Leach Lecturers

Year Name Presentation Title
2011
 Robin Carrell How serpins raise our blood pressure, dormice survive and Australians thrive.
2010  Edward N. Baker Serendipity and discovery: structure, assembly and stability of Gram-positive bacterial pili.
2009  Colin L. 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 Kretser 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 N. 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 W. 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.

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