That’s it, I’m off. I’ve had a great week, as ever the conference didn’t fail to surprise, impress (and exasperate). All good ingredients for a productive few days. I assume the delegates were equally as productive. We’ll find out in New Orleans in March, I suppose.
Hopefully I’ll make it home on time – please British Airways… I am anticipating a huge welcoming committee.
Weekly roundup of the best science events in London.
Matt Brown
Seminars
This afternoon, Karl-Peter Hopfner from the University of Munich lectures at Cancer Research UK’s headquarters on the structural mechanism of superfamily 2 helicases. On 8 August, UCL’s Hauke Tschach delivers a PhD computer sciences talk on linear and non-linear filtering. The following day, at Imperial’s MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Ana Banito and Marta Varela give student seminars on cell proliferation and MRI, respectively.
Course
A two day course at Regus Southampton St (August 6–7) covers the latest practice and terminology in personalised medicine, or pharmacogenomics.
Public talks
The Old Operating Theatre, near London Bridge, is an unusual but consistent venue for surgically themed events. A lecture on 4 August looks at ‘progress of treating the bones and muscles, from ancient Hippocratic medicine to Swedish massage’.
On 5 August, an actor posing as Carl Linnaeus wanders the halls of the Natural History Museum, answering questions. So if you ever wanted to know what the great taxonomist would have made of dinosaurs, now’s your chance.
Nobel laureate Sir Harry Kroto delivers the Benjamin Franklin House Symposium on 7 August. The talk, at the British Library, offers Sir Harry’s views on ‘what science is, how people, the media, politicians and others perceive science and scientists and some of the problems non-scientists have in understanding science, engineering and technology’.
And finally…
Could you tell a wild service tree from a peduncular oak? Get an arboreal lesson from an expert in a guided walk amongst the trees of St James’s Park on Saturday.
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