
Centenary Alumni Day Programme --- Please Book Your Place Here
Saturday 26 April 2025, 10am–4pm
10am–10:30: Registration and Tea and Coffee, Hopkins Building
10:30–45: Welcome from Eric Miska (Head of Department) and unveiling of centenary plaque in Hopkins foyer
10:45–11:45: Hopkins Building lab tours
Walk to Sanger Building
12–12:45: Keynote Talk: Gregory Winter (Nobel laureate and alumnus), Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre
12.45–1pm: Group photograph, Sanger Garden
1–2.30: Lunch, Perham Room and Tea Room
2.30–4pm: Talks with Q and A, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre, including:
Jeanne Salje (Group Leader in Bacterial Cell Biology), ‘Sneaking In: How Bacteria Survive Within Human Cells and Cause Disease’
Ross Waller (Professor of Evolutionary Cell Biology), ‘Endosymbiosis and the Cellular Partnerships that Power the Planet’
4pm: Close