Past IUBMB Jubilee Lecturers

2024

Jillian Banfield Jillian Banfield, University of California, Berkeley, USA
“Alternative genetic coding in phages in human microbiomes”
Given at the EMBO Workshop: Recoding and the diversity of genetic decoding for her groundbreaking work on genetic recoding in bacteriophages.

Bantry, Ireland | 13-18 May 2024
Jillian Banfield Tom A. Rapoport, Harvard Medical School/HHMI, USA
“Mechanism of protein import into peroxisomes”
Given at the EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course: Membranes, Lipids and Proteins in Organelle Biogenesis for his outstanding contributions in understanding mechanisms by which proteins are transported across membranes.

Spetses, Greece | 26 May – 1 June 2024
Pamela A. Silver Pamela A. Silver, Harvard Medical School, USA
“Designing Biology for Health and Sustainability”
Given at the IUBMB-FAOBMB-ComBio Biomolecular Horizons 2024 Congress for her outstanding contributions to synthetic biology.

Melbourne, Australia | 22-26 September 2024
Rachel Klevit Rachel Klevit, University of Washington, USA
“The (Remaining) Mysteries of Ubiquitin”
Given at the EMBO: Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in health and disease for her outstanding contributions to understanding the structural and functional basis by which ubiquitylation controls the proteome.

Cavtat, Croatia | 27 September – 1 October 2024

2023

Lewis C. Cantley Lewis C. Cantley, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA
“Linking protein kinases to phosphorylation sites that control cell growth, cell death and cell survival”
Given at the Understanding Cancer Metabolism: Exploring Tumor Heterogeneity to Advance Cancer Therapy for his seminal discoveries in signaling and metabolism.

Catanzaro, Italy | 30 June 2023
Rachel Green Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University, USA
“Coordinated responses by ZAK and GCN2 kinases on colliding ribosomes dictate cell fate”
Given at the Molecular Biosystems Conference: Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and Functional Genomics for her outstanding contributions to understanding the molecular mechanisms of ribosome functions.

Puerto Varas, Chile | 25-29 September 2023

2022

Hao Wu Hao Wu, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
“Inflammasomes – the next frontier”
Given at the 47th Lorne conference on Protein Structure and Function for her outstanding contributions to understanding the molecular mechanisms of cell death.

Lorne, Victoria, Australia (Hybrid Meeting) | 6-10 February 2022
Sarah Woodson Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, USA
“Making a turnaround in a competitive landscape for RNA-protein interactions”
Given at the RNA in gene control across kingdoms for her outstanding contributions to RNA Biophysics.

Le Bischenberg – Bischoffsheim, France | 2-5 May 2022
Rommie E. Amaro Rommie E. Amaro, UCSD, USA
“Computational Microscopy of SARS-CoV-2 In Situ”
Given at the 25th IUBMB Congress, 46th FEBS Congress, and 15th PABMB Congress for her outstanding contributions in computational biology to understand SARS-CoV-2.

Lisbon, Portugal | 9-14 July 2022
Susan Taylor Susan Taylor, UCSD, USA
“PKA and Me: A Journey of over Four Decades”
Given at the 88th Harden Meeting of the Biochemical Society on Beyond catalysis: kinases and pseudokinases 2022 for her outstanding contributions to understanding protein kinases.

Chesford Grange, Warwickshire, UK | 31 October – 3 November 2022