Prof. Stephen Wallace runs the Wallace Laboratory in the Centre for Engineering Biology at the University of Edinburgh. His work is inspired by the chemical ingenuity of microorganisms and how they can be genetically programmed to produce important industrial chemicals from sustainable feedstocks and waste.

Our annual Curious Minds Lecture series, presented by Culture Perth & Kinross and the Perthshire Society of Natural Science is themed around “Contemporary Science in Scotland” and, over past seasons, speakers have covered a stimulating array of scientific topics from dinosaur fossils in Skye, through the human genome to black holes, gravitational waves and the science of consciousness.