Annual Microbiology Lecture - 'The Human Zoo'

Annual Microbiology Lecture - 'The Human Zoo'
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This past event was fully booked!

Professor Robin May will look at our interactions with the millions of different microbes that live on and in us.

The Annual Microbiology Lecture is intended to stimulate senior school students (in S5 and S6 at the time of the lecture) whose aspirations may lie in studying Medicine, Biomedical or Biological Sciences at University.

In the lecture, Professor May will look at our interactions with the millions of different microbes that live on and in us, and discuss new information suggesting that they may influence some surprising aspects of our lives.

The talk will last for approximately 1 hour, after which Professor May is happy to answer questions from the audience about science and careers in it.

Short Biography - Professor Robin May

Professor Robin May is currently a Lister Fellow and Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Birmingham, UK. His early training was in Plant Sciences (University of Oxford) followed by a PhD on mammalian cell biology with Prof. Laura Machesky (University College London & University of Birmingham).

From 2001-2004 he was a Human Frontier Science Program fellow with Prof. Ronald Plasterk at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, working on RNA interference mechanisms. In 2005 he obtained a Research Council UK Fellowship to establish his own group at the University of Birmingham. In 2010 he was awarded a Lister Fellowship and in 2013 was presented with the Colworth Medal of the Biochemical Society.

He currently holds a Consolidator Award from the European Research Council and is a co-director of the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Speaker
Professor Robin May
Venue
Polwarth Building Auditorium
Contact

Places are now fully booked for 2015 but if you would like to confirm you are on the mailing list for next year’s lecture, please contact Wendy Henderson either by telephone on 01224 437464 or email at w.jay.henderson@abdn.ac.uk