Balliol College is inviting applications for scholars of outstanding distinction or promise to be Oliver Smithies Lecturers at Balliol College, Oxford, for the academic year 2010-11. The closing date is 16 April but full details can be accessed on the Balliol College Web site.

There are no subject matter restrictions, but Balliol appears to be particularly interested this year in ‘distinguished visitors from scientific disciplines’. Professor Oliver Smithies was a joint winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine.