Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site


2008-10-21 17:30: How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science (Ben Goldacre, Author, broadcaster, doctor and blogger - badscience.net)

2009-06-01 17:30: Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences (Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)

2011-03-17 09:00: Diseases of the brain: from eponym and acronym to mechanistic taxonomy (Professor Alastair Compston, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2011-03-17 09:15: Autophagy in neurodegeneration (Professor David Rubinsztein, Department of Medical Genetics)

2011-03-17 09:45: The natural history of mild cognitive impairment (Professor Carol Brayne, Department of Public Health)

2011-03-17 10:15: Dementia and tauopathy (Dr Michel Goedert, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2011-03-17 11:15: Prion-like properties of neurodegenerative disease (Plenary lecture by Professor Mathias Jucker, Hertie Institute and Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases,Tübingen)

2011-03-17 12:00: Autism spectrum disorders (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Department of Psychiatry)

2011-03-17 12:30: Mechanisms underlying schizophrenia symptoms (Dr Graham Murray, Department of Psychiatry and BCNI)

2011-03-17 13:00: Endophenotypes for drug addiction (Dr Karen Ersche, Department of Psychiatry and BCNI)

2011-03-17 15:00: Mitochondrial cytopathies (Guest Lecture, Professor Patrick Chinnery, Institute of Genetics, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

2011-03-17 15:30: Inflammatory injury of mitochondria and neurodegeneration (Dr Guy Brown, Department of Biochemistry)

2011-03-17 16:00: Mitochondria and axonal transport (Professor Christine Holt, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2011-03-17 16:30: Structure and mechanism of respiratory complex 1 (Dr Leonid Sazanov, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit)

2011-03-17 17:30: Mitochondria and the respiratory complex (Plenary lecture by Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit)

2011-03-17 18:30: Brains, Minds and their Connectivity (Public Plenary Lecture by Professor Ed Bullmore, Department of Psychiatry, MRC and Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI))

2016-03-18 09:00: Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING (Organisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS)

2018-02-19 16:30: Dynamics of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution in a Long-Term Experiment with E. coli (Professor Richard Lenski from Michigan State University)