MRC Human Nutrition Research

Modifiable early life risk factors for childhood obesity – evaluating the potential for prevention

Professor Sian Robinson, Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton.

Seminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

Monday 22 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations

All welcome - drinks reception to follow

Dr Lauren Wilcox, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

Room SG1 (Ground floor), Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 17:30-18:30

Life Sciences & Society

Selling science? News, public relations and communicating scientific research

Dr Andy Williams.

Hughes College, Pavilion Room, Cambridge CB1 2EW.

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 17:30-19:30

Kettle's Yard

Evening talk & Film screening: savage messiah


Speaker to be confirmed.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 06 June 2015, 18:00-20:00

BHRU Annual Lecture 2015

What can history tell us about current health inequalities?

Speaker: Simon Szreter, Professor of History and Public Policy, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

The Howard Theatre, Lecture Theatre, Downing College.

Thursday 04 June 2015, 18:00-19:00

Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing

The 2014 Ebola outbreak and the risk of future pandemics

Kristian Andersen.

The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 19:20-20:00

Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing

Better the bug you know? – Basic bioscience underpinning infection control

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 18:50-19:20

Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing

The threat of pandemics

Derek Smith.

The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 18:20-18:50

Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing

Astrobiology: the search for life on other worlds

Lewis Dartnell, University College London.

The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 19:20-19:50

Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing

Why the origin of life had to be inorganic

Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow.

The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 18:50-19:20

Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing

What is Life? A philosophical perspective

Samir Okasha, University of Bristol.

The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 18:20-18:50

Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing

From Habit to Addiction: A Slippery Slope?

Scott Vrecko - King's College London, Karen Ersche - University of Cambridge, Gunter Schumann - King's College London, and John Marioni - EMBL-EBI.

Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1SU.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 18:15-21:15

Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing

Free evening event: The Science of Sporting Success

Paul Flicek (chair), European Bioinformatics Institute; Alun Williams, Director of the MMU Cheshire Sports Genomics Laboratory, Manchester Metropolitan University; Robert Gray, Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham; David Fletcher, Director of the Spo.

Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1SU.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 18:15-21:15

EMBL-EBI Science and Society Programme

Biodiversity and endangered species: Rethinking the balance of nature

Mike Rands (Chair), Caroline Fraser, Mark Blaxter (pictured) and Ben Collen.

Fitzwilliam College Auditorium.

Friday 06 May 2011, 14:00-18:00

EMBL-EBI Science and Society Programme

Who Owns Science: Promises and Pitfalls of the Public-Private Partnerships

John Sulston, Tim Hubbard, David Searls, Stuart Parkinson, Gabor Lamm.

Mill Lane Lecture Theatre 9.

Friday 19 March 2010, 14:00-18:00

EMBL-EBI Science and Society Programme

The Mortal Immortal: Scientific and Social Aspects of Ageing

Various; see website for more information.

Fitzwilliam College Auditorium.

Friday 08 May 2009, 13:00-17:30

EMBL-EBI Science and Society Programme

The Personal Genome: Hopes, Facts, and Fears

Various Speakers; see website..

Fitzwilliam College Auditorium.

Friday 23 May 2008, 13:30-16:00