2026 LORNA CASSELTON MEMORIAL LECTURE

Published on April 29, 2026

The 2026 Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture, entitled "How Experimental Worm Genetics and Genomics Revealed an Ancient World of Tiny RNAs", will be given by Professor Victor Ambros (University of Massachusetts Medical School), Nobel Laureate and Professor Gary Ruvkun (Harvard Medical School), Nobel Laureate, at 5 pm on Thursday 14th May in the Mathematical Institute Lecture Theatres 1 and 2, Woodstock Road, Oxford. The Lecture will also be livestreamed.
Admission is free, but booking is required via the website: 

https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/event/lorna-casselton-memorial-lecture-2026

Everyone is very welcome.

Professor Lorna Casselton was an 1851 Research Fellow 1963-1965. During her fellowship she was based at UCL and researched Fungal Genetics-the genetics of diploid strains of Coprinus Iagopus. She went on to be a fungal geneticist of world renown, professor at Oxford University and Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. From 2001-2013 she was a very active member of the Commission's Science & Engineering Fellowship Committee. She was a regular attender at Commission events and many of our alumni, commissioners, committee members and staff remember her with great affection.

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