 July 2006
- Novartis Medal Lecture
- Photosystem II: an enzyme of global significance
- J. Barber.........34 619-631
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 25 July 2006
- AstraZeneca Award Lecture
- The impact of phage lambda: from restriction to recombineering
- Noreen E. Murray..........34 203-207
- Delivered at AstraZeneca, Loughborough, on 21 November 2005
Medal Lectures published in 2005:
- Jubilee Lecture
- Alternative mechanisms of initiating translocation of mammalian mRNAs
- R. Jackson..........33 1231-1241
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 21 July 2005
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- The structure of the bacterial protein translocation complex SecYEG
- I. Collinson..........33 1225-1230
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 21 July 2005
- Keilin Memorial Lecture
- The efficiency and plasticity of mitochondrial energy transduction
- M.D. Brand..........33 897-904
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 20 July 2005
- Novartis Medal Lecture
- Rho GTPases and the control of cell behaviour
- A. Hall..........33 891-895
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 19 July 2005
- Novartis Medal Lecture
- Lsm proteins and RNA processing
- J.D. Beggs..........33 433-438
- Delivered at the University of Edinburgh, on 4 December 2004
- GlaxoSmithKline Award Lecture
- Molecular mousetraps and the serpinopathies
- D.A. Lomas, D. Belorgey, M. Mallya, E. Miranda, K.J. Kinghorn, L.K. Sharp, R.L. Phillips, R. Page, A.S. Robertson and D.C. Crowther..........33 321-330
- Delivered at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, on 17 November 2004
Medal Lectures published in 2004:
- Morton Lecture
- The ubiquitous phosphoinositides
- P.J. Parker..........32 893-898
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 19 July 2004
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Chemical insights from structural studies of enzymes
- J.H. Naismith..........32 647-654
- Delivered at the SECC, Glasgow, on 21 July 2004
- Jubilee Lecture
- Vascular zip codes in angiogenesis and metastasis
- E. Ruoslahti..........32 397-402
- Delivered at the Chancellors Conference Centre, University of Manchester, on 1 December 2003
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Linking endocytic cargo to clathrin: structural and functional insights into coated vesicle formation
- D.J. Owen..........32 1-14
- Delivered at the University of Essex, on 2 July 2003
Medal Lectures published in 2003:
- Novartis Medal Lecture
- Modular proteins at the cell surface
- I.D. Campbell..........31 1107-1114
- Delivered at the University of Essex, on 3 July 2003
- Keilin Memorial Lecture
- The molecular machinery of Keilin's respiratory chain
- P.R. Rich..........31 1095-1105
- Delivered at the University of Essex, on 3 July 2003
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Pathways for remodelling chromatin
- T. Owen-Hughes..........31 893-905
- Delivered at Cardiff University, on 17 July 2002
- Wellcome Trust Award Lecture
- Chromatin-modifying enzymes in transcription and cancer
- T. Kouzarides..........31 741-743
- Delivered at Imperial College, London, on 16 December 2002
- Biochemical Society Award Lecture
- How to (or not to) communicate science
- S.P.R. Rose..........31 307-312
- Delivered at the Royal Institution, London, on 24 October 2002, and at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, on 21 November 2002
- Biochemical Society Award Lecture
- Genes in food - why the furore?
- B. Dixon..........31 299-306
- Delivered at the Royal Institution, London, on 24 October 2002, and at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, on 21 November 2002
- Morton Lecture
- New insights into the roles of phosphoinositides and inositol polyphosphates in yeast
- R.H. Michell, N.M. Perera and S.K. Dove..........31 11-15
- Delivered at the University of Liverpool, on 4 September 2002
- Biochemical Society Special Lecture
- Nitrate- and nitrite-responsive sensors NarX and NarQ of proteobacteria
- V. Stewart..........31 1-10
- Delivered at the University of Newcastle, on 30 August 2002
Medal Lectures published in 2002:
- Novartis Medal Lecture
- Antibodies: a paradigm for the evolution of molecular recognition
- M.S. Neuberger..........30 341-350
- Delivered at Heriott-Watt University, Edinburgh, on 9 April 2002
- Jubilee Lecture
- Role of Src in signal transduction pathways
- S.A. Courtneidge..........30 11-18
- Delivered at the University of Bristol, on 10 April 2001
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Complexities in ETS-domain transcription factor function and regulation: lessons from the TCF (ternary complex factor) subfamily
- A.D. Sharrocks..........30 1-9
- Delivered at the University of York, on 18 December 2001
Medal Lectures published in 2001:
- Royal Irish Academy Medal Lecture
- Thromboxane A2 signalling in humans: a 'tail' of two receptors
- B.T. Kinsella..........29 641-653
- Delivered at Trinity College, Dublin, on 10 July 2001
- Keilin Memorial Lecture
- Keilin's cytochromes: how bacteria use them, vary them and make them
- S.J. Ferguson..........29 629-640
- Delivered at Trinity College, Dublin, on 12 July 2001
- Novartis Medal Lecture
- Hopping, jumping and looping by restriction enzymes
- S.E. Halford..........29 363-373
- Delivered at the University of Bristol, on 12 April 2001
- Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Memorial Lecture
- Society and the human genome
- J. Sulston and the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium..........29 27-31
- Delivered at the University of Sussex, on 20 December 2000
- Novartis Medal Lecture
- Structure and assembly of the spliceosomal snRNPs
- K. Nagai, Y. Muto, D.A. Pomeranz Krummel, C. Kambach, T. Ignjatovic, S. Walke and A. Kuglstatter..........29 15-29
- Delivered at the University of Sussex, on 19 December 2000
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Discovery of PDK1, one of the missing links in insulin signal transduction
- D.R. Alessi..........29 1-14
- Delivered at the University of Bath, on 4 September 2000
Medal Lectures published in 2000:
- Wellcome Trust Award Lecture
- Integrin structure
- M.J. Humphries..........28 311-339
- Delivered at the University of Leeds, on 12 April 2000
- Thudichum Medal Lecture
- L-Glutamate as a central neurotransmitter: looking back
- J.C. Watkins..........28 297-309
- Delivered at the University of Leeds, on 11 April 2000
- Jubilee Lecture
- The chemical and biological versatility of riboflavin
- V. Massey..........28 283-296
- Delivered at King's College, London, on 19 November 1999, and at the University of Leeds, on 22 November 1999
Medal Lectures published in 1999:
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Enzymes in the Quantum World
- N.S. Scrutton............27 767-779
- Delivered at University College, Cork, on 7 September 1999
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Structural studies of reversible protein phosphorylation and protein phosphatases
- D. Barford............27 751-766
- Delivered at the University of Southampton, on 31 March 1998
- Royal Irish Academy Medal Lecture
- Using NMR as a probe of protein structure and function
- J.P.G. Malthouse............27 701-713
- Delivered at Dublin City University, Dublin, on 10 September 1998
- Novartis Medal Lecture
- Small GTPases and cell cycle regulation
- C.J. Marshall............27 363-370
- Delivered at the University of Glasgow, on 7 April 1999
- Keilin Memorial Lecture
- X-ray structure and reaction mechanism of bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase
- S. Yoshikawa............27 351-362
- Delivered at the University of Glasgow, on 8 April 1999
- Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Memorial Lecture
- Pleasant surprises en route from the biochemistry of collagen to attempts at gene therapy
- D.J. Prockop............27 15-31
- Delivered at the University of Sheffield, 30 July 1998
- Colworth Medal Lecture
- Detection, repair and signalling of DNA double-strand breaks
- S.P. Jackson............27 1-13
- Delivered at the University of Reading, on 15 December 1997
Medal Lectures published in 1998:
- CIBA Medal Lecture
- Regulatory roles of the nuclear membrane
- R.A. Laskey...........26 561-567
- Delivered at the University of Dundee, 30 July 1997
- AstraZeneca Award Lecture
- New tricks with isotopically enriched oligosaccharides
- S.W. Homans...........26 551-560
- Delivered at the University of Southampton, on 31 March 1998
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