LMB IWD Talk 2026 Professor Julie Ahringer

Overview

The LMB is delighted to welcome Professor Julie Ahringer as the speaker for our International Women's Day Talk 2026. We look forward to hearing about her career and achievements.

Thursday 23 April | 1-2pm | in person and online

In person attendance is for LMB members only.

To join online please use this link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96248860442?pwd=TW1LrzGYCbFUoaAExEJFupb0m031Ev.1

Speaker Biography:

Julie Ahringer has made wide-ranging contributions to molecular genetics through her work on the nematode C. elegans. She carried out the first systematic inactivation of all the genes in any animal, which pioneered genome-wide reverse genetic screening. Her research has illuminated our understanding of the processes underlying cell polarity and gene expression. This includes showing that spindle positioning is controlled by heterotrimeric G protein signalling, discovering a connection between chromatin marking and mRNA splicing, and most recently revealing mechanisms and principles of genome organisation and gene expression regulation.

Julie did her PhD at the LMB in John White’s group, and is Professor of Genetics and Genomics, the Director and a Senior Group Leader of the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a member of EMBO.  She received the Royal Society Francis Crick Lecture Prize and the Genetics Society of America's George W. Beadle Award.