Launched March  2004

Events

 

Date:	Thursday 15 July 2004
Title:	'Genomics and Beyond'
Speaker:	Professor David White
Description:	What is a genome? How can the science of genomics impact on our everyday life now and in the future?

 

Date:	14 October 2004
Title:	'Rhythms of Life - The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing'
Speaker:	Professor Russell Foster, Imperial College
Description:	Why can't teenagers get out of bed in the morning?. How do bees tell the time? Will our grandchildren live in a world that has banished sleep? How are drugs creating the 24/7 soldier? Why do people have more heart attacks in the early morning? For the answers to all this and more, Join Russell Foster as he introduces us to the science of chronobiology. Hear how the world is fill of natural rhythms and biological clocks that control this, and ponder the potentially damaging impact of our 24/7 society on our health, as individuals and a society.   Future Events 18 November 2004