Volunteers needed for Cafe Scientifique!

The next Cafe Scientifique evening is on Thrsday the 3rd of Feb. Volunteers are needed to talk for 10 minutes about their research or anything else that might be of interest to the audience. Please respond to Jo Cordy(j.m.cordy@qmul.ac.uk) if you are willing to participate.

Beer & curry night invitation - from Joy Hinson

Hi all,

Happy New Year!

All PhD students, supervisors and postdocs are invited to a Beer and Curry Night, to be held on Thursday 20th January from 5.30pm in the Old Library, Garrod Building, Whitechapel.
Tayyabs are doing the catering!

See you there.

Sign the Petition!!

Destructive levels of cuts have been proposed to science funding in the UK. We therefore need to call on the Governement to recognize that science is vital and to lay out a supportive stratgey for UK science and engineering, maintaining a level of investment atleast in line with economic growth. Please sign the petition by going to the following link:
http://scienceisvital.org.uk/

CAREERS EVENT - All PhD Students and Postdocs

London Biotechnology Network is running a Careers Afternoon on 4th March at QM Innovations Centre, WhiteChapel Campus. It is called 'Careers in Life Sciences: Bench and Business'. For more details have a look at my current blog posting here http://qmresearcher.wordpress.com/

As always, a list of all career-related events can be found on the 'Events and Courses' section of my blog. Best Wishes. Tracy

Dr Tracy Bussoli
Careers Adviser for Researchers
www.careers.qmul.ac.uk

9 month report - course

If you registered for your research degree (MPhil/PhD/MDREs) last
Autumn then you need to start thinking about preparing your 9 month
probationary report, which includes a critical evaluation of a method.

Joy Hinson (Dean for Postgraduate Studies) and Julian Ingles
(Langauage and Learning Unit) will be jointly running a workshop on
24th February from 2 to 5pm to help you to prepare for this report.

For more information and sign up for this workshop please contact
Tom Lister (t.w.lister@qmul.ac.uk).

Research Degree Administration (MDRes/MPhil/PhD)

3:30pm, Monday 23rd November, Lower ground floor lecture theatre(Clark-Kennedy) Innovation Centre.

Do you know the importance of transferable skills training?
Do you know the difference between registration and enrolment?
Do you really know what write-up status means for you?
Do you know our admin processes for research degrees?

Paul Allen will explain the research degree administration required in the Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science! Includes an address from Prof Mike Curtis, Institute Director. Supervisors welcome.

Research Techniques in Biomedical and Life Sciences Course

This course, organised by the Graduate Schools of SMD and the School for Biological and Chemical Sciences, starts again next week.

The subject is DNA Sequencing and Sequence Analysis and will cover DNA sequencing, genomic sequence analysis and methods in population genetics.

The speakers will be Tom Vulliamy (BICMS) and Richard Nichols (SBCS).

The course is aimed at research students and postdocs but is open to anybody else interested in these techniques.

Date: Wed 11th November
Time: 2:00-5:00pm
Location: GO2 Lecture Theatre, Rotblat Building. Charterhouse Square Campus (nearest tube station, Barbican)