The Institute of Biology invites you to a keynote public lecture by Prof David McConnell, Trinity College, celebrating 60 years of DNA, in The National Botanic Gardens, on Wednesday 16th October at 8pm. Admission FREE.
The Institute of Biology of Ireland works to disseminate biology in many forms and to different levels of education in Ireland. As part of that…
The Maynooth University Faculty of Science and Engineering Dean’s Lecture, will take place on 11 March starting 7pm and will be delivered as the online lecture by…
The Institute of Biology of Ireland in conjunction with UL and the Botanic Gardens are offering a FREE admission Public Symposium on ‘Current and Future Trends in Agricultural Food Production’. It will take place on Nov 22nd at 8pm in The National Botanic Gardens in Dublin. The two keynote speakers from UCD are Prof Mike Gibney and Prof Jimmy Burke. For more info go to www.ibioli.net On the night the IOBI Medal of Excellence will be awarded to the 2012 Leaving Certificate students who achieved highest marks in Biology.
As part of the celebration of its Golden Jubilee, The Institute of Biology of Ireland invites you to a keynote Public Lecture in The National Botanic Gardens, Dublin 9 on Friday October 17th 2014 at 7:30pm. FREE Admission.
‘Theories, Facts and Mind Games – Enthusing young minds to delight in understanding how lively plants really are!’
Presenter: Dr. Matthew Jebb, Director of the National Botanic Gardens
In this lecture Dr Jebb will explore how some of our greatest understandings of the world have come about through simple thought experiments. Not only are these highly informative ways of examining Nature, they are also highly appealing ways of teaching the application of logic in science. Newton, Einstein and Darwin were masters of such clear thinking. Zoology is often seen as easier to teach than Botany because animals are often thought of as more ‘alive’. He will also explore some of the fundamental differences between animals and plants, with such questions as ‘Why aren’t animals photosynthetic?’, and ‘Do plants have senses?’, and will explain why many of these are merely problems of our perception of the world being naturally more animal-centric and trapped in a particular time paradigm. He will use both classic as well as a few new thought experiments to show how the origin of life, the ‘intelligence’ of plants and the classification of living things are all concepts that can be debated in a logical and lively manner.
The Institute of Biology of Ireland invites its members, families, friends and the general public to attend this free lecture by Professor Tracy Robson entitled Tackling…
