The Institute helps promote recent advances in biochemistry by bringing to campus an internationally recognized biochemist to present a public lecture through the Benjamin Clayton - Biochemical Institute Regents Lectureship.
2003 - John E. Walker
“The Rotary Mechanism of ATP Synthase”
The speakers and titles of past lecturers have been:
2001 - Peter B. Moore
“The Structure and Function of the Large Ribosomal Subunit”
1999 - Harry F. Noller
“First Glimpses of the Molecular Architecture of the Ribosome”
1998 - Ken Dill
“Protein Folding: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and a Pair O’ Dice”
1997 - Paul Berg
1995 - Edmund Fischer
1993 - Robert Lehman
1992 - Tom Cech
"Ribozymes"
1991 - Michael G. Rossmann
“Structure, Function and Evolution of Icosahedral Viruses”