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  1. Acting on Climate Change

    Acting on Climate Change

    Policy, Rights and Net Zero

    Balancing rising energy demands with the need to curb and adapt to anthropogenic climate change in a just and equitable way is at the heart of an existential...

  2. Imaging protein-nucleic acid interactions across scales and with single molecule resolution

    Imaging protein-nucleic acid interactions across scales and with single molecule resolution

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. David Rueda, Department of Infectious...

  3. Ion mobility mass spectrometry insights into dynamic protein complexes and conformations

    Ion mobility mass spectrometry insights into dynamic protein complexes and conformations

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Rebecca Beveridge, Department of Pure and...

  4. 3M Planet Final

    3M Planet Final

    Join us in Parliament Hall for the finals of the 3MPlanet competition. Each of our seven finalists has distilled their honours thesis on topics related to...

  5. Painting in Steam -- new start time of 2pm

    Painting in Steam -- new start time of 2pm

    Climate, Combustion, and Pollution in British Art

    Join the School of Art History and Dr Stephanie O'Rourke for 'Painting in Steam: Climate, Combustion, and Pollution in British Art'. Reception...

  6. Mechanisms of TDP-43-induced neurodegenerative disease

    Mechanisms of TDP-43-induced neurodegenerative disease

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Leeanne McGurk, School of Life Sciences,...

  7. How do antibiotics get into bacteria?

    How do antibiotics get into bacteria?

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. Alex O'Neill, School of Molecular...

  8. Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    'Engineering Reality' with Cornelia Helmcke

    During this book launch event, author Cornelia Helmcke will meet critics Bibiana Duarte-Abadía (Wageningen University) and Christopher Schulz (University of St...

  9. Novel tools for functional connectomics in mammals

    Novel tools for functional connectomics in mammals

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Ernesto Ciabatti, MRC LMB, Cambridge.

  10. The type VII secretion system of Staphylococcus aureus

    The type VII secretion system of Staphylococcus aureus

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. Tracy Palmer FRS, Biosciences Institute,...

  11. Understanding the role of viral proteases in RNA virus replication and virus-host interactions
    Cancelled

    Understanding the role of viral proteases in RNA virus replication and virus-host interactions

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) external seminar series by Dr Edward Emmott, Institute of Systems,...

  12. Energy Cafe: Shores of Change

    Energy Cafe: Shores of Change

    The global energy transition and the future of African coastal states

    The urgency to address the impacts of climate change has reached a critical point. Although the global community acknowledges the imperative for a united...

  13. Energy Café: Large scale renewable energy investments in energy insecure regions.

    Energy Café: Large scale renewable energy investments in energy insecure regions.

    Why communities choose to resist

    During this Energy Café, the centre's postdoctoral researcher Cornelia Helmcke will tie in her previous work on energy data justice in Colombia with her...

  14. PEPtalk: Tearing down policy barriers on the path to greening the grid

    PEPtalk: Tearing down policy barriers on the path to greening the grid

    Converting proposals to new clean power

    The Centre for Energy Ethics is pleased to announce the return of its Policy Engagement Practice seminar series --- PEPtalks. Please join us and our invited...

  15. Sketching Stories of Climate Anxiety

    Sketching Stories of Climate Anxiety

    As part of the Fife Climate Festival, this family-friendly (age 12+) workshop will explore climate justice and climate anxiety through different examples of...

  16. Energy Café: Governing 'Wild' Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change

    Energy Café: Governing 'Wild' Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change

    Our twice monthly Energy Café series will begin on Tuesday January 23rd with a presentation from Sean Field In this Café, Sean will discuss how natural gas...

  17. Energy Cafe: Can the largest African country meet its energy security goal by 2030

    Energy Cafe: Can the largest African country meet its energy security goal by 2030

    Hosted by Zuhumnan Dapel. According to recent estimates on combating global energy poverty, more than half a billion people will still lack access to...

  18. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- What to do with Depletion and Energy Dependency?

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- What to do with Depletion and Energy Dependency?

    Join the us online and in-person for our final seminar of Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited. During our final session we will look at the future of the...

  19. A Changing Climate Changing Lives: Poetry Writing Competition

    A Changing Climate Changing Lives: Poetry Writing Competition

    This reading, hosted by the School of English and Centre for Energy Ethics, will showcase the creative writing submissions from selected undergraduate students...

  20. Artist in Residence: one year on

    Artist in Residence: one year on

    CEE's Artist-in-Residence: Rebecca Sharp

    Join CEE's Artist-in-Residence, poet Rebecca Sharp, for this work-in-progress sharing event. Rebecca will be sharing some of the new poems written during...

  21. Adventures in receptor signalling: one for fun, two to tango

    Adventures in receptor signalling: one for fun, two to tango

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. Peter McCormick, Institute of Systems,...

  22. Olfaction at the interface of host-microbiome interactions

    Olfaction at the interface of host-microbiome interactions

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Varsha Singh, School of Life Sciences,...

  23. Energy Café: Saving energy, saving the Revolution

    Energy Café: Saving energy, saving the Revolution

    Energy efficiency and revolutionary ethics in the Cuban transition

    Dr Gustav Cederlöf School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden In the pursuit of socialism, Cuba become one of Latin America's most...

  24. Talin in mechanomemory: spatial organisation encoded by binary mechanochemical switches

    Talin in mechanomemory: spatial organisation encoded by binary mechanochemical switches

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. Ben Goult, Institute of Systems,...

  25. Untangling glial and neuronal signalling in ageing and dementia

    Untangling glial and neuronal signalling in ageing and dementia

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Nathan Woodling, School of Molecular...

  26. Structural biology and public health response to biomedical threats

    Structural biology and public health response to biomedical threats

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. Vladek Minor, Department of Molecular...

  27. Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    The World Commission on Dams and the making of global guidelines for the planning and construction of large dams

    Hosted by Christopher Schulz Large dams are back on the global development agenda. Researchers have counted thousands of dam projects that are currently planned...

  28. Energy Cafe: Why we should care about care

    Energy Cafe: Why we should care about care

    This cafe will be hosted by Silvia Pergetti. The work it takes to operate and maintain energy systems is essential yet often missing from public and scholarly...

  29. Viruses, acquired drug resistance in cancer, and the reproducibility crisis

    Viruses, acquired drug resistance in cancer, and the reproducibility crisis

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. Martin Michaelis, School of Biosciences,...

  30. Application of cryo-EM methods to study DNA replication and repair

    Application of cryo-EM methods to study DNA replication and repair

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Alfredo De Biasio, King Abdullah University...

  31. No More Fossils -- New Book Discussion with Dominic Boyer

    No More Fossils -- New Book Discussion with Dominic Boyer

    Join us for a new book discussion with author Professor Dominic Boyer, on 12 February at 3pm (UK time) online. In No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story...

  32. Molecular mechanisms of accessory DNA helicases in the eukaryotic replisome

    Molecular mechanisms of accessory DNA helicases in the eukaryotic replisome

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Tom Deegan, MRC Human Genetics Unit,...

  33. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- The Energy of Water

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- The Energy of Water

    Join the Centre for Energy Ethics for the next seminar of Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited. This session will be dedicated to the story of the...

  34. Book Launch: 'Engineering Reality' by Dr Cornelia Helmcke

    Book Launch: 'Engineering Reality' by Dr Cornelia Helmcke

    Join Centre for Energy Ethics postdoctoral researcher Dr Cornelia Helmcke for an informal event to celebrate the release of her book Engineering Reality: The...

  35. Energy Cafe: Imagery and community agency in energy futures

    Energy Cafe: Imagery and community agency in energy futures

    Hosted by Gair Dunlop. Whether it's enormous offshore wind developments or the slow drawdown of nuclear facilities, community agency in relation to...

  36. PEPtalk: Relational approaches to navigating policy impact

    PEPtalk: Relational approaches to navigating policy impact

    The Centre for Energy Ethics is pleased to announce its Policy Engagement Practice seminar series --- PEPtalks. Please join us and our invited speakers as...

  37. Ukraine Energy in the Spotlight Revisited: Nuclear Worlds

    Ukraine Energy in the Spotlight Revisited: Nuclear Worlds

    Join us online or in-person on October, 26, 5 pm (UK time) for an exciting discussion on the latest updates on Ukrainian nuclear energy. We will focus on the...

  38. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight -- Electric Networks

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight -- Electric Networks

    Electricity, like air, is something we notice when it disappears. In 2022 Ukrainians faced an acute energy deficiency, in everyday life, at work, and public...

  39. Green and sustainable chemistry bootcamp with John Warner

    Green and sustainable chemistry bootcamp with John Warner

    Cefic, the European Chemistry Industry Council, and the University of St Andrews will collaborate to organise another edition of the 'Green and...

  40. Revolutionising industrial enzyme development: harnessing AI for multi-parameter optimisation

    Revolutionising industrial enzyme development: harnessing AI for multi-parameter optimisation

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Pravin Kumar, Kcat Enzymatics.

  41. Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway

    Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway

    Hosted by Anna-Sophie Hobi. Lithium-ion batteries are pivotal in the efforts to 'decarbonise' the European economy. Consequently, a battery...

  42. (p)ppGpp: magic spot nucleotides controlling bacterial metabolism, variability and infection

    (p)ppGpp: magic spot nucleotides controlling bacterial metabolism, variability and infection

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Rebecca Corrigan, School of Biosciences,...

  43. PEP talk: Turning Research into Impact: Responding to Calls for Evidence

    PEP talk: Turning Research into Impact: Responding to Calls for Evidence

    Ever wondered what role research and evidence plays in policymaking? Have you considered how your research can help inform policy? Do you know how to engage...

  44. Understanding the role of viral proteases in RNA virus replication and virus-host interactions

    Understanding the role of viral proteases in RNA virus replication and virus-host interactions

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Ed Emmott, Institute of Systems, Molecular...

  45. PEPtalk: The evolving landscape of evidence in policy and practice

    PEPtalk: The evolving landscape of evidence in policy and practice

    Navigating the labyrinth

    In the past 30 or so years our understanding of research and evidence use has broadened --- moving from linear views of an evidence use...

  46. Energy Café: Cost-benefit analyses, short-termism and social discount rate

    Energy Café: Cost-benefit analyses, short-termism and social discount rate

    The Social Discount Rate (SDR) determines the present value of future societal costs and benefits. A declining SDR suggests society values future benefits more...

  47. Regulation of cytoplasmic and nuclear stiffness:  the intersection of cytoplasmic and nuclear actin

    Regulation of cytoplasmic and nuclear stiffness: the intersection of cytoplasmic and nuclear actin

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. Primal de Lanerolle, Department of...

  48. Energy Café: Legitimising the ISDS Regime through Energy Justice

    Energy Café: Legitimising the ISDS Regime through Energy Justice

    This seminar examines the role of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime in the global energy sector and its connection to energy justice. The ISDS...

  49. UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science

    UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science

    School of Biology Public Lecture

    In honour of the UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and International Women's Day, the School of Biology EDI committee will be hosting a...