Seminars
The Department of Life Sciences maintains several thriving seminar series through the academic year.
Departmental Seminar series
The main Departmental seminar series hosts external speakers invited by departmental members. Held weekly on Tuesdays in the Research Seminar Room N1035, this series has recently included;
- Professor Chris Stringer (Natural History Museum) - The early human occupation of Britain
- Dr Paul Dalton (University of Southampton) - Materials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
- Dr Sarah McMullen (University of Nottingham) - Nutrition during pregnancy - effects on renal development and consequences for subsequent blood pressure control
- Professor Steven Dunnett (Cardiff University) - Functional studies of neuronal grafts in the rat striatum
- Professor David Baker (Queen Mary University, London) - Cannabis for control of multiple sclerosis: hype or hope?
- Dr K. Thalassinos (Warwick University) - Objective organism-based evaluation of Mass Spectrometric Data
- Dr Jenifer Pocock (Institute of Neurology, London) - Microglial neurotransmitter receptors: modulating toxicity in neurodegenerative diseases
- Dr Mark Cunningham (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) - Cortical networks and behavioural states: Studies of physiology and pathology in vitro
- Dr Jo Jackson (Imperial College, London) - MRI imaging of stem cells in the injured rodent brain
- Dr Irina Majoul (Royal Holloway - University of London) - Nanobioscopy of living cells with FRET
- Dr Paul Francis (King's College London) - Amyloid, tau and glutamatergic neurotransmission in Alzheimer's disease
Biomedical Journal Club
Runs weekly through the year, and is an opportunity to hear presentations of recent literature. Held in the Research Seminar Room.
Ecology, Environment and Evolution Seminar Series
Held weekly in the Robert Hooke seminar room, this series encompasses research presentations, and journal paper presentations. It is an inter-departmental series.
Research in Progress
Held monthly, the Research in Progress seminars are a more informal forum in which to discuss our research projects.
Group meetings
Our research groups hold regular meetings, at which group members present papers, discuss results and report on conferences.
