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JULY: 1st, University of Manchester: The functional nano-architecture of integrin adhesions, Benny Geiger, Weizmann Institute of Science at noon. Michesl Smith Lecture Theatre. Research seminar. http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/research/seminars/calendar/?date=2010-10-19&format=day 3rd July, Lancaster University. Barcamp in Blackpool, an anything goes conference, from sign language to android application development http://barcampblackpool.com/ 6th, University of Manchester. Public panel discussion on Climate Change, Chaired by Professor Joseph Stiglitz. 5.30pm at the Cordingley Lecture Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street. Building no. 35 on the campus map. This event is part of the Advanced Graduate Workshop 2010 co-hosted by the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University (IPD). All welcome, no registration necessary. Admission will be on a first-come first-served basis, please arrive early to guarantee your place. http://www.bwpi.manchester.ac.uk/events/index.html 6th, University of Manchester. Chromosomal instability in cancer pathogenesis and treatment. Professor Ashok Venkitaraman Cancer Cell Unit Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge. Research seminar promoted by The Paterson Institute. Contact via the University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 8th, University of Liverpool, Preparation Programme for Businesses and Organisations attending the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. http://www.liv.ac.uk/confucius-institute/Current_Course_List/Shanghai_2010.htm 13th, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Rebecca Fitzgerald from the MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge. Research seminar promoted by The Paterson Institute. Contact via the University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 18th - 21st, University of York, 3rd Workshop on the Molecular Aspects of Seed Dormancy and Germination, International Society for Seed Science. York Museum Gardens. http://www.york.ac.uk/org/cnap/ISSS/ISSSseeddormancy.html 20th, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Breakthrough Seminar Series promoted by The Paterson Institue. Contact via The University. Professor Mitch Dowsett from the Royal Marsden Hospital. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 22nd, University of Liverpool, Preparation Programme for Businesses and Organisations attending the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. http://www.liv.ac.uk/confucius-institute/Current_Course_List/Shanghai_2010.htm 27th, University of Manchester. Systematic Approaches to Dissect Signaling Networks. Michael Boutros from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Research seminar promoted by The Paterson Institute. Contact via The University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm TOP OF THE PAGE. AUGUST: 9th - 13th: University of York. Complexity summer school. Aimed at social scientists. Speakers from the department of biology, of computer science/electronics and from the school of management. Deadline for applications for £60 travel bursary to be received by 9th July. http://www.york.ac.uk/res/yccsa/summerschool/index.html 31st, University of Manchester. Manchester Neural Coding and Computation Workshop. Starts 10 am, lunch provided. Registration required. Some financial help available for students. Contact University. Academic workshop. http://www.neuroscience.manchester.ac.uk/research/researchgroups/computation/workshops/ TOP OF THE PAGE. SEPTEMBER: 6th - to 8th: University of York. 9th International Conference on Evolvable Systems - from biology to hardware. http://www.ices2010.org/ 8th to 10th, University of Manchester. Ten Years of War against Poverty: What have we learned since 2000 and what should we do 2010-2020? http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/events/conferences/cprc2010/ 9th, University of Liverpool, Preparation Programme for Businesses and Organisations attending the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. http://www.liv.ac.uk/confucius-institute/Current_Course_List/Shanghai_2010.htm 14th, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Professor Chris Boshoff from University College London. Research seminar at The Paterson Institute. Contact via the University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 14th to 16th, Durham University, School of Engineering. Academic conference: International conference on Manufacturing Research. http://www.dur.ac.uk/ecs/engineering/conferences/upcoming/ 15th, Durham University, The Royal Society of Chemistry Conference on Biosynthesis, Biosynthesis 2010, Discovery, Evolution, Function. 11 am. http://www.bsi.dur.ac.uk/Events/index.jsp?item=/modules/calendarevents/ipppcalendarevents_0009.html 19th, University of Manchester: Cellular and Molecular Changes in Striatal Synapses in Parkinson's Disease Dr Joanne Nash, University of Toronto, at noon in Room 1.006, AV Hill Building. Research seminar. http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/research/seminars/calendar/?date=2010-10-19&format=day 19th to 22nd, University of York. Seventh International Symposium on wireless Communication Systems. http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2010/index.html 20th to 24th, University of Manchester, The 10th European VLBI Network Symposium and EVN Users Meeting: VLBI and the New Generation of Radio Arrays. http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/meetings/evn2010/ 21st, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Peter Ratcliffe from the University of Oxford. Research seminar at The Paterson Institute. Contact via The University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 23rd to 24th, Durham University, Plant temperature response networks. School of biological and biomedical sciences. Academic conference. http://www.dur.ac.uk/biological.sciences/conferences/ptrn/ 23rd, University of Liverpool, Preparation Programme for Businesses and Organisations attending the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. http://www.liv.ac.uk/confucius-institute/Current_Course_List/Shanghai_2010.htm 27-28: University of York. Frontiers in Cell Biology and Medicine. URL changed since first publishing details of the event. http://www-p53.iarc.fr/Download/FrontiersPoster.pdf 29th September to 1st October. University of Manchester. The First International Conference of Protective Structures. Academic conference. https://www.meeting.co.uk/confercare/icps2010/ TOP OF THE PAGE. OCTOBER: 5th, University of Manchester. The regulation of replication initiation in eukaryotes. Philip Zegerman from The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute. Research seminar promoted by The Paterson Institue. Contact via The University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 12th, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Professor Chris Marshall from the Institute of Cancer Research, London. Research seminar promoted by The Paterson Institute. Contact via The University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 19th, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Professor Barry Gusterson, Head of Pathology & Gene Regulation and Forensic Medicine & Science, University of Glasgow. Part of the breakthrough seminar series promoted by The Paterson Institute. Contact via The University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 26th, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Claus Nerlov from the University of Edinburgh. Research seminar promoted by The Paterson Institute. Contact via the University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm NOVEMBER: 2nd, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Professor Adrian Harris from the University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. Contact via The University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 16th, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Professor Bart Vanhaesebroeck from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). Research seminar promoted by The Paterson Institute. Contact via the University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 17th, Lancaster University. Title to be confirmed. Professor Andreas Kortenkamp, head of centre for toxicology, The School of Pharmacy, University of London. 1600-1700. Research Seminar. Biology Large Lecture Theatre. http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/seminars/?event_id=422 23rd, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Dr Asifa Akhtar from the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Germany. Research seminar promoted by The Paterson Institute. Contact via the University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 30th, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Dr John Stingl from CR-UK Cambridge Research Institute. Breakthrough Seminar Series promoted by the Paterson Institute. Contact via The University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm DECEMBER: 7th, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Dr Jim Norman from the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow. Research seminar promoted by The Paterson Institute. Contact via the University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm 14th, University of Manchester. Title to be decided. Genevieve Almouzni from the Curie Institute/NCNRS, Paris, France. Research seminar promoted by The Paterson Institute. Contact via the University. http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/education/seminars.stm TOP OF THE PAGE. 2011 JANUARY. FEBRUARY. MARCH. APRIL: MAY: JUNE: THE REST OF 2011 JULY: 4th - 6th, University of Leeds, International choice modelling conference. http://www.icmconference.org.uk/index.php/icmc/index CONFERENCES AND EVENTS 2012. July 2012. University of Manchester. Society for Renaissance Studies National Conference 2012. http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/srsnc/ TOP OF THE PAGE

& my public news tweets, at www.twitter.com/HelenGavaghan, editor, Science, People & Politics. This is the seventh issue of the N8 Universities Science & Technology Events Sheet. Stories from the July issue of N8 Science Events are accessible from the event sheet via links beneath the masthead or from the home page of gavaghancommunications. The existence of the N8-university government construct was brought to my attention by Derek Hurren, operations manager at the Keyworth Institute, University of Leeds during a social event. I was trying to work out how to sell stories about northern Universities and who to sell them to. The stories I was finding or noting were not of the type I could sell to my then usual markets. See www.gavaghancommunications.com/gcexpertise1.html. Mr Hurren did not suggest the event sheet or associated magazine, N8 Science Events (take a renaissance meaning), both titles to which I am asserting copyright. I think this event sheet is important for several reasons. First, I once heard someone from one of the research councils say that it is on the cusp of interdisciplinarity that the most interesting things are discovered. That may or may not be true, but I think the grouping of events in this event sheet could help to stimulate ideas within disciplines. It also shows the general public and the political classes what sort of thing happens at Universities. Secondly, it shows the depth, breadth and flowering of academic freedom, ideas and the international input needed for scientific and technical advances and for international competivity. And, thirdly, I think it has the potential to provide employment for a few, among them science and technology graduates, as well as potentially stimulating spin-offs. I urge readers to check details with the University prior to making plans because a particular event may have been cancelled. Please note, it is very likely that the general public will not be able to attend academic conferences or research seminars or undergraduate seminars. For the July issue I searched part of the website of the University of Manchester and checked and updated links. Last month I searched and collated from The University of Leeds. For the August issue I will again search and update links and explore again in depth the websites of The Universities of Lancaster and Liverpool. To do an effective and thorough job of researching and preparing an event sheet, proof reading and checking all links and archiving and covering all of the N8 Universities each month would, I think - and even with sophisticated software, take three to five days each month. More likely five days. Please revisit next issue - August. I may have missed events of interest. The universities all have public relations/press departments. N8 UNIVERSITIES ARE: Durham University (0191 334 2000); Lancaster University (01524 65201); University of Leeds (0113 243 1751); University of Liverpool (0151 794 2000); University of Manchester Newcastle University (0191 334 2006); The University of Sheffield (0114 222 2000); and University of York. (01904 430000). The universities above, the major Northern research intensive Universities, have a substantial capability to attract the best students internationally and to enhance science and technology and bolster British standing and competition internationally. COPYRIGHT HELEN GAVAGHAN. Title correction policy: minor errors corrected within 24 hours of posting. This issue - the July issue - was published 30.6.10. Published by GavaghanCommunications. 165 Longfellow Court, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 5LG. Tel. No. 01422 886015. Answering service available for messages. Email: Helen.Gavaghan@btinternet.com. If any of the urls is incorrect please feel free to contact me. TOP OF THE PAGE. Base of the page.