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We are delighted to announce that Professor Paul Collier will deliver the BES Lecture and Professor Ian Baldwin will present the Tansley Lecture.
BES Lecture
Paul Collier
Paul Collier will be giving the BES Lecture which aims to set ecology in the wider context.
Paul is Professor of Economics, at Oxford University and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. His research interests include the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid; and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural-resource-rich societies.
His book 'The Bottom Billion', published in 2007, has won numerous prizes and accolades; it shows clearly what is happening to the poorest billion in the world, why it is happening and what can be done to open up greater opportunities for them in a world of increasing wealth.
Tansley Lecture
Ian Baldwin : 'Using Transformed Native Plants to Study Ecological Interactions'
Professor Ian Baldwin will be giving the Tansley lecture. Ian is the Director of the Molecular Ecology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany and is internationally renowned for his work on plant-herbivore interactions.
His use of the latest molecular techniques combined with elegant ecological experiments has revolutionised our understanding of plant responses to herbivores and other stresses. Ian's group have pioneered the use of transformed native plants in which the genes for key defence traits have been silenced, providing new insights into the fitness consequences of these traits in ecological systems.
He is currently extending this approach to the investigation of plant-pollinator and plant-fungal interactions and his groundbreaking work has been published in many leading scientific journals, including Science and PNAS.
