UPCOMING EVENTS
What’s Bugging Glasgow? Jeanne Robinson
Monday 6th November 2023, 7pm
Waterstones Glasgow, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW
Our insect populations are facing some major challenges on a global and local scale. Find out more about the science behind 'insectagdedon'. explore the plight of our pollinators and other beneficial insects and discover the multitude of ways you can help support our insects.
Jeanne Robinson is Curator of Entomology at the Hunterian Museum and provides guidance and teaching in all things insect to the biologists, medics, food security and museum studies scholars at the University of Glasgow and beyond! She has formerly worked in public health and agricultural entomology but has worked in museums for over 20 years. Here publication record is as diverse as her entomological interests, including publications on the insect fauna of Scotland, plant pests, insect collections, insect surveying methods, and so much more. In addition to insects, she is passionate about biological recording and gardening.
Drugs, Death and the Legal System by Dr Stephanie Sharp
7pm Monday 2nd October 2023
Waterstones Glasgow, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW,7PM
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Dr Sharp will present some cases from her work from the Old Bailey to Margate Magistrates Court. More details to follow.
Dr Sharp is a Forensic Pharmacologist. She has an M.Sci. degree in Pharmacology from the University of Glasgow, a Ph.D. in pharmacokinetics from the University of Dundee, Certificates in Civil and Criminal Law from the University of Cardiff and a certificate in Scots Law from the University of Aberdeen. She specialises in drugs of abuse and the clearance of drugs from the body. She has been a research scientist for 13 years and has researched at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and the University of Dundee. Dr. Sharp is a co-director of the Glasgow Expert Witness Service Ltd. and is a registered expert witness with the Law Society of Scotland Directory of Expert Witnesses, a Professional Member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Science, a full member of the British Pharmacological Society and a registered expert adviser on the National Crime Agency (NCA) database.
What’s Bugging Glasgow? Jeanne Robinson
7pm Monday 6th November 2023
Waterstones Glasgow, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW
Our insect populations are facing some major challenges on a global and local scale. Find out more about the science behind 'insectagedon'. explore the plight of our pollinators and other beneficial insects and discover the multitude of ways you can help support our insects.
Jeanne Robinson is Curator of Entomology at the Hunterian Museum and provides guidance and teaching in all things insect to the biologists, medics, food security and museum studies scholars at the University of Glasgow and beyond! She has formerly worked in public health and agricultural entomology but has worked in museums for over 20 years. Here publication record is as diverse as her entomological interests, including publications on the insect fauna of Scotland, plant pests, insect collections, insect surveying methods, and so much more. In addition to insects, she is passionate about biological recording and gardening.
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Who am I and where did I come from? Genetics, Ancestry and Human Evolution
Kevin O’Dell
Monday 1st April 2024, 7pm
Waterstones Glasgow, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW
It’s over 160 years since Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species”, popularising the idea than human evolved from apes. He largely based his ideas on studies of comparative anatomy - and, since then, fossil and other similar remains of ancient human-like creatures have supported the concept that humans evolved from apes. However, in the last twenty years or so there’s been a DNA sequencing revolution that’s suggested our evolutionary history is rather more complex than originally thought. So, what do DNA sequences of modern and ancient humans reveal, and what can it tell us about our recent and past evolutionary history?
Kevin O’Dell is Professor of Behaviour Genetics at the University of Glasgow and co-organiser of Glasgow Café Scientifique. His primary role at the University of Glasgow is co-ordinating the third year of the Genetics degree programme. His problem-solving, storytelling textbook Genetics? No Problem! was published in 2017, and in 2019 he was short-listed for the UK Higher Education BioScience Teacher of the Year award.
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Artemis: Fly Me to the Moon
Martin Hendry
Monday 13th May 2024, 7pm
Waterstones Glasgow, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW
More than half a century after astronauts last set foot on the Moon, we are set to return there in the next few years as part of the Artemis program that will (to quote NASA’s stated goals) “establish a permanent base on the Moon to facilitate human missions to Mars.” How does the approach to Artemis differ from the “gung ho” adventures of the Apollo program? How will the challenges faced by the Artemis astronauts be different from those encountered by Armstrong and Aldrin? How has human spaceflight progressed and evolved in the 50 years since Apollo, and are we really going to leapfrog from the Moon to Mars anytime soon?...
Martin Hendry is Professor of Gravitational Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Glasgow, where he is also currently Vice Principal and Clerk of Senate. While his research is mainly focussed on cosmic events that happened “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”, Martin is a lifelong enthusiast for human space exploration and an avid cheerleader for its exciting next chapter. Martin is highly active in schools and public outreach and is currently Vice President (for public engagement) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy.
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