Curriculum Vitae

Peter Anthony Lawrence

Date of Birth: June 23, 1941

1951–1958

Wennington School, Wetherby, Yorkshire

1959–1965

St. Catharine's College, Cambridge

1961

Part I Natural Sciences Tripos: 1st class (Biochemistry, Botany, Organic Chemistry and Zoology)

1962

Part II Natural Sciences Tripos: 1st class (Zoology)

1962–1965

Agricultural Research Council. Studentship for research under Professor Sir Vincent Wigglesworth in Department of Zoology, Cambridge, ARC Unit of Insect Physiology

1965

Ph.D., University of Cambridge

1965–1966

Harkness (Commonwealth Fund) Fellowship for research and travel held at the Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. (Head: Professor Dietrich Bodenstein)

1966–1967

Harkness Fellowship held at Developmental Biology Center, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (Head: Professor Howard Schneiderman)

1967-1969

A.R.C. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship,  Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

1969–1973

Open Research Fellowship, Caius College

1969-2006

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Permanent member of scientific staff

1976

Elected member of European Molecular Biology Organisation

1977

Zoological Society of London's Medal

1977-2010

Editor J. Embryology and experimental Morphology, became Development in 1987

1980

Dietrich Bodenstein Lecturer, University of Virginia

1982

Walter Bauer Lecture, Helen Hay Whitney Meeting, New York

1983

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

1983–1989

Editorial Board of Cell

1984–1986

Joint Head of Division of Cell Biology at Laboratory of Molecular Biology

1987-1989

Editorial Board of EMBO Journal

1994

De Camp Lecturer, Neurosciences Symposium, Columbia University, New York

1994

Darwin Medal from Royal Society

1996

Prize: "Vinci d'Excellence" Moet et Chandon, Paris

1996

Inaugural Wigglesworth Memorial Lecture, XX International  Congress of  Entomology, Florence

1996

Lecture to "Architectonics of Nature" Symposium.  Princeton  University 250th Anniversary celebrations

1998

BBV Visiting Professor, Centro de Biología Molecular, Madrid

2000

Waddington Medal from the British Society of Developmental Biology

2000

Elected Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

2002

Visiting Miller Professor, University of California, Berkeley

2004

Keynote Address, 45th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Washington DC

2006

Relocated to Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

2006-

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Emeritus Scientist

2007

Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research, Oviedo (shared with Prof. Ginés Morata)

2011

USA Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award