Faculty of Science events archive.
October 2017
I've got a degree, now what? - Wed, Oct 25 2017
Rare Earths: The engine of electrification - Tue, Oct 24 2017
Celebration of colliding neutron stars and gravity waves - Tue, Oct 24 2017
The Kitting out a Computational and Mathematical Toolbox for Cancer Research - Thu, Oct 19 2017
Cross talk between the glucocorticoid receptor and the progesterone receptor in modulation of progestin responses and HIV-1 infection - Wed, Oct 18 2017
Seminar in celebration of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics - Wed, Oct 18 2017
Understanding the mechanism promoting polymorphism in Black sparrowhawks - Tue, Oct 17 2017
Statistical, data, and other challenges in meeting, measuring and monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals - Mon, Oct 16 2017
#TheTweetingBird: Using #socialmedia to support your author community and drive their research articles' @Altmetric Attention Scores - Fri, Oct 13 2017
Protein-ligand bindings by free energy simulations: issues, successes and failures - Thu, Oct 12 2017
From secretary birds to white-headed vultures: finding your next meal while avoiding collision - Thu, Oct 12 2017
Animals, morals and molecules - Wed, Oct 11 2017
How gold became concentrated to ore grade in the Earth's crust - Tue, Oct 10 2017
From phenotypic whole cell small molecule lead optimization to target identification in malaria drug discovery - Wed, Oct 4 2017
Seeing red to being red: unexpected links between colour vision and coloration in birds - Wed, Oct 4 2017
Dissolved and particulate trace elements (Ba, heavy metals) in the Ganga (Hooghly) River estuary: - Tue, Oct 3 2017
September 2017
The costs of behavioural thermoregulation - Wed, Sep 27 2017
An investigation into the endogenous tissue concentrations , metabolism and drug interactions of progestins and ARVs in tissue of the female reproductive tract - Wed, Sep 20 2017
Spatio-temporal behaviour of two oceanic pelagic predators: the blue shark and the shortfin mako shark - Wed, Sep 20 2017
The interplay of herbivores, grass and trees - Wed, Sep 20 2017
Towards a new geodynamic model for the western Namaqua-Natal Metamorphic Province - Tue, Sep 19 2017
Sequential Decision Making in Consumer Lending: An Experimental Investigation of Consumers' Decision Heuristics - Mon, Sep 18 2017
Understanding heterogeneity within Mycobacterium tuberculosis populations - Wed, Sep 13 2017
Avian life cycles responding to climate change - Wed, Sep 13 2017
All from Nothing: the structuring of our Universe - Thu, Sep 7 2017
Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the era of conjugate vaccines and whole genome sequencing - Thu, Sep 7 2017
Molecular & Cell Biology Seminar - Wed, Sep 6 2017
Trading Really Fast and Other Accidents - Mon, Sep 4 2017
August 2017
The ocean floor as a global player: The role of 70% of our planet´s surface in the Earth System - Tue, Aug 29 2017
Likelihood Inference and Jump Detection for Non-Linear Jump Diffusions With State-Dependent Intensity - Mon, Aug 28 2017
A Bayesian approach to understanding adult mortality trends in South Africa and the impact of antiretroviral treatment - Mon, Aug 21 2017
Setting reference points for ecosystem indicators - Wed, Aug 16 2017
The formulation and benefits of probiotic biofilm diets for farmed post-larval abalone - Wed, Aug 9 2017
Cape Town Expo for Young Scientists - Wed, Aug 9 - Fri, Aug 11 2017
Science Through an African Lens: Annual Science Postgraduate Symposium - Mon, Aug 7 - Tue, Aug 8 2017
Harmonia axyridis: insights into an invasive species - Wed, Aug 2 2017
July 2017
Ushering in The Digital Drug Design Revolution with Spherical Nucleic Acids - Mon, Jul 31 2017
Adventures in Rockjumper research: Life in the ski islands - Wed, Jul 19 2017
Water from the heavens: The origin of Earth’s hydrogen - Wed, Jul 5 2017
June 2017
From Organometallic and Photoactivatable Anticancer Complexes to In-cell Catalysis and Single Metal Atom Chemistry - Fri, Jun 30 2017
Large-Scale Reasoning through Mass Parallelization - Thu, Jun 29 2017
Dual induction of microbial secondary metabolites by fungal / bacterial co-cultivation - Wed, Jun 28 2017
Francolins: A "fowl" taxonomic, phylogenetic and biogeographical history - Wed, Jun 28 2017
Extreme Drug Discovery: Discovering Medicines from Extreme Environments - Tue, Jun 27 2017
The Global Carbon Budget: Insights, impacts and lessons learnt. - Tue, Jun 27 2017
A 12-month Evaluation of ASTA, a Self-Tracking Application for ASHAs - Thu, Jun 15 2017
Biomarkers for TB treatment response - Wed, Jun 14 2017
The Kenyan dragonflies: past, present and future - Tue, Jun 13 2017