Science Lecture - Professor Colin Blakemore, 2.00 to 5.00 p.m. at the University of Northampton
Wed, Mar 30th 2011 at 12:00 am - 2:00 am
Professor Colin Blakemore FMedSci HonFRCP Hon FSB FRS
Colin Blakemore is Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford. He studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge, did a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught for 11 years in the medical school at Cambridge. In 1979 he moved to Oxford as Waynflete Professor of Physiology, where he also directed the Oxford Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience. From 2003-2007 he was Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council.His research has been concerned with many aspects of vision, development, plasticity of the brain, and neurodegenerative disease. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences. Colin has been President of the British Science Association, the British Neuroscience Association, the Physiological Society and the Society of Biology, and he is President or Patron of a number of medical charities.
He is also a frequent broadcaster (including the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and a 13-part series on the brain for BBC2); he writes books about science (including The Mind Machine and The Oxford Companion to the Body) and articles for the national press.Here is a report on the event
EXCITEMENT OF SCIENCE 2011
As a club we seem to take it for granted that Rtn. David George will produce excellent speakers, apparently out of thin air.
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