Nick Lane

nick.lane@ucl.ac.uk

 

Links to lectures, talks, radio and TV interviews, podcasts, blogs and more

UCL lunch hour lecture

UCL mini-lecture

BBC2 Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell

BBC Radio 4, 'In Our Time' on the cell

BBC News Meet the Author interview

Guardian Science Weekly podcast

Wellcome Packed Lunch podcast

Sunday Times article on the origin of life

Observer review of Creation by Adam Rutherford

BBC Radio 4, The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC4 The Gene Code - Interview with Adam Rutherford

Thinking about Science - podcast with Dr Emma Tobin and Dr Brendan Clarke, UCL Science and Technology Studies

University of Manchester podcast on the origin of life with Adam Rutherford

London Science Festival - podcast of a session with Lewis Dartnell on the origin of life and life elsewhere in the universe

Geological Society lecture on energetics at the origin of life

Interview for the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology with Toni Gabaldon

UCL Provost's Venture Research Fellowship

BBC Radio 4 Last Word (on Lynn Margulis)

Not Exactly Rocket Science, blog on the origin of complex life

Not Exactly Rocket Science, blog on the two-genome waltz

 

Full list of public talks and media presentations (including forthcoming talks)

  1. BBC Radio 4, The Infinite Monkey Cage, panel guest, May 2013

  2. BBC2, interviewed on Science Britannica, with Brian Cox, May 2013

  3. Sunday Times, interview on the origin of life, April 2013

  4. The Observer, review of Creation by Adam Rutherford, April 2013

  5. University of Manchester podcast on the origin of life, February 2013

  6. BBC Radio 4, interviewed on Sexual Nature: A brief natural history of sex, January 2013

  7. UCL Science Centre Lecture for Sixth Formers and Teachers, December 2012

  8. UCAS Open Day Research talk, UCL Bioseciences, November 2012

  9. UCL Thinking About Science podcast discussion, November 2012

  10. BBC2, interviewed on Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell, October 2012

  11. St Paul's School, Halley Society, invited talk, September 2012

  12. Naked Scientists, BBC Radio 5 Live, September 2012

  13. In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, September 2012

  14. Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls’ Science Society, invited talk, September 2012

  15. Olympic Summer School, invited talk for sixth form students, July 2012

  16. U3A (University of the Third Age), invited lecture, March 2012

  17. UCL Lunch Hour Lecture, January 2012

  18. BBC Radio 4, The Last Word (on Lynn Margulis)

  19. Natural History Museum, Nature Live talk, November 2011

  20. Research talk, UCL Biosciences open day, November 2011

  21. BBC Radio 4, The Infinite Monkey Cage, panel guest, November 2011

  22. Oxford Brookes University, Annual Research Lecture (public lecture), November 2011

  23. Institute of Education, Annual programme for A-level students, lecture, November 2011

  24. London Science Festival, public lecture and panel debate, October 2011

  25. Grant Museum, UCL, public lecture to mark reopening, May 2011

  26. Bishop’s Stortford, Cafe Scientifique, public lecture May 2011

  27. Wellcome Elements, public talk, April 2011

  28. BBC4, interviewed on The Gene Code, broadcast May 2011

  29. Oxford Literary Festival, panel debate, April 2011

  30. The Brockington Lecture, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, March, 2011.

  31. BBC Radio 4, Thin Air, interview, broadcast February 2011

  32. BBC News Channel, Meet the Author, December 2010

  33. BBC World Service, One Planet, interview, November 2010

  34. Henrietta Barnett School Science Society, invited talk, November 2010

  35. BBC Radio 4, The World Tonight, interview, October, 2010

  36. Wellcome Collection, packed lunch, September, 2010

  37. British Science Festival, Birmingham, talk, September, 2010

  38. Richmond Scientific Society, talk, September 2010

  39. Brighton Science Festival, talk, February 2010

  40. National Geographic Weekend Radio, interview, May 2010

  41. BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, interview, February 2010

  42. National Public Radio, Washington, All Things Considered, interview, February 2010

  43. BBC World Service, Science in Action, interview, January 2010

  44. The Guardian, Science Weekly podcast, interview, January 2010

  45. Mini-lecture on the origin of complex life, UCL TV on YouTube, December 2009

  46. Edinburgh International Book Festival, with Jerry Coyne, August 2009

  47. Radio Wales Science Café, interview, June 2009

  48. University of Aberdeen Writers Festival, May 2009

  49. Nature podcast, July 2007

  50. CBC Radio, interview, June 2007

  51. Folkestone Literary Festival, November 2006

  52. Hay Festival of Literature, May 2006

  53. Passion for the Planet Radio, interview, May 2006

  54. Spanish National Television, Redes, extended interview, April 2006

  55. Hay Festival of Literature, May 2004

  56. Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 2003

  57. CHQR Radio, Calgary, Canada, interview, March 2003

  58. BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, interview, December 2002