UCL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS, EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENT

Royal Society 2012 Summer Science Exhibition – a team of scientists from the GEE's Institute of Healthy Ageing (IHA), together with with UCL’s Bahler lab, will be exhibiting at this year’s exhibition which will be held from 3rd to 8th July at the Society’s Carlton House Terrace home.   The Summer Science Exhibition showcases cutting-edge research, providing a unique opportunity for members of the public to interact with scientists - and vice versa!  Led by Dr Matt Piper, the IHA teams’ stand will be entitled ‘Living healthier for longer: research to enhance lifelong health’. We will aim to highlight, explain and discuss cutting edge biogerontological research and its recent breakthroughs that indicate we can experimentally manipulate ageing. For further information on the Exhibition, see the Royal Society's website.

For programme and abstracts, please visit here

The GEE/CEE Seminar on Wednesday 25 April at 5pm, will be given by Professor Daniel Promislow, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia.

Details available here

'Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of osmotrophic phenotypes'

Dr Tom Richards, Natural History Museum

Darwin’s Birthday Party 2012

22 February 2012 at 4pm, followed by reception.

The Crowd, the Cloud and Conservation

Speaker:  Professor Jonathan Silverton (The Open University)

Progeroid WRN in DNA instability and ageing

Lynne S Cox

Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford

Prof Scott Armbruster, University of Portsmouth:  homepage

Time: 13:15 - 13:55

Location

Darwin Lecture Theatre - accessed vial Malet Place | Darwin Building ( Map)
Gower St | London | WC1E 6BT | United Kingdom

 The first CEE Seminar of 2012 begins with a talk by Dr  Gianni LITI

Lunch-time talk next Monday Jan 9, 12 noon, Cruciform B01 (the Cruciform building is on Gower St opposite entrance into UCL main quad)

A new GEE seminar series willl resume on Friday 13 January, to be coordinated by Julie Collet, PDRA, and Pascale Gerbault.  Please note that these will take place at 4pm (Instead of at lunch-time, as before), followed by drinks. 

Dr Nick Lane will present a talk on the 'Origin of Life' as part of the Dept of Earth Sciences Seminar Series.

Friday’s lunchtime seminar will be given by Aimée T. Classen, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee. Webpage here

Professor Jane Memmott's webpage

This year’s Medawar Memorial Lecture is to be given by Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist.  His lecture is entitled: "Genes, Culture and Collective Intelligence"

By Katherine L Aitchison, on 2 November 2011

In April 2011 the geographic split which has divided the UCL Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment (GEE) for many years was brought to an end when approximately 90 academic staff, student and support staff moved from Wolfson House to the newly refurbished Darwin Building on Gower Street. The move brought them together with the UCL Genetics Institute (UGI) which is to become a hub for statistical genetic and bioinformatics research.

JZ Young Theatre, Anatomy Building, UCL

Mythological creatures are made to seem real in representational art. Among these creatures are some that fly. Angels, fairies and dragons are all shown as having wings and an otherwise naturalistic form that we recognise readily. Yet, biologically speaking, are they able to fly? If not, why do we wish to suggest they have the same powers of flight as real flying animals?

A new, exciting programme of CEE Seminars has been scheduled.  Please visit the CEE website

Visit/Register for Google Calendar here

for Jürg Bähler (Professor of Cellular Systems Biology), Max Telford (Professor of Zoology) and Kevin Fowler (Professor of Evolutionary Biology) were held on 8 June 2011.