Posts tagged with ‘biology’
Smart spiders
In this family-friendly talk, Sara L. Goodacre, Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Genetics, will reveal how spiders use their amazing skills, and explain what it is that we still don’t quite understand about them.
Tags: animals, Arachnids, biology, environment, Evolutionary Biology, Sara L. Goodacre, Smart spiders, Spider silk, Spiders
The wonders of the human heart
Join Aishah Nasir and Chris Denning from the Biodiscovery Institute here at the University of Nottingham to learn about the wonders of the human heart.
Tags: Biodiscovery Institute, biology, Cardiac science, Heart, human heart
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