Speakers: Dr Lorna Williamson OBE, Former Medical Director, NHS Blood and Transplant and Dr Tony Brown, Kidney Donor. Synopsis: For most patients with organ failure, life of good quality depends on transplantation of an organ from a human donor, either living or deceased. In this double act. LW will explore the practical, legal and ethical aspects […]
Speaker: Prof Sandrine Thuret is Professor of Neuroscience and Head of the Department of Basic & Clinical Neuroscience at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. Synopsis: One of the brain structures associated with learning, memory and mood is the hippocampus. Interestingly, the hippocampus is one of the rare structures in the […]
Speaker: Keith Sacre, Barcham Trees plc Synopsis: Our tree populations face many challenges as we move forward into an uncertain future. The most prominent of these are climate change and the increased importation of pest and disease. There is a consensus among professionals is that one of the mitigation strategies a planned increase of species […]
Speaker: Kay-Tee Khaw MBBChir, MA, MSc, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, CBE is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Gerontology, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge and Life Fellow, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. She trained in medicine at Girton College, University of Cambridge and St. Mary’s Hospital, London (now Imperial College) and epidemiology at the London School […]
Speaker: Professor Alastair Driver, Director of ‘Rewilding Britain’, Fellow of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, Honorary Professor of Applied Environmental Management, Exeter University. Synopsis: Prof Driver has been heavily involved in the exciting and challenging world of rewilding since it hit the headlines nearly 10 years ago and is the Director of the […]
Speaker: Professor Herbert Huppert FRS, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge Synopsis: Politicians very rarely know or understand much science, even though they have frequently to consider and make important scientific decisions, often rather rapidly. Scientists are generally not in a hurry to make a decision and if further data or ideas change their conclusions, they […]
Speaker: Dr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge Synopsis: After an introduction to the telescope; where it is, how it got there and how it works, we will see how, close to home, the telescope is finding evidence for possible life on planets around nearby stars and far away, what it tells us about the first […]
Speaker: Professor Jack Price, Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. Synopsis: How the ability to form patterns has driven evolution and development. How patterning is the key to understanding the complexity of the brain.