SEB Bulletin March 2005
ASE 2005
Prof Bill Davies, Editor of the Journal of Experimental Botany and long-time member of the SEB was one of the speakers during the Association of Science Education Annual conference in Leeds in January. The session in which he spoke, entitled 'Biology in the Real World' is the second to be staged during this meeting by the NUCLEUS group which comprises a number of learned societies (including the SEB), funding councils and independent organisations. The group ran two parallel sessions on 'Cure the World' and 'Feed the World' including titles such as 'Excuse me you next meal has been destroyed', 'Turning (not much) water into wine' and 'The politics and passion of drug discovery'. The session attracted around 60 delegates between them.
NUCLEUS is aiming to run this session at the ASE again next year and the Biosciences Federation will contribute a café scientifique.
Delegates and speakers of the 'Biology in the Real World' session and other invited guest gather for the launch of the Society for General Microbiology's careers website (www.socgenmicrobiol.org.uk/education_careers/)