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| Speaker: | Prof. Simon Garrington | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Manchester (Associate Director for Jodrell Bank Observatory, Director of e-MERLIN (UK VLBI National Radio Astronomy Facility) | |
| Date: | Wednesday, 8th May 2019 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | This meeting will be preceded at 7:30 by the Society’s AGM | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Matthew Cobb | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Manchester | |
| Date: | Tuesday, 11th June 2019 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Recent discoveries have made it possible to change genes in any species, including our own, and to spread those changes rapidly through wild populations. We now have virtually unlimited power over the ecosystem and over our own destinies. How should we use it? Should we use it at all? | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Roy Bicknell | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Birmingham | |
| Date: | Wednesday, 13th September 2017 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Recent advances in our understanding of the immune system are giving rise to dramatic new cancer therapies. I will discuss some of these and explain how this knowledge is being used to develop new vaccines to prevent cancer. | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Janet Lord | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Birmingham | |
| Date: | Tuesday, 10th October 2017 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | We are an ageing society with one in three children born today expected to live to be 100. The question is can we ensure that healthy lifespan keeps pace with increased longevity, through either lifestyle or drug based approaches. | |
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| Speaker: | Venki Ramakrishnan | View Flyer |
| Biography: | Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology | |
| Date: | Thursday, 16th November 2017 | |
| Time: | 7:30 pm | |
| Venue: | Main Theatre | |
| Description: | The development of methods for the study of molecules from X-ray crystallography to the present day and beyond. | |
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| Speaker: | Sir Jim Smith | View Flyer |
| Biography: | Wellcome Trust | |
| Date: | Wednesday, 6th December 2017 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Main Theatre | |
| Description: | The origins of the Francis Crick Institute, its design, and its ways of working to ensure that it becomes one of the world’s best biomedical research institutes. | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Richard Godwin | View Flyer |
| Biography: | Harper Adams University | |
| Date: | Wednesday, 10th January 2018 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Global positioning systems and guided vehicles are being adopted to create an era of precision farming. This presentation explains how these initiatives, which improve the accuracy and control of field operations with the ability to sense the state of the soil and crops, increase field efficiency and improve crop yields. | |
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| Speaker: | Dr Christopher Berry | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Birmingham | |
| Date: | Thursday, 15th February 2018 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Gravitational waves were first directly observed in 2015, with the discovery of a signal from two merging black holes. They provide a new way of doing astronomy, and we will discuss the latest results and their implications for our understanding of astrophysics. | |
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| Speaker: | Dr Martin Braddock | View Flyer |
| Biography: | AstraZeneca | |
| Date: | Tuesday, 13th March 2018 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | The physiological and psychological changes experienced by human beings in spaceflight and the past, present and potential future needs of Space Medicine. | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Paul Ekins | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University College London | |
| Date: | Tuesday, 10th April 2018 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Thirty years after the Brundtland Report ‘Our Common Future’ the world community has adopted probably the most ambitious ever objectives for the human species – the SDGs. This talk will assess what the global community, countries and local communities need to do to have any chance at all of achieving them by 2030 as envisaged. | |