The Annual Royal Society of Biology lecture series

Jointly organised by the School of Biological Sciences and the Royal Society of Biology

Learn more about our past lectures

2019: Marine turtles and climate change
Understanding how climate change will impact species and ecosystems is critical for the conservation and management of our natural environment.

2018: The most interesting wildlife you haven't noticed yet
Introducing you to a few of the less-obvious inhabitants of your garden.

2017: Gene therapy: fact and fiction
How gene therapy has been portrayed in Hollywood films, and how the reality of gene therapy, today, is more amazing and promising than fiction.

2016: Dinner with Darwin: how our food evolved and influenced our evolution.
The ways in which we evolved from vegetarian ancestor species, how and when we became omnivorous and how this change in diet impacted human evolution.

2015: What's in a face? The biology of attractiveness
The ways in which humans determine someone else’s health, fitness and resilience to illness based on facial judgements.