SBCS outreach events
Why we are scientists - a science expo for schools
Wednesday 23rd June 2010, 9am – 1pm
The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences is hosting an event to showcase the excellent research currently in progress within the School. The day will include talks, lab demos, and poster presentations from staff and postgraduate students aimed at A/AS level students and their teachers covering a range of topics within the fields of Biology and Psychology. The day will be opened and attended by Ms Diane Abbott MP.
Come and meet our research staff and students who will be presenting posters on a range of their biology and psychology research.
For more information and to book your place please contact Dr. Alan McElligott (sbcs-expo@qmul.ac.uk) or the SBCS Outreach Office (0)20 7882 3014 with the following details: teacher names, student names, school address, contact details (email and telephone).
Schedule:
9.00-10.00 Registration, Posters and Lab Demos viewing
10.00-10.05 Welcome (Prof. Alan Hildrew)
10.05-10.15 Opening Address (Ms Diane Abbott MP)
First Session (Chair: Dr. Steven Le Comber)
10.15-10.35 Prof. Conrad Mullineaux - Energy from sunshine
10.35-10.55 Prof. Andrew Leitch - Polyploidy: One giant step towards the formation of a new species
10.55-11.15 Dr. Angelika Stollewerk - Shape Shifting Minibeasts
11.15-11.50 Coffee/Tea break, Posters and Lab Demos viewing
Second Session (Chair: Dr. Magda Osman)
11.50-12.10 Dr. Caroline Brennan - Understanding Drug Dependence
12.10-12.30 Dr. Ron Cutler - From petting zoos to dirty loos: Infection control
12.30-12.50 Dr. Michael Proulx - Seeing with your ears?
12.50-13.00 Posters, Lab Demos viewing and End
Lab demonstrations
Drs. Elodie Briefer, Alan McElligott
Deer blind date
Dr. Michaela Egertova
Spineless little squirts!
Jayden van Horik, Dr. Nathan Emery
Are you as clever as a crow?
Nadian Harun, Dr. Qazi Rahman
Studying human body motion
Dr. Magda Osman
Jury decision making
Allan Pang
Looking at Protein Crystals
Vera Sarkol, Dr. Alex Mesoudi
Treasure hunt - is it better to copy or explore?
Dr. Angelika Stollewerk
Creepy crawlies
Dr. James Sullivan
Glow in the dark bacteria
Houdini Wu, Dr. Rachel Ashworth
Fishy cell development
Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau, Hélène Muller, Prof. Lars Chittka
Bees and the travelling salesman problem: how tiny brains solve complex routing tasks?
Posters
Veronica Comper
The big hand points to Evolution!
Kalina Davies
Can mammalian hearing genes help us to understand the evolution of bat echolocation?
Aisyah Faruk
Evaluating the impact of oil palm plantations on amphibian species diversity.
Dr. Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour
The jellyfish banquet - does the size and speed of pray influence feeding rates?
Jack Forster
Little and large in a warming world
Ryan Graves
Understanding the Cannabinoid System as a therapy pathway in Multiple Sclerosis.
Shuang Gu
Structural studies of a bacterial secretion system
Kate Hunt
How memory changes over time: Bees as a model
Michelle Jackson
Interactions among invaders in Lake Naivasha, Kenya
Iskander Ibrahim
Oxidising signal: a turn-on for Chloroplast Sensor Kinase?
Hao-Chih Kuo
Speciation in the face of gene flow? A case study of Taiwanese bats
Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau, Hélène Muller, Prof. Lars Chittka
Bees and the travelling salesman problem: how tiny brains solve complex routing tasks?
Lee-Sim Lim
How does forest fragmentation affect forest bat populations in Malaysia?
Hélène Muller
Response to novelty in bees
Allan Pang
Cracking the shell of metabolosome
Doris Pichler
Food webs in a changing climate: impacts of warming on Arctic streams
Stephen J. Price
The spread of a killer disease among UK frogs
Mark Stevenson
Modelling invasive species using geographic profiling
Rebecca Stewart
Climate change in freshwaters
Teng Teng To
Biosynthesis of Vitamin B12
Jayden van Horik
Parrot Intelligence: Polly wants a PhD
Andrew Voak
Leishmania nitroreductases: Exploiting a novel activity to develop new drugs
Helen Ward
What do women want? Mate-choice in greater horseshoe bats.