Programme for CaféSci, Launceston 2019

Feb 19
Visit to Plymouth University Immersive Theatre (Planetarium)
All places taken - Cost £5 payable on the night.
Waiting list available to those who want to be considered for another visit later in the year.

Mar 12
Prof Iain Stewart (Plymouth University, Earth Sciences)
“Faulty Communications: Living with Istanbul's Earthquake Threat”

Apr 16
Dr John Gould (National Oceanography Centre)
“Taking the oceans’ temperature (and salinity) – 60 years of evolution and revolution”

May 21
Prof John Stein (University of Oxford, Physiology)
“Wobbles, Warbles & Fish – From Movement Disorders to Dyslexia”

June 18
Prof Will Gaze (University of Exeter Medical School, European Centre for Environment & Human Health, Penryn Campus, Falmouth, Cornwall)
“The environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance”

July 16
Launceston’s Young Scientists:
Presentations of their projects by the Aspire Programme Students, as they compete for the Café Scientifique Prizes

Sep 17
Professor Andrew Bunker (University of Oxford, Physics)
“Finding the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe”

Oct 15
Professor Tamara Galloway (University of Exeter, Biological Science) Tamara was prevented from giving her talk by illness last year
“A Sea of Plastic”

Nov 19
Dr Colin M. Lazarus (School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol)
“Nature's silent pharmacy: the search for novel bioactive substances in nature”