July 2018 , Southampton Science Cafe ( First of 2 talks in July)

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Tuesday 03 July 2018 , 20:00 to 21:30
St Denys Community Centre, Main Hall, SO17 2JZ
An Extra talk (usually the third tuesday of the month)
Rachel Owen, Soton Uni:Using the cellular origins of two contagious
cancers to identify vaccine targets.
The Tasmanian Devil, an endangered carnivorous marsupial which exists in
the wild only on the island of Tasmania, is under threat by the
emergence of two independent cancers, Devil Facial Tumour (DFT) 1 and 2.
Both of these cancers possess the remarkable ability to transmit between
animals, and have quickly spread across most of the island. By using the
cellular origins of these cancers as a guide, I am aiming to identify
cellular targets in both cancers which could be used to develop vaccines
against them, stopping the spread of the disease and protecting an
already vulnerable species from extinction.

This will be an expanded version of her talk , that won through 8
doctoral research challengers per faculty and 8 faculties of Southampton
University, so 64 challengers all together, in their 2018 Three Minute
Thesis competition.

further details on
http://www.diverse.ip3.co.uk/scicaf.htm
Tuesday 17 July 2018 Jonathan Ridley, Solent Uni, on hydrofoil design
and use
Tuesday 21 August 2018 Prof Mark Cragg, Soton Uni - Antibody
immunotherapy: overcoming cancer by engaging the immune system
Tuesday 18 September 2018 A speaker from the Secrets of the Solent
project (Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust) and citizen science ,
TBC
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Tuesday 18 December 2018

TBA Speakers for CO2 sequestration and Marine Sediment cores and
historic tsunami interpretation.
Hopefully one of those dates will be the miller of Eling Tide Mill,
fully reopened again in April 2018 and with a new board walk around
Bartley Water, well
worth ambling along. His talk will be on technical matters relating to
tide mill mechanics and the flour milling process.