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We welcome Prof. Sara Goodacre, University of Nottingham, TODAY, Wednesday 1 July 2026, 2-3pm, EFRY 01.08 with talk title "Come rain or shine: How does a spider fly?". Hosted by Dr Martin Taylor, BIO All Welcome #UEAScience #BioOpenLectures
Join Prof Sara Goodacre from University of Nottingham to the next BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 1 July 2026, 2-3pm, EFRY 01.08, with talk title: "Come rain or shine: How does a spider fly?" Hosted by Dr Martin Taylor, BIO. #UEAScience All Welcome
Join the BIO Open Lecture TODAY, 2-3pm, EFRY 01.08 when we welcome Prof. Elena Berg, American University of Paris Talk: Collaborating with faculty and students: experiments with team teaching and student-centered research. Hosts: Prof Kelly Edmunds and Dr Ed Ivimey-Cook #UEAScience
Join our BIO Open Lecture on Weds 27th May 2026, 2-3pm, UEA EFRY 01.08 when we welcome Prof. Elena Berg, American University of Paris, talk: "Collaborating with faculty and students: experiments with team teaching and student-centered research. Hosts: Prof. Kelly Edmunds and Dr Ed Ivimey-Cook, BIO #UEAScience
Join us for our next BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 20 May, 2-3pm, Queens Building 1.03 when we welcome Prof. Stefanie Kaiser from Goethe University Frankfurt with a talk title "Mass spectrometry for mapping RNA modifications in human disease". Hosted by Alper Akay, BIO. All Welcome #UEAScience
Join is on 7th May for our next CDMB Seminar! Our speaker is Lucas Malins, PhD student in Professor Sam Fountain's lab, School of Biological Sciences, "All in Vein? Decoding the sympathetic nervous system's regulation of the forgotten vessels" All Welcome #UEAScience
Cell, Development and Molecular Biology Seminar Series: Thurs 23 April, 1-2pm. EFRY 01.05 Hosted by Dr Geoff Mok.
Today! We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Jennifer Frost, King's College London to the BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 11th March, 2-3pm, EFRY 01.08. All Welcome #BioOpenLectures #UEAScience
We are happy to be hosting Aarushi Vaidya, PhD student in Grocott Lab, School of Biological Sciences, UEA on Thursday 12th March 2026, 1-2pm, EFRY 01.02LT for our CDMB Seminar Series. All Welcome
Looking forward to welcoming Dr Jennifer Frost, King's College London to the next BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 11th March, 2-3pm, EFRY 01.08. Talk title "The role of transposable elements in pregnancy complications". Host: Prof. David Monk. All Welcome
Talk title: "Enhancer Identification and Verification in Cardiac Progenitor Cells During Heart Formation in the Chicken Embryo." Thursday 5th March 1pm to 2pm, Elizabeth Fry Building 01.02 Photo of Jennifer Giffin - a smiling woman with brown shoulder length hair, wearing a lab coat, in a laboratory.
Discover your path in Biological Sciences at this event Tuesday March 10th 17:00 - 19:00 Online Open to all School of Biological students. Book your place now on https://mycareercentral.uea.ac.uk/students/events/detail/2768175
Don't forget to sign up to attend The Darwin Day 2026, Endless Islands Most Beautiful on Weds 11 Feb, 1 - 5pm, Julian Study Centre UEA. Please see attached schedule and link to sign up. Everyone welcome
Darwin Day 2026, Endless Islands Most Beautiful, Weds 11th Feb 2026; 1.00pm–5.00pm, Julian Study Centre, UEA. An excellent afternoon of talks linked to islands and adaptation. See the attached flier for the schedule. Everyone is welcome…and it’s free …. but please sign up
A poster advertising The Samaritans 'Brew Monday' showing a picture of a teapot and cupcakes, with the words, "There's always time for a cuppa and a catch-up."
Picture of a Christmas tree shaped from laboratory equipment, molecules, viruses and atoms. Copyright: Anna Zhuravlova
BIO Cell, Development and Molecular Biology Seminar: Thursday 4th December @ 1pm Date: Thursday 4 December 2025 Speaker and Affiliation: Dr Meha Patel, Clinical PhD Fellow, Earlham Institute Title: Gaining Insight into Early-Stage Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis using Single Cell Technologies Time: 1-2pm Venue: EFRY 01.02 LT Host: Dr Geoff Mok, BIO All Welcome Visit https://my.uea.ac.uk/sci/seminars for forthcoming UEA SCI events
“From iPSCs to Lens Organoids and the Adult Lens – Insights into Regeneration and Fibrosis following Cataract Surgery” Thurs 20 November, EFRY 01.02 LT For more information contact Geoff Mok (g.mok@uea.ac.uk) or bio.fps@uea.ac.uk
Come along to our BIO Open Lecture TODAY, 2-3pm, EFRY 01.08 where we welcome Dr Caroline Beck, University of Otago, with a talk title of "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" Hosted by: Prof. Grant Wheeler. All Welcome #UEAScience
Explore career options and meet with employers at Science Connect: Careers Fair and Panels at 1pm - 3pm in NEWSCI 0.07/0.08 tomorrow, Wednesday 5 November. Alongside the fair from 1.30pm - 4.15pm we have a programme of talks and presentations. So do come along!
BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 5th November, 2-3pm, in EFRY 01.08. Speaker Caroline Beck from University of Otago, with talk title "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" All Welcome
Professor Harriet Jones, sitting with the UEA Lasdun Wall, grass and trees behind her.
Dr Rafeeq Mir - Post doc in Wheeler and Munsterberg labs “AGMO - A modulator of ether lipids and it’s role in embryonic development" Thurs 23 October, 1pm EFRY 01.02
CDMB (Cell Development and Molecular Biology) Seminar Series in association with the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research Network Talk title: The role of snoRNA SNORD116 in Cardiomyocyte Development and Metabolism Dr Terri-Lea Holmes (MED) - post doc in James Smiths lab Thursday16 October 13:00 - 14:00 For more information contact Geoff Mok (g.mok@uea.ac.uk) or bio.fps@uea.ac.uk
Jane Goodall stands at a plinth, mid-speech, with a UEA logo behind her, when she opened the New Science Building in 2019.
Photo showing six members of the winning team. From left to right: Dr Becky Lewis, Dr Helen Leggett, Dr Carl Harrington, Rebecca Anderson (learning technologist), Dr Ellen Bell and Prof Kelly Edmunds.
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Photo shows Dom Cram, a young man looking at the camera, smiling. He has short ginger hair and a short, trimmed ginger beard and is wearing a green overcoat.
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Photo shows Jean-Baptiste Raina, a smiling man wearing round glasses, with a dark, trimmed beard and a dark cap.
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We welcome Dr Katherine Dean from the School of Health Sciences, UEA to the BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 4th June, 2-3pm, EFry 01.02. Talk title: "Science and Society Accessible Research". Hosted by Dr Helen Leggett. All Welcome #UEAScience
Photo of Jean-Baptiste Raina - a smiling man with a short, cropped beard, glasses and a cap.
Come along to the next CDMB Seminar on Thursday 5 June, 1-2pm, Efry 01.05. Speaker Magdalena Schatka, Phd student from Munsterberg lab, talk title "Characterizing a cis-regulatory element associated with Nkx2.5 in early heart development"
On a banner hanging along a fence, is written 'NWT Sweet Briar Marshes'. Behind is grassland with trees in the distance, and a blue sky with clouds.
A pair of hands places a bug hotel - constructed from natural objects such as twigs, leaves and pine cones - onto the trunk of a tree.
On a woodland path, a young woman leans across the undergrowth to place a hanging artwork on a branch.
We're looking forward to welcoming Prof Niclas Kolm from Stockholm University to the Bio Open Lecture Today, 2-3pm, EFRY 01.02 when he will be talking about "Brain and behaviour evolution from an intraspecific perspective". Hosted by Prof Alexei Maklakov #UEAScience
BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 7 May, 2-3pm, EFRY 01.02. Prof Niclas Kolm from Stockholm University will be talking about "Brain and behaviour evolution from an intraspecific perspective". Hosted by Prof Alexei Maklakov. All Welcome
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BIO Open Lecture Today 2-3pm, EFRY 01.02 with Dr Will Nash, Natural History Museum, London, Talk Title: Fostering Neuroinclusive Research Culture. Hosted by Dr Helen Leggett
The CEEC Rebellion 2025 is on Today and Tomorrow, 19th & 20th March in ZICER 2.03.
photo of Dr Lakshmi Balasubramaniam with talk details
Bio Open Lecture on Wednesday 19 March, 2-3pm, Elizabeth Fry Building, EFRY 01.02. Speaker Dr Will Nash, Natural History Museum, London Talk Title "Fostering Neuroinclusive Research Culture" Host: Dr Helen Leggett. All Welcome
BIO Open Lecture, Wednesday 5th March 2025, 2-3pm, Elizabeth Fry Building, EFRY 01.02. Prof Christoph Dieterich, Universitats Kinikum Heidelberg "Direct single-molecule sequencing of diverse RNA types for modification profiling"
BIO Open Lecture at 2pm today with Dr Carys Watts, University of Newcastle, "Designing in chances to fail as opportunities for growth and collaboration"