SEFS Public Lecture Series 2012
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SEFS Public Lecture Series 2012
05.01.2012

The popular Annual SEFS Public Lecture Series will begin its 2012 programme on Wednesday, January 11th with a lecture by Professor William Reville. The lectures will be held weekly on Wednesday evenings at 8.00pm in Boole 4 Lecture Theatre and will run until Wednesday 14th March.

 

The lecture series will cover a wide range of contemporary issues, including How Weeds Develop Resistance to Herbicides, Nanosensors, Teaching Computer Science to Primary School Children, Biodiversity and Infectious Disease, Generating Electricity from Ocean Wave Energy, Irish Innovation Policy, Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products, and Can Particles Ever Move faster than Light?.

In the first lecture on January 11th, Professor William Reville will give a lecture titled ‘The Weeds Fight Back - How Weeds Developed Resistance to Roundup”. William Reville is an Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at UCC. He will describe how growing the world's major commodity crops (corn, cotton and soya), genetically engineered to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup, is now confronting a serious problem with weeds that have become resistant to Roundup.  

All the lectures will be filmed and the films will be posted on the UCC Public Understanding of Science website http://understandingscience.ucc.ie The 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 Public Lectures are already posted on this website.

The lecture series is organised by Professor William Reville, Public Awareness of Science Officer, College of SEFS. The first lecture will take place at UCC’s Boole Lecture Theatre 4 at 8pm on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012.

Admission is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend.

Picture:  Professor Willie Reville

 




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