Genetic Fingerprinting: Past, present and Future

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Speaker: Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, FRS
Biography: Department of Genetics, University of Leicester
Date: 16/11/10
Time: 19:30
Venue: Main Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: THE 21st ERASMUS DARWIN MEMORIAL LECTURE

DNA fingerprinting, accidentally invented in 1984, has most notably revolutionised forensic and legal medicine. the lecture will look to the future of DNA-based identification.

 

Tickets can be purchased from the Garrick Theatre box office; students through their schools.
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2010 - 2011 Programme

An Apple a day for Six Years

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Speaker: Dr Matthew Ordidge
Biography: Scientific Curator, National Fruit Collections, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Date: 16/09/10
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: Conserving genetic diversity, the role of the National Fruit Collections at Brogdale Farm, Faversham.
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Antimatter

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Speaker: Prof. Frank Close
Biography: Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and a tutor in the Theorical Physics department
Date: 18/05/10
Time: 20:00
Venue: Main Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: Can antimatter solve the world’s energy problems and other issues?

 

THE MAY MEETING WILL BE PRECEDED AT 1930 BY THE SOCIETY’S AGM – MEMBERS ONLY
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2009 - 2010 Programme

Challenges in predicting weather and climate

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Speaker: Prof. Paul Hardaker, FRMetS CMet CEnv
Biography: Chief Executive, Royal Meteorological Society
Date: 20/04/10
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: High resolution forcast accuracy and the value of seasonal and decadal forcasts. How we make climate predictions, model limitations and what evidence they provide on climate change.
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