Category: Salisbury Café Scientifique events
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Why our food is making us fat
We are, on average, 3st heavier than we were in the 60s. And not because we’re eating more or exercising less – we just unwittingly became sugar addicts An article in the Guardian which is closely related to an earlier talk by Prof Rod Bilton and Dr Larry Booth, of the School of Biomolecular Sciences,…
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The UK alcohol scene and issues of liver transplantation; facts and figures
Following on from Prof. Roger Williams talk for the May Café Scientifique meeting, we are very please to have an edited version of his presentation online. This contains many of the facts and figures used to support his arguments and is most informative.
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Being There – Immersive Entertainment!
Please note change of date: this talk will now be held a week earlier on 29th May! Dr Nick Lodge is a former head of R&D for the UK’s commercial TV sector, has a PhD in digital HDTV, an MBA in the exploitation of technology and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering &…
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The UK alcohol scene and issues of liver transplantation
Professor Roger Williams, CBE, is Director of the Institute of Hepatology & Foundation for Liver Research. People who drink their youth away as teenagers are coming to clinics like mine by the time they are in their late twenties and early thirties. I am seeing young people suffering from jaundice and hepatitis from alcohol abuse.…
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Giant Silk Moths
Professor Philip Howse has published several books and numerous research articles on insect behaviour and ecology. He has developed novel environmentally-friendly methods of control of insect pests. After a career spent mainly at the University of Southampton during which he travelled widely setting up projects for the control of tropical insect pests, he has now…
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Cultural & psychological determinants of work-related illness & disability
Prof Coggon was awarded a personal chair in Occupational and Environmental Medicine in 1997. In 2005 he joined the newly formed MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre. David Coggon’s main research interest is the epidemiology of occupational and environmental causes of disease. In particular, he has published widely on the relation of musculoskeletal disorders to physical activities…
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Breathing – The Secret Weapon in Sporting Performance
Dr Mitch Lomax is Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Physiology and BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise scientist at the University of Portsmouth, Department of Sport & Exercise Science Dr Lomax will be explaining how Breathing may be considered as ‘the Secret Weapon in Sporting Performance’. She will cover the role of how the breathing…
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Co-evolution between bats and insects
Every night a battle between bats and their insect prey rages above our heads as bats call and listen for the echoes of their dinner. Many insects have evolved anti-bat defences: unlike us, they can hear the ultrasonic calls of bats and avoid an attack with evasive flight. Dr Holger Goerlitz is a Research Fellow…
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Is Science Failing to Save the Oceans?
The world’s oceans are in a perilous state, but because they are remote and underwater we often don’t see how bad things are. Overfishing, bycatch, pollution and climate change take their toll. We know so much about the oceans and they are so important to our survival that science should have solved the problems. .…
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October talk – a reminder!
Just a quick reminder that the October talk will be next tuesday (11th) October due to the venue being booked for another event this week.