News & events
Join us at the University of Glasgow and in other venues across the city where we’ll be featuring shows, music, film, walks, talks and demonstrations to fire your discoveries. Many of our events are free. Highlights on campus include:
Conference programme University of Glasgow: Science Sunday including Zoo-fest
Designer Athletes Debate
Transit of Venus
RE: Action Aerial Acrobats
www.glasgowsciencefestival.org.uk
Public Lecture
90 years of insulin: the role of Scotland’s Prof. John MacLeod in its discovery
Arthur Ainsberg
author of BREAKTHROUGH: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
Wednesday 6 June, 6.00-7.00 pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Boyd Orr Building, University Avenue
Arthur Ainsberg Public Lecture flyer [pdf]
Please register at: http://arthurainsberg.eventbrite.com
Health-Professions Education, Summer School 2012
11th - 15th June 2012
Venue: Wolfson Medical School Building
Open to staff and students of the College and NHS staff.
Anyone who is thinking of applying for the HPE programme will find this particularly relevant, as most of the sessions are planned and delivered by HPE post-graduate students.
Please register your interest by email to Phillip.Evans@glasgow.ac.uk
Annual Conference in Educational Scholarship
Support for Teaching
Wednesday 13th June
Venue: Charles Wilson Building
This event is free, and open to all members of the College and NHS staff.
Please register your interest by email to Phillip.Evans@glasgow.ac.uk
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing is pleased to invite you to:
Biomarkers of health and disease; what do we know, where are the gaps?
Presenter: Professor Naveed Sattar
Date: Thursday, 21 June 2012
Time: 1600
Venue: Level 5, Sir Alwyn Williams Building
For further information and registration please visit: http://ihw21june.eventbrite.co.uk
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MVLS SEMINARS from 14 to 25 May 2012 |
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| 15-May | Robertson Trust LT | 12 noon | Dr Martin Bushell | University of Leicester | "MicroRNAs: from mechanisms to biology" | The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research |
| 16-May | Wolfson Medical School | 1:00 PM | Dr Lucy Walker | University of Birmingham | "Insights into CTLA-4-mediated regulation of autoimmunity" | Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation |
| 16-May | LT1, Boyd Orr Building | 3:00 PM | Professor Danny Dorling | University of Sheffield | "Inequality in Britain, across society and in health: a slideshow" | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| 16-May | Robertson Trust LT | 12 noon | PATHOLOGY FORUM Professor Massimo Pignatelli |
University of Glasgow | "The new face of pathology in personalised medicine" | The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research |
| 17-May | BHF, GRC Room C222/3 | 1:00 PM | Professor Peter Sever | Imperial College London | "Lessons from a trial of lipid-lowering and blood pressure-lowering: From bench side to the clinic" | Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences (Host: Naveed Sattar) |
| 18-May | Seminar Room, Level 5, 58 Hillhead Street |
4:00 PM | Professor Patrik Vuilleumier | University of Geneva | to be announced | Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology (Host: Philippe G. Schyns) |
| 23-May | Main LT 208, Sir Alexander Stone Building, University Gardens | 1:00 PM | KEYNOTE INSTITUTE LECTURE Professor Adrian Hill |
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford | "Vaccine design for intracellular parasites" | Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation |
| 24-May | Seminar Room 3, Business School, Main Building, University of Glasgow | 4:00 PM | Dr Dermot O'Reilly | University of Lancaster | "Religion and Health: is this still a connection in a modern world?" | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |