Join Katherine Clough, Assistant Curator (Photograph and Manuscript Collections) for an interactive introduction to some of the photograph collections in the Museum. Visitors are encouraged to bring along their web-enabled mobile phones for use in the session, and an optional trail will also be provided at the end of the talk.

IN[SCI]TE is a new interdisciplinary science, technology, and engineering conference, which will take place on Monday and Tuesday of 0th Week Trinity Term 2016. IN[SCI]TE is run by undergrads, and the talks will be both delivered by and aimed at undergrads.

The aims for IN[SCI]TE are to broaden the knowledge and awareness of science undergrads outside their field of study, to provide a setting for undergrads to give a talk at a scientific conference during their degree, and to inspire future scientists to enter areas of work that cross the boundaries in science.

We are now accepting applications for speakers! Submit an application at inscite.co/speakers/, or send the facebook page a message if you have any questions.

To keep up to date with the conference, like us on facebook.com/insciteco, and follow us @insciteco.

Oxford’s Radcliffe Infirmary was late in accepting professional, trained nursing. Not until 1891 was a trained matron appointed, the able Flora Masson who was coached and mentored by Florence Nightingale. Masson’s years at the Radcliffe were stressful as described in numerous letters to and meetings with Nightingale. By 1897 she had enough and resigned. In this lecture, Lynn will describe how Nightingale got appointments for matrons and supported them when under attack by hospital authorities – as you will hear, the Radcliffe example is far from the worst.

About the speaker
PROFESSOR LYNN McDONALD – Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Guelph, Ontario

Lynn McDonald did her PhD at the London School of Economics and has an honorary LLD (York University, Ontario). She is the director of the 6-volume Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2001-2012) and a short paperback, Florence Nightingale at First Hand (Continuum, 2010) which gives highlights from the series. Lynn also served as a Canadian MP, authoring the groundbreaking on-smokers’
Health Act, 1988, the first national legislation in the world on smoke-free work and public places.

Come and hear researchers from Oxford Vaccine Group talk about the unique typhoid human infection studies we run. There will be a Q&A session and opportunity for discussion.

Adobe’s Richard Curtis will join us in Oxford to provide a guided tour of Photoshop’s 3d tools. He will demonstrate how to work with virtual models to enhance photos, explain 3d printing functions, look at the character posing for stills and more. This “Deep DIve” session is an opportunity to explore in detail this powerful, under used aspect of this classic software package.

‘Rare events – unavoidable challenges and lessons to be learned’

Treating rare diseases raise the challenge of minimal previous exposure to similar operations. Defining a learning curve is therefore controversial as many such ‘events’ seem to occur in clusters. Similarly, rare complications might occur in ‘clusters’ hence the response to rare/never events should be interpreted with caution.

The second session in on-going seminar series on Building capacity on disability in low- and middle-income countries will be given my Prof. Charles Newton and Dr. Melissa Gladstone. The theme of this session is the Identification, diagnosis and management of neurodisabilities in LMICs.

Details of the two talks are provided below.

Neurodisability in Resource Poor Countries
Prof. Charles Newton

Bio: Professor Charles Newton is the Cheryl & Reece Scott Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and St John’s College, University of Oxford, and the Scientific Director of the Muhimbili-Wellcome Programme, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania as well as the Head of Neurosciences, KEMRI-Wellcome Collaborative Programme, Kilifi Kenya. Professor Newton conducts research on the epidemiology and behavioural consequences of children experiencing a range of adversities in the low-income countries of insults, in particular the association of autism and developmental disorders with infections of the central nervous system (particularly malaria, HIV and bacterial meningitis).

Early childhood screening and surveillance for developmental disorders in low income settings
Dr. Melissa Gladstone, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool

Abstract
Developmental delay is common in low income settings. More than 200 million children have developmental delay. Structured programmes in high income settings recommend surveillance programmes with the use of developmental tools to assess children to support health workers to make decisions about when children might be likely to need support. Evidence as to the efficacy of these programmes in terms of their specificity and sensitivity is very limited. The most efficacious programmes at present are those for hearing screening and blood spot screening for certain neonatal disorders which cause developmental delay. Furthermore, programmes supporting parents most at risk are most efficacious.

In low income settings, the tools to assess children are not well validated, often not simple to use and are in no way universal. Furthermore, the structures for these programmes are not in place and there are limited services for rehabilitation. Without these structures, children may be identified but no support provided. This may be distressing for families and cause them to spend resources that they do not have hunting for services which do not exist.

Integrated programmes to support developmental stimulation, early communication and nutrition have been shown to be effective in improving short term developmental and long term psychosocial and cognitive outcomes in later life although for these to be effective they will also require infrastructure, funding and clear supervisory structures. Children with disabilities could be incorporated into these programmes and can benefit from these programmes. These do not rely on the developmental age of the child but purely look at provision of support to families. This is likely to be more effective.

A shift from surveillance and screening to provision of integrated support programmes from infancy for children at risk is likely to make the biggest inroads to reducing developmental delay and for supporting parents of children with disabilities. These require good training, supportive supervision and effective integration into systems of care which have adequate resources to enable this.

Bio: Dr Melissa Gladstone is a Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Neurodisability at the Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool. Her focus is in improving low cost interventions and outcomes for children with neurodevelopmental disorders in low income settings. Together with her team she has developed the Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool (MDAT), a tool to assess child development in rural African settings that has been applied widely in Africa.

About the seminar series
This interdisciplinary seminar series, organised by the Oxford Network on Health Care Training, Social Justice & Technology aims to bring together scholars and stakeholders from across disciplines working on research related to disability and mental health disorders in low resource settings. The network is supported by the Learning & New Technologies Research Group, Department of Education, University of Oxford and funded by the University of Oxford John Fell Fund.

The second Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate, and entitled “Global Challenges in Modern Medicine and in Revealing the Origin of Life”.

The lecture will be held at the Mathematical Institute at 5pm on Wednesday 4th May 2016.

Please register to attend via the booking form.

Enter the Museum for a unique evening of performance and drama. Drawing from a rich variety of medical plays and historical material, the event will illuminate, provoke, and dramatize developments which have shaped ideas of the body from the 18th century to the present day. Join academics from across the University of Oxford, professional actors from Pegasus Theatre and staff of the Museum of the History of Science as they show how these developments have been mapped not just by medical writing but by theatre, which has a long history of engaging with science and medicine.

Scenes and readings to include:
Shelagh Stephenson, An Experiment with an Air-pump (1998)
George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor’s Dilemma (1906)
Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts (1881)
A selection from the WWI poetry collection at Oxford by Sassoon and Owen
An historical anti-vaccination song
Joe Penhall, Blue/Orange (2000)

An introductory talk of about twenty minutes, followed by Q&As and an hour or so’s discussion among the audience. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take an active part in the discussion.

Professor Rachel Clough will be discussing ‘Personalised Medicine for Aortic Disease’

Professor Clough graduated from medical school at the University of London and then completed her medical and basic surgical training in the London Deanery. In 2012 she was awarded a PhD in Quantitative Aortic Magnetic Resonance Imaging and commenced higher surgical training as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer. She is currently working as Associate Professor in the Aortic Centre at CHRU Lille, France under the direction of Professor Stéphan Haulon. Her main interests are aortic surgery and aortic imaging, with a particular focus on aortic dissection.

After being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Ted goes on the trip of a lifetime…and so does his pet fish. As the disease starts to cause his mobility to degenerate, Ted rushes to experience a world that is outside of his comfort zone; from the streets of Lille to the romance of Venice.

Humorous, heart-warming and hopeful, CELL features charming puppetry, physical theatre and an original score to tell the story of one man’s final adventure to create enough memories to last a lifetime.

The performance will be followed by a discussion with a member of the cast and Kevin Talbot a Motor Neurone Disease expert.

Nominated for a Peter Brook Award, CELL is the outcome of a new collaboration between two of the most exciting young companies in the UK.

★★★★ “A celebration of technique and emotion” – The Stage
★★★★ “Combining a mix of puppetry forms and an evocative original score with breathtaking technical brilliance, CELL is a visual theatre gem.” – The List
★★★★★ “As perfect a piece of theatre as one is likely to see.” – The New Current

Suitable for ages 11+

Smoking Apples and Dogfish production www.cell-show.co.uk
CELL is presented at the Old Fire Station in partnership with Science Oxford.

Tea/coffee at 18.00 Lecture from 18.30
German archaeologists excavated extensively at Babylon, but were unable to find credible remains of the fabled Hanging Garden. Recent research has shown that the much later Greek texts describing the garden can be matched in all main details with the palace garden built by the Assyrian king Sennacherib at Nineveh around 700 BC.
No need to book in advance

Prevention and management of infectious diseases remains one of this century’s biggest challenges. As drugs and vaccinations have proliferated, protection from disease has increasingly been seen as an individual problem, requiring individual action. But due to the evolution of anti-microbial resistance, vaccine refusal and rapid disease transmission through global trade and travel, the impact of the drugs and vaccines that we have come to take for granted is undermined.

This lecture will explore the importance of understanding the ‘Human Factor’ in disease management, looking at the effects of policy on individual and group behaviour and at the role psychology plays in developing a new understanding of collective moral responsibility for infectious disease. The lecture is an introduction to the Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease, an interdisciplinary team from zoology, history, philosophy, psychology and medicine.

Registration required.

Clare Harris, Curator for Asian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Visual Anthropology, will give an illustrated presentation on her forthcoming book on the history of photography of Tibet from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The talk will feature many rare images created both by visitors to Tibet and by Tibetans themselves, including the 13th Dalai Lama.

Kamal Mahtani, NHS GP, NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Deputy Director at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.

Kamal Mahtani will be giving a free talk as part of the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care Programme.

Kamal’s main activities are divided between providing direct clinical care to patients, research and teaching. Kamal’s main focus is on evidence synthesis and the acquisition and generation of high quality evidence that can support and underpin clinical practice and policy. Kamal also has experience in clinical trials, database analysis and qualitative work.

Professor Michael Douek will be discussing ‘Magnetic guidance in cancer surgery’.

Professor Douek is a breast surgeon with an interest in breast cancer surgery and breast reconstruction. He is professor of surgical oncology at King’s College London and honorary consultant surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He was awarded a prestigious Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2015.

Lt Col Ross Moy will give a talk on ‘Pre-hospital emergency medicine – recent developments and top tips for the first on scene’

Lt Col Moy is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine in the British Army, and The John Radcliffe Hospital. He also works with Thames Valley Air Ambulance as Pre-Hospital Care Physician. He previously served as Regimental Medical Officer to the Queen’s Royal Lancers, and has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in both the Emergency Department and Pre-Hospital roles.

Professor Trevor Young, Dean of the University of Toronto and world expert on bipolar disorder, is coming to Oxford to give a talk on “Your Brain Needs YOU: Why Psychiatry Is the Best Specialty for the Brightest Medical Minds”.

Venue: Blue Boar Lecture Theatre
Time: 6-7pm (please arrive promptly)
Cost: FREE!

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As an active clinician scientist, Dr. Young’s principal research interest includes understanding the molecular basis of bipolar disorder and its treatment, and how to apply these findings to the clinical setting. He is widely published and well funded by peer-reviewed granting agencies. His research is particularly focused on understanding the processes that lead to long-term changes in brain structure and function in patients with bipolar disorder and how these changes can be targeted by mood stabilizing drugs.

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Dr. Young was appointed Chair, Department of Psychiatry effective September 1, 2010. He received his medical degree at the University of Manitoba. This was followed by residency training at McGill University and the University of Toronto where he also completed his PhD in Medical Sciences. He completed a Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. His former roles include Physician-in-Chief, Executive Vice President Programs at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Professor and Cameron Wilson Chair in Depression Studies in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia. He was received numerous awards including the Douglas Utting Award for outstanding contributions in the field of mood disorders, the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology Heinz Lehmann Award, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has led several large clinical programs including the Mood Disorders Program at Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, which received the American Psychiatric Services Gold Achievement Award. In 2009, he was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Dr. Young serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, effective January 1, 2015.

Professor George Youngson is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Aberdeen. He will be talking about ‘Non-technical skills for surgeons: a hard time for soft skills’.

While qualitative research has received greater acceptance in a great variety of disciplines, including health and medicine, the true potential of qualitative analysis seems not to have been realised in such areas. Hence, the critique for presenting anecdotal evidence is often quite fair. With the basis in two examples, this talk will demonstrate how the potential of qualitative analysis is developed by maintaining a strong inductive strategy of concept development. Rather than summarising endless amounts of nuanced data, the qualitative researcher may apply a detailed coding approach to hunt for empirical insight that triggers curiosity and development of novel ideas. On basis of two examples presented, we will develop what are good qualitative research questions and hence good qualitative research.

Welcome to Future Debates, a series of public events supported by the British Science Association.

A genome is an entire set of DNA; all the instructions for making every part of a living thing. Research into our genomes could improve our understanding of diseases, cancers and passing on certain traits. The application of this research through genomic medicine is at the cutting edge of science. There’s large potential for the technology to help us create new treatments and preventative approaches.

Someone’s genome can explain lots of things about them, and we don’t yet understand all of what the genetic code means. Genome data is being collected from a group of patients with rare diseases and cancers across the UK, as part of the Genomics England 100,000 Genomes Project. This information needs to be collected and stored securely, interpreted by experts and viewed in a way that protects the donor’s identity. There have been discussions among scientists about the implications of genomic medicine for privacy and the NHS, and the British Science Association believes that it is vital to open that conversation up to the public.

Come and join our panel of scientists and other experts to discuss who should have access to this data. Should genomic data be used outside medicine? Should private companies share any profits they make from genomic data with participants? Does the right to privacy outweigh the societal benefit of genomic research?

Doors open from 6.00 pm, and the debate will run from 6.30 pm until 8.00 pm.

Future Debates events are part of the British Science Association’s work to make science a fundamental part of British society and culture. We want to empower many more people – not just scientists – to constructively engage in debates over the applications and implications of science in their lives, their local economy and the UK’s future.

Follow us on twitter @LivingWellOx @HumanGeneticsOx @BritSciAssoc and use the event hashtag #FutureDebates

Professor Gerhard Schroth is Emeritus Professor of Radiology/Neuroradiology at the University of Berne in Switzerland.

The title of his talk is: ‘The development and effects of thrombectomy in the treatment of actute stroke.’

Professor Bill Fulford is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick Medical School; and Director of the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice, St Catherine’s College, Oxford (valuesbasedpractice.org).
The title of their talk is ‘The Montgomery ruling on consent: values and evidence in surgical care’.

Professor Ashok Handa is Associate Professor in Surgery and Director of Surgical Education at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the Univeristy of Oxford.

The title of their talk is ‘The Montgomery ruling on consent: values and evidence in surgical care’.

Kay Davies has dedicated her life to the cure of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which is one of the most common, fatal genetic disorders diagnosed in children. She contributed to the design of the pre-natal tests used around the world. Her team isolated a key gene sequence for the potential treatment of the disease, and she’s now leading clinical trials for the development of a cure. Learn about this scientific journey, and engage in a
conversation with one of the most remarkable Oxford scientists.

Bookseller and chef turned food writer for The Telegraph, Xanthe Clay shares her tips for successful food writing whilst demonstrating a recipe from The Contented Cook.

Join Great British Bake Off winner, Frances Quinn, as she demonstrates how to decorate gorgeous Confetti Cupcakes with beautiful Marzipan Bees while talking about her design background and Quinntessential Baking cookbook. Save up your questions during the demonstration and join in with a Q&A in which Frances will chat about all things baking and perhaps spill some Bake Off secrets along the way!

What would it have been like to visit your physician in the 19th century? Researcher Melissa Dickinson takes you on a time travel to discover how the sounds of the body helped determine medical diagnoses thanks to surprising instruments.