Reporter 23/10/02: Announcement of a lecture and seminars

Announcement of a lecture and seminars

The following lecture and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Chemical Engineering. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pembroke Street. Tea will be served.

6 November Protein folding and misfolding: from diseases to devices, by Professor Christopher M. Dobson, FRS, of the Department of Chemistry.

20 November Micromanipulation studies of the mechanical properties of soft solids, by Dr Z. Zhang, of the University of Birmingham.

Comparative Social and Cultural History. A series of seminars, entitled Cultural Hybridity, will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College.

29 October Identity as hybridity: Gilberto Freyre, by Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke, of Darwin College.

12 November Religious syncretism and the problem of meaning, by Richard Drayton, of Corpus Christi College.

26 November The white company: the construction of English identity in the nineteenth century, by Robert Young, of Wadham College, University of Oxford.

Criminology. Professor Jonathan Shepherd, Director of the Violence Research Group and Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Wales College of Medicine, will give a public lecture on Public health approaches to violence, on Thursday, 31 October, at 5.30 p.m. in Room G24, of the Faculty of Law, West Road.

Dunn Human Nutrition Unit Seminars. Seminars will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For enquiries, please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Cousins (tel. 01223 252704).

30 October Moving folded proteins across the bacterial cell membrane, by Dr Ben Berks, of the University of Oxford. Host: John Walker.

13 November Development of therapies for mtDNA diseases: the antigenomic approach to mtDNA disease - a very difficult birth, by Professor Bob Lightowlers, of the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Host: Michael Murphy.

27 November Cytoplasmic male sterility, by Professor Chris Leaver, of the University of Oxford. Host: Martin Brand.

Plant Sciences. Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

24 October The complexity of desiccation tolerance in plants: can we solve the problem? by Dr Dorothea Bartels, of the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

31 October The evolution and development of leaves, by Dr Jane Langdale, of the University of Oxford.

7 November The evolution of plant development, by Professor Elliot Meyerowitz, of Caltech, USA.

14 November Structure, expression, and roles of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase kinase genes in higher plants, by Professor Hugh Nimmo, of the University of Glasgow.

21 November The light reactions: rings and things, by Professor Jim Barber, of Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

28 November Foliar redox status in the interaction of excess light, wounding and pathogen signalling pathways in Arabidopsis, by Professor Phil Mullineaux, of the John Innes Centre, UK.

Table of Contents

6 November	Protein folding and misfolding: from diseases to devices, by Professor Christopher M. Dobson, FRS, of the Department of Chemistry.
20 November	Micromanipulation studies of the mechanical properties of soft solids, by Dr Z. Zhang, of the University of Birmingham.

29 October	Identity as hybridity: Gilberto Freyre, by Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke, of Darwin College.
12 November	Religious syncretism and the problem of meaning, by Richard Drayton, of Corpus Christi College.
26 November	The white company: the construction of English identity in the nineteenth century, by Robert Young, of Wadham College, University of Oxford.

30 October	Moving folded proteins across the bacterial cell membrane, by Dr Ben Berks, of the University of Oxford. Host: John Walker.
13 November	Development of therapies for mtDNA diseases: the antigenomic approach to mtDNA disease - a very difficult birth, by Professor Bob Lightowlers, of the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Host: Michael Murphy.
27 November	Cytoplasmic male sterility, by Professor Chris Leaver, of the University of Oxford. Host: Martin Brand.

24 October	The complexity of desiccation tolerance in plants: can we solve the problem? by Dr Dorothea Bartels, of the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
31 October	The evolution and development of leaves, by Dr Jane Langdale, of the University of Oxford.
7 November	The evolution of plant development, by Professor Elliot Meyerowitz, of Caltech, USA.
14 November	Structure, expression, and roles of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase kinase genes in higher plants, by Professor Hugh Nimmo, of the University of Glasgow.
21 November	The light reactions: rings and things, by Professor Jim Barber, of Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
28 November	Foliar redox status in the interaction of excess light, wounding and pathogen signalling pathways in Arabidopsis, by Professor Phil Mullineaux, of the John Innes Centre, UK.