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11 December 2003
Islamic perspectives on cancer genetics and gene therapy
Professor Abdulaziz Sachedina, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, USA

1 December 2003
Kissing the blarney stone: using stories to tell science
Professor Frances Ashcroft, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, UK

5 September 2003
Biological weapons in the 21st Century
Dr. Jan van Aken, University of Hamburg and the Sunshine Project

3 July 2003
The politics of excellence: behind the Nobel Prize in science
Professor Robert Marc Friedman, University of Oslo, Norway

8 July 2003
Communication strategies on biotechnology
Giorgos Sakellaris, Institute of Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece

22 May 2003
Two EMBL scientists are in a boat on an African river, one of them
Emmanuel Reynaud and Jez Simpson, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

7 May 2003
Communicating about science with the general public
Ronald Plasterk, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology Utrecht, The Netherlands

30 April 2003
The new revolution in developmental biology: expansion and reconciliation
Prof. Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA USA

29 April 2003
A special lecture in the series 'Science and Culture' jointly sponsored by EMBL and DAI
Teaching evolution through development
Prof. Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA USA

20 March 2003
Death and immortality of the cell: speculations, explanations, old and new
Claude Debru, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris

21 January 2003
From Pre–eminence to Decline in German Biological and Biochemical Research, 1900-1950: The impact of politics
Ute Deichmann, Institut für Genetik, Köln