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BioNews maintains comprehensive listings of forthcoming events on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas. These are arranged in chronological order below, and can also be browsed via an alphabetical list of event organisers.

Forthcoming events organised by the charity that publishes BioNews, the Progress Educational Trust (PET), include Marked for Life: Are Genetic Markers Helpful in Understanding Psychological Disorders?.

If you're organising or know of a relevant event, and it isn't included below, then please email details to Webmaster Sandy Starr at and he'll endeavour to add it to our listings.

 

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A Question of Taste: Using Polymerase Chain Reaction to Investigate Human Evolution

20 September 2009 10am-3pm Nowgen Centre, 29 Grafton Street, Manchester M13 9WU, UK

A one-day practical workshop for post-16 students, running from September 2009 to July 2010...[Read More]

Identity: Eight Rooms, Nine Lives

26 November 2009 10am-6pm (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays); 10am-10pm (Thursdays); 11am-6pm (Sundays); 12midday-6pm (public holidays) Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK

An exhibition running from November 2009 to April 2010 as part of the Wellcome Trust's Identity Project...[Read More]

Plasticity of the Brain: The Key to Human Development, Cognition and Evolution

15 March 2010 6.30pm-7.30pm Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, UK

A discussion introduced by Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford...[Read More]

Non-Invasive Prenatal Genetic Testing: A Moral Maze?

16 March 2010 7pm-8.45pm Music Room, Exeter Central Library, Castle Street, Exeter EX4 3PQ, UK

An event addressing non-invasive prenatal diagnosis...[Read More]

Notes from an Amateur: On the History of the Royal Society

17 March 2010 6.30pm-7.30pm Sheldonian Theatre, University of Oxford, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ, UK

A discussion introduced by writer and broadcaster Lord Melvyn Bragg...[Read More]

Poor Ovarian Response

19 March 2010  Sala Italia, Palazzo dei Congressi, Bologna 40100, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

An event addressing poor ovarian response...[Read More]

The Miraculous Disaster of Immortality

19 March 2010 7pm-8.30pm Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS, UK

A discussion introduced by Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford...[Read More]

The Battle for Politics

20 March 2010 9.45am-6pm Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N 2AB, UK

A pre-election public summit incorporating a debate about the merits of evidence-based policy...[Read More]

Approaching Accreditation of a Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis Centre

22 March 2010  Royal Society of Medicine, Chandos House, 2 Queen Anne Street, London W1G 9LQ, UK

An event addressing accreditation of preimplantation genetic diagnosis centres...[Read More]

Basic Practical Skills in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

22 March 2010  Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 27 Sussex Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RG, UK

A course introducing trainee obstetricians and gynaecologists to safe surgical techniques and obstetric clinical skills...[Read More]

Handling Uncertainty in Science

22 March 2010 9am-5pm Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, UK

An event addressing how uncertainty can be best characterised, estimated, predicted and communicated...[Read More]

Leadership and Management in the National Health Service

23 March 2010 8.45am-1pm Princess Alexandra Hall, Overseas House, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR, UK

An event addressing how the UK's National Health Service might become more efficient and cost effective...[Read More]

Debating Matters Regional Final

26 March 2010 9.30am-5.30pm Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK

The East Regional Final of the Debating Matters sixth-form debating competition...[Read More]

Playing God?

26 March 2010 5.45pm Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, University Of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7UG, UK

A public debate addressing new genetic technologies and concerns over 'designer babies'...[Read More]

The Great Ideas of Biology

26 March 2010 8pm-9.15pm Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS, UK

A discussion introduced by the Nobel Laureate Professor Paul Nurse...[Read More]

British Society for Gene Therapy Annual Conference

29 March 2010  Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK

The 7th Annual Conference of the British Society for Gene Therapy...[Read More]

Journeys in the Genetic Jungle

29 March 2010 9.30am-3.30pm Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK

An event addressing gene and cell therapy research and its impact on society...[Read More]

Preparation for Donor Conception Parenthood

12 April 2010 10am-4pm London, UK

A workshop for those contemplating use of egg, sperm or embryo donation or currently having treatment...[Read More]

Debating Matters Regional Final

20 April 2010 9.30am-5.30pm National Theatre Studio, 83-101 The Cut, London SE1 8LL, UK

The London and South Regional Final of the Debating Matters sixth-form debating competition...[Read More]

Controversies in Cryopreservation of Stem Cells, Reproductive Cells, Tissues and Organs

22 April 2010  València, Spain

The 1st International Congress on Controversies in Cryopreservation of Stem Cells, Reproductive Cells, Tissue and Organs...[Read More]

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