Public engagement with science (Toxinology), Sunday 27th Sept 2015, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 0900-1200h
Entry is free! No booking needed!
Interested 6th form pupils are warmly invited to a morning of talks and a debate on the subject of animal venoms
and toxins. This is relevant to numerous aspects of the new Biology A level, combining investigation of potential
clinical benefits of toxins to develop new medicines, and the driving forces behind the evolutionary development
of these lethal, naturally derived molecules. Please visit http://lpmhealthcare.com/ist2015/public-engagement/
for more details
Programme
0900h: Opening by the Lord Mayor of Oxford Rae Humberstone
0910-1000h: "Snakes and primates: a deadly 80 million-year-long dialogue" by world-famous snake zoologist
Harry Greene (Cornell)
1000-1100h: “Venoms: deadly, but fascinating and potentially life-saving!” Discussion Chaired by Prof Jeremy
Farrar OBE FRS Director of the Wellcome Trust
“What on earth is toxinology?” Prof Dr Dietrich Mebs, Frankfurt.
“Deadly and damaging venoms” Prof David Warrell, Oxford
“Toxins as drugs” Prof Alan Harvey, Dublin
“The evolutionary magic of frog skin toxins” Prof Chris Shaw, Belfast
1100-1230h: Oxford-style debate How and why did snakes get their venoms?
Chaired by Prof David MacDonald CBE Professor of Wildlife Conservation and Director of the Wildlife
Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford (friend of the late “Cecil” the lion in
Zimbabwe)
Proposing the motion “This House believes that venom originated only once in the course of reptilian
evolution”: Bryan Grieg Fry (Australia), Kartik Sunagar (Jerusalem), Timothy N. Jackson (Australia): Opposing the
motion: John Mulley (Bangor, UK), Adam Hargreaves (Bangor, UK), Scott A. Weinstein (Brooklyn, US/Adelaide,
Australia)
Contributions from the audience will be both encouraged and welcomed.
Post-meeting essay prize: "What is interesting about venoms, toxins and poisons?"
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