Category Archives: Past Events

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15th May 2023 – The discovery and development of propofol (“Diprivan”)

Posted on February 20, 2023 by TerryG

Note this session is on the third Monday of the month, a week later than usual because of the Coronation bank holiday on the second Monday. Propofol (marketed as Diprivan) is now a widely used intravenous anaesthetic.  Iain Glen, its … Continue reading →

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17th April 2023 – Coping with Stress

Posted on September 30, 2022 by jrsee

Please note the date for this session. As Easter Monday falls on the 2nd Monday in April, the SciBar session will be on the 3rd Monday. Postponed from October 2022, Dr Clare Jonas returns to describe her study of how … Continue reading →

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13th March 2023 – Materials Challenges in a Nuclear Reactor

Posted on September 28, 2022 by TerryG

Alex Carruthers is a post doctoral researcher in nuclear metallurgy at the University of Manchester. His specialism is analysis of irradiation-induced microsctructural changes in Zirconium alloys. He will talk to us about the challenges of using such materials in a … Continue reading →

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13th February 2023 – The End of Everything

Posted on September 27, 2022 by TerryG

Dr. Steve Barrett, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool makes a welcome return to SciBar. In March 2021 he gave us a Zoom talk entitled “The Beginning of Everything”.  Now he finishes the story in person with a … Continue reading →

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9th January 2023 – Making the Tiniest Machines

Posted on July 11, 2022 by TerryG

Professor David Leigh leads the Leigh Group at the University of Manchester.  The Group explores, invents and discovers fundamental ways to control molecular-level dynamics and topology.  In simple terms, they are making machines out of molecules. David says “Perhaps the … Continue reading →

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12th December 2022 – Bio-inspired Optical Materials

Posted on July 7, 2022 by TerryG

Developing sensors by mimicking nature’s colour mechanisms Dr. Ahu Gümrah Dumanli-Parry is a Materials Chemist and the first recipient of the bp-ICAM Kathleen Lonsdale Research Fellowship in 2019 for her work on bio-inspired advanced materials. Dr Dumanli-Parry’s research group (Bio-inspired Functional … Continue reading →

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