After Dinner Speakers: Colin Blakemore, Sally Gunnell, Kevin Bacon

Colin Blakemore studied medical sciences at the University of Cambridge and completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1968. He taught at the University of Cambridge for 11 years and in 1979 took up the Chair of Physiology at the University of Oxford. He holds degrees from both Cambridge and Oxford Universtities, honorary doctorates from Aston and Salford Universities and an honorary fellowship from Cardiff University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Institute of Biology. His research has been concerned with many aspects of vision and the early development of the brain. His awards include the 1996 international Alcon Prize for vision research and the 1989 Royal Society Michael Faraday Award for the furtherance of the public understanding of science. He was a member of the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones