Genes and the Environment: the Nature vs Nuture debate


on Monday 10 April 2000 from 9.30am to 5.30pm at Magdalen College School, Cowley Place, Oxford

§ Opening address by Evan Harris, MP

Introduction

§ Susan Greenfield (Director, Royal Institution; Oxford U)

Human Origins

§ Bryan Sykes (Oxford U): Tracking human populations by their genes: Daughters of Eve

Disease

§ Adrian Hill (Oxford U): Genetic susceptibility to infectious disease

§ Hugh Watkins (Oxford U): Heart disease

§ Sir Richard Doll (Oxford U): Cancer

Behaviour

§ Steven Rose (Open U): Moving on from old dichotomies: Beyond nature-nurture towards a lifeline perspective

§ Robert Plomin (Inst. Psychiatry, London): Intelligence

§ Patrick Bateson (Cambridge U): The cooking processes of development

Modifying genes

§ Chris Leaver (Oxford U): Transgenic plants: The next green revolution?

§ Lord Winston (Imperial College, London): Transgenic people: How do you like your egg?

Summing-up and general discussion

§ Sir David Weatherall (Oxford U)