UPCOMING CONFERENCES

The 2012 Galton Institute conference will be held in November 2012 at the Royal Society.

RECENT CONFERENCES

9 November 2011
The 2011 Galton Institute conference 'Human and primate evolution' was held on the 9 November 2011 at The British Academy. Speakers included Professor Chris Stringer (Galton Lecturer), Dr Andrea Manica, Dr Rebecca Sear, Professor Tecumseh Fitch, Professor Rob Foley, Dr Nick Mundy, Dr Susanne Shultz and Dr Steve Suomi. Click here for a flyer.

For more information on this year's Galton Lecturer: Professor Stringer has recently been profiled in the Guardian, and has published a new book 'The Origin of Our Species'. See more details on the Natural History Museum website.

10 November 2010
The 2010 Galton Institute conference 'Epigenetics: where life meets the genome' was held on 10 November 2010 at The Royal Society. Professor Azim Surani gave the Galton Lecture. Professors Adrian Bird, Bernhard Horsthemke, Peter Jones, Marcus Pembrey and Dr Vardhman Rakyan also presented. Click here for more information.

1 October 2009
'William Bateson: his Exceptions and Origin of Species Revisited
'The 2009 Galton Institute conference was a one-day meeting held at The Royal Society on Thursday 1 October discussing William Bateson and his legacy, including his influence on the fields of evolutionary biology, genetics and medicine. The programme includes the following speakers:Professor Sir Walter Bodmer (Quantitative Genetics and Variation), Professor Gabriel Dover (Epistasis and the Co-Evolution of Genetic Networks), Professor David Baulcombe, The Galton Lecturer 2009 (How Nurture Influences Nature), Professor Donald Forsdyke(Bateson's Contributions to Evolutionary Theory), Professor Tim Cox (Bateson and Medicine) and Professor Peter Holland (Homeosis and Evolution).
Click here for a flyer, and click on the links above for pdfs of the presentations.

22-23 May 2008
'Celebrating 100 years of medical genetics' A 2-day meeting of the Medical Genetics Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, in association with the Galton Institute
Speakers included Professor Sir Walter Bodmer (who gave the Galton Lecture), Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, Professor Sir David Weatherall, Prof Marc Feldman, Prof Adrian Hill, Prof Tom Kirkwood. Click here for a flyer, and here for the conference programme.

7-8 November 2007
'What makes us human?' A 2-day symposium to celebrate the centenary of the Galton Institute
2007 was the centenary of the foundation of the Institute and we commemorated this important landmark by organising an especially wide-ranging and forward-looking event. It was held at University College London.Click here for a flyer, and here for the conference programme.

19 October 2006
The 2006 conference was on the theme of  "Nature, Nurture or Neither?  Genetics in the post-genome era".