Author Archives: TerryG

8th April 2024 – The Science of Peatbogs

Posted on October 19, 2023 by TerryG

Simon Caporn, Emeritus Professor of Ecology and Environment, Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University has been teaching and researching plants, soils and their environments for 30 years. Simon offers the following description of his talk: Dark, peaty soils cover … Continue reading →

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11th December 2023 – Radiation: the good, the bad and the ugly

Posted on October 1, 2023 by TerryG

Catharine West is Emerita Professor of Radiation Biology at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on trying to predict how cancer patients respond to radiotherapy with a particular interest in measuring radiosensitivity and hypoxia.

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13th November 2023 – Diagnosing the scent of Parkinson’s with Mass Spectrometry and Joy

Posted on July 10, 2023 by TerryG

The speaker for this meeting will be Professor Monty Silverdale, who is a consultant Neurologist at the Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences and a Professor of Neurology at the University of Manchester. This is Professor Silverdale’s summary of his talk: … Continue reading →

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9th October 2023 – The Use and Misuse of Science in the Development Planning Process

Posted on July 9, 2023 by TerryG

This month’s meeting will be about efforts to protect Danes Moss, an SSSI and nature reserve managed by Cheshire Wildlife Trust, from adjacent building development. The development will adversely affect the peatland, which is a carbon sink. The Moss lies … Continue reading →

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11th September 2023 – Colourful Fungi

Posted on July 8, 2023 by TerryG

Jeanette Maddy will talk about the ways in which fungi present us with colour, how that colour can be useful to them and to us and about some research directions around fungal pigments. Depending on what fungi are available at … Continue reading →

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12th June 2023 – The use of embryonic stem cells in clinical treatments

Posted on February 21, 2023 by TerryG

Sue Kimber is Professor of Stem & Developmental Biology, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine at the University of Manchester. Her research focusses on how the human embryo develops and the use of human embryonic stem cells (hESc) … Continue reading →

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