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== March Meeting: Anil Seth, Machine Consciousness == | == March Meeting: Anil Seth, Machine Consciousness == | ||
== April Meeting: Peter Wilson, The Rise of Antimicrobial Resistance == | == April Meeting: Peter Wilson, The Rise of Antimicrobial Resistance == | ||
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== May Meeting: Giles Yeo, ''Are your genes to blame if your jeans don't fit?'' == | |||
=== May 16th, Strangers Room === | |||
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= 2017 Programme = | = 2017 Programme = |
Revision as of 09:09, 22 March 2017
March Meeting: Anil Seth, Machine Consciousness
April Meeting: Peter Wilson, The Rise of Antimicrobial Resistance
April 19th, Strangers Room
We may be witnessing the end of antibiotics as we know them. Penicillin is no longer the miracle drug it once was. Bacteria have evolved to beat it at its own game. The same goes for most other antibiotics. The problem is so severe that drug manufacturers have given up the unequal fight. They no longer sink significant sums into developing drugs that will retain their efficacy for a shorter and shorter period. This solves a problem for their investors, but creates a bigger problem for any of us that might be threatened with infection, which is all of us.
Without antibiotics, life will be very different. We will be afraid to take risks of coming into contact with infection. We will be afraid to play contact sports, in case we get an injury which might require even minor surgery. We will have to be very careful about how we live our everyday lives.
Peter Wilson is a consultant microbiologist at University College London Hospitals. He was trained at Cambridge and UCL and became a consultant in 1990. His main interests lie in antimicrobial chemotherapy and infection control and he has responsibility for critical care.
May Meeting: Giles Yeo, Are your genes to blame if your jeans don't fit?
May 16th, Strangers Room
2017 Programme
Dates for 2017 are as follows (all meeting are on Wednesdays, usually the 3rd one of each month):
Month | Day of Month | Speaker | Title |
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February | 15th | Prof Martyn Thomas | Cybersecurity |
March | 15th | Prof Anil Seth | Machine Consciousness |
April | 19th | Prof Peter Wilson | Anti-Microbial Resistance. |
May | either 16th, 17th, | Giles Yeo | Are your genes to blame if your jeans don't fit? |
June | 21st | Paul Veys | CAR-T Study, Anthony Nolan. See Trello. |
September | 20th | Dr Paolo Tasca | Bitcoins and the Blockchain |
October | 18th | Prof J A Madrigal | Stem cell therapies. |
November | 15th | To Be Confirmed | To Be Confirmed |
For more information, please visit our Meetings page.