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"A metabolic engineering pipeline: from computer-aided design to product quantification"

12:00 - 13:00 13 February 2014
This Seminar is part of the Special Seminar Series All Welcome. Tea & Coffee will be served before the seminar Host: Eriko Takano, MIB eriko.takano@manchester.ac.uk

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.…

Aftermath: 100 years of creativity from conflict

7 February - 29 June 2014
How remarkable is it that, throughout our shared history, some people have been inspired to answer the worst examples of man’s inhumanity with acts of compassion and creativity? Aftermath…

Aftermath: curator tour

11:00 - 12:00 13 February 2014
Drop in and join printmaker Alan Birch to learn more about the part of the exhibition he curated.

Debate: Race and Sex

19:00 - 20:00 13 February 2014
Debate: Race and Sex

Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions, Norman Pavelka, Singapore Immunology Network, A*STAR, Singapore

16:00 - 17:00 13 February 2014
External Speaker, Systems Immunology Mammalian hosts represent complex environments in which microbes continuously adapt, compete and evolve. Microbial virulence is one of the complex…

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.…

Lovell Lecture - Phil James

19:30 - 21:00 13 February 2014
Prof. Phil James, Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University Lecture: Star formation and supernova explosions in nearby galaxies Supernovae are the violent…

Nazi Elite Schools and International Exchange

17:00 - 19:00 13 February 2014
A lecture from the seminar series YOUNG IN DANGEROUS TIMES: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN GLOBAL HISTORY The Napolas (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten) were the most prominent type of…

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…

Conservation in Action / Caring for your Family Archive

10:00 - 15:00 13 February 2014
Drop in during the day to find out how we look after our collection, and how to care for your own family archive. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer any valuations.

Control of adult tissue repair by manipulating cell-extracellular matrix interdependence

11:00 - 12:00 13 February 2014
To facilitate tissue regeneration and remodelling, we need to understand local microenvironment (niche). Over the past 5 years, I have focused on how tissue regeneration and remodelling…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Bernard Jackson, "Legal and Narrative Aspects of the Book of Ruth"

14:00 - 16:00 13 February 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar series from the Centre for Biblical Studies continues. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Featured Artist: Richard Casey (Piano)

13:10 - 14:00 13 February 2014
Beethoven Variations op.34 Prokofiev Sonata no. 8 Prokofiev’s epic Sonata no. 8, very much the largest in his set of nine, was composed during the Second Word War. Richard places…

Roma Migrants: A challenge or an opportunity for our cities?

16:00 - 18:00 13 February 2014
A panel discussion forum with Rt Hon David Blunkett, MP, Dr Michael Stewart (University College London), Carol Powell (Principal, Gorton Mount Primary Academy), Fay Selvan (Chief Executive,…

Translation and Anarchism

14:00 - 17:00 13 February 2014
Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies Seminar Series

Guidance of mesenchymal migration by redistribution and sequestration of Rac1

14:00 - 15:00 13 February 2014
Sustained forward migration through a fibrillar extracellular matrix requires localization of protrusive signals. Contact with fibronectin activates Rac1, but cells require intrinsic…

virum mihi, Camena, insece: the Camenae and the Commemoration of Achievement in Early Rome

16:55 - 18:30 13 February 2014
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

How the mouse gets its tail: role of neuromesodermal stem cell-like progenitors in axis elongation

14:00 - 15:00 14 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Manchester Tissue Regeneration & Stem Cell Network seminar series. …

Mechanisms of hepatic cell development: importance for understanding disease

13:00 - 14:00 14 February 2014
Professor Frederic Lemaigre (http://www.deduveinstitute.be/liver_and_pancreas_development.php) will be visiting the University of Manchester on Friday 14th February and giving a seminar…

Psappha in collaboration with Vaganza

19:30 - 21:30 14 February 2014
PSAPPHA: The University of Manchester’s Contemporary Ensemble in Residence Manchester’s pre-eminent new music ensemble specialising in the performance of music by living composers.…

Big Saturday: Birds and Flight

11:00 - 16:00 15 February 2014
Be amazed by the variety of birds and flying animals on display in the Museum. Find out more about birds from around the world, where they live and what they eat. Discover other gliding…

Chamber Ensembles

13:10 - 14:00 15 February 2014
Manchester University Music Society’s Chamber Festival Weekend continues with five premieres of works by undergraduate composers based here at the University of Manchester. These works…

MAP Selection and Introduction Day

15 February 2014
The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is a structured scheme for local post-16 students who meet specific academic and background criteria. The aim of the programme is to support entry…

MUMS Chamber Orchestra and Ensembles

19:30 - 21:30 15 February 2014
Messiaen Oiseaux Exotiques (Soloist: Daniel Chappell) Leo Geyer Sideshows (Soloist: Rachel Maby) Beethoven Symphony No.1 Manchester University Music Society close their Chamber…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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