The Biffen Lecture is a lectureship organised by the John Innes Centre, named after Rowland Biffen.[1]

Lecturers

Source: John Innes Centre

  • 2001 John Doebley
  • 2002 Francesco Salamini
  • 2003 Steven D. Tanksley
  • 2004 Michael Freeling
  • 2006 Dick Flavell
  • 2008 Rob Martienssen – 'Propagating silent heterochromatin with RNA interference in plants and fission yeast'
  • 2009 Susan McCouch, Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University – 'Gene flow and genetic isolation during crop evolution'
  • 2010 Peter Langridge, University of Adelaide, Australia – 'Miserable but worth the trouble: Genomics, wheat and difficult environments'
  • 2012 Sarah Hake, Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS – 'Patterning the maize leaf'
  • 2014 Professor Pamela Ronald, Department of Plant Pathology & The Genome Center, University of California Davis – ‘Engineering crops for resistance to disease and tolerance of stress’
  • 2015 Professor Lord May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford – ‘Unanswered questions in ecology, and why they matter’
  • 2016 Edward Buckler, US Department of Agriculture – ‘Breeding 4.0? Sorting through the adaptive and deleterious variants in maize and beyond’

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Biffen Lecture", The Biffen Lecture, John Innes centre, archived from the original on 3 November 2013, retrieved 29 November 2013
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