Lectures and seminars

External Seminar Series | Sedentary Behaviour - is all sitting bad?

12:00 - 13:00 16 September 2015
'''Host:''' School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work '''About the event:''' The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social work run external research seminars every month. Presenters…

Falls Prevention and Monitoring Seminar

14:00 - 16:00 16 September 2015
'''Host:''' Institute of Population Health '''About the event:''' The Connected Health Innovation Centre is pleased to announce that following last year's extremely successful seminar…

Signaling control of morphogenetic mechanics in Zebrafish and Drosophila

14:00 - 15:00 16 September 2015
I will present zebrafish epiboly as a model for the mechanical analysis of morphogenesis and show that the overall biomechanics of the process, which depends on actomyosin contractility…

The Manchester Business School Organizational Ethnography Network Launch

12:00 - 17:30 16 September 2015
Keynote addresses: Tony Watson - Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Work and Organisations, Nottingham University Business School Fabian Muniesa - Senior Researcher (Professor), Centre…

Engaging with US academia and industry for aerospace research - Dr Neil Ashton

12:00 - 13:00 17 September 2015
This talk discusses the work done to boost UK-US collaboration in the fields of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and High-Performance Computing (HPC). The rationale for improving…

CMIST afternoon seminar: How many classes? Statistical modelling of a social network and a terrorist network, with a latent class model and Bayesian model comparisons

16:00 - 17:30 22 September 2015
This talk discusses the assessment of the number of classes in a social network, through the latent class model extension of the exponential random graph model. The assessment uses…

Integrin traffic and mechanosensing in cancer

13:00 - 14:00 22 September 2015
Integrins are a family of transmembrane cell-surface molecules that constitute the principal adhesion receptors for the extracellular matrix, and are indispensable for the existence…

Deals and Development in Liberia

16:00 - 18:00 23 September 2015
Eric D. Werker, Harvard Business School, will be presenting a seminar on “Deals and Development in Liberia” on Wednesday 23 September, 4.00pm – 6.00pm, in room G7, Humanities Bridgeford…

Development of novel anticancer agents that target prohibitins and the translation initiation factor elF4a

13:30 - 14:30 24 September 2015
CCB Autumn Seminar Series 2015

Manchester Pharmacy School Seminar Series 2015/16: Placentas, piñatas and nanoparticles: a biologist's approach to targeted drug delivery.

12:30 - 14:00 28 September 2015
Placentas, piñatas and nanoparticles: a biologist's approach to targeted drug delivery. Speaker: Dr Lynda Harris, University of Manchester The seminar series held in MPS is primarily…

Social Anthropology Seminar - The experience of the Bush : Hunters and social aesthetics in Burkina Faso

16:00 - 18:00 28 September 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 28 September 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Lorenzo Ferrarini, University of Manchester…

A Baffling Breakthrough: Making Colour in the 1486 Book of St Albans

16:00 - 17:00 29 September 2015
The Book of St Albans (St Albans: Schoolmaster Printer, 1486) is celebrated as one of the greatest landmarks of printing. The lasting influence of its content has been well studied,…

CMIST afternoon seminar: When “contexts” are geographical areas, is multilevel model still a good choice to model hierarchical data, or a new approach is needed?

16:00 - 17:30 29 September 2015
Abstract: It is very common that our research uses hierarchical data where the higher level units or “contexts” are defined as geographical areas—for example, individuals nest into…

Holistic Surgery in the Interwar Period

15:30 - 17:00 29 September 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series September-December 2015. …

Inflammation in wound repair and cancer

13:00 - 14:00 29 September 2015
We model wound healing in several genetically tractable model organism from the fruitfly, Drosophila, through to mice. We know that inflammation causes fibrosis and is aberrant in chronic…

Ironopolis, ironmasters and transport: Middlesbrough in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

13:00 29 September 2015
It is our pleasure to announce the details for the next CHSTM lunchtime seminar on Tuesday 29th September from 1-2pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building. All are welcome. Tosh Warwick (University…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Michela Massimi (Edinburgh)

29 September 2015
"Four kinds of perspectival truth" In this paper, I assess recent claims in philosophy of science about scientific perspectivism being compatible with realism. I clarify the rationale…

Dalton Seminar Series: Long-Term in Situ Behaviour of Biogenic Uraninite in Alluvial Aquifer

12:00 - 13:00 30 September 2015
Abstract: Uranium is a subsurface contaminant of concern at several countries worldwide. Under oxic conditions, uranium exists predominantly in the hexavalent (U(VI)) form often as…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Dan Moore (University of Birmingham) ‘“A New Order is Being Created”: Domestic Modernism in 1930s Britain’

17:00 - 19:00 30 September 2015
Dan Moore (University of Birmingham) ‘“A New Order is Being Created”: Domestic Modernism in 1930s Britain’

Evening public roundtable with Jane Cocking: Partnerships & Principles, Addressing the Global Humanitarian Challenge

17:30 - 19:30 30 September 2015
Jane Cocking, Humanitarian Director for Oxfam GB, will lead a debate on the options for addressing the growing levels of humanitarian need in the coming decades. Humanitarian need…

SCI Seminar Series - Dr Ronan Bolton - Reducing uncertainty and managing risk: How incumbent actors are creating low carbon investment opportunities in the UK electricity sector

16:00 - 17:30 30 September 2015
Abstract In 2008 the UK introduced the Climate Change Act which set a legally binding target of 80% reduction in GHC emissions by 2050 from 1990 levels. System modelling studies…

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