King's International Lecture Series
Don’t miss out on the 2011/12 King’s Health Partners and King’s College London International Lecture Series. The series features renowned scientists in translational medicine and basic science, and will include lectures from two Nobel Prize winners and a speaker from the World Health Organization.
The lectures on basic science are attributed to Rosalind Franklin in honour of her pioneering work at King’s to reveal the structure of DNA in 1953. The lectures are open to the public and staff across King’s Health Partners.
All lectures start at 17:00 in Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt's House, King's College London Guy's Campus, London SE1 1UL. You are invited to join us for refreshments following each lecture.
LECTURES:
Wednesday 26 October 2011 - The development of colour pattern in fishes: towards an understanding of the evolution of beauty (Rosalind Franklin Lecture)
Professor Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Max Planck Institute (Nobel Prize 1995) - In 1995 Professor Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on the on the genetic control of embryonic development in the fruit fly. She is the Director of the Genetics Department at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology at Tübingen.
Please see below a video recording of Professor Nüsslein-Volhard's lecture:
Wednesday 23 November 2011 - Serving the underserved: lessons and actions for Global Mental Health
Dr Shekhar Saxena, World Health Organization
World renowned psychiatrist and Director of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Department at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva, Dr Shekhar Saxena, will deliver this lecture, entitled ‘Serving the underserved: lessons and actions for Global Mental Health’.
Mental disorders constitute a huge global burden of disease; however there is large treatment gap, particularly in lower income and middle-income countries. This lecture is an opportunity to hear about how the World Health Organization is working to close this gap and scale-up services making them available to those who need them. Download Dr Saxena's presentation here.
Please see below a video recording of Dr Saxena's lecture:
Monday 23 January 2012 - Can simple cells model complex neurodegenerative diseases?Professor Susan Lindquist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Lindquist is a pioneer in the study of protein folding whose work has shown that changes in protein folding can have profound and unexpected influences in fields as wide-ranging as human disease, evolution and nanotechnology. She has developed yeast strains that serve as living test tubes in which to study disorders, unravelling how protein folding contributes to them. Read more about Professor Lindquist’s work on the MIT website here.
Professor Mark Musen Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are making major investments in health information technology in an effort to improve both the quality and the efficiency of medical practice. Electronic health records are eliminating paper charts and are bringing the power of computers directly to the point of care, as well as enabling the generation of data for research.
As medical information increasingly becomes encoded in bits and bytes, health-care workers need to understand how best to represent clinical information within electronic records. Professor Musen will discuss the use of ‘ontologies’ – or formal ways of encoding information about patients and their care – within electronic patient records. He will explain how standardising medical language in this way has the potential to improve clinical data, enable research and ultimately improve the quality of clinical advice that is given to patients.
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