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Staring down the bacterial apocalypse - and how we can fight back!
17 October 2024, 4:30 pm–5:30 pm
Join us at our upcoming Applied Medical Sciences BSc taster session.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Faculty of Medical Sciences
Our virtual taster session is open to all and is a chance to learn more about the BSc Applied Medical Sciences curriculum. You can hear from staff and students as well. These sessions are designed with the University of London.
What you can expect
- This engaging taster session will address how killer bacteria we used to take for granted are becoming resistant to antibiotics
- To learn how drug-resistant bacteria is causing a global crisis, and if we don’t solve it, people could start dying from simple wounds or after routine operations, sending us into a medical Dark Ages
- To have the opportunity to explore course details, ask questions and interact with teaching staff and current students
Access profile
- ThIs virtual event will take place using Zoom Webinar
- This is an online only event
- Closed captioning will be available
- If you have any queries about accessibility please contact us at fms.education@ucl.ac.uk.
About the Speakers
Jennifer Rohn
Professorial Research Fellow - Renal Medicine at UCL
Prof Rohn was born in Stow, Ohio USA, received a BA in Biology summa cum laude from Oberlin College in 1990, and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1996 studying retroviral pathogen/host interactions. She performed post-doctoral research on apoptosis and cancer signalling at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute in the lab of Prof Gerard Evan FRS, then led a research team at Leadd BV, a start-up biotech company in the Netherlands, discovering novel drug targets for cancer. After a research career break, she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Career-Entry Fellowship at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL, studying the role of actin and the cytoskeleton in cell shape and movement. She became a Principal Investigator in the Department of Renal Medicine in 2015, studying host/pathogen interactions in urinary tract infection, and Head of the Centre for Urological Biology in 2018. She was promoted to Professorial Research Fellow in 2021. She is also a media expert for UCL in the field of infectious diseases, and appears frequently on national and international mainstream broadcast media in this capacity.
Dallas Roulston
Lecturer at UCL
Dr Roulston is Lecturer of Medical Sciences at UCL, where his teaching focuses on the integrated Medical Sciences programmes, including the Applied Medical Sciences and Nutrition and Medical Sciences programmes. He holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Dallas is committed to continual development and innovation in pedagogy and connecting research and education with an emphasis on real-world experience and outputs.