Norah Boyce Science Lectures

This lecture series will continue to be held at 5.45pm on Tuesdays in the Sackler Lecture Theatre of the Institute of Astronomy on Tuesdays. Please do not arrive before 5.30pm as access to the room is not available at this time. All welcome.
The Institute of Astronomy is in a side road marked ‘University of Cambridge, Madingley Rise’, on the north side of the Madingley Road, roughly opposite J J Thomson Avenue. It is 300 yards from the bus-stops there. Leaving the Madingley Road there is a car park on the right hand side and the Institute of Astronomy is the second building on the right further on. If the first car park is full, continue past the Institute and bear right for a second car park. The OS map reference is 543050 259390 or TL430594.

Biographical details of speakers

19 October 2010
Understanding Visual Perception
Jeremy Clare, Treasurer of U3AC

2 November 2010
RNA silencing: a new approach to control of disease in plants and animals
Professor Sir David Baulcombe, FRS

16 November 2010
Cancer, DNA and Darwin
Professor Ron Laskey, FRS

25 January 2011
Women and the History of Science
Patricia Fara, Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

8 February 2011
Why do Humans Share Food?
Professor Martin Jones

1 March 2011
Intelligence in Old Age
Professor Nicholas Mackintosh, FRS

17 May 2011
The Perception of Colour
Professor John Mollon, FRS

24 May 2011
Life or Death Decisions at the Cellular Level
Professor Andrew Wyllie, FRS