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B.15:45 Architecture modelmaking exhibition: Celebrating 45 years of the B.15 modelmaking workshop

1 September 2014 - 31 December 2015
2015 marks 45 years of the Kantorowich B.15 modelmaking workshop at The University of Manchester. The B.15:45 exhibition is a retrospective look at the last 45 years of modelmaking…

Encrypting files stored on cloud-based storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive and Onedrive

14:00 18 - 15:00 20 May 2015
The University currently has a site-wide licence to use the nCryptedcloud encryption service. This service works with Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and some other cloud storage services,…

Later-Day Saints

23 January - 28 June 2015
Our ancestors often relied on their beliefs to make sense of their world - is there an equivalent in our modern world of celebrity and material culture? Later-Day Saints brings the…

Making Monuments on Rapa Nui. The Statues from Easter Island

1 April - 6 September 2015
1 April-6 September 2015 Free entry The monumental stone statues of Rapa Nui (named Easter Island by European explorers) in the Pacific are some of the most widely recognised archaeological…

Merchants of Print: from Venice to Manchester

29 January - 21 June 2015
This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Aldus Manutius (1449 – 1515), an Italian humanist scholar who founded the Aldine Press at Venice. His publishing legacy includes scholarly…

Modelling, clustering and aligning gene expression time series with probabilistic models

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2015
As methods for measuring gene expression become cheaper, it is becoming possible to monitor genome-wide expression in longitudinal studies, across development, disease progression or…

Network biology approaches to understand how Salmonella is modulating autophagy in the gut

12:00 - 13:00 18 May 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2015

Philosophy and the Sciences

10:30 - 17:15 18 May 2015
Scientists sometimes express the view that science, in principle, has all the answers to the important questions about the Universe and our place in it, and that philosophy therefore…

Public Intellectuals with Professor Aneez Esmail - Challenges for the NHS: Diversity in the Making of a National Institution

18:00 - 20:00 18 May 2015
Immigration and the future of the NHS are two of the most prominent issues in the 2015 election. Rarely visible in these debates is the fundamental role played by immigrant doctors…

Romuald Hazoumè: Dance of the Butterflies

14 February - 29 July 2015
Dance of the Butterflies is a stunning new art work by one of Africa’s foremost contemporary artists Romuald Hazoumè. It features swarms of multicoloured ‘butterflies’ which will take…

Sexuality Summer School: Public Lecture with Gavin Butt (Goldsmiths): "Anti-Gravitas: Queer Importance in Art and Performance"

12:00 - 14:00 18 May 2015
These public events accompany the Sexuality Summer School, a five-day event for postgraduates, organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at the University…

Sexuality Summer School: Screening of Fig Trees (John Greyson, 2009) and roundtable with John Greyson, Lisa Henderson & Richard Dyer

17:00 18 May 2015
5-6.30pm “Why Sing?” Roundtable with clips. Filmmaker John Greyson (York, CA) in conversation with Richard Dyer (Kings) and Lisa Henderson (UMass Amherst) 6.45-8.30pm Screening of…

Tony Phillips: Artist printmaking workshop

13:00 - 16:30 18 May 2015
The artist will be conducting a printmaking workshop based on some of the processes used in his etching sequences. The session is an introduction to the dry-point technique , and will…

Turning the tide in Oceania: a call for a global network to transition the Pacific to low carbon sea transport

16:00 18 May 2015
The Atoll Nations of the Pacific face imminent destruction, possibly the first national level collateral damage of climate change. At the global scale we wait for Paris to see if our…

What’s the Weather Like Today?

12 March - 28 June 2015
The weather is fascinating. We can hardly avoid talking about it and how it makes us feel. This exhibition uses items from the Library’s collections to explore descriptions, reflections,…

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Neli Demireva

16:00 - 17:15 19 May 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Neli Demireva from the University of Essex will deliver a talk entitled 'Is Co-ethnic Concentration a Barrier to the Successful Integration of…

CMIST Short Course :: Advanced:: Longitudinal Data Analysis

19 - 21 May 2015
The importance of longitudinal analysis is becoming increasingly recognised across the social and medical sciences. However there are few analysts with the methodological skills to…

Manchester workshop on evolution, economics, and computation

19 - 20 May 2015
The workshop will revolve around algorithmic and economic ideas applied to evolution. Among the explored topics are cooperative vs competitive interactions among biological entities…

Neutrophil-vessel Wall Interactions in Vivo: Mode, Mechanisms and Pathogenesis

13:00 - 14:00 19 May 2015
Migration of leukocytes to sites of injury or inflammation is a crucial component of both innate and adaptive immunity but can also contribute to the pathogenesis of inflammatory disorders.…

Phosphate uptake in yeast in an alkaline environment: problems and solutions

11:00 - 12:00 19 May 2015
Special Seminar The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has an undeniable importance in biotechnological applications and it is also an important model for research in molecular biology.…

Rare blood and unruly lives: genetics, transfusion and paper technology in mid-twentieth century Britain

16:00 - 17:00 19 May 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Feb-May 2015. …

Sexuality Summer School: Performance lecture with Del LaGrace Volcano: “INTER*ME: Give me an L! G! B! T! I! Q! or How I Lived (Through) my Acronymous Identities”

17:00 - 19:00 19 May 2015
All Sexuality Summer School events are free with no booking required. First come first served: arrive early to avoid disappointment. These public events accompany the Sexuality Summer…

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