Departmental Seminar Grants
Background
The Society runs a scheme to provide financial help to fund visiting speakers for seminars.
Eligibility
Submissions for funding are eligible from Anatomical Sciences and related University Departments or Schools within the UK and Ireland.
Applications are welcome for the academic session 2024/25 the deadline for receipt of applications is shown below and applications will be considered by the Society's Prizes and Awards Committee and Council which meets six times a year.
At least one member of the applicant team should be a fully paid up member of the Anatomical society and in god standing for at least one year by the application deadline date.
A University(or University Department) may make more than one application in a financial year (1st October to 30th September) but needs to be from a different lead applicant.
Those who successfully applied the year before cannot apply again the following year (i.e. a gap of one financial year (1st October to 30th September must elapse before the Applicant is eligible to apply again.
Awards wlll not be made for retrospective events. Awards will not be made retrospectively from the date they are considered by Prizes and Awards Committee and Council.
Deadline
Funding deadline information here
Awarded
Normally, six grants of up to £300 are made each year.
Queries
For further information please contact the Executive Administrator at: headoffice@anatsoc.org.uk.
To apply
Application Form and Notes (APPLICATION FORM AND NOTES)
or contact the Executive Administrator at: headoffice@anatsoc.org.uk.
Round 5
Round 4
Round 3
Round 2
None.
Round 1
Award Holder: Dr Claire Conway
Hosted by: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)
Location: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)
Date: 25th April 2025
Key Speaker: Dr Saranna Fanning, Harvard Medical School
Topic: A New Paradigm for Parkinson's Disease Therapeutic Targets and Strategies: Approaching Synucleinopathies as Lipidopathies
Award Holder: Dr Philip Cox
Hosted by: University College London (UCL)
Location: University College London (UCL)
Date: 20th February 2025
Key Speaker: Dr Brandon Kilbourne, Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin who will be talking about anatomy, evolution and locomotion
Topic: One Day Symposium of Talks in the Field of Functional Morphology
None.
Round 5
None.
Round 4
None.
Round 3
Award Holder: Dr Karpagam Krishnamoorthy
Hosted by: University of Swansea
Location: University of Swansea
Date: 27.06.24 to 30.06.24
Event Title: 15th International Symposium of Clinical and Applied Anatomy (ISCAA) 2024
Thematic Title: 'Anatomy Waves' - a broad title to encourage participants across the globe to present any recent ebbs and flows in anatomical sciences
Key Speaker: Dr Hector Vilca-Melendez, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK (Cancelled)
Key Speaker Talk Title: Relevant Anatomy for Organ Procurement - Liver, intestinal and multivisceral transplantation (Cancelled)
Round 2
Award Holder: Dr Jennifer Paxton
Hosted by: University of Edinburgh
Location: University of Edinburgh
Date: 22.04.24
Key Speaker: Dr Shane Browne, RCSI
Topic: Semisynthetic Extracellular Matrix-Inspired Systems for Therapeutic Delivery and Tissue Repair
REPORT
Round 1
Award Holder: Associate Professor Marcela Bezdickova
Hosted by: University of Swansea
Location: Glyndwr Lecture Room, University of Swansea, Singleton Campus, SA2 8PP
Date: March 2024 (Exact date and time TBA)
Key Speaker: Professor Scott Border, University of Glasgow
Topic: Metacognitive awareness in anatomy education
Award Holder: Dr Andrew O'Malley, University of St Andrews
Hosted by: University of St Andrews School of Medicine (Seminar Room 1 - MBS 103)
Location: University of St Andrews
Date: Tuesday 30th April 2024, 10-11.30am
Key Speaker: Dr Tomasz Cecot, The University of Hong Kong
Topic: Virtual Reality in Anatomical Sciences: Transforming the Way We Teach and Learn
Registration: Please register here (for no cost)
Please direct any queries regarding this seminar to Dr Andrew O’Malley at aso2@st-andrews.ac.uk.
REPORT
None
Round 5
Award Holder: Dr Iain Keenan, Newcastle University
Hosted by: Newcastle University
Location: Faculty of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine at Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Date:16th October 2023
Key Speaker: Mr Leonard Shapiro, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Topic: Art based Anatomy Education Workshops and Seminar
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Round 4
Award Holder: Dr Zubeyde Bayram-Weston, Swansea University
Hosted by: Swansea University
Location: Glyndwr D, Swansea University, Singleton Campus, Swansea (in-person but will also be available via zoom you can request a zoom link)
Date: 14th September 2023
Key Speaker: Professor Philippa Francis -West, King's College London
Topic: Making and Shaping Bones
Flyer (English)
Flyer (Welsh)
REPORT
Round 3
None.
Round 2
None.
Round 1
Award Holder: Professor Fabio Quondamatteo, RCSI, Dublin
Hosted by: RCSI Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG), RCSI Dublin
Location: RCSI, Dublin
Date: 23rd August 2023
Key Speaker:Dr Jennifer Paxton
Topic:Tissue Engineering approaches to stimulate tendon repair focusing on entheses
REPORT
None.
Round 5
None.
Round 4
None.
Round 3
None.
Round 2
None.
Round 1
None.
Round 6
None due to the Covid -19 pandemic.
Round 5
None due to the Covid -19 pandemic.
Round 4
None due to the Covid -19 pandemic.
Round 3
None due to the Covid -19 pandemic.
Round 2
None due to the Covid -19 pandemic.
Round 1
None due to the Covid -19 pandemic.
None. Due to events being cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19.
ROUND 5
None. Due to events being cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19.
ROUND 4
None. Due to events being cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19.
ROUND 3
None. Due to events being cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19.
ROUND 2
None.
ROUND 1
None
Round 6
Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid, Queen's University, Belfast
Dr Caroline Curtin, RCSI, Dublin, Ireland
Dr Kerry Thompson, NUI Galway, Ireland
Prior to Round 6
Dr Sourav Bhattacharjee, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr Scott Border, University of Southampton
Dr Eva Sweeney, Queens University, Belfast
B. Details of the seminars/symposia: further details will be announced as they come in:
Round 6
Award Holder: Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid, Queen's University, Belfast
Hosted by: Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid, Queen's University, Belfast
Location: Queen's University, Belfast
Date: 29th November 2019
Key Speaker: Professor Gabrielle Finn, Director of the Health Professions Education Unit, Hull York Medical School
Topic: Moving away from norm driven implementation
Award Holder: Dr Caroline Curtin, RCSI, Dublin, Ireland
Hosted by: Dr Caroline Cutin, RCSI, Dublin, Ireland
Location: Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge/RCSI Dublin, Ireland
Date: 21st November 2019 *To be rescheduled*
Key Speaker: Professor Christine L Le Maitre, Professor of Cell Biology and Tissue Regeneration, Sheffield Hallam University
Topic: Regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues using smart biomaterials
Award Holder: Dr Kerry Thompson, NUI Galway, Ireland
Hosted by: Dr Kerry Thompson, NUI Galway, Ireland
Location: Anatomy, Human Biology Building, School of Medicine, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
Date: Week commencing 11th November 2019 (TBA)
Key Speaker: Dr Emmanuel Reynaud, School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science, University College, Dublin, Ireland
Topic: Applications and advances in light sheet microscopy
REPORT
Prior to Round 6
Award Holder: Dr Sourav Bhattacharjee, University College Dublin, Ireland
Hosted by: Dr Sourav Bhattacharjee
Location: School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland
Date: 7th December 2018
Key Speaker: Professor D. Ceri Davies, Imperial College, London
Topic: Anatomy within the current medical curriculum: Challenges & Opportunities
Report
Award Holder: Dr Scott Border, University of Southampton
Hosted by: Dr Scott Border and Dr Stuart Morton
Location: University Hospital Southampton: Centre for Learning Anatomical Sciences
Date: 29th March 2019
Key Speaker: Professor D. Ceri Davies, Imperial College, London
Topic: Anatomy Assessment Seminar
Report (to follow)
Award Holder: Dr Eva Sweeney, Queens University, Belfast
Hosted by: Dr Eva Sweeney and Ms Alexandra Mahwinney
Location: Medical Biology Building, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL
Date: 1st March 2019
Key Speaker: Professor James Pickering, Queen's University, Belfast
Topic: Evidence - Informed Practice as a tool for Educational Interventions
Report
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Award Holder: Dr Eva Sweeney, Queens University, Belfast
Hosted by: Dr Eva Sweeney, Dr Declan McLaughlin
Location: 310/0G Medical Biology Building, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL
Date: 10am 4th November 2019
Key Speaker: Dr Kerry Thompson, NUI Galway, Ireland
Topic: Advanced Microscopy Techniques
Professor Raj Ettarh, University of California, USA
Dr Steve Jacques, University of Leicester
Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid, Queen's University Belfast
Dr Gerard O'Keeffe, University College, Cork, Ireland
Professor Richard Tunstall, University of Warwick
Dr Joanne Wallace, University of Aberystwyth, Wales
Dr Gavin Clowry, University of Newcastle - deferred from 2016/17 Seminar Series (see below).
B. Details of the seminars/symposia: further details will be announced as they come in:
Award Holder: Dr Gavin Clowry
Hosted by: Dr Gavin Clowry and Dr Iain Keenan, University of Newcastle
Location: Anatomy and Clinical Skills, School of Medical Education, Framlington Place, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
Date: Thursday, 19th July 2018, 9.30am to 5.00pm
Key Speaker: Professor Wojciech Pawlina, Professor of Anatomy and Medical Education College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, USA
Topic: Technology enhanced learning in anatomy
Flyer
Event Booking Form: https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=2100432
Report
Award Holder: Professor Raj Ettarh
Hosted by: Professor Raj Ettarh, California University of Science and Medicine, USA
Location: Dean's Conference Room
Date: 2nd May 2018, 2.00pm
Key Speaker: Professor Mo Entezampour, Professor and Chair, Human Gross Anatomy and Embryology, University of California Riverside, School of Medicine
Topic: Challenge of setting up new teaching and learning facilities in anatomy for a medical school curriculum
Flyer
Report
Award Holder: Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid
Hosted by: Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid, Queen's University Belfast
Location: Event to be held in School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Seminar Rooms 1&2 Ist Floor, Whitla Medical Building, Queen's University, Belfast
Date: 14th March 2018, 1.00pm to 2.00pm
Key Speaker: Professor Estomih Mtui, Director, Program in Anatomy & Body Visualization, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
Topic: Functional Neuroanatomy Resource innovation for Ipads
Flyer
Report
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Award Holder: Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid
Hosted by: Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid, Queen's University Belfast
Location: Event to be held in the Basement Seminar Room, Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB), School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Biomedical Sciences Education, Newcastle University
Date: 20th March 2018, 1.00pm to 2.00pm
Key Speaker: Dr Debra Patten, Director of Anatomy and Clinical Skills, School of Medical Education, Newcastle
Topic: Ultrasound in the undergraduate medical curriculum in the UK: where are we at and where are we going next?
Flyer
Report
Award Holder: Dr Gerard O'Keeffe
Hosted by: Dr Gerard O'Keeffe. Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, UCC, Cork, Ireland
Date: 22nd October 2018
Key Speaker: Professor Michele Morari, University of Ferrara, Italy
Topic: Making connections: the development of the midbrain dopaminergic system and its relevance to development and disease
Report
A. Departmental Seminar Grants Award Recipients 2016/17 have been made to:
Dr Gavin Clowry, Newcastle University (seminar postponed to 2018)
Dr John Delieu, Bangor University (awarded postponed)
Dr Barbara Jennings, University of East Anglia
Dr Nichloas Mahony, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Dr Imelda McGonnell, Royal Veterinary College, London
Professor Fabio Quondamatteo, University of Glasgow
B. Details of the seminars/symposia: further details will be announced as they come in:
Award Holder: Dr Barbara Jennings
Hosted by and Location: Dr Barbara Jennings, University of East Anglia, Norwich Medical School
Date: 17th February 2017
Key Speaker: Dr Iain Keenan, Newcastle University
Topic: Innovative and Creative Learning Approaches in Anatomy Education
Award Holder: Professor Fabio Quondamatteo
Hosted by and Location: Scholarship Away Day of the College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences (MVLS), Glasgow University, Mary Stewart Building (Garscube Estate)
Date: 8th September 2017
Key Speaker for the Anatomical Society sponsored standalone plenary talk within the larger MVLS Event: Dr Gabrielle Finn, Hull York Medical School
Topic: Developing a National Anatomy Curriculum Using the Delphi Method
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Award Holder: Dr Nicholas Mahony
Hosted by and Location: Dr Denis Barry at Trinity College Dublin
Date: 10th November 2017
Key Speaker: Dr Gerard O'Keeffe
Topic: A cell biology perspective on identifying therapeutic targets and therapies for Parkinsons Disease
A. Departmental Seminar Grants Award Recipients 2015/16 have been made to:
Professor John Aplin, University of Manchester
Professor Mark Fisher, St George’s, University of London
Associate Professor Lopa Leach and Assistant Professor Siobhan Loughna, University of Nottingham
Dr Tudor Chinnah, University of Exeter
Mrs Janet Philp, Professor Gordon Findlater and Professor Tom Gillingwater, University of Edinburgh
Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid, Queen’s University, Belfast
B. Details of the seminars/symposia: further details will be announced as they come in
Award Holder: Ms Janet Philip, Professor Gordon Findlater and Professor Tom Gillingwater
Hosted by and Location: Mrs Janet Philip, University of Edinburgh main Library
Date: December 2015 to March 2016
Exhibition: Anatomy Teaching Using Models and Art
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Award Holder: Assistant Professor Siobhan Loughna and Associate Professor Lopa Leach
Hosted by: Assistant Professor Siobhan Loughna and Associate Professor Lopa Leach
Location: Lecture Theatre 4 in the Medical School, The University of Nottingham
Date: Wednesday 20th April 2016 at 4.00pm
Key Speaker: Professor Russell Foster, FRS. Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, from Brasenose College, University of Oxford
Topic: 'Sleep, clocks and light: Impacts of neuroscience on wellbeing'
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Award Holder: Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid, Queen’s University, Belfast
Hosted by and Location: Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid, Queen’s University, Belfast. The venue is the Medical Biological Centre, ground floor, room 310, (MBC/0G/310), School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast
Date: Monday 16th May 2016 from 2pm to 4.45pm
Key Speaker: Dr Cecilia Brassett from the University of Cambridge
Topic: Augmented Anatomy: The wide-ranging benefits of a dissection-based anatomy course
2016 marks the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the Anatomy School in Cambridge, with dissection-based instruction starting even earlier in the Colleges in the 1560s. This seminar will focus on how this well-tested approach allows medical students, as Tomorrow’s Doctors, to develop in multiple domains: knowledge and intellectual ability, personal transferable skills, clinical understanding and professionalism, as well as motivating them to have inquiring scientific minds
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Award Holder: Professor John Aplin
Hosted by and Location: Professor John Aplin. Location and venue in the Michael Smith Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT
Date: Friday 24th June 2016 at 1pm
Key Speaker: Dr Kathy Niakan from The Francis Crick Institute, London
Topic: 'Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos and stem cells'
Hosted by: Professor Dorothy C Bennett
Location: CVCS* (Cardiovascular & Cell Science Research Institute), St George's, London
* Now MCS: Molecular & Clinical Sciences
Date: 30th June 2016
Title: CVCS* Cell Biology & Genetics Summer Symposium (* Now MCS)
Keynote Speakers: Professor Graça Raposo (Paris) and Professor Duncan Baird (Cardiff)
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Award Holder: Dr Tudor Chinnah
Hosted by and Location: Dr Tudor Chinnah. Location is South Cloisters, St Luke's Campus, University of Exeter, Exeter
Date: Tuesday 12th July 2016 from 12.30pm
Key Speaker: Dr Flora Gröning, Lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Aberdeen
Topic: 'Imaging Technologies in Anatomy Teaching and Learning'
Departmental Seminar Grant Award Recipients 2014/15
Departmental Seminar Grants Award Recipients 2014/15 have been made to:
- Assistant Professor Oran Kennedy, New York University, Hospital for Joint Diseases
- Dr Fabio Quondamatteo, NUI Galway, Ireland
- Dr Adam Taylor, Lancaster University
- Dr Andre Toulouse, UCC, Ireland
- Professor Tracey Wilkinson, Dundee University
- Professor Graham Burton, Cambridge University
B. Details of the seminars/symposia: further details will be announced as they come in
Award Holder:Dr Oran Kennedy
Hosted by and Location: The Biomatrix Research Center in partnership with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University
Date:Tuesday 29th September 2015. Seminar begins at 12.00 noon
Key Speaker:Professor James C. Iatridis - Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Orthopaedics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City
Topic:Can we Repair the Intervertebral Disc and Restore its Healthy Function and Structure?
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Award Holder: Professor Graham Burton
Hosted by and Location: Professor Graham Burton, Cambridge, UK
Date: Monday 21st September 2015, at 09.00 to 17.45
Topic: Inside-Outside: Challenges and Prejudices – Celebratory Conference, Cambridge, UK 21st September 2015, A Festschrift that Cambridge University is holding in September to recognise the contribution of Professor Martin Johnson, FRS, FMedSci to developmental biology and medical education
Public Lecture: 18.00 to 19.00 Chair: Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, Professor of Genetics and Head of Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Lecturer: Professor Azim Surani, Director of Germline and Epigenomics Research, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.
Formal Dinner: 20.00 Christ's College, Cambridge, UK
Click on FLYER for programme and registration
Award Holder:Dr Fabio Quondamatteo
Hosted by and Location:Dr Fabio Quondamatteo, Bioscience Building - NUI, Galway
Date:Wednesday 15th April 2015 at 2.00pm
Key Speaker:Professor Cord Brakebusch, University of Copenhagen
Topic:Epigenetic Control of Skin Inflammation
FLYER REPORT
Award Holder:Professor Tracey Wilkinson, Dundee University
Hosted By and Location: Professor Tracey Wilkinson, Large Lecture Theatre, MSI Building, Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, Dundee University, Dow Street, Dundee, DD1 5EH
Date:Wednesday 25th March 2015 at 4.00pm
Key Speaker:Dr Bridget Waller, Reader in Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Portsmouth
Topic:What can you read in a face? Anatomically based facial expression analysis in humans and other animals
Award Holder:Dr Adam Taylor, Lancaster University, UK
Hosted By and Location:Dr Adam Taylor, Management School LT03, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, UK
Date:Wednesday 18th February 2015 at 3.00pm
Key Speakers:Professor Emeritus Susan Standring, Dr Quenton Wessels and Mr Bryan Rhodes
Topic:Anatomy & Medicine: It's all a bit'Gray'
Award Holder:Dr Andre Toulouse, UCC, Ireland
Hosted By and Location: Dr Andre Toulouse, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, Jennings Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
Date:Tuesday 21st October 2014
Key Speakers:Professor Mary Horgan, Professor Vivian Nutton, Professor John Fraher, Dr Jason Harris, Professor Clive Lee, Dr Hiram Morgan, Professor Michael MaherTopic: The Legacy of Andreas Vesalius -Challenging Medical Education- Symposium and Art Exhibition
Departmental Seminar Grants Award Recipients 2013/14
Departmental Seminar Grants Award Recipients 2013/14 have been made to:
- Professor Arthur Butt, University of Portsmouth
- Professor Anthony Graham, King’s College London
- Professor James Jones, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Dr Siobhan Moyes, Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Portsmouth
- Professor Simon H. Parson, University of Aberdeen
- Dr Tracey Wilkinson, University of Cardiff
B. Details of the seminars/symposia: further details will be announced as they come in
Award Holder:Professor James Jones, Anatomy, UCD
Hosted By and Location: Professor James Jones, Health Science Centre Lecture Theatre C004
Date:Wednesday 18th June 2014
Key Speakers:Professor James Jones, Dr Ben Turney, Dr Giovanni Biglino and Dr Michael O'Reilly
Topic: 3D Printing in Anatomy Symposium (FLYER)
Award Holder:Dr Tracey Wilkinson, Cardiff University
Hosted By and Location: Dr Tracey Wilkinson, Cardiff UNiversity
Date:Friday 21st March 2014
Key Speaker:Professor Sue Black, OBE
Topic: Forensic anthropology and anatomist's tale
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Award Holder: Professor Anthony Graham, King’s College London
Hosted By and Location: All seminars will be in the Percy Roberts Room in the Gordon Museum at 4pm, Hodgkin Building, King’s College (Guy’s Campus), London SE1 1UL
Each will be followed by a reception in the Life Sciences Museum at King’s College (Guy’s Campus)
Anatomy Seminars 2014 Details:
6thMarch - Prof Malcolm Logan, Kings College London "Developmental origins and adaptations of the Sternum"
24thApril - Dr Tim Mohun, National Institute for Medical Research "Cardiac Morphogensis"
15thMay - Prof Roger Keynes, University of Cambridge "Vertebral patterning - origins and controversies"
5thJune - Dr Jo Begbie, University of Oxford "Making cranial sensory ganglia"
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Departmental Seminar Award Recipients 2012/13
Departmental Seminar Grants Award Recipients 2012/13 have been made to:
- Professor Michael Adams, University of Bristol
- Professor John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland
- Professor Raj Ettarh, University of Tulane, USA
- Professor Richard Greene, University of Bradford
- Dr Laura Mongan, University of Leicester
- Professor Alistair Warren, University of Sheffield
B. Details of the seminars/symposia: further details will be announced as they come in!
Award Holder:Professor John Cryan
Title of Seminar/Symposia: Parkinson's Disease: from molecules to movement
Speakers: Key Note Speaker:Professor Roger Baker, Cambridge University
Hosted by: Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience in the University College Cork
Location:Ireland
Date:Friday April 26th 2013
PROGRAMME
REPORT (To follow)
Award Holder: Professor Alistair Warren
Title of Seminar/Symposia: Morphogenesis of Drosophila epithelial tissue
Speakers: Key Note Speaker:Dr Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie, Paris
Hosted by: Dr Martin Zeidler
Location: Conference Room, Addison Building, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN
Date: Monday 28th January 2013 at 12 noon
REPORT (To follow)
Award Holder:Professor Raj Ettarh
Title of Seminar/Symposia: Anatomy in Medical Education
Speakers: Key Note Speaker:Dr Chris Leadem
Hosted by: Department of Structural and Cellular Biology at Tulane University School of Medicine
Location:USA
Date:November 2012
REPORT (To follow)
Departmental Seminar Grants Award Recipients 2011/12
Departmental Seminar Grants Award Recipients 2011/12 have been made to:
- Professor Robin Crompton, University of Liverpool
- Professor Peter Dockery, National University of Ireland, Galway
- Professor Darrell Evans, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
- Professor Paul O'Higgins, Hull York Medical School, University of York
- Professor Ian Parkin, University of St. Andrews
- Professor Peter Robbins, University of Oxford
B. Details of the seminars/symposia: further details will be announced as they come in!
Award Holder:Professor Peter Dockery
Title of Seminar/Symposia: Autophagy between cell death and survival.
Speakers: Key Note Speaker -Professor Francesco Cecconi, University Tor Vergata, Rome
Hosted by:Dr Fabio Quondamatteo
Location:NUI Galway, Ireland
Date:20th February 2012
REPORT(attached)
AWARDED 2010/11 BUT ADVERTISED HERE AS THE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP IS BEING HELD ON 9TH MAY 2012
Award Holder:Dr Jennifer Skidmore
Title of Seminar/Symposia: An Interactive Workshop - Anatomy Learning Journey: Travelling Together
Programme: (attached)
Speakers: Key Note Speaker - Professor Darrell Evans, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Host:Dr Jennifer Skidmore
Location:South Academic Block (AB59), University of Southampton
Date:Wednesday 9th May 2012 at 1.00pm
Professor Paul O'Higgins, Hull York Medical School, University of York.
Date: Friday 6th January 2012.
Time: 10.00am to 4.00pm.
Location: Centre for Anatomical And Human Sciences, The Hull York Medical School, York.
Speakers: Professors and Doctors: O'Higgins, Kent, Klingenberg, Kume, Faraway and McIntyre.
Title: 'Morphometrics and Statistical Shape Analysis'.
Professor Peter Robbins, University of Oxford
Date: Friday 2nd March 2012.
Time 1.00pm
Location: Sherrington Library, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.
Hosted by: Zoltan Molnar, DPAG.
Speaker:Dr Heiko Luhmann,Institut fur Physiologie und Pathophysiologie, Johannes Gutenberg, Universitat, Mainz.
Title: 'Immature cortical circuits: Not so immature after all'. Report
Photo1 Professors Zoltan Molnar, Heiko Luhmann and Ray Guillery
Photo2 Professor Heiko Luhmann seminar
Departmental Seminar Grants Award Recipients 2010/11
A. Departmental Seminar Awards 2010/11 have been made to:
- Dr Jo Bishop, University of Swansea
- Professor Colin Ockleford, University of Lancaster
- Dr Jennifer Skidmore, University of Southampton
- Professor Roger Soames, University of Dundee
- Professor Alistair Warren, University of Sheffield
- Professor Clive Lee and Professor Fergal O'Brien, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
B. Details of the seminars/symposia: further details will be announced as they come in!
Award Holder:Dr Jennifer Skidmore
Title of Seminar/Symposia:An Interactive Workshop - The Anatomy Learning Journey: Travelling Together
Programme: (attached)
Speakers: Key Note Speaker - Professor Darrell Evans, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Host:Dr Jennifer Skidmore
Location:South Academic Block (AB59), University of Southampton
Date:Wednesday 9th May 2012 at 1.00pm
Report: ATTACHED
Award Holder:Professor Colin Ockleford
Title of Seminar/Symposia:New Anatomy Teaching and Research in the North West
Speakers:Colin Ockleford, Rhian Lynch and Peter Dangerfield. Other speakers to be announced soon
Photo of the Delegates:
Host:Professor Colin Ockleford
Location:
Date:September 2011
Award Holder:Professor Clive Lee
Title of Seminar/Symposia:Theraputic Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Arthritis
Speaker:Dr Mary Murphy, Regenerative Medicine Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
Photo of the Delegates:
Host:Dr Garry Duffy
Location:Cheyne Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Date:22nd June 2011
Award Holder: Professor Alistair Warren
Title of Seminar/Symposia: 'Using heterokaryons to understand pluripotency and reprogramming'
Speaker: Professor Amanda Fisher, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London
Abstract
Host: Dr Verdon Taylor
Location:University of Sheffield.
Date: Monday 13th June 2011
Departmental Seminar Grants Award Recipients 2009/10
During the year Departmental Seminar Series Awards were made to the following members and meetings are planned to take place next year:
Professor Janice Marshall (Birmingham)– ‘The Biomechanics of bipedal gait: about modern humans, their ancestors and robots’. 26thJanuary 2011. Birmingham, UK.
Dr Jonathan Wakerley (Bristol)– ‘Intervertebral disc pain, degeneration and regeneration’. 6thOctober 2010. Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy University of Bristol.
Professor Jim Deuchars (Leeds)– ‘The Emotional Motor System’. 27th September 2010. Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, University of Leeds.
Professor Tony Payne (Glasgow)– ‘Modern Use of Huntarian Collection Specimens’. October/November 2010. Glasgow.
Dr Catrin Rutlin (linked award with the Symington Bequest Award) (Nottingham) – ‘6thMeeting of the Young Generation of Veterinary Anatomists (YGVA). 6-8thJuly 2011. School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, UK.
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Dr Holly Shiels(Manchester) – ‘The Society ‘manned’ a stand represented by Dr Grenham Ireland at the University of Manchester Faculty Research Symposium 24thSeptember 2010. Manchester. Promotional material was very kindly provided by Wiley –Blackwell.
Professor John Bannigan(UC Dublin) –Exact meeting to be confirmed.”
