These new Fellows visit the Society to be formally enrolled. As part of these celebrations, each new Fellow and Foreign Member is invited to give a short presentation of their work to their peers in the fellowship.
These are the presentations available from the 2008 New Fellows Seminar - the first time that those outside the fellowship have been given access.
A brain system building intelligent behaviour
Professor John Duncan FRS
09 July 2008, 19 minutes
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A third class of retinal photoreceptor
Professor Russell G Foster FRS
09 July 2008, 22 minutes
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Atomic bricklaying – chemistry to control extended structures
Professor Matthew Rosseinsky FRS
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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Bio-inspired electronics – towards personalised healthcare
Professor Christofer Toumazou FRS
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Disruption on the highways of cell communication
Professor Dario Alessi FRS
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Do plants have a memory?
Professor Barbara Hohn ForMemRS
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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Electro-deoxidation - a sustainable route to metals, alloys and oxygen?
Professor Derek Fray FRS
09 July 2008, 14 minutes
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Experimental studies of human memory and ageing
Professor Fergus Craik FRS
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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Exploration of cancer cell genomes
Professor Michael Stratton FRS
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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Ferroelectric memories
Professor James Scott FRS
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Ferroplasma acidiphilum: a thus far unique form of life with an Fe-protein-dominated cellular machinery
Professor Kenneth Timmis FRS
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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First principles density functional theory calculations
Professor Michael Payne FRS
09 July 2008, 14 minutes
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From cells to embryo: the magic of gastrulation
Professor Claudio Stern FRS
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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How to control the immune response to infection to minimise damage to the host
Dr Anne O’Garra FRS
09 July 2008, 17 minutes
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Molecular recognition
Professor Christopher Hunter FRS
09 July 2008, 12 minutes
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Photosynthetic bacteria, toxic oceans and the great mass extinction
Professor Roger Summons FRS
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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The HSP90 Molecular Chaperone: Structural biology of HSP90 - a molecular target for cancer therapy
Professor Laurence Pearl FRS
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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The moduli space of Riemann surfaces – Mumford's conjecture and beyond
Professor Ulrike Tillmann FRS
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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The universality of quantum computation, and its implications
Professor David Deutsch FRS
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Their Embryon atoms: Einstein's universe and how we explore it
Professor Brian Foster OBE FRS
09 July 2008, 14 minutes
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Towards a nuclear fusion power plant
Professor Alexander Bradshaw CBE FRS
09 July 2008, 17 minutes
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Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy: a new technique for the determination of the stereochemistries of chiral molecules
Professor Philip Stephens FRS
09 July 2008, 18 minutes
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Arithmetic L-functions
Professor Mark Kisin FRS
10 July 2008, 17 minutes
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Bones from bench to bedside. How water softeners became drugs
Professor Graham Russell FRS
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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Catalysis by transition metal complexes
Professor Richard Schrock ForMemRS
10 July 2008, 13 minutes
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Chemical interaction between ocean and atmosphere
Professor Peter Liss CBE FRS
10 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Crack-wake bridging and design of materials for toughness
Professor Yiu-Wing Mai FRS
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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Electrical signalling in the brain
Professor William A Catterall ForMemRS
10 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection and the prevention of cervical cancer
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz KBE FRS
10 July 2008, 19 minutes
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Imaging the activity of individual calcium channels in intact cells: you can observe a lot just by watching
Professor Ian Parker FRS
10 July 2008, 16 minutes
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MicroRNAs: a new dimension in gene regulation
Dr Stephen Cohen FRS
10 July 2008, 15 minutes
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Natural killer (NK) cells: Balancing the needs for defence and reproduction
Professor Peter Parham FRS
10 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Nature and nurture: vocal communication in birds and monkeys
Professor Peter Marler ForMemRS
10 July 2008, 17 minutes
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Parasites and the unstable dynamics of wild host populations
Professor Peter Hudson FRS
10 July 2008, 13 minutes
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Pressure: a new dimension in the physical sciences
Dr Ho-kwang (David) Mao ForMemRS
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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Quantum interference between independent particles and generation of entanglement
Professor Girish Agarwal FRS
10 July 2008, 14 minutes
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Randomness in computations, a sentimental journey
Professor Michael Rabin ForMemRS
10 July 2008, 24 minutes
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Regular dynamics in physics and mathematics
Dr Evgeny Sklyanin FRS
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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Signals for activation of plant defence mechanisms: networking in a hostile environment
Professor Chris Lamb FRS
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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The Gatsby Foundation's support for science and technology
Lord Sainsbury of Turville FRS
10 July 2008, 15 minutes
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The standard model of cosmology: is it correct?
Professor Jeremiah Ostriker ForMemRS
10 July 2008, 19 minutes
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Thought experiments in climate and paleo-climate
Professor John Marshall FRS
10 July 2008, 21 minutes
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What are infinite dimensional manifolds and how will they affect your next MRI?
Professor David Mumford ForMemRS
10 July 2008, 17 minutes
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What goes wrong in autoimmune disease?
Sir John Bell FRS
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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Why some cancers become resistant to therapy: Revisiting Darwinian Selection
Professor Alan Ashworth FRS
10 July 2008, 16 minutes
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