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