HNR hosts and is involved in a number of events throughout the year.
Upcoming events will be pasted below.
Tea Club Seminars
Open to all (internal and external)
Tuesday 13th March
Ms Emma Pomeroy,
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Title: TBC
Thursday 29th March
Dr Thibaud Coradin,
CNRS Research Director, Collège de France
“Silica and biology: from biomineralization to biomaterials”
Monday 2nd April
Dr Melinda Duer,
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
“Sugar in tissues: solid-state NMR examination of how developing collagen binds sugar”
Friday 20th April, 3 pm
Dr Margaret Miller,
Senior Research Manager, Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Edith Cowan University, Australia
“Public health nutrition as a policy response to obesity prevention in Western Australia”
Monday 21st May
Dr Hal Drakesmith,
University of Oxford
“Iron and infections: the rise and fall of hepcidin”
Unless otherwise specified, all tea club lectures will be held at 4.00pm in the Seminar Room at MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.
Tea will be served beforehand at 3.45pm.
Please email communications if you are external to HNR and wish to attend.
Nutrition Training
Primarily aimed at HNR PhD students and staff who do not have an undergraduate degree in nutrition. These sessions are aimed at providing an overview in a number of areas of nutrition research, policy and practice.
The current lecture series has now finished. New events and the next lecture series will be advertised as arranged.
Unless otherwise specified, all nutrition training events will be held in the Seminar Room at MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL. Please email communications if you are external to HNR and wish to attend.
Conferences & Workshops
There are currently no upcoming HNR conferences or workshops.
New events will be advertised as arranged.
Other Events
HNR will be running a stand called ‘A journey to health’ at Cambridge Science Festival in the Biology Zone on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th March.
We will also be taking part with MRC Epidemiology in Cambridge City Council’s Big Weekend, when the Olympic Torch comes to the city in July.