NOBEL prize winner Sir John Sulston is to give a public lecture at the University of York this month on the human genome project.

The geneticist shares this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and will be collecting his award in Stockholm a fortnight after giving the lecture.

Sir John was the first director of the Wellcome Trust's Sanger Institute which led the race to publish the human genome sequence - the map of human DNA.

His free lecture, the human genome project, will be held at the University of York on Wednesday, November 27, in the physics building, Room PX001, at 12.15pm.

Updated: 09:29 Tuesday, November 05, 2002