Darwin College Sciences Group

Darwin Crest Darwin College
Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EU, England
Committee: Suzie Currie (sc264@cam), Ruth Hamilton (ruthh@zoo.cam), Matt Segall (mds21@phy.cam), David Kreil (kreil@ebi.ac.uk)

Talks are given by Darwin students and fellows and are intended for a general audience. Meetings take place on Thursdays at lunchtime in the Entertainment room from 12:45 till 2:00. Everyone is welcome, whatever your discipline.
  • Pick up your lunch from 12:45 as normal
  • The Entertainment Room is to the left as you face the garden at the top of the stairs leading to the dining hall
  • The talk begins over coffee at about 1:15, lasts for about 20 minutes and is followed by questions.
 M100 Spiral Galaxy
The M100 Spiral Galaxy.
Courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute.


27 January Paul Johnson Heroism, Hygiene and Incest in Aphids: Using Genetics to Test Evolutionary Theories
3 February Rob Howell The Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow of a Jet Engine
10 February Harry Bhadeshia The Evolution of Solutions
17 February Dean Sibthorpe `Fishing' for a Resistance Gene in the Pufferfish: It's Body Inflates but it's Genome Does Not!
24 February Alwyn Scally Forbidden Planets: Why the Aliens Might Have Nowhere to Live
2 March Sushma Nagaraja Splice up your Life! - A Study of Alternative RNA Splicing
9 March Karine Sartelet Why are the Weathermen Always Wrong?
16 March Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd The Logos and the Dao: Greek and Chinese Science Compared (Joint meeting with Humanities and Social Sciences Group)

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