Name: The programming of life
Start: 2018-05-14T
End: 2018-05-14T
Location: V-Bar

Understanding the the way we live, learn, age and progress: Do we transition from left-brain thinking as children to right-brained adults? How do your daily pet peeves and life stresses affect your future and well-being in your old age? How will computer aided design (CAD) methods progress the future - from building tables to whole genome engineering.....

Neuro-myth or neuro-hit? The science of learning in the classroom

Victoria Knowland (Research Associate)

Children’s brains are incredible magic sponges. That’s true. However, there a lot of claims out there about how children learn and what helps them in the classroom which are largely nonsense, from left-brain thinking to 'smart drugs' (nootropics). In this talk we will explore educational neuro-myths and decide for ourselves what the evidence actually supports.

Life stress and ageing

Nick Cooper (Lecturer)

Nick is a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Academic Director of the Centre for Brain Science. His talk will be about how, over the course of a lifetime, cumulative stress can affect our cognitive abilities and our brains. It will also touch on the problems of measuring stress in different age groups and finish off with what we might be able to do to fight back against the negative effects of the stress we experience in our lives.

Writing the code of life: a journey from computer programming to genome engineering

Giovanni Stracquadanio (Lecturer)

Giovanni is a Lecturer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Essex and the Head of the Computational Intelligence Lab for Biology and Medicine (CIBM). His research work focuses on computational methods to analyse big biological data and design synthetic biological systems. His talk will be based around his current work on multi-omics Bayesian inference to identify genetic mutations increasing the risk of cancer, and computer aided design (CAD) methods for whole genome engineering.

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