The University of Sheffield
Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

William Ferdinand Memorial Lectures

Firth Court

DNA repair: protecing the blueprint of life
   Steve West FRS
   London Research Institute, CRUK London
November 14th 2012, the 27th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

Genome repair at atomic resolution
    Prof Thomas Carell
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
November 6th 2008, the 26th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

The ABCC's of drug resistance and drug disposition
    Prof Roger Deeley
    Queen's University Canada
September 14th 2006, the 25th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

Can we learn from the Spanish influenza catastrophe of 1918 how to prevent the first pandemic of the 21st Century?
    Professor John Oxford
    St Bartholomews & The Royal London,
April 19th 2005, the 24th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

The Ran GTPase as a signal of chromosome position in mitosis
    Professor Iain Mattaj
    EMBL
April 27th 2004, the 23rd William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Analysing protein interactions:
from complexes to large scale networks

    Prof Bertrand Seraphin
    CNRS, France
March 6th 2003, the 22nd William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Converting the new biology into new drugs
    Prof. Peter Goodfellow
    GlaxoSmithKline
November 8th 2001, the 21st William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Society and the human genome
    Sir John Sulston, FRS,
    Director, Sanger Centre
October 26th 2000, the 20th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Membrane Fusion in virus infections
    Professor Sir John Skehel, FRS,
    National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill
March 4th 1999, the 19th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Molecular Biology of Prion Diseases
    Professor John Collinge
    Imperial College
February 12th 1998, the 18th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Those flipping methylases
    Dr R.J. Roberts, Nobel Laureate,
    New England Biolabs, USA
February 6th 1997, the 17th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Novel Antibiotics Through Gene Shuffling
    Professor Sir David Hopwood, FRS,
    Genetics Department, John Innes Centre
February 22nd 1996, the 16th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Putting Molecular Biology to Work:
Some Examples in Biotechnology and Healthcare

    Professor K. Murray, FRS,
    Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology,
    University of Edinburgh
March 16th 1995, the 15th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Primordial Germ Cells
    Professor A. McLaren, FRS, DBE
    Wellcome/CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology
February 24th 1994, the 14th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

DNA Fingerprinting: approaches and applications
    Professor Alec Jeffries, FRS,
    University of Leicester,
November 25th 1993, the 13th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Protein Structure and Drug Design
    Professor T L Blundell, FRS
    ICRF Unit of Structural Molecular Biology,
    Birkbeck College, University of London
February 20th 1992, the 12th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Eucaryotic Cell Cycle Control
    Professor P Nurse, FRS,
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
February 28th 1991, the 11th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Protein Phosphorylation and bioregulation - an overview.
    Professor P. Cohen, FRS,
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee
March 1st 1990, the 10th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

The Development of Pattern and Form
    Professor L. Wolpert, FRS,
    Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
    University of London
February 23rd 1989, the 9th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

The human genome
    Professor S. Brenner, FRS,
    MRC Molecular Genetics Unit, Cambridge University of London
March 10th 1988, the 8th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Cloned genes for membrane receptors
and their interpretation

    Professor E A Barnard, FRS,
    MRC Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Cambridge
February 19th 1987, the 7th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

The molecular genetics and evolution of the HLA-D Region
    Sir Walter Bodmer, FRS,
    Director of Research,
    Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories, London
February 20th 1986, the 6th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

The structure of chromatin
    Dr A Klug, FRS,
    MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
February 14th 1985, the 5th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Shapes and specificities in some extra-cellular structures
    Dr D A Rees, FRS,
    Director of the National Institute for Medical Research
March 21st 1984, the 4th William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

New approaches to studying vertebrate neurodevelopment
    Professor M C Raff, FRS,
    University College, London
February 22nd 1983, the 3rd William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

P-31 NMR ‘in vivo’ from bioenergetics to the clinic
    Dr G K Radda, FRS,
    University of Oxford
March 3rd 1982, the 2nd William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture

 

Nucleotide sequences in DNA
    Professor F Sanger, FRS,
    MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
February 18th 1981, the 1st William Ferdinand Memorial Lecture