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10th January 2011 – Bees: Clever Little Things and WE Need Them

Posted on January 10, 2011 by DaveT

Professor Ian Munro from Daresbury will lead a discussion on Bees and how the number of hives is reducing due to a mysterious disease. Bees are very smart; being able to calculate the distance between various food sources so as … Continue reading →

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6th December 2010 – Microbes and Health

Posted on December 6, 2010 by DaveT

Dr Ian Wilson of Astra Zeneca plc will  lead our discussion on Microbes and Health (ours not theirs!). You probably know that our digestive tracts (that’s “guts” to you and me) are teeming with a fantastic variety of bacteria – … Continue reading →

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1st March 2010 – Frogs & Amphibians

Posted on March 1, 2010 by DaveT

Are they still as primitive as when they started on their evolutionary journey? Andrew Gray, the Curator of Herpetology at Manchester Museum, will talk about amphibians – their early entry into the world via evolution and the sophisticated nature of the … Continue reading →

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10th August 2009 – A Bacterial Conundrum

Posted on August 10, 2009 by DaveT

A Bacterial Conundrum: where to go and how to get there? Professor Judith Armitage of Oxford University took us into the land of the bacterium. These little creatures are less than a thousandth of a millimetre in size – so … Continue reading →

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6th July 2009 – From a Single Cell to a Complete Animal

Posted on July 6, 2009 by DaveT

Dr David Tannahill of Cranfield University will talk to us about how genes work in the development of an embryo. How they get switched on and off in different ways in different cells. Each cell contains all of the information … Continue reading →

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2nd February 2009 – Evolution Head to Tail

Posted on February 2, 2009 by DaveT

Son of SciBar – Evolution Head to Tail Dave Thompson, founder of Knutsford SciBar, stood in for Mike Dunne* who was planned to introduce us to The Hiper Project at Rutherford Labs but was thwarted by heavy snow over much … Continue reading →

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