The Raymond and Beverly Sackler distinguished lecture in the medical sciences 2010

Professor Sir David Baulcombe FRS FMedSci
RNA silencing: lessons from plants about control of disease in people

18:00 Wednesday 22 September 2010
University of Dundee, Dalhousie Building

This event will be followed by a drinks reception

To register for a free place please email c.a.z.lindsay@dundee.ac.uk

Professor David Baulcombe
David Baulcombe trained in Leeds, Edinburgh, Montreal and Athens (Georgia, USA) and set up his first group at the now privatized Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge. Until September 2007 he was a senior research scientist in the Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich but he is now the Professor of Botany at Cambridge University and a Royal Society Research Professor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign associate member of the US National Academy of Sciences. David’s work is on plants but his work on small RNA is relevant to RNA interference and epigenetics in animals and it has influenced developments in biomedicine. The significance of his work is reflected in numerous awards including the Wiley Prize for Biomedicine, the Massry Prize, the Beijerinck Award for Virology, the Royal Medal of the Royal Society and the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Life Sciences.