Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture 2025

Published on March 27, 2025

The 2025 Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture, entitled "The Role of Fungi in Solving Planetary Crises", will be given by Dr Andrea Hinwood (Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme), at 5 pm on Thursday 15th 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/the-role-of-fungi-in-solving-planetary-crises

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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