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Lorna Casselton Memorial Lectures

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Date & Time

Wed, 15 Jul 2026

19:00

Venue

St Cross College

St Cross Road, Oxford, UK

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About this event

Engage with leading scientists at the Lorna Casselton Memorial Lectures.

Why you should come

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• Learn from Nobel Laureate Victor Ambros on worm genetics

• Discover fungi's role in planetary crises with Dr Andrea Hinwood

• Explore AI's impact on human cooperation with Professor Matthew Botvinick

Event Highlights

  • Annual lectures featuring Nobel Laureates
  • Focus on groundbreaking research in biology
  • Celebrates the legacy of Professor Lorna Casselton

Speakers

Professor Victor Ambros

Nobel Laureate

Professor Gary Ruvkun

Nobel Laureate

Dr Andrea Hinwood

Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme

Professor Matthew Botvinick

Director of Neuroscience Research, DeepMind

Professor Jeff Dahn

Dalhousie University, former Head of Tesla Advanced Battery Research

Professor George Church

Harvard University, co-initiator of the Human Genome Project

Professor Ingrid Daubechies

Duke University, first woman President of the International Mathematical Union

Dr Bryan Wells

NATO Chief Scientist

Professor Pavel Kabat

Chief Scientist and Research Director of the World Meteorological Organization

Professor Fei-Fei Li

Google Chief Scientist of AI

Dr Ellen Stofan

former NASA Chief Scientist

Professor Ada Yonath

Weizmann Institute of Science, Nobel Laureate

Professor Sir Paul Nurse

President of the Royal Society, Nobel Laureate

Programme

14:00-15:00

How Experimental Worm Genetics and Genomics Revealed an Ancient World of Tiny RNAs

14:00-15:00

The Role of Fungi in Solving Planetary Crises

14:00-15:00

AI and the Challenge of Human Cooperation

14:00-15:00

Modern Lithium-Ion Batteries: More than a Million Miles and Possibly a Century of Life

14:00-15:00

New Technologies to Enhance Endangered Species and Ecosystems via Diverse/Extinct DNA

14:00-15:00

Mathematics and Art Conservation

14:00-15:00

Science in Peacekeeping and Security

14:00-15:00

Climate, Extreme Weather and Adaptation: Do We Know Enough to Act and to Invest?

14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence: A Deeply Human Pursuit

14:00-15:00

The International Search for Life Beyond Earth - From Mars to Extrasolar Planets

14:00-15:00

Global Challenges in Modern Medicine and in Revealing the Origin of Life

14:00-15:00

Science as Revolution

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