Lectures in Life Sciences: Alan Turing and the Enigma of Biological Form

Jeremy Green

Professor of Developmental Biology

King’s College London

Thursday 1st December at 5.00 pm

Percy Roberts Room

Gordon Museum

Guy’s Campus 

Followed by a drinks reception in The Museum of Life Sciences

Lectures in Life Sciences: Fungi and your Health

Professor David Hawksworth

Honorary President, International Mycological Association

Thursday 27th October  5.00 – 6.00 pm

Percy Roberts Room

Gordon Museum

Guy’s Campus 

Followed by a drinks reception in The Museum of Life Sciences

   

Widening Participation Grant to Anatomy Department

King's College London has awarded a widening participation grant to an Anatomy Department team led by Dr Gillian Sales to run schools workshops in the Museum of Life Sciences. In addition to introducing pupils to university, the grant aims to train undergraduate and graduate students as widening participation ambassadors

National Student Survey gives strong support to Anatomy

Thank you to all our final year students who completed the National Student Survey for 2016. Overall satisfaction with teaching was an outstanding 93% reflecting the concerted efforts of our academics to provide excellent anatomy teaching and deliver the best BSc curriculum in the UK

Higher Education Academy recognition for Anatomy teachers

Congratulations to Anatomy academics, Dr Darren Williams, Dr Laura Andreae and Dr Claire Wells who have been recognised for their teaching with the award of Fellowships of the Higher Education Academy, and to Dr Richard Wingate who becomes a Senior Fellow.

Media Fellowship to Professor Ivor Mason

Professor Ivor Mason has been awarded a 2016 British Science Association Media Fellowship, placed at The I newspaper and sponsored by The Wellcome Trust.

Ivor Mason has already written on the team psychology of the Welsh national football team. Follow his progress here

Teaching Excellence Awards for 2016

Congratulations to Dr Laura Andreae of the Anatomy Department who has received a King's College London Teaching Excellence Award.

Laura teaches neuroscience, neuroanatomy, development and topographic anatomy across undergraduate programmes. Her laboratory is part of the Department of Developmental Neurobiology and researches the formation of synaptic connections in the brain.

Open Day at the Museum of Life Sciences June 1st

The Museum of Life Sciences will open to public on June 1st 12.00 - 16.30.

All welcome including accompanied children.

The Museum is within the Hodgkin Building with a separate entrance from the grassy quad at the heart of Guy's Campus

• see our unique and historic collection
• handle specimens
• make a tooth for a crocodile
• take part in "find the bone"

Service of Thanksgiving for Body Donation: May 20th

The annual service of thanksgiving for all who donated their bodies to medical and biomedical education will be held at Southwark Cathedral at 11 am on Friday May 20th. The service is organised by the London Anatomy Office on behalf of the London and South East Committee of Anatomists.

This year's address will be given by Giles Fraser who reflects on his visit to King's Dissecting Room and the gift of body donation in the Guardian.

Lectures in Life Sciences: Mechanism and evolution in vertebrate limb regeneration

Professor Jeremy Brockes

University College London Thursday 17th March  5.00 – 6.00 pm     

Percy Roberts Room 

Gordon Museum    

Guy’s Campus