Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. From now until the launch of Oxford Events, new events cannot be published or edited on OxTalks while all existing records are migrated to the new platform. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period.
From 16th, Oxford Events will launch on a new website: events.ox.ac.uk, and event submissions will resume. You will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Joan Steitz is a renowned molecular biologist who began her illustrious career by discovering the molecular interaction between rRNA and initiation codons in bacterial mRNA in the early 1980s. She subsequently pioneered our understanding of most classes of small non coding RNA. Thus she discovered the critical role of snRNA in intron splicing and more recently has generated numerous top publications on both snoRNA and microRNA synthesis and function. She has held a long term interest in virus encoded ncRNA and this has led her back to further pioneering work on long non coding RNA. Very few scientists can match her stellar productivity over 40 years, with recent papers in top journals from her lab still appearing at amazing regularity. Joan has an irrepressible fascination in gene expression which she transmits to all around her. She is highly supportive of junior scientists and a strong advocate and example to women in science.
