Nobel Laureate Dr Tim Hunt will present the Royal Society Croonian Lecture at the faculty of Life Sciences on Friday May 23 in the MSI large lecture theatre. The Croonian is the Royal Society’s premier lecture and this will be the first time it has ever taken place in Dundee.
Tim, who is principal scientist at Cancer Research UK’s Clare Hall Laboratories, visited Dundee last summer to receive an honorary degree from the University.
The faculty will also hold named lectures in May and June. On Friday, May 2, Dr Gerald Hart of the John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore will be presenting the 16th Adam Neville Lecture: "Dynamic Interplay Between O-GlcNAc and O-Phosphate: Roles in Diabetes, Stress Survival, and Neurodegenerative Disease".
On Friday, 6 June Dr Gail Martin, University of California, San Francisco will present the 6th Bridget Ogilvie Lecture. Title to be confirmed.
The Adam Neville and the Bridget Ogilvie lectures both take place at 4pm in the MSI large lecture theatre.