Event of the week
Two Nobel laureates (David Baltimore and Harold Varmus) and Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of the link between HIV and AIDS, are among the speakers at a two-day symposium next week at the Royal College of Physicians. Adventures in Virology and Cancer is held in honour of UCL’s Professor Robin Weiss, a pioneer of virology and HIV research.
Meetings and conferences
On 17 September, Stem Cell Summit Europe takes place at Gibson Hall in the City. The event is aimed at stem cell company executives, scientists and investors.
The Institute of Child Health hosts the 44th Inner Ear Biology Workshop on 16–19 September. The focus is on emerging ideas in sensory-neural hearing impairment.
The BMJ offers a master class for GPs on 17–18 September. The two-day event updates doctors about recent developments and regulations.
Finally, a careers fair for scientists, hosted by Naturejobs, takes place on 21 September. The Source Event brings together more than 600 researchers with scientific employers and offers a full programme of talks with career advice. If you’re interested in attending, check out our discussion forum.
Seminars
Danica Cvejanovic from the University of Western Australia speaks at UCL on 17 September about the probing of electron correlations and angular momentum effects by electron scattering from zinc atoms. On the same day, Akira Kikuchi from Hiroshima University describes the cellular functions regulated by Wnt signalling, at the NIMR in Mill Hill. Then, on 21 September, UCL gives the stage to Thomas W White from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, for a talk on connexin specialisation in lens growth and differentiation.
Public talks
The UK Stem Cell Bank in Potters Bar hosts an evening of public debate about the hope and hype of regenerative medicine. Speakers include Glyn Stacey (head of the Bank), Stephen Minger (a leading stem cell biologist from King’s College London), and Sarah Franklin (a social scientist from London School of Economics).
Gresham College marks the centenary of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on 17 September with a lecture from the RSTMH’s Francis Cox on how infectious diseases spread through conquest and war.
The following day, the Natural History Museum relives the 1872 HMS Challenger expedition, which documented more than 4,000 new animal species during its 70,000-mile voyage, and later gave its name to the ill-fated US space shuttle.
Finally, on 20 September, the Linnean Society presents Mike Bruford, from Cardiff University, who speaks about the uses of molecular genetics to manage endangered species.
