Online Irene Manton Linnean Society Annual Lecture – 7 December 2021

11 Oct 2021

The Faculty welcomes back The Linnean Society for the second online Irene Manton lecture which will take place on 7 December.

This year’s lecture will be delivered by Dr Kat Coyte, Presidential Fellow (Research) at the University. In her lecture entitled ‘Worlds within our Guts’, Kat will highlight how we can combine mathematics, big data and simple experiments to understand, and perhaps even manipulate, our own microbial communities.

Now in its seventh year, this annual lecture aims to inspire and inform everyone in contemporary biology and botany and the role that women scientists play. The event is free and open to everyone, with sixth form students particularly welcome.

Event details

This year’s event will be live streamed on the Faculty’s Facebook account (Facebook account not required) at 5pm on Tuesday, 7 December.

Please register via Eventbrite.

We look forward to seeing you there for what will be a truly inspiring evening.

If you have any queries about this event please contact srbmh@manchester.ac.uk.

Previous speakers have included:

Eleanor Drinkwater, PhD student from the University of York with her talk entitled ‘Metamorphosis: a 300 year story of intrepid women, rainforests and butterflies’ (blog article 2020; watch the recording)
Professor Sheena Cruickshank with her talk entitled ‘On you, inside you: the amazing and horrible world of parasites’ (blog article Linnean 2016),
Dr Anna Gilchrist with her talk entitled ‘I’m a butterfly… get me out of here’ (blog article Linnean 2017),
Dr Sandra Knapp, President of the Linnean Society of London with her talk entitled ‘Fieldwork in fancy dress? A natural history of women in the field’ (blog article Linnean 2018),
Jan Bradley with her talk ‘From Man to Mouse’ (blog article 2019).