Lectures and seminars

Advances in Biosciences Seminar - Benoit Kornmann "Shared Structural Features of Miro Binding Control Mitochondrial Homeostasis

13:00 - 14:00 19 March 2024
Abstract: Miro proteins are universally conserved mitochondrial calcium-binding GTPases that regulate a multitude of mitochondrial processes, including transport, clearance and lipid…

Publishing in Political Economy: Navigating the Inter-Disciplinary Landscape

15:00 - 16:30 19 March 2024
This roundtable is primarily aimed at PhD students and ECRs at the University of Manchester who work on issues related to political economy across a range of disciplines and those who…

Social Statistics Seminars: Dr. Stephen Burgess (Cambridge)

14:00 - 15:30 19 March 2024
Dr. Stephen Burgess (Cambridge) will be presenting “Mendelian randomization: How can genetics guide the design of clinical trials?”. The event will take place in Williamson Building,…

'Mystery in Everyday Life' James Hodgson

12:30 20 March 2024
This seminar organised by the School of Sociology and Social Policy (SSSP) at The University of Leeds is given by James Hodgson (The University of Manchester) on the topic of 'mystery…

Brownbag - Usama Jamal

13:00 - 14:00 20 March 2024
Title: Tackling Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Earnings Stripping Rules

Critical Global Politics Talk - Dr Amira Halperin

15:00 - 16:00 20 March 2024
The Critical Global Politics Cluster will be hosting a talk by Dr Amira Halperin on the topic of ’The Palestinian Refugees- from Gaza & the West Bank to the UK - Past, Present and Future…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Kieron O’Hara

12:30 - 14:30 20 March 2024
Join Digital Futures for a free event on 20th March to uncover Kieron O'Hara's groundbreaking book "The Seven Veils of Privacy." O'Hara will unravel the contested concept of privacy,…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health March PGR Research Seminar - Zoe Waters (The University of Western Australia and Telethon Kids Institute)

12:00 - 13:00 20 March 2024
Please join us in March for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar Wednesday 20th March, 12:00 - 13:00 *hybrid seminar*. For the divisional seminar on 20th…

How to determine the equations of state of hot fluids at GigaPascal pressures

12:00 - 13:00 20 March 2024
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr John Proctor. The pressure-volume-temperature equations of state (PVT EOS) of solids are measured routinely using synchrotron X-ray…

Philip Greulich -- Universal laws in stem cell biology from graph theory and population dynamics [ONLINE]

13:30 - 14:30 20 March 2024
Join us for this seminar by Philip Greulich (Southampton) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted by the University…

Reimagining the 'English' Pub: Race, Class & Convivial Possibilities - Amit Singh

13:00 - 14:30 21 March 2024
Please join CoDE as we host an in-person seminar with Dr Amit Singh (University of Manchester). The pub and the pint are often imagined as quintessential Englishness, romanticized…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Andrea Serio, Francis Crick Institute. "Shape Matters: Combining engineering, stem cell modelling and imaging to learn about neurobiology and neurodegeneration"

13:00 - 14:00 26 March 2024
Abstract: Shape and function are two intimately linked properties in all living cells: the need to perform a certain function has shaped each cell to a specific and optimal shape, which…

Why are health outcomes so grim up north?

17:30 - 20:00 26 March 2024
That where you are can dictate how you are is increasingly and abundantly clear. Health outcomes in the north of the UK across numerous metrics, are poorer, whether it is for children,…

AI-Fun Seminar | Gavin Brown: Bias/Variance is not the same as Approximation/Estimation

10:30 - 11:30 27 March 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals is hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI and our speaker on 27 March is Professor Gavin…

Manchester Infection Seminar Series - Aras Kadioglu (University of Liverpool) - 'Host pathogen interactions during pneumococcal carriage, transmission and disease'

11:00 - 12:00 27 March 2024
The next Manchester Infection Seminar will be by Aras Kadioglu (University of Liverpool) who will be presenting a talk titled 'Host pathogen interactions during pneumococcal carriage,…

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