This research spotlight event is open to all students within the College of Life and Environmental Sciences.
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Join us for talks over two days, both from within your own subject area and from across the College. Explore a fantastic range of topics, discover new ones, and expand your horizons in your degree and beyond.
As part of UoB Xtra, we’ll be celebrating our themes of Lifestyle and Human Health and Resilient Environments and Health. With talks on everything from climate change to healthcare, hangovers, bacteria, elite athletes, and controlling pain, there’s something for everyone.
Programme
09:00–10:00: Higher, faster, stronger: the physiology of high altitude for improving sports performance, Dr Jamie Pringle
Sports performers use altitude training as an essential part of their preparation for breaking records and winning medals. This session will look at the body’s physiological response to altitude – the thinner air of the mountains – and reveal why this is as important to pushing the limits in sport, as it is to survival in health.
10:00–11:00: Bacteria: how they rule the world, Prof Steve Busby
Bacteria are arguably the most abundant living species on earth, and yet their importance is often ignored by humans, who think of them only as the cause of some diseases. The session will give a gentle introduction to bacteria, give an overview of their place during the evolution of life on earth, and try explain why they 'rule the world'.
12:00-13:00: A disgusting blot on the landscape”? The quest for arcadia and Britain’s inter-war Plotlands housing movement, Dr Adam Sheppard
13:00-14:00: The Air We Breathe, Prof Bill Bloss
14:00-15:00: The impact of exercise on physical, cognitive and mental health, Prof Jon Catling
15:00-16:00: The Bacterial Supply Chain: Phospholipid Trafficking in Gram-Negative Bacteria, Dr Tim Knowles
16:00-17:00: "Hangxiety" - Why does alcohol make us feel hungover and anxious? Dr Sally Adams