Centre of the Cell

05/02/2025

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04/05/2017

Our next session is taking place on Wednesday 17th of May, 2:00pm - 4:15pm. This session includes the Microbe Detectives workshop, where you will take on the role of a detective and compile evidence to identify a mystery microbe! You will also visit the Pod, which is full of exciting games all about cells and biomedical research! Tickets are £5 for children/concessions and £7 for adults. Book your tickets here: https://www.centreofthecell.org/home-education-sessions-for-2016-17/

08/01/2016

Watch Professor Tilli Tansey's lecture on medicine here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCh_4PGNeBU History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group

Wartime Medicine and Innovation has brought together a team of young people aged 14-18 from across east London to investigate the WW1 medical history of the ...

04/04/2014

Book your tickets for our Easter school holiday events here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/centre-of-the-cell-4695251291

Centre of the Cell is using Eventbrite to organize 8 upcoming events. Check out Centre of the Cell's events, learn more, or contact this organizer.

17/10/2013

Carla Valentine & Prof Paola Domizio's lectures on Wednesday 23 October - A Potted History of the Pot - feature in this week's IanVisits newsletter: http://bit.ly/1aQScUI

Have you got your tickets yet? £6.50 including wine & nibbles:
http://bartsautumn3-eorg.eventbrite.co.uk/
- SC

27/09/2013

Disease! Death! Bad breath! Bladder stones, squashed livers, cocktails and more.. Queen Mary University of London's macabre archive of human remains, morbid stories and other assorted wonderments appears in this week's Times Higher Education magazine :D - SC

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/queen-mary-archive-is-perfect-place-for-tales-of-the-macabre/2007390.article

04/09/2013

This is how they made dentures in the 1800s - with human teeth taken from the dead! Learn more at our unique dental lecture with Kirsty Chilton from the Old Operating Theatre. You'll also be presented with various substances which cause halitosis and electronically vote to identify them with our 'Turning Point' system. http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/7847466985/eorg

04/08/2013

Stem cell clues uncovered http://goo.gl/OVoTY

08/05/2013

01/05/2013

"Do we need to worry about air pollution?" FREE Big Question Lecture on Thursday 23rd May: http://www.centreofthecell.org/events/index.php?event_id=30

Centre of the Cell is an interactive science education centre. Sited in a working bio-medical research laboratory at Queen Mary, University of London, you can learn about how your cells work and how scientists find new ways of putting cells right when they go wrong.

10/04/2013

Centre of the Cell are recruiting a General Manager. The deadline for applications is Wednesday 17th April. Please see http://www.jobs.qmul.ac.uk/3757 for details, including how to apply...

This page lists currently available jobs at Queen Mary.

31/03/2013

Exactly how cells transmit taste information to the brain for three out of the five primary taste types was pretty much a mystery, until now. A team of investigators from nine institutions have discovered how ATP – the body's main fuel source– is released as the neurotransmitter from sweet, bitter, and umami, or savory, taste bud cells. The CALHM1 channel protein, which spans a taste bud cell's outer membrane to allow ions and molecules in and out, releases ATP to make a neural taste connection. The other two taste types, sour and salt, use different mechanisms to send taste information to the brain.

Pictured here: Taste buds in a circumvallate papilla in a mouse tongue with types I, II and III taste cells visualized by cell-type-specific fluorescent antibodies. More info: http://bit.ly/W5J4qK