Jon Bishop, Senior Biostatistician, Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, University of Birmingham Clinical trials play a key role in advancing medicine and this has been reinforced during recent times due to the COVID19 pandemic. This talk will give the audience an... Continue Reading →

Dr Phil Gould, Associate Head of School Enterprise and Innovation, School of Life Sciences, Coventry University Vaccines save millions of lives per year. Unquestionably, the current COVID-19 pandemic is a timely reminder of what can happen in a population that... Continue Reading →

Dr Rebecca Drummond, Birmingham Fellow, Institute of Immunology & Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham Dr Drummond covers the size and scope of fungal species on Earth and how we use them in day-to-day life (e.g. production of alcohol, food and antibiotics),... Continue Reading →

Dr Katie Reilly, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham Microplastics are a pervasive pollutant globally, and have been found in all environments studied to date. However, the available data for microplastic ingestion and interaction with organisms in the environment is varied... Continue Reading →

The vital role of testing and failure in the development of products. How have famous and infamous failures enabled the development of new products and even new sciences. From the failure of the Comet aircraft to the wobbly Millennium bridge,... Continue Reading →

 Dr Roger Beadle, Consultant Cardiologist

Mona Faraji-Niri, Research Fellow, University of Warwick Lithium-ion batteries are the key component of many portable devices in our daily lives, they play asignificant role in electrification of transportation systems such as electric vehicles, e-bikes, and e-scooters. The manufacturing of... Continue Reading →

Dr. Pranav Vasanthi Bathrinarayanan, who is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham School of Chemical Engineering will cover the different organ/tissue models that he has built. These include the respiratory tract, blood vessels, bone mineralisation and some immune... Continue Reading →

Dr Om P. Kurmi, Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Healthcare Research at Coventry University will present a talk on how air pollution is affecting both children and adults, being responsible for over 8 million deaths annually.

Dr Aneika Leney, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham Lake slime, or blue-green algae, is found in many lakes/rivers/oceans worldwide. It is increasing due to global warming and causing huge problems, as it can produce toxins that kill fish and... Continue Reading →

Dr Marina Lafarga-Magro of the University of Warwick will discuss her work searching for habitable exoplanets, and why it matters. Are we alone? The idea of life beyond Earth has fascinated and inspired humanity for millenia. However, it was only... Continue Reading →

Dr Cornelia Juengst, University of Warwick Have you ever wondered what your doctor hears when listening to your chest? How does a diseased heart sound different from a healthy heart? And why? What does your doctor see when they look... Continue Reading →