Seminar

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…

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.

Islamic Pious Endowment (Waqf) in Historical Perspective: Legal Aspects, Functions and Modern Controversy

16:00 - 17:30 6 February 2014
History Research Seminar 'Islamic Pious Endowment (Waqf) in Historical Perspective: Legal Aspects, Functions and Modern Controversy' - with Yaacov Lev (Bar-Ilan, Israel) Events end…

John Coffey (Leicester), "Protestant Millennialism and British Antislavery, 1770-1840"

16:00 - 17:30 6 February 2014
The fortnightly Religions and Theology seminar.

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

The Gortyn Code and the History of Greek Law

16:55 - 18:30 6 February 2014
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Sons of Osiris: Men in Ancient Egypt

09:15 - 16:30 8 February 2014
A series of presentations examining the lives, roles, health and deaths of ancient Egyptian men. Presented by Egyptology Online in association with Manchester Museum and the KNH Centre.…

Accountable to whom, for what? An exploration of the early development of Clinical Commissioning Groups in the English NHS

12:15 - 13:15 10 February 2014
Our research found that CCGs are subject to a complex web of accountability relationships, including managerial, sanction-backed accountability to NHS England, alongside a number of…

The effects of environmental stressors on the links between physiology and behaviour

15:00 - 16:00 10 February 2014
Ecology, Evolution and Computational Biology Seminar Series

Imaging spatio-temporal signaling programs during cell migration and neuronal differentiation

13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Tissue Systems seminar series. …

MicroRNA evolution and expression during Drosophila development / Evolutionary diversification at multiple levels of variation in Drosophila wing shape

15:30 - 17:00 11 February 2014
These seminars are part of the Fly Club Seminar Series …

Mind, Body and Business. Elevating the masses by means of the Bethnal Green Museum.

13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series …

The Crowd in Iranian Politics, 1952-53

17:00 - 18:00 11 February 2014
First Seminar in the Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series, 2013-2014. The purpose of this talk is that of providing an alternative reading of the momentous events of 1952-53,…

Genes, History and Archaeology: A Case Study of The British People

12:00 - 13:00 12 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Leaders in Science Seminar Series. …

History Lunchtime Seminar - Dr Charlotte Hastings - "To Transform Colonial Children? Women Teachers at 1920s Queen's College, Lagos (Nigeria)”

13:00 - 14:00 12 February 2014
History Lunchtime Seminar Spring Term 2014 Manchester Historians present their work in an informal setting, feel free to bring your lunch. Wednesday 12th February - Dr Charlotte Hastings…

MICRA Seminar: Ageing, nutrition and health

14:00 - 16:00 12 February 2014
In collaboration with Food@Manchester, the event will discuss how the health community should reduce the risks and consequences of malnutrition of the older patient cohort. Recent…

“Can requiring genetic knowledge be justified in the name of preventing harm?”

14:00 12 February 2014
A seminar given by Victoria Chico of the University of Sheffield of interest to students in the area of Healthcare Ethics and Law.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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