Event Archive

Tuning the T cell response through individual and collective cell behaviours

Dr Arianne Richard - Babraham Institute, Cambridge

Striking Impressions Exhibition - Flash Tour #2

A bite-sized (15 minute) tour of the exhibition 'Striking Impressions'.

ECR Seminar Series

Muhammad Zaman Assir - "3D culture of human fetal brain models maternal inflammation-induced cortical abnormalities" Ayaz Ali -  “Targeting PTP1B to prevent diabetic retinopathy” 

Striking Impressions Exhibition - Flash Tour #1

A bite-sized (15 minute) tour of the exhibition 'Striking Impressions'.

Collection Doodles at the Wayword Festival

A fun and relaxing doodling session as part of this year's WayWORD Festival.

EPSRC Health Data for Research Workshop

External event

Aberdeen 2024, HERU Short course: Using DCEs in Health Economics

This event was fully booked

Our short course on 'Using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) in Health Economics' will take place in Aberdeen from 24th - 26th September 2024. Please note that the course is now fully booked. Contact the DCE course email for a place on the course waiting list. The course fee includes teaching material, accommodation, all lunches,...

University Collections at the Aberdeen Science Festival Discovery Day

Explore two of the University Collections venues - the Library Gallery and the Zoology Museum - and see how many Lego faces you can find as you go!

ACWHR Seminar with Professor Helen Weiss - 'Improving menstrual health in Uganda: MENISCUS - a school-based cluster-randomised trial'

Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Professor Helen Weiss - 'Improving menstrual health in Uganda: MENISCUS - a school-based cluster-randomised trial'  Professor Helen Anne Weiss DPhil FMedSci Helen is a Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the MRC International Statistical and Epidemiology Partnership, based at the London School of...

ACHDS Seminar Professor Mary Joan Mcleod

Stroke: using data to improve stroke care

Health Inequalities in Scotland: The State of the Nation

External Event

Health Data Science Seminar Series: Transforming Healthcare: AI in Health Data Science

External event

Doors Open Days 2024

The Rowett Institute welcomes guests for Scotland's annual event

BarH-Like proteins as inhibitors of Wnt/T Cell-Factors transcriptional activity: from Spemann organizer formation to maintenance of a cerebellar germinative niche

Dr Béatrice Durand - Sorbonne University

17th Annual Health Services Research UK (HSR UK) Conference

External Event

ECR Seminar Series

Sanad Alfadhel - Towards the sustainable production of scorpion venom-derived peptides

Systematic investigation of the SmY RNAs, a nematode-specific family of small nuclear RNAs

Pre-Viva Talk - Mohammed Al-Khafaji

ACHDS Seminar: COVID-19 modelling in context: experiences, lessons and next steps

During the emergence of COVID-19, mathematical models became important tools to support health decision making, with the impact of different interventions and control strategies being assessed by these models. A proliferation of compartmental models was observed in the mathematical modelling community, aiming to understand and make predictions regarding the spread...

Deciphering Molecular Pathways shaping the Corneal Stroma in Health and Disease

Dr Vernonique Vitart - MRC HGU Edinburgh

HERU External Seminar - Dr Thao Thai

This event was cancelled

Dr Thao Thai is a Research Fellow at the Monash University Health Economics Group (MUHEG) in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Seminar Title: The effect of emoji scale on preference inversion In discrete choice experiments (DECs) with duration. Preference inversion often occurs in health valuation studies when respondent preferences do...

What can we learn about the LGBTQ+ Community through history and culture?

Talk by guest speaker Emily Garside in the Suttie Lecture Theatre 26 June, 10-11.30am

Ykt6 functions as a backup for other R-SNAREs in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Prof Takahiro Shintani - Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University

Different roads to the Teaching Fellow career

Dr Monika Gostic, Dr Virtu Solano & Dr Catriona Cunningham - University of Aberdeen

Potential new strategy for the treatment of kidney disease due to diabetes

Pre-Viva Talk - Sarah Kamli-Salino

Spatial learning and tau expression in a tau model of Alzheimer's Disease: effects of tau aggregation inhibitor treatment alone and in combination with Rivastigmine.

Pre-Viva Talk - Maria Cacho Barraza

The University of Aberdeen Annual Stakeholder Meeting

This event is an opportunity for the general public to hear about the University's current activities and the contribution that all our staff, students and alumni make to the life and success of our local and national communities.

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Campus Visit

JSPS will provide information about the variety of international funding opportunities for researchers at all stages (from doctoral-level students to academic staff) and is open to all research areas to collaborate with researchers in Japan. The session includes an overview of JSPS and multilateral and bilateral funding programmes by Ms Yumiko Myoken, Deputy Director,...

Economics-HERU joint workshop on Health, Well-being and Environment

A workshop from the University of Aberdeen Economics unit and the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) on theme of Health, Well-being and Environment.

ECR Seminar Series

Raquel Barroso Ferro - Feeling peckish? Can we "eat" cancer?    Nicholas Johnson - Chemoenzymatic Production of Modified Cyclic Peptides with SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Binding Activity 

Acute obstetric coagulopathy during postpartum haemorrhage: haemostatic mechanisms and clinical management

Prof Peter Collins - Cardiff University and Cardiff and Vale Health Board

Extracellular Transport Vesicles for Cell-specific Cargo Delivery and Vaccines

Dr Christopher Locher - CEO and Co-founder of Versatope Therapeutics

Understanding the molecular phenotype of mutations in human eukaryotic elongation factor 1A: a study using a Saccharomyces cerevisiae model

Pre-Viva Talk - Letizia Delle Vedove

Rowett Seminar

Dr Guillaume Ferreira: Neurocognitive impact of early-onset obesity in animal models: circuit-specific memory deficits and gender differences

Aspergillus, asthma and the airway: Why do fungi trigger inflammatory lung diseases?

Dr Peter Cook - University of Exeter

The Energy Trilemma: how do we balance energy security, affordability, and environmental sustainability?

Join us online for an insightful discussion on one of the most fundamental challenges of our time: the energy trilemma or how we ensure communities have access to the energy they need at a cost they can afford whilst not destroying the planet in the process.

Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Professor Helen Weiss - 'Improving menstrual health in Uganda: MENISCUS - a school based-cluster randomised trial'

Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Professor Helen Weiss 'Improving menstrual health in Uganda: MENISCUS - a school-based cluster-randomised trial'     Professor Helen Anne Weiss DPhil FMedSci   Helen is a Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the MRC International Statistical and Epidemiology Partnership, based at the London School of Hygiene &...

From rapid diagnostics to novel therapeutics - harnessing the power of phage display technology in recombinant antibody discovery

Dr Soumya Palliyil - Institute of Medical Sciences

Exploring the role of the chromatin remodeller ATRX in C. elegans

Dr Helder Ferreira - University of St. Andrews

CHERI Blossom Seminar - Speaker Rachel Winter

CHERI Blossom Seminar - Speaker Rachel Winter – Thursday 23rd May at 12.00 -1.00 pm The May CHERI Blossom Seminar will be delivered by Rachel Winter with the title ‘Clinical empathy within healthcare education’. Rachel is a Stoneygate Associate Professor in Medical Education and Empathic Healthcare and Honorary Consultant in Old Age...

MSc Physician Associate Studies Open Day and Online Info Session

Interested in becoming a Physician Associate (PA)? We are hosting an in person Open Day on 22 May, as well as an Online Info Session on 21 May, where you can find out more about our MSc Physician Associate Studies programme. Register on the links below.

HERU External Seminar - Professor Tim Bolt

Professor Bolt is a health economist at Saitama University in Japan. His current research focuses on the application and development of Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs). Seminar Title - A DCE to support deployment of an STI PoCT device in Sub-Saharan Africa. This presentation will introduce parallel choice experiments undertaken to support an randomised...

Rowett Seminar

Dr Sean Austin, Group Leader, Carbohydrates Group in the Nestle Institute of Food Safety & Analytical Sciences

A career in medical communications

Vikte Lionikaite - Oxford PharmaGenesis

Rowett Seminar

Dr Stefano Gaburro has a strong academic background in preclinical research (mainly neuroscience).

The Granite Men: 1730-1914

The history of the granite industry in Aberdeen from the Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series 2024

ACHDS Seminar: NHS Grampian Director of Public Health update and implications for research

Susan Webb, Director of Public Health in NHS Grampian will give an overview of the most recent Public Health Report for the region and discuss implications for research.      

Bioinformatics Training Course - Visualisation with R and ggplot2

Part of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM) bioinformatics training course series, this course will introduce you to plotting scientific data using R and ggplot2.

Measuring Behavior 2024

The 13th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research.

Cafe Med: Seminar 4: Spinal Muscular Atrophy - A treatable childhood motor neuron disease

10 years ago, Spinal Muscular Atrophy was the second most common inherited cause of infant mortality worldwide, but you may never have heard of it. Severely affected children had a life expectancy of less than 3 years, but now three novel and expensive therapies have emerged, which are providing new...

ECR Seminar Series

Erin Brown - The impact of androgens on macrophage function    Alicia Ware - Profiling NaOCl tolerance in the fungal pathogen Candida auris 

ADR UK Research Excellence Seminar Series: Data-driven research with historically excluded groups

External event

CHERI Blossom Seminar: Differential Attainment in Dental Education'

The next CHERI Blossom Seminar will be delivered by Jane Smith with the title ‘Differential Attainment in Dental Education’. Jane is a Clinical Lecturer in Dental Education. The meeting will be on Teams from 2.30 – 3.30 pm Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer, mobile app or room device Click here to...

Modulation of the IL-33 pathway by helminth secreted proteins

Dr Henry McSorley - University of Dundee

Bioinformatics Training Course - Microbial Community Analysis

Part of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM) bioinformatics training course series, this course will introduce you to methods for using modern sequencing data to study composition of microbial communities in water, soil, gut and other environments.

Inspiring Change - Scottish Public Health Conference

External Event

Cafe Sci - Baby Talk: Quality time improves language skills

What impact do caregivers have on language development of infants?

The relationship between clonal hematopoiesis and unhealthy ageing

Dr Candice Quin - Institute of Medical Sciences

Targeting Myeloid Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) as a Novel Treatment for Diabetic Wound Healing (DWH).

Pre-Viva Talk - Abrar Othman

ACHDS Seminar: Identifying predictors of cognitive performance in an Aberdeen birth cohort.

Dr Holly Spence is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen whose research focuses on the physical biology of neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Holly completed her PhD in Medical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen investigating the role of brain iron in age-related cognitive decline and...

Enhancing biomedical and health-related data and digital platform resources

External event

Insights into the biology of male breast cancer with in silico and immunohistochemical investigations

Pre Viva Talk - Subarnareka (Bonnie) Chatterji

Advanced Computer Science Summit: AI and Healthcare

HDR UK Online Event

Rowett Seminar

Doctor Daniel Martin, Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, will present his talk titled Nutritional considerations for female athletes and exercisers.

NIHR Essential Guide to Grant Applications Masterclass - FREE (online)

NIHR are offering a 3-day free masterclass on how to write a grant application that is strong from a methodological point of view, reads well and presents convincing case for funding.  Through a series of presentations, exercises, Q&A, with accompanying coursework, attendees will learn how to get their ideas across...

'Novel strategies to combat microbial dysbiosis'

Dr Will Johnston - Glasgow Caledonian University

Research Facilities Showcase 2024

The Research Facilities Event is back! Free to attend - all welcome!

SafePod Network and HDR UK Scotland Webinar

HDR UK Event

iPSC models of Tauopathy

Dr Kathryn Bowles - UK Dementia Research Institute - University of Edinburgh

(ACWHR) ACWHR Seminar with Professor Edwin van Teijlingen - Reflections on the medical/social model of childbirth

Join the Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research's (ACWHR) virtual seminar with Professor Edwin van Teijlingen on Wednesday the 17th April on 'reflections on the medical/social model of childbirth'. Professor van Teijlingen is trained as a medical sociologist and has an interest in mixed-methods research, qualitative research and evaluation research. A large share of...

FUTURESCOT: HEALTH & CARE TRANSFORMATION 2024

External Event

Cafe Med - Seminar 3: Cutting back on the fat: The health effects of fat tissue and how bariatric surgery works

Being overweight or obese increases the risk of many health conditions including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancers. We will look at why increasing the amount of fat tissue we have in our bodies can lead to disease. We will also discuss bariatric surgery, which can be a highly...

ECR Seminar Series

Louise Walker - Antifungal mediated cell wall remodelling induces tolerance mechanisms which promote drug recalcitrant infections. Ellen Main - ‘Sweet’ antibodies – potential cancer immunotherapy 

Easter Fèis (Easter Festival)

Looking for something for the kids to do on campus during the Easter Holidays? The Easter Fèis (pronounced Faysh) is the Gaelic word for festival and gives school age children four days of traditional music and arts tuition during the Easter Holidays!

Easter at the Zoology Museum

Looking for somewhere to visit during the holidays? Come along to the Zoology Museum!

Creative Collections Lunchtime Doodle (MARCH)

Join us on Thurs Mar 28 2024 at 12:30 PM at the University of Aberdeen Zoology Museum for a fun and relaxing doodling session.

The Scottish AI Summit

External Event

Start Her Conference

Join us for the Start Her Conference at the University of Aberdeen-an empowering entrepreneurship event designed to inspire women to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.

Rowett Seminar

Dr Frank A.J.L. Scheer is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), a Senior Neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and the Director of the Medical Chronobiology Program (MCP) at BWH, Boston.

Preventing & Managing Breast Cancer with Weight Control

Dr Michelle Harvie - Prevent Breast Cancer Research Unit at Manchester University Hospital

The Energy Landscape of Aberdeen in 2040; The vision and the route? A panel discussion

The climate change debate has moved into a different phase. Its no longer about raising awareness, but rather about deciding how to change.

Supporting a sustainable and healthy diet

Prof Alex Johnstone will discuss how healthcare practitioners can support patients in adopting and maintaining a sustainable and healthy diet with particular reference to those experiencing food insecurity.

AI for Sustainability, Climate, and Agriculture

Join us to discuss the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technologies, including Digital Twins, which have emerged as transformative tools for studying environmental changes across various ecosystems.

CHERI Blossom March Seminar: Linking data for nursing education and workforce research; Ian Atherton

1.00pm on Thursday 21st March - Hybrid (Polwarth Room 1.029) / Teams.

Measure once, cut twice: Regulation of meiotic recombination at different spatial scales

Professor Matthew Neale - University of Sussex

Greener General Practice in North-East Scotland

Dr Deepa Shah will present on several Green initiatives being implemented by GPs as part of the North-East Greener Practice Network such as sustainable inhaler prescribing, de-prescribing and nature prescribing.

NHS Grampian Sustainability and Biodiversity Update

Dr Debjani Sarkar and Rachel will provide an update on Sustainability progress in NHS Grampian with a focus on improvements in biodiversity on the ARI site and its benefits.

ACHDS - Conducting kidney research using nationwide registries: opportunities and challenges.

Speaker: Philip Vestergaard Munch 11.05-11.55 am, 20 March 2024 115 Health Sciences Building, Foresterhill or via TEAMS link below  Philip is an MD and PhD student visiting this month from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Aarhus University in Denmark conducting epidemiologic research on kidney disease in cancer patients. In his presentation, Philip...

ACHDS Seminar: Conducting kidney research using nationwide registries: opportunities and challenges.

Philip is an MD and PhD student visiting this month from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Aarhus University in Denmark conducting epidemiologic research on kidney disease in cancer patients. In his presentation, Philip will give you a sense of both the opportunities and challenges that arise when conducting research...

Bioinformatics Training Course - Alignment and Variant Calling

Part of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM) bioinformatics training course series, this course will introduce you to methods for using modern sequencing data to detect genetic variation.

Life Sciences Summit

The Times and Sunday Times Scotland Life Sciences Summit in partnership with Opportunity North East Limited.

HERU Seminar - Dr John Buckell

Dr Buckell is a senior researcher with a joint appointment at the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) in the University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Population Health and the Biomedical Research Centre in the Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences. His current work focuses on behavioural research in subject areas including...

Green Endoscopy

Dr Sandeep Siddhi will talk about the pillars of sustainable healthcare in relation to Green Endoscopy and Gastroenterology Care.

Defining Sustainability - Why sustainable healthcare goes beyond the environment

Dr Rory Gibson will discuss the intersection of issues relating to environmental sustainability with other major issues facing the health service, and health education.

Chinese Brush Painting Workshop - Lotus

Discover the fascinating art of Chinese brush painting and try your hand at this expressive medium with artist Chi Zhang. These workshops are suitable for beginners or people who have painting experience but have never tried Chinese brush painting techniques before. No prior knowledge is necessary, you should simply be keen to...

Chinese Brush Painting Workshop - Orchids

Discover the fascinating art of Chinese brush painting and try your hand at this expressive medium with artist Chi Zhang. These workshops are suitable for beginners or people who have painting experience but have never tried Chinese brush painting techniques before. No prior knowledge is necessary, you should simply be keen to...

ECR Seminar Series

Logan Tomlinson - How do pathogenic yeast adapt to antifungal agents? Claudia Clemente - Cyanobactin enzymes: synthetic tools for the production of Bioactive Peptides

Scottish Cancer Networks Breast Cancer Education Event

External Event hosted by North Cancer Alliance

Cafe Med - Seminar 2: Data saves lives: how the Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Database has been improving our understanding of pregnancy risks for over 75 years

Sir Dugald Baird had the foresight to start collecting data on all pregnancies in Aberdeen in 1949 - we take a look at how data in the AMND has led to breakthrough research and changed our understanding of pregnancy complications for the last 75 years. Learn how we carry our...

Careers and Employability Service

Rhona Gibson - University of Aberdeen

Connect and Celebrate Inclusion: Breaking Boundaries

Mark your calendars for an inspiring evening of connections, empowerment, and inclusivity as we celebrate International Women's Day 2024!