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