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The annual Weatherall Lecture was established in 2012, in honor of Prof Sir David Weatherall, founder of the MRC WIMM. This lecture takes place at the annual MRC WIMM away day.

Past lectures

2023

Lalita Ramakrishnan

MRC LMB/University of Cambridge, UK

 

Lessons about TB pathogenesis and treatment from the zebrafish

2019

Richard Henderson

MRC LMB, UK

 

The electron cryomicroscopy revolution in structural biology

2018

Aviv Regev

Broad Institute, USA

 

Towards a Human Cell Atlas

2017

Hans Clevers

Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands

 

Stem cell-grown organoids as models for human disease

2016

Irving Weissman

Stanford University, USA

2015

Paul Nurse

Francis Crick Institute, UK

 

A lecture in two halves, making science work and controlling the cell cycle

2014

Stuart Orkin

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

 

Bringing genetics and epigenetics to fetal hemoglobin

2013

Jules Hoffmann

University of Strasbourg, France

 

The innate immune response: phylogenetic perspectives

2012

Kim Nasmyth

University of Oxford, UK

 

How does cohesing embrace DNA and then let go?