Lectures and seminars

"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

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

Translation and Anarchism

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

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…

Barça and Catalan Culture in Manchester

10:00 - 15:00 18 February 2014
A day of lectures on sport and culture, plus music, food and a language taster session. 10am - inaugural remarks and welcome: Professor Keith Brown, Vice-President and Dean of the…

CIDRAL Open Event: Professor Brian Dillon (Royal College of Arts) "Ruin Lust"

17:00 - 19:00 18 February 2014
Ruins are paradoxical things. Fragments of classical architecture predict the end of our own civilization as clearly as they speak of past glories. Modern urban or industrial decay…

From Exoticism to Empowerment: The Belly Dancing Body in Raja Amari's Satin Rouge (2002)

17:00 - 18:00 18 February 2014
Second seminar in MES Research Seminar Series, 2013-2014. During the French colonial era, belly dancers were defined in terms of their somatic alterity and their bodies were constructed…

History of a Technology? Are psychological selection tests technologies, or techniques (or something else)?

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series …

Remembering the Bacteriological Revolution: Koch's Postulates and 20th Century Medicine

16:00 - 17:00 18 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…

Eating the flesh with its life? Jehovah's Witnessed and the legal and ethical implications of bloodless transplants.

14:00 19 February 2014
Seminar from visiting academic of interest to students in the area of Healthcare Ethics and Law.

Homicide Law Reform and the “Implementation Effect”: Examining the unintended consequences of reforming the law of provocation in Australia and the UK

16:00 - 17:00 19 February 2014
This seminar will examine what has been termed, by Rosemary Hunter, the “implementation effect”. This is the notion that once implemented law reform can have a range of intended and…

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