UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology (California). The British Council: overseas course in biotechnology (Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia). GBF International Training Programme in Biotechnology (Germany). Meeting of European Producers of Antibiotics (Sweden). 4th European Congress on Biotechnology (Amsterdam). 11th Congreso Nacional de Microbiologia (Spain). Opening of UMIST Biotechnology Centre (Manchester). Joint Meeting of the Phytochemical society and the Royal Society of Chemistry and the National Committee for Chemistry Royal Irish Academy (Dublin). Visit to Russia to meet scientists (Moscow and Leningrad). Royal Society Lecture 'Towards an understanding of gene switching in Streptomyces (London). ICRF Symposium at the Royal Society for Prof. G Pontecorvo on his eightieth birthday. 10th International Spores Conference (Massachusetts, USA).
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India, Symposium 1987 and other correspondence with Indian scientists and Government of India officials..
Meeting of the American Chemical Society (LA, USA). 4th ASM Conference (Indiana, USA). The Royal Society discussion meeting, 'Biotechnology: Spinks Eight Years On' (London). The 28th ICAAC meeting (LA, USA). Wins the Hoechst-Roussel award. International Conference from the Cambridge series on Biotechnology 'Transgenesis' (Cambridge). Society for General Microbiology (Reading) The 3rd Franco-Japanese Symposium (Kashikojima, Japan). Visit to Taiwan. SERC Biotechnology Directorate Town Meeting 8th International Biotechnology Symposium (Paris). 31st Harden Conference 'Microbes Under Stress: Metabolic and Developmental Choices' (Kent).
7th International Symposium on Biology of Actinomycetes (Tokyo, Japan). Abstracts, correspondence.
Raymond Lemieux Lecture (Canada). Lecture at the Boyce Thompson Institute, USA (Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences) 8 Feb, 1989. Talk at the Society of Chemical Industry (London), 'Natural Products as a Source for new Agricultural Chemicals'. Assobiotec (Milan, Italy). Antibiotics 89 (Carmona, Spain). Meeting on Biological Reaction Mechanism, University of Edinburgh, Furbush Point Field Centre. Final Meeting, Genetic Engineering of Industrial Microorganisms, (University of Salamanica, Spain). ETH-TAG 1989 (Zurich). The John Hopkins University (USA), PACIFICHEM '89 meeting. 'Molecular Biology of Streptomyces', UCLA Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology (Colorado, USA).
Irish Geneticists Meeting (Dublin). Honorary Fellowships Presentation Ceremony, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). 5th European Congress on Biotechnology (Copenhagen, Denmark). 6th International Symposium, Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms (Strasbourg, France) International Conference on Biotechnology and Environmental Science: Molecular Approaches (Bangkok, Thailand). IUMS Congress: Bacteriology & Mycology (Osaka, Japan). The JPS Fellowship for Research in Japan (held by DH 1990). The Royal Society, discussion meeting (London). 3rd Meeting of the French Actinomycetes Club, Institut Pasteur (Paris, France). 2nd International Theorical-Practical Course on 'Genetic Manipulation and Physiology of Industrial microorganisms' (Leon, Spain). ICI Canada Inc., talk ' Streptomyces genetics in pure and applied research' Quebec, Canada). ASM International Conference on 'Multicellular Behaviour of Bacteria in Nature, Industry and the Laboratory' (Massachusetts, USA). The Biochemical Society Meeting (University of Birmingham).
NJAES Distinguished Lecture series, University of new Jersey (USA). FASEB 1991, Georgia World Congress Centre (USA). The Royal Society of Chemistry, Symposium 'Chemistry, Enzymology and Molecular Genetics of Natural Product Biosynthesis' (London). FOA, Swedish Defence Research Establishment, Memorial Lecture for Bengtåke Jaurin (Umeá, Sweden). Visit of Annika Osterman from Sweden. Talk on conjugative plasmids for the EMBO Workshop 'Bacterial Conjugation Systems' (Schloss Ringberg, Germany). ISBA 1991: International Symposium on Biology of Actinomycetes (University of Wisconsin, USA). 1st Congress of UK Biotechnology of the British Coordinating Committee for Biotechnology (University of Leeds). Exchange Visit to Hungary (arranged between the Royal Society and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). Meeting of the Société Française de Microbiologie (Paris, France).
CIBA Foundation Symposium No. 171 (London). Stanford University, Session Chairman for the ACS Spring National Meeting (San Francisco). Science and Engineering Research council Biotechnology Directorate: 'Transposons and Reporter Genes in Streptomycetes', a workshop and meeting (JI, Norwich) 9th International Biotechnology Symposium and Exposition (Virginia, USA). 2nd Firbush Bioorganic Conference (Edinburgh). 5th ASM Conference on Genetics and Molecular Biology of Industrial Organisms (USA). 'Natural Products as a Source for New Agricultural Chemicals II, SCI Pesticides Group (London). Conference 'Research Opportunities in Biomolecular Engineering' (Washington, USA).
1st South African Biotechnology Conference 'Biotech SA '93' (Rhodes University, South Africa). Keystone Symposia: 'Molecular Genetic Controls of Microbial Differentiation' (Colorado, USA). Royal Irish Academy 1993 seminar 'Trends in the Use and Production of Antimicrobials' (Dublin). Visit to Mexico, May 1993. 93rd American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Meeting (Washington, USA). DOE Workshop 'Small Genomes: New Initiatives in Mapping and sequencing' (USA). 17th International Congress of Genetics (Birmingham). Includes poster and 5 copies of 'The Genetic Messenger', the daily newspaper of the congress. International Congress on Chemicals from Biotechnology (Hannover, Germany).
Genetics & Molecular Biology Group Symposium (University of Warwick). Medical Research Council: BBSRC and BMC Workshop on the Molecular Approaches to Bacterial Host Interactions in Relation to Infection and Disease (University of Warwick). A Symposium in Honour of the Inauguration of the Jack Green Building of Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University (Israel). ISBA 94: the 9th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes (Moscow, Russia). 1994 Pacific Northwest Microorganisms Meeting (USA), Visit to Czech and Slovak Republics. International Conference on Microbial Science Metabolism (Switzerland). Visit and tour of Ireland, SGM Irish Branch Lecture.