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Coral: Something Rich and Strange

29 November 2013 - 16 March 2014
Temporary exhibition at Manchester Museum. Explore the enduring fascination with coral as a material, symbol and inspiration for artists, cultures and societies across the centuries.…

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…

Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana

25 October 2013 - 4 May 2014
This exhibition at Manchester Museum is the first ever officially approved showing of clay figurines made by a previously little understood people in Koma Land in Ghana in West Africa.…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 3 February 2014
J S Bach Excerpts from Partita No 1 in B minor BWV 1002 Henri Wieniawski Legende Op 17 Adriana Lucia Cristea violin Greta Gasser piano Sergei Prokofiev Excerpts from…

Snails in art and the art of Snails

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

The Whitworth closure for major development work

2 September 2013 - 14 February 2015
The Whitworth reopens on Saturday 14 February 2015. The gallery is currently closed in order to carry out major development work, transforming the Gallery into a new 21st century Gallery…

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 …

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 4 February 2014
Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren’t walking yet. Booking essential (1 week in advance) 0161 275 2648, free. Tues 4 Feb, 10.30-11.15am & 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm.

Care and Compassion- “A Conversation with …..Series” | Understanding the impact of violence against vulnerable adults and young people.

17:15 - 18:45 4 February 2014
'''Host:''' Manchester Medical School '''About the event:''' Session Title: Understanding the impact of violence against vulnerable adults and young people. Last year we were privileged…

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…

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 4 February 2014
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

Save Our NHS Manchester Presents

19:00 - 21:00 4 February 2014
Last summer Save Our NHS Manchester put on a thrilling night of theatre exploring themes such as privatisation and the consequences of cuts to our NHS. Expect a night of contemporary…

The Last Day of a Condemned Man

14:00 - 15:00 4 February 2014
Explore different editions of 'The Last day of a Condemned Man' (Victor Hugo), and find out about the abolition of death penalty in England and France.

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,…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 5 February 2014
We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on the Fallowfield Campus every Wednesday morning between October and March. During the summer months we run one tour in…

Adults Returning to Education Information Session

10:30 - 12:30 5 February 2014
Adult learners considering returning to education to pursue a degree, or who have already applied to the University, can sign up for an 'Adults Returning to Education Session'. This…

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…

Collection Bites: The Poetry of Objects

13:05 - 14:00 5 February 2014
Join Dr Melanie Giles, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology from the University of Manchester, as she muses on the inspiration to be gleaned from archaeological artefacts. Reflecting on a…

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.

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 5 February 2014
If you are unable to come to one of our University open days, you can join us for a guided visit of the campus on a Wednesday afternoon. Guided visits include a presentation on the…

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…

Quality Appraisal Workshop

12:00 - 15:30 5 February 2014
This workshop will highlight key themes relating to the quality appraisal process in evidence synthesis. It will consider what quality appraisal is, why it is important when undertaking…

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…

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