I thought some forumites might have an interest in this from previous comments -
Wain Medal lecture at the University of Kent
Professor Frank Sargent from the University of Dundee will give the 2010 Wain Medal Lecture at the University of Kent's Canterbury campus on Friday 19 November.
Entitled Bioenergy and biofuels: learning from bacteria, his lecture will take place in Woolf College Lecture Theatre at 5pm. It is free, open to all and will be presented in a way that is accessible to scientists and non-scientists alike.
http://www.kent.ac.uk/bio/wain/lectures/2010_lecture.html