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Biology in the Real World

The Nucleus Group, a group of learned societies and similar not for profit organisations which include BBSRC, host a series of talks each year at the Association for Science Education (ASE) conference on 'Biology in the Real World' (BitRW). This session has run for over 8 years and is now an established part of the ASE conference programme.

2013

In 2013 the Nucleus Group hosted a series of Biology in the Real World talks on the theme Brilliant Breakthroughs. Mediasite recordings of the presentations are available below.

We sponsored the talk by the 2012 BBSRC Social Innovator of the Year Professor Russell Foster on Light, body clocks and sleep. In conjunction with the talks we ran practical workshops for teachers showcasing a new resource on the topics of vision and the eye at the 'Biology in the Real World' practical drop in (see downloads).

Presentations

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• Brewing-up the technologies of tomorrow with synthetic biology (external link)
           Tom Ellis, Imperial College, London. Duration: 37mins
• Light, body clocks and sleep (external link)
           Russell Foster, Nuffield Laboratory of Opthalmology. Duration: 43mins
• Out with the old, in with the new? A vaccine for tuberculosis (external link)
           Helen McShane, University of Oxford. Duration: 39mins
• Transforming photosynthesis: frontier biology for a changing world (external link)
           Colin Osborne, University of Sheffield. Duration: 38mins
• The largest genome of them all? (external link)
           Mike Fay, Ilia Leitch, Jaume Pellicer, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Duration: 41mins
• Astrobiology - the hunt for alien life (external link)
           Lewis Dartnell, UCL. Duration: 39mins
• Super stable isotopes (external link)
           Andrew Robertson. Duration: 34mins

2012

In 2012, in recognition of the Olympics taking place in the UK, the Nucleus Group hosted a series of talks entitled 'Biology in the Real World: A Sporting Chance'.

We sponsored the talk by Professor Graham Kemp on The systems physiology of exercise and introduced teachers to a new approach to teaching physiology through a heart surgery simulation at the 'Biology in the Real World' practical workshops.

Presentations

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• Drugs in sport (external link)
           David Mottram. Duration: 43mins
• The systems physiology of exercise (external link)
           Graham Kemp. Duration: 44mins
• Fighting fit: how exercise affects your immunity and susceptibility to infection (external link)
           Michael Gleeson. Duration: 46mins
• The race to reproduce (external link)
           Rob Thomas. Duration: 38mins

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The Nucleus Group is an informal group comprised of scientific educational representatives from research councils, The Wellcome Trust, learned societies and similar not for profit organizations such as Kew, Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries and National Centre for Biotechnology Education etc.

The ASE Annual Conference (see external links), the leading science education CPD event of the year, is open to everyone with an interest in science education - ASE members and non-members. It attracts over 3,000 science educators from all phases of science education who can choose from over 400 talks, workshops, seminars and booked courses over four inspiring days.

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