The Michael J. Gait Lectureship sponsored by Idera Pharmaceuticals

The Nucleic Acids Group award lecture series was established in 1998 to honour world-renowned scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the areas of the chemistry and/or biochemistry of nucleic acids. Award lectures are usually given annually in conjunction with conferences supported by or associated with the Nucleic Acids Group. The Award lecture series is generously sponsored by Idera Pharmaceuticals.

In 2012, the Nucleic Acids Group award was named the Michael J. Gait Lectureship to mark the retirement of Mike Gait from our committee after many years of tireless work for the UK Nucleic Acids community.

The Michael J. Gait Lectureship

2013
Professor Anna Marie Pyle  (Yale University)
Helicases and Nucleic Acid Translocases
Robinson College, Cambridge; 4–8 August 2013

2012
Professor Steve Kowalczykowski  (University of California, Davis, USA)
Machines on Genes II
St Anne’s College, Oxford; 12-16 September 2012

Previous Nucleic Acid Award Lectures

2011
Professor Laurence Hurley  (University of Arizona, USA)
The 6th Cambridge Symposium on Nucleic Acids Chemistry and Biology
Queen's College Cambridge; 4-7 September 2011

2010
Professor Reinhard Lührmann  (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany)
NACON VIII
The Edge, Sheffield; 12-16 September 2010

2009
Professor Susan Gasser (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland)
The BACR/EACR Symposium on Chromatin and Cancer
Churchill College, Cambridge; 6-8 July 2009

2008
Professor Martin Gellert  (NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA)
The Topo2008 conference
John Innes Centre, Norwich; 20-24 July 2008

2007
Professor Jennifer Doudna  (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
NACON VII conference
University of Sheffield; 1-5 April 2007

2006
Professor Ignacio Tinoco  (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
The Frontiers in Chemical Biology: Single Molecules
Cambridge; March 2006

2005
Professor Greg Verdine (Harvard University, USA)
Responses to DNA Damage conference
Sussex; September 2005