Past events

This page lists RSB past events.

Top view of various small plants growing in black pots.
11 Oct 2019 | 3:30 - 4:30pm

The quantitative genetics of photosynthesis efficiency in plants is not much investigated, even though breeding for photosynthesis would be interesting to maintain or improve annual increases in crop yields.

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8 Oct 2019 | 12 - 1pm
A woman in a laboratory smiling and holding a small alligator.
8 Oct 2019 | 12 - 1pm

Conservation physiology unveils cause-and-effect relationships between threatening processes, like climate change to explore strategies to combat extinction.

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Close-up portrait of an elderly man with white hair and a beard, wearing a blazer.
30 Sep 2019 | 12:30 - 1:30pm

Knowledge derived from genome sequences of humans and pathogens has the potential to accelerate diagnosis, prognosis and cure of disease.

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A man smiling and playing an acoustic guitar in a laboratory with shelves of petri dishes in the background.
27 Sep 2019 | 3:30 - 4:30pm

Explore the elimination of the folding/assembly incompatibility between the monocot crop (rice, wheat and maize) Rubisco and dicot model plant (tobacco) chloroplasts through a mutagenesis strategy which introduces certain amino acid substitutions into the large subunit of the monocot Rubisco.

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A woman smiling at the camera with a rural landscape and an outdoor dining area in the background.
17 Sep 2019 | 12 - 1pm

The global increase in the radiance of artificial light at night (ALAN) is regarded as one of the most pervasive and under-appreciated forms of environmental pollution.

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