Posts tagged with ‘biology’
Beyond Jell-O: New gel-like materials that instruct cells and repair damaged tissues
In this lecture, Dr Okesola will showcase how he and his team have created soft materials that resemble Jell-O (jelly) to repair damaged tissues and explore why we have cancer.
Tags: biology, cancer research, Dr Babatunde Okesola, science, science public lecture series, tissue
5th International Conference on Food Oral Processing
A conference bringing together delegates from both industry and academia and covers the physical, physiological and psychological aspects of eating and oral processing.
Tags: biochemistry, biology, biophysics, dentistry, Food Sciences, food technology, International Conference on Food Oral Processing, nutrition, oral processing, Sensory Science
UK conference on Multiscale Biology
This international meeting will bring together scientists addressing multiscale phenomena across a range of biological systems, and crossing spatial scales from molecules to populations of organisms.
Tags: BBRSC, biology, CMMB, Multiscale Biology
The Benefits of Fungal Sex
In this inaugural lecture, Professor Paul S Dyer, BA, MA, PhD, will speak on the topic of ‘The Benefits of Fungal Sex’. Professor Dyer is Professor of Fungal Biology, School of Life Sciences.
Tags: biology, fungus, inaugural lecture, Paul Dyer, public lecture, reproduction, School of Life Sciences
Causes and consequences of soil microbial diversity
Researchers and students are warmly welcomed to this free event where we will be joined by Dr Joana Falcao Salles, University of Groningen, as part of our antimicrobial resistance visiting scholar seminar series.
Tags: AMR, antimicrobial resistance, biology, Bridging the Gaps, School of Mathematical Sciences, soil
101 ways to kill a fungus
In this lecture, Simon Avery, Professor of Eukaryotic Microbiology in the School of Life Sciences, discusses ‘101 ways to kill a fungus’.
Tags: biology, Eukaryotic Microbiology, fungus, inaugural lecture, microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Simon Avery
Designer dragons and transgenic triffids, or, the power of the (genetic) imagination
In this lecture, Sean May, School of Biosciences, will explore the evolution of genetic engineering technology. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series.
Tags: biology, Biosciences, dinosaur, genetics, lecture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, School of Biosciences, science fiction, Sean May
Synthetic biology: great expectations and great responsibilities
Organised by Professor Brigitte Nerlich as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, this panel debate will be chaired by the scientist and broadcaster Adam Rutherford, author of the book ‘Creation: How science is reinventing life itself’ (2013) and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship science programme, ‘Inside Science’.
Tags: Adam Rutherford, Andrew Balmer, biology, Brigitte Nerlich, ESRC, ESRC Festival of Social Science, Hilary Sutcliffe, Klaus Winzer, Matter for All, Responsible Research and Innovation, synthetic biology
Third symposium on primary breast cancer in older women
With an overall aim to personalise the management of primary breast cancer in older women, this event seeks to develop an in-depth understanding around biology and treatment options and more.
Tags: biology, breast cancer, Cancer, East Midlands Conference Centre, Genomic Health, medicine, School of Medicine, symposium
Synthetic biology: engineering life for a better world
In this Responsible Research and Innovation lecture, Professor Paul Martin from the University of Sheffield tackles ‘Synthetic biology: engineering life for a better world’. Admission free, all welcome.
Tags: biology, Paul Martin, Responsible Research and Innovation, RRI, sociology, University of Sheffield