LabOratory

L164 Quentin Cooper, Steve Jones & Lemn Sissay

Tue 11 Oct / 12:30pm / Imperial Square / £6

Award-winning author Lemn Sissay is joined by Genetics Professor Steve Jones and Radio 4 science journalist Quentin Cooper to explore the role that genetics, upbringing and lifestyle choices play in forming our identities...

L215 Science Fiction Futures

Wed 12 Oct / 5:00pm / Imperial Square / £6

Acclaimed science fiction writer, Adam Roberts, author of Yellow Blue Tibia and By Light Alone joins author and broadcaster Mark Brake to explore the fact and the fiction of science fiction, DNA and possible...

L345 How Far Back Can You Go?

Sat 15 Oct / 6:00pm / Montpellier Gardens / £6

We all sometimes wonder where we come from, and for scientists our DNA tells a fascinating story. Join historian and BBC presenter Nick Barratt, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at UCL...

News.

Admixture - the DNA migration story

Are you aged 15-19 and would like to play a central role in a one-off project at the world-renowned Cheltenham Literature Festival?

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WE NEED YOUR BOOKS!

Thank you to everyone who donated an old books. 64 were chosen and the artist Joshua Sofaer is now making the new book, Admixture. Mimicking the processes by which genetic information is transmitted this new book will be the descendant of the original 64 ancestor books. The new book will be ready for the Literature Festival.

Previous Events

Animation Migration

Put a leading geneticist, a top jazz musician and a talented animator in a room and see what happens… We did just that.

Science Festival

Animal Migration

How much can scientists explain the amazing migratory patterns of animals? Just how do the animals know when to leave and where to go?

The Mark Steel Migration Lecture

Not wishing to avoid the contentious issues that are commonly associated with migration, Mark Steel created a special one-off lecture that covered politics, economics and science all helped along with some of Mark’s special humour.

The Human Migration Story

You might not consider yourself to be much of a world traveller but did you know that your ancient ancestors — we are talking 60,000 years ago — actually came from Africa.

‘Performance under Pressure’ was our theme for 2010. We took a number of different professions and explored how they sustain the pressures of the job. This included a comedian, a bomb disposal expert, a surgical team as well as a review of the normal workplace experienced by the average employee. We heard and witnessed the pressures of the job and looked to scientists to help explain how our brain functions to support such pressurised roles.

Thank you to Roger Kneebone and the team from Imperial College, London for bringing their simulated operating theatre to Cheltenham and to Matthew Harrison of Studiohead for the photos.

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