Events at The University of Manchester

Lectures and seminars

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Harvey, "Boasting in the Cross: Honour and Imitation in the Ethics of Galatians"

14:00 - 16:00 30 January 2014
The first in Semester 2's Ehrhardt Seminar series from the Centre for Biblical Studies.

Globalisation and Sustainable Development: International Transport and Sustainable Development

16:00 - 18:00 30 January 2014
This paper assesses the potential contribution for international shipping and long haul aviation to contribute to sustatinable development (SD). It considers trade and development,…

Memory, Mourning and Maternal Inheritances: A Daughter's Reading of her Mother's Holocaust Memoir (CJS Seminar Series) - Julie V. Gottlieb

16:00 - 17:30 30 January 2014
Julie V. Gottlieb (Leeds University) presents a special seminar for Holocaust Memorial Day.

Music Research Seminar: Philip Grange (University of Manchester), 'Clichés and the Individual Talent: Or, Working at your career by not working at your career'

16:15 - 18:00 30 January 2014
Philip Grange, Professor of Composition at the University of Manchester, gives the opening talk of this semester's Composers Forum.

Regulation of Cell Surface Signaling in Leukocytes and Amoeba by Coronin Proteins

12:00 - 13:00 30 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Special Seminars Series …

School of Psychological Sciences seminar | Title (TBA)

16:00 - 17:00 30 January 2014
'''Host:''' Dr. Cheryl Capek, School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' The School of Psychological Seminar series runs weekly from 3rd October 2013 to 5th June 2014.…

Squaring up to Homer: Thoughts on Herodotos Book 7

16:55 - 18:00 30 January 2014
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Curating Coral: Something Rich and Strange

17:00 - 18:30 3 February 2014
This talk will explore the rationale behind the Coral exhibition at Manchester Museum and reflect on the curatorial process. Marion will examine the challenges of organising a cross-disciplinary…

Snails in art and the art of Snails

15:00 - 16:00 3 February 2014
Ecology, Evolution and Computational Biology Seminar Series

An Uneasy Consensus: The Church of England’s engagement with questions of homosexuality during the 1950s and 1960s

13:00 - 14:00 4 February 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series …

Endangered Crops: Conservation Genetics and Agricultural Crisis in the United States, 1950-1975

16:00 - 17:00 4 February 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series February-May 2014. They will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm. All are welcome and please feel free pass this information on…

Tissue Systems Seminar Series: Marc Goodfellow & Jon Humphries

13:00 4 February 2014
Marc Goodfellow, Papalopulu lab, microRNA input into a neural ultradian oscillator controls emergence and timing of alternative cell states. Jon Humphries, Humphries lab, The ECM and…

Tumour adaptability in endocrine treated breast cancer

16:00 - 17:00 4 February 2014
In breast cancer, a significant number of endocrine treated patients develop recurrent disease. The ability of a tumour to adapt and evade endocrine therapy, though clinically recognised,…

Burning Cane: Sugar, Land, Work and Health in Southern Mozambique

16:30 - 18:00 5 February 2014
The concept ‘land-grabbing’ focuses political attention on the appropriation of land, but attention needs to be given as well to the conditions under which people work in capitalist…

Chromatin Dynamics in Seasonal Timing

12:00 - 13:00 5 February 2014
The study of how plants monitor seasons in order to regulate the transition to reproduction has led us into the dissection of two conserved mechanisms that link antisense transcription…

Epigenetics: Why You Don’t Have Teeth in Your Eyeballs

19:00 - 20:30 5 February 2014
Dr Nessa Carey, visiting Professor at Imperial College London will give the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Lecture. How can it be that almost all the cells in your…

Exporting Medical Education: Irish Qualifications and the Arab Spring in Bahrain

14:00 5 February 2014
Seminar presented by a visiting speaker from the University of Lancaster.

Material-driven fibronectin fibrillogenesis to engineer the cellular microenvironment

13:00 - 14:00 5 February 2014
Most cells assemble rich FN matrices via an integrin-dependent process that incorporates FN molecules into matrix fibrils. We have shown this process can occur by simple adsorption…

Molecular Networks and the Mechanism of Action of Anticancer Agents

13:00 - 14:00 5 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Special Seminar Series Biologically active chemical compounds produce complex molecular responses already at the cellular levels. The majority of compounds…

Research Matters: The importance of studying implementation

11:00 - 12:00 5 February 2014
As funders place more and more emphasis on the importance of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for the evaluation of school-based interventions, the significance of contextual processes…

Research seminar: Peatlands during the last millennium - a global synthesis using observations and models

16:00 - 17:30 5 February 2014
The research seminar series offers staff and students the opportunity to engage with new and emerging geographical research. Over the past three years, over 50 speakers have been hosted…

The secret anarchy of science

16:00 5 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Special Seminar series. Hosted by David Brough

A Day in the Life: Exploring effects of stress on health using daily process approaches

16:00 - 17:00 6 February 2014
'''Host:''' Prof Chris Armitage, School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' The School of Psychological Seminar series runs weekly from 3rd October 2013 to 5th June 2014.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Melissa Markauskas, "Criminalising Heresy: Fourth-Century Bishops and Roman Law"

14:00 - 16:00 6 February 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar series from the Centre for Biblical Studies continues. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Regulation of integrin function in kidney and skin

11:00 - 12:00 6 February 2014
Coert Margadant is a Postdoctoral Fellow within Arnoud Sonnenberg's lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute

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