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• Wed 29 Nov 17 · Africa’s avian cheats: exploring the deceitful ways of cuckoos, honeyguides and parasitic finches (Burgh House, LONDON)

• Mon 4 Jul 16 · Twilight science (The Royal Society, London)

• Mon 4 Jul 16 · Summer Science Exhibition (The Royal Society, London)

• Fri 1 Jul 16 · The Visual Pathway (Council Room, London)

• Tue 28 Jun 16 · TalkScience@BL - Doping in sport:fair game? (British Library, London)

• Mon 16 May 16 · Is mental health in our genes? (The Royal Society, London)

• Mon 21 Mar 16 · Is hearing believing? (The Royal Society, London)

• Tue 6 Oct 15 · Cancer Research UK: How would you use £20m to beat cancer sooner? (The Durell Arms, London)

• Wed 23 Sep 15 · Coastal Evolution: Physics vs Biology (Peter Chalk centre, Exeter)

• Tue 2 Jun 15 · Mendel's legacy (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 9 Apr 15 · Science on myself (The Royal Society, London)

• Sun 27 Jul 14 · Internet Dating with Darwin (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 12 Jun 14 · Croonian Lecture - How embryos build organs to last a lifetime (The Royal Society, London)

• Fri 29 Nov 13 · Life is what you make it (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Thu 21 Nov 13 · Jean Shanks lecture 2013: Insights into the pathogenesis of cancer from cancer genome sequencing (Prince Philip House, London)

• Fri 25 Oct 13 · Seeing things in a different light: How X-ray crystallography revealed the structure of everything (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Mon 1 Jul 13 · Twilight science (The Royal Society, London)

• Fri 25 Jan 13 · Quantum life: how physics can revolutionise biology (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Thu 13 Dec 12 · Extinction (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Tue 13 Nov 12 · 21st Century Challenges : Unsustainable fishing (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)

• Thu 4 Oct 12 · Design for life (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Tue 10 Jul 12 · Human livelihoods depend on wild flowers: Kew's Millennium Seed Bank explained (Gresham College, London)

• Fri 6 Jul 12 · Following the fingerprints (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 17 May 12 · Climate Change and Forests (Royal Geographical Society, London)

• Thu 30 Jun 11 · Defeating aging with regenerative medicine (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Tue 21 Jun 11 · ZSL Stamford Raffles Lecture 2011 (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Tue 14 Jun 11 · ZSL Wildlife Conservation series: Biodiversity in a corporate landscape: what can we afford to destr (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Fri 3 Jun 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, London)

• Tue 31 May 11 · Molecular chaperones: how cells stop proteins from misbehaving (The Royal Society, London)

• Fri 20 May 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, London)

• Fri 13 May 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, London)

• Tue 10 May 11 · ZSL Communicating Science series: Biodiversity Big Brother (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Fri 6 May 11 · Sustainable palm oil: reality, aspiration or fantasy? Mapping a way forward - symposium (day 2) (The Zoological Society of London, London)

• Thu 5 May 11 · Sustainable palm oil: reality, aspiration or fantasy? Mapping a way forward - symposium (day 1) (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Tue 12 Apr 11 · ZSL – Wildlife forensics: tools from medicine and crime scene investigation to help save wildlife (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Tue 8 Mar 11 · ZSL Communicating Science series: Climate change in Africa: more than melting icebergs… (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Tue 8 Feb 11 · ZSL Communicating Science series: Understanding cooperative behaviour in humans and other animals (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Fri 4 Feb 11 · Marine Protected Areas on the high seas - symposium (day 2) (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Thu 3 Feb 11 · Marine Protected Areas on the high seas - symposium (day 1) (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Tue 11 Jan 11 · ZSL Wildlife Conservation series: Life on the EDGE: putting forgotten species on the map (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Sun 9 Jan 11 · Alfred Russel Wallace: conservation or sustainable development? (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 14 Dec 10 · ZSL Wildlife Conservation series: Investing in natural capital and green infrastructure (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Fri 26 Nov 10 · Treatment of asthma through the ages (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Fri 19 Nov 10 · Joint ZSL and Royal Society symposium: Disease invasion: impacts on biodiversity and human health (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Thu 18 Nov 10 · Joint ZSL and Royal Society symposium: Disease invasion: impacts on biodiversity and human health (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Wed 17 Nov 10 · Blood, sugar and tears (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Tue 9 Nov 10 · ZSL Communicating Science series: DEBATE-A science-led badger control programme to reduce cattle TB? (The Zoological Society of London, London)

• Fri 29 Oct 10 · Rhythms of the body (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Fri 29 Oct 10 · Biodiversity: The Next Step (Nature Live, London)

• Thu 28 Oct 10 · Ethics and the Dark Side of Science: Conway Memorial Lecture 2010 (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 13 Oct 10 · Plastic pollution in the oceans (21st Century Challenges, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)

• Tue 12 Oct 10 · ZSL Wildlife Conservation series: A changing world: tracking the fate of declining vertebrates (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Wed 29 Sep 10 · The complete human body (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Wed 14 Jul 10 · One Island -Two Stories, Haiti and the Dominican Republic (Apothecary, london)

• Tue 13 Jul 10 · ZSL Communicating Science: ‘Re-wilding Europe’ and the return of predators (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Tue 15 Jun 10 · ZSL Stamford Raffles Lecture 2010 (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Tue 8 Jun 10 · ZSL Wildlife Conservation series: Conservation, values and religion (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Tue 11 May 10 · ZSL Communicating Science - Success and failure in conserving species of extreme rarity: lessons to (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Thu 29 Apr 10 · Symposium: Linking biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction (day 2) (The Zoological Society of London, London)

• Wed 28 Apr 10 · Symposium: Linking biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction (day 1) (The Zoological Society of London, London)

• Tue 13 Apr 10 · ZSL Communicating Science - Conservation with shifting goalposts: polar conservation and climate cha (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Fri 26 Mar 10 · The Great ideas of biology (The Royal Institution, London)

• Tue 9 Mar 10 · ZSL Communicating Science - The human animal: biological basis of mate choice (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Tue 9 Feb 10 · ZSL - Making good decisions: how humans and other animals deal with an uncertain world (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Thu 10 Dec 09 · Movers & Shapers: Japan - UK Relations Seminar Series VIII - Minakata Kumagusu by Prof Ryug (The Japan Foundation, London)

• Mon 7 Dec 09 · ZSL Communicating Science series: The secret world of 'naked snakes' (The Meeting Rooms, London Zoo, London)

• Thu 26 Nov 09 · Creating the Organisms that Evolution Forgot: an 'any questions?' debate on synthetic biology (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Thu 26 Nov 09 · The World I Want (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)

• Fri 16 Oct 09 · Impacts of environmental change on reproduction and development in wildlife (day 2) (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Thu 15 Oct 09 · Impacts of environmental change on reproduction and development in wildlife (day 1) (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 13 Oct 09 · ZSL Wildlife Conservation series: Conservation and the world in 2050 (The Zoological Society of London, London)

• Fri 19 Jun 09 · Biodiversity monitoring and conservation - a 2-day ZSL and WCS joint symposium (day 2) (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Thu 18 Jun 09 · Biodiversity monitoring and conservation - a 2-day ZSL and WCS joint symposium (day 1) (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 16 Jun 09 · ZSL Stamford Raffles Lecture - Prof. John Beddington - Biodiversity & ecosystems in a changing world (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Thu 14 May 09 · Flu and you (The Royal Institution, London)

• Thu 30 Apr 09 · The First Song - The Evolution of Music (Friends of Imperial College, London)

• Mon 27 Apr 09 · Climate Change and Extinction (The Royal Society, London)

• Mon 19 Jan 09 · The Evolution of Society (The Royal Society, London)

• Wed 12 Nov 08 · Talking to bacteria: experimental art & science project + the importance of Unnecessary Research (Vincent Building, Cranfield University, Cranfield)

• Thu 9 Oct 08 · How to win the Nobel prize (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Tue 7 Oct 08 · What on earth happened? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Thu 25 Sep 08 · Fighting Parkinson's (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Tue 23 Sep 08 · Sowing the seed (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Thu 11 Sep 08 · The English Surgeon (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Tue 13 May 08 · The Frozen Ark Project (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Fri 9 May 08 · Avian Reintroduction Biology: current issues for science and management (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Thu 8 May 08 · Avian Reintroduction Biology: current issues for science and management (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 8 Apr 08 · Biodiversity and Oil Palm: integrating science and policy - a ZSL Discussion Meeting (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 11 Mar 08 · Shark Biology and Conservation (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 12 Feb 08 · Seahorses and Pipefish in the North Sea (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Thu 31 Jan 08 · Tarzan, The Ape Man on the Big Screen (Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL, London)

• Sat 17 Nov 07 · Dog behaviour day with Peter Neville (Woking College, Woking)

• Fri 16 Nov 07 · “British Wildlife and Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation Measures on Specific Sites (at a Birkbeck lecture theatre/University of London, London)

• Wed 14 Nov 07 · Rediscovering Darwin: The real story of Darwin's finches (Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL, London)

• Tue 13 Nov 07 · Saving Gorillas: understanding threats to and finding solutions for their conservation (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Fri 9 Nov 07 · “British Wildlife and Climate Change: Adaptation Actions for High Biodiversity” (at a Birkbeck lecture theatre/University of London, London)

• Fri 2 Nov 07 · Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save - a 2-day symposium (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Fri 2 Nov 07 · “British Wildlife and Climate Change: Can Birds Fly from Climate Change?” (at a Birkbeck lecture theatre/University of London, London)

• Thu 1 Nov 07 · Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save - a 2-day symposium (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Fri 26 Oct 07 · “British Wildlife and Climate Change: the British Flora - effects of changes to habitat and climate (at a Birkbeck lecture theatre/University of London, London)

• Fri 19 Oct 07 · “British Wildlife and Climate Change: Species' Ranges - who will be winners or losers?” (at a Birkbeck lecture theatre/University of London, London)

• Tue 9 Oct 07 · From Despotism to Democracy: leadership and coordination in animal groups - ZSL Scientific Meeting (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Fri 14 Sep 07 · Scientific Solutions and Challenges to Tiger Conservation - a ZSL Special Scientific Evening (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Sat 25 Aug 07 · Rabbit behaviour day with Emma Magnus (Woking College, Woking)

• Mon 9 Jul 07 · Gabrielle Walker: An Ocean of Air - A ZSL/RIGB Special Scientific Evening (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 19 Jun 07 · The Stamford Raffles Lecture - Steve Jones "Is man just another animal?" (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 12 Jun 07 · Global Amphibian Declines (The Zoological Society of London, London)

• Wed 6 Jun 07 · What's the greatest innovation (Franklin-Wilkins Building, KCL, London)

• Fri 25 May 07 · Zoo Experiences & the Human Dimensions of Saving Wildlife - a 2-day ZSL & WCS joint symposium (Day 2 (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Thu 24 May 07 · Zoo Experiences & the Human Dimensions of Saving Wildlife - a 2-day ZSL & WCS joint symposium (Day 1 (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Wed 23 May 07 · Something to Celebrate......the Centenary Birthday Party of Rachel Carson (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)

• Tue 8 May 07 · A Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Birth of Carl Linnaeus (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Thu 29 Mar 07 · A Wetland Restored: the RSPB Otmoor Reserve (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)

• Tue 13 Mar 07 · Saving Species on the Edge: from Theory to Practice (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 13 Feb 07 · Evolution in the Marine Environment (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 16 Jan 07 · Placebos and the Power of Belief - Professor Irving Kirsch (Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit (APRU), London)

• Tue 9 Jan 07 · Discussion Meeting - Wildlife Wood: Timber and Bushmeat (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 5 Dec 06 · Lust: Carnal Knowledge (Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne)

• Mon 27 Nov 06 · Envy: Changing Faces – the rise of plastic surgery (Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne)

• Mon 20 Nov 06 · Therapeutic Applications of Human Stem Cells - Prospects and Challenges (Institute of Human Genetics and Health, UCL, London)

• Tue 14 Nov 06 · Deep-sea biology (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Sat 11 Nov 06 · Cat behaviour morning (New Haw Community Centre, Addlestone)

• Thu 9 Nov 06 · The Bumblebee's Garden Party (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)

• Tue 24 Oct 06 · Francis Crick's Place in History (Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne)

• Thu 12 Oct 06 · Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Science and Practice (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Tue 10 Oct 06 · Tropical deforestation: patterns, causes and consequences (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Thu 29 Jun 06 · New therapeutic perspectives for brain injury and disease (The Royal Society of Medicine, London)

• Tue 13 Jun 06 · Historical Extinctions: Lessons for the Future? (London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Thu 11 May 06 · Behind the scenes of drug discovery (Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Kew)

• Tue 9 May 06 · Captive Breeding and Reintroduction of Native Species (The Meeting Rooms, London)

• Thu 2 Feb 06 · Generation Scotland: genomic science supporting health (Symposium Hall, Edinburgh)

• Tue 22 Nov 05 · Mark Cousins - "The Space of Exception" (Birkbeck Philosophy Society, London)

• Wed 2 Nov 05 · White Rose Bioscience Forum Day 2 (Central Science Laboratory, York)

• Tue 1 Nov 05 · White Rose Bioscience Forum Day 1 (Central Science Laboratory, York)

• Thu 1 Sep 05 · Angels and Demons: The science behind the bestseller (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)

• Fri 8 Jul 05 · Picture this... (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Thu 23 Jun 05 · Are dietary antioxidants beneficial? (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)

• Tue 10 May 05 · Adventures in vascular biology (The Royal Society, London)

• Wed 6 Apr 05 · Streptomyces inside out: A new perspective on the bacteria that provide us with antibiotics (The Royal Society, London)

• Tue 5 Apr 05 · Iconoclastic art, iconophilic science? (Sussex Arts Club, Brighton)

• Wed 8 Dec 04 · Plague (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Mon 6 Dec 04 · Locusts (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Mon 15 Nov 04 · 95% Chimp - The genes that make us human (The Natural History Museum, London)

• Mon 15 Nov 04 · Finding the right balance: from rare gases to ribosomes (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 21 Oct 04 · Living with pain (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Wed 29 Sep 04 · BBC British Isles: Dragonflies (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Tue 28 Sep 04 · BBC British Isles: The Roots of Britain (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Sat 25 Sep 04 · BBC British Isles: Elm Map (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Fri 24 Sep 04 · The Hair Cycle (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Sat 18 Sep 04 · Living in Dung (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Sat 18 Sep 04 · Living in Dung (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Fri 10 Sep 04 · In the Headlines (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Wed 8 Sep 04 · Richard Owen's Contribution to Evolutionary Theory (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Mon 30 Aug 04 · Nature in Art: Fabulous Beasts (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Thu 19 Aug 04 · Nature’s Olympics: Why Fishes Swim Fast (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Sat 14 Aug 04 · Death’s-Head Hawkmoth (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Tue 20 Jul 04 · Beyond extinction rates: monitoring wild nature for the 2010 target (discussion meeting) (The Royal Society, London)

• Mon 19 Jul 04 · Beyond extinction rates: monitoring wild nature for the 2010 target (discussion meeting) (The Royal Society, London)

• Tue 1 Jun 04 · Hair Research: The Cutting Edge (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Tue 1 Jun 04 · Hair Research: The Cutting Edge (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Mon 31 May 04 · Under Pressure: the Warped World of Deep-Sea Fish (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Mon 31 May 04 · Under Pressure: the Warped World of Deep-Sea Fish (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Sun 30 May 04 · Sharks - Teeth and Diet (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Sun 30 May 04 · Sharks - Teeth and Diet (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Fri 28 May 04 · Turtle Power (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Thu 27 May 04 · In the Headlines (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Wed 26 May 04 · RSA/RSM Lecture: Robotic surgery - from R&D to spin-off company (RSA, London)

• Sun 9 May 04 · Ornithology of the Orkney Islands (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Sat 8 May 04 · International Low Tide Day (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Thu 6 May 04 · In the Headlines (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Fri 30 Apr 04 · Desert Island Specimens (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)

• Thu 1 Apr 04 · We are all mutants (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Wed 31 Mar 04 · Transparent Transplantation (Dana Centre, London)

• Fri 27 Feb 04 · Stress, Health and Happiness (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

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