2022 Bidder Plenary Lecture
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View moreEach year at the Annual Conference of the SEB, the work of George Parker Bidder III and Harold Woolhouse are honoured with plenary lectures alongside the Cell Biology plenary lecture.
Lecturers are nominated by the committees of their respective sections and are given by prominernt scientists in their fields of research .
2023 Elizabeth L. Brainerd (Brown University)
2022 Patricia Wright ( McMaster University )
2021 Patricia Schulte (University of British Columbia, Canada)
2020 Neil Metcalfe (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
2019 Terrie Williams (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
2018 Hans-Otto. Pörtner (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany)
2017 Steve Perry (University of Ottawa, Canada)
2016 Tribute to Roger Woledge (Nancy Curtin, Imperial College London, UK; Di Newham, King’s College London, UK; Chris Barclay, Griffith University, Australia)
2015 Andrew Cossins (University of Liverpool, UK)
2014 William Milsom (University of British Columbia, Canada)
2013 Ian Johnston (University of St Andrews, UK)
2012 Chris Wood (McMaster University, Canada)
2011 Jan Traas (INRA, CNRS and ENS, France)
2010 Ben Scheres (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
2009 Kim Nasmyth (University of Oxford, UK)
2008 Richard Balment (University of Manchester, UK)
2007 Alison Smith (John Innes Centre, UK)
2006 Keith Roberts (John Innes Centre, UK)
2005 Ted Taylor (University of Birmingham, UK)
2004 Julian Dow (University of Glasgow, UK)
2003 Dirk Inzé (Ghent University, Belgium)
2002 Greg Elgar (HGMP Resource Centre, UK)
2001 Steve Kay (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
2000 David Randall (University of British Columbia, Canada)
1999 Harry Smith (University of Leicester, UK)
2023 Lisa Ainsworth (United States Department of Agriculture)
2022 Alison Smith
2021 Joanne Chory (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA)
2020 Julia Bailey-Serres (Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, USA)
2019 Liam Dolan (University of Oxford, UK)
2018 Caroline Dean (John Innes Centre, UK)
2017 Jonathan Lynch (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
2016 Jane Langdale (University of Oxford, UK)
2015 Andrew Millar (University of Edinburgh, UK)
2014 George Coupland (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
2013 Susan McCouch (Cornell University, USA)
2012 Ottoline Leyser (Sainsbury Laboratory - Cambridge, UK)
2011 Richard Flavell (Ceres, USA)
2010 Don Grierson (University of Nottingham, UK)
2009 Hugh Dickinson (University of Oxford, UK)
2008 Stephen Long (University of Illinois, USA)
2007 David Baulcombe (Sainsbury Laboratory, UK)
2006 Richard Mithen (Institute of Food Research, UK)
2005 Russell Jones (University of California, USA)
2004 Anthony Trewavas (University of Edinburgh, UK)
2003 Dianna Bowles (University of York, UK)
2002 Linda Hanley-Bowdoin (North Carolina State University, USA)
2001 Chris Lamb (John Innes Centre, UK)
2000 Lothar Willmitzer (Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany)
1999 Mike Lord (University of Warwick, UK)
2023 Wendy Bickmore (The University of Edinburgh)
2022 Dirk Inze (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology )
2021 Dirk Inzé (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium)
2020 Iris Meier (The Ohio State University, USA)
2019 Nick Talbot (The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK)
2018 Malcolm Bennett (University of Nottingham, UK)
2017 Anthony Turner (Linköping University, Sweden)
2016 James Collins (Harvard University, USA)
2015 John Oxford (Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK)
2014 Elliot Meyerowitz (California Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
2013 Béla Novák (University of Oxford, UK)
2012 Dennis Noble (University of Oxford, UK)
The 2022 Annual conference will take place in Montpellier social distancing measures will be implemented throughout the venue. Please click here to view the requirements for Montpellier before you travel.