Birkbeck Science Week 2025 - Imaging the invisible: capturing complexity across scales in Natural Science
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
18:00-18:10 - PhD student presentation
18:10-18:15 - PhD Prize-giving
18:15-19:15 - Science Week talks
19:15-21:00 - Drinks reception, postboard exhibition & lab tours
18:15-18:35
Prof Charles Underwood:
Imaging jaws- looking inside sharks and rays modern and ancient
Charlie studied for a degree in Geology at the University of Exeter, before doing a PhD on fossil preservation at the University of Bristol. At the University of Liverpool he developed an interest in fossil sharks, and after some commercial field geology in Madagascar, came to Birkbeck in 2000. He is now Professor of Palaeontology at Birkbeck, whilst also having an associate position at the Natural History Museum.
18:35-18:55
Dr Marianne Odlyha
Making Visible what is Essential for the Preservation of Museum Collections, in particular Organic-based Cultural Heritage objects
Marianne trained as a solid-state chemist and with the background in X-ray and Thermoanalytical techniques, went on to apply these to canvas supported paintings at the Doerner Institute in Munich and then at the Courtauld Institute in London. At Birkbeck she continued her research with the support of EU funded grants and extended the work to include assessment of damage in parchment and leather and assessment of effects of novel conservation treatments involving sustainable materials, both from the macro to the nanoscale. She has also developed small coated quartz resonators for monitoring air quality in showcases and micro-climate frames. All this has led to collaborative work with English Heritage and major European conservation centres.
18:55-19:15
Prof Carolyn Moores
Cool microscopes and studying cellular complexity in health and disease
Carolyn studied undergraduate Biochemistry at Oxford University and undertook her doctoral research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. She moved to the United States to conduct postdoctoral research at The Scripps Research Institute in California. In 2004, she returned to the U.K. to begin her independent research group at Birkbeck, University of London, supported by a BBSRC David Phillips Fellow and focused on using cryo-electron microscopy. Carolyn is Academic Lead of the Electron Microscopy laboratory at Birkbeck and Head of Research in the School of Natural Sciences.
Contact name:
Charlotte Lowe