Past Leach Lectures

 

YEAR

NAME

PRESENTATION TITLE

2023

Juliet Gerrard

Proteins through the ages - my long and winding road


2022

Leann Tilley

Seeing is believing: From cellular machinery to molecular movies to malaria therapies


2021

Mike Lawrence

Celebrating insulin’s 100th anniversary: from crystals to cryoEM


2020

Jennifer L. Martin

Me and my shadow CV


2019

Eleanor Dodson

The Joy of Seeing - in Honour of Dorothy Hodgkin


2018

Raymond Norton

Venom peptides as drugs: the long and winding road


2017

Marilyn Anderson

Evolution, function and applications of plant defensins


2016

Bruce Kemp

My 40 years of kinases: The importance of serendipity


2015

Eric Reynolds

Phosphopeptides, proteases, a secretion system and oral health - a journey in dental research


2014

Anne Dell

Glycoproteomic strategies: Exploring the glyco in glycoprotiens


2013

Stephen Kent

Reimagining the natural protein world through total chemical synthesis


2012

Brian Matthews

Protein crystallography: Getting in on the ground floor


2011

Robin Carrell

How serpins raise our blood pressure, dormice survive and Australians thrive


2010

Edward Baker

Serendipity and discovery: structure, assembly and stability of Gram-positive baterial pilli


2009

Colin Masters

Aß oligomers as tractable targets for Alzheimer s disease diagnostics and therapeutics


2008

Peter E. Wright

Exploring the energy landscape: Disorder, dynamics, and protein function


2007

David de Krester

The highly conserved proteins, the activins and follistatin, exhibit actions from reproduction to inflammation and tissue repair


2006

Elizabeth Blackburn

Telomeres and telomerase in human health and disease


2005

T. Jack Martin

PTHrP, from cancer hormone to multifunctional protein


2004

John Wallace

The biotin-dependent enzymes: their structures, their functions and their challenges


2003

Robin Anders

Vaccinating against malaria with recombinant proteins: How important is protein conformation?


2002

Richard Perham

Multifunctional Enzymes and Swinging Arms: From Genes to Catalytic Machines


2001

Colin Ward

Relationships Between the Insulin Receptor Family and Other Proteins


2000

Russell Doolittle

Reconstructing History with Protein Sequences


1999

Roger Y. Tsien

Imaging and Manipulating Protein Interactions and Gene Expression in Individual Cells


1998

Geoffrey Tregear

Relaxin: Understanding the Structure is Easier than Elucidating Biological Function


1997

Nicholas Hoogenraad

Molecular Chaperones: Mediators of Protein Structure and Function


1996

Leroy Hood

Joining the DNA and Protein Worlds


1995

Donald Metcalf

Biochemical Aspects of Haemopoietic Regulators – a View from the Wings


1994

Jose N. Varghese

Three-dimensional Structures of Barley (1-3, 1-4)-ß- and (1-3)-ß-Glucanases


1993

Edmond H. Fischer

Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases


1992

Adrienne E. Clarke

Molecular Genetics of Self-incompatibility in Flowering Plants


1991

Robert Huber

Serine and Cysteine Proteases and their Natural Inhibitors. Structures and Implications for Function And Drug Design


1990

Anthony W. Burgess

Identification and Design of Functional Motifs in Polypeptide Growth Factors


1989

J. Mitchell Guss

Blue Copper Proteins – Structures, Predictions and Fictions


1988

Nicos A. Nicola

Biological and Receptor-binding Specificities of Colony-stimulating Factors


1987

Peter M. Colman

The Three-dimensional Structure of a Complex of Influenza Virus Neuraminidase and an Antibody at 3Å Resolution


1986

Robert L. Baldwin

Salt Bridge and Helix dipole Interactions Controlling α-helix Stability