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In 2023, as part of Science Week, Professor Francesca Happé gave the Rosalind Franklin Lecture. Her talk examined why people with autism experience higher rates of mental health difficulties than their peers and what can be done to improve quality of life for them.
Dr Tomas’s talk focuses on research into the development of protocells, which are produced in the laboratory as plausible ancestors of living cells and can be used to study abiogenesis and, in the future, to create cell-like robots.
Our self-representation has many different facets, including properties of the mind (thoughts and beliefs) and properties of our bodies (body image, visualisation and experience, and physical appearance).
The Earth has been inhabited for almost 90% of its existence, implying that its climate and environmental chemistry have been stable for around four billion years. This talk examines the mechanisms that have led to this stability.
Professor Oaksford examines how error appears to emerge when working memory and language are involved in reasoning.
The European Space Agency planned to launch the ExoMars Rover in 2018 to further Mars exploration. The choice of landing site had to balance engineering constraints with scientific goals.
This talk discusses cutting-edge work on how training cognitive flexibility can help improve resilience in the face of life's stressors with benefits for our mental wellbeing.
In this talk Professor Saibil shows how proteins can be used by our immune system to kill pathogens or by pathogens to take over our cells for their own replication.
We encounter and recognise many different faces every day, despite this being a complex process. Professor Eimer examines how the brain processes faces and discusses why some people have difficulties.
This talk presents behavioural and neuroimaging results that show mindfulness meditation training can lead to improved cognitive control and emotional regulation across the ages.
Professors David Moss and Paul Barnes trace the history of crystallography from its beginnings to the present and beyond. The talk describes the role that Birkbeck has played in the development and use of crystallography in the past 60 years.
Dr Philip Hopley's talk describes how past climate changes have shaped our evolutionary history. He will present new evidence for the environmental context of human evolution in Africa.
Professor Bonnie Wallace’s talk describes investigations into the properties of sodium channels. Knowledge of their mechanism allows us to understand the underlying basis of many diseases and possible treatment.
Read all of our Science Week blogs.
This post was contributed by Mauro Pirarba, first year Planetary Sciences Graduate Certificate student.
This post was contributed by Georgina Donati, postdoctoral student at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD).
Dr Clare Sansom reports on Birkbeck’s 2018 Rosalind Franklin Lecture, delivered by Berkeley’s Professor Eva Nogales, a distinguished scholar in electron microscopy research.
Bethany Chapman, PhD candidate at Birkbeck, attended Professor Derakshan’s Birkbeck Science Week talk on Thursday 21 June.
Dr Clare Sansom, Senior Associate Lecturer in Biological Sciences, writes on the screening of Resistance, which took place as part of Science Week 2017.
This blog was written by Giulia Magnarini, Birkbeck graduate in Planetary Sciences with Astronomy and PhD candidate in Earth Sciences at UCL.
This post was contributed by Professor Nick Keep, Executive Dean of the School of Science, after attending the 2016 film 'Life story'.
This post was contributed by Dr Jennifer Harris, postdoctoral researcher, after attending two Science Week 2016 events: Analysing the Moon and Looking inside.
This post was contributed by Sofia Ciccarone (Master's student of Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology at Birkbeck).
This post was contributed by Clare Sansom, senior associate lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences.
This post was contributed by Dr Clare Sansom, Senior Associate Lecturer in Birkbeck’s Department of Biological Sciences.
This post was contributed by Guy Collender, Communications Manager, Birkbeck’s Department of External Relations.
This post was contributed by Bryony Stewart-Seume, of Birkbeck’s Department of Biological Sciences.
This post was contributed by Guy Collender, of Birkbeck’s Department of External Relations.
A selection of photos from our 2019 talks, including the 2019 Rosalind Franklin Lecture.
A selection of photos from our 2018 talks, including the 2018 Rosalind Franklin Lecture.
A selection of photos from our 2017 talks and film screening, including the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Lecture.
In the Mace Experimental Research Laboratories in Neuroscience (MERLiN) we use different techniques to investigate perceptual, motor, cognitive and emotional processing.
A selection of photos from our 2016 talks.
Photos from Earth and Planetary Sciences' tour of their new petrology lab. The Petrology lab demonstration revealed the microscopic details of metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks.
A selection of photos from our 2015 talks.
These photos were taken during the Electron Microscopy lab tour. The lab demonstration showed how macromolecular machines are imaged, revealing how they work and move.
Photos from the Birkbeck-UCL Centre for Neuroimaging (BUCNI). This lab demonstration used MRI to visualise and understand neural activity related to different motor and cognitive processes.
A selection of photos from our 2014 talks.
In the Birkbeck lab, macromolecular crystallography is used to reveal the structures of proteins and DNA, the engines and coding material of life.
Photos from our cognitive neurofeedback lab tour during Science Week 2014. In this demonstration participants were shown how they could enhance their mental abilities by training their brainwaves.
A selection of photos from our 2013 Science Week lectures.
