Chemistry Chemistry in Action for AS/A2 and IB Students • Food Detectives: Some Curious Cases with a Chemical Twist • Using Chemistry to Make Artificial Blood for Vampires and Humans • Gods, Devils and Alcohol • Indestructible Energy • How Small Can You Get? Entering and Defining the Nano World • From Waste to Wealth Using Green Chemistry Tuesday 19th November 2013 Thursday 5th December 2013 Tuesday 18th March 2014 10.45am – 4.15pm University of London Institute of Education London WC1H 0AL www.thetrainingpartnership.org.uk Chemistry in Action Tuesday 19th Nov 2013 • Thursday 5th Dec 2013 • Tues 18th Mar 2014 J oin us for an inspirational and informative day of chemistry brought to you by outstanding speakers. Learn about the promise of artificial blood, the strange history of chemical ingredients, how to solve the puzzle of what is in food, and the tremendous promise of both nanotechnology and green chemistry. Food Detectives: Some Curious Cases with a Chemical Twist Dr Ellen Norman, Reading Scientific Services Ltd Reading Scientific Services Limited (RSSL) has run an emergency, expert, analytical service for the food (and several other) industry sectors for many years. They have investigated the weird, the wonderful and the disturbing. Dr Ellen Norman will review some of these cases and describe the techniques and approaches used in solving the product mysteries – from good old fashioned wet chemistry, through to state of the art mass spectrometry, with a nod to modern immune-affinity techniques. Dr Ellen Norman is Projects Manager of Investigative Analysis at RSSL. She did a PhD at Birmingham University in industrial, analytical and soil chemistry and then spent 10 years at Brewing Research International (now part of Campden BRI) before joining RSSL. Using Chemistry to Make Artificial Blood for Vampires and Humans Professor Chris Cooper, University of Essex The search for a blood substitute has long been a holy grail for transfusion scientists as it could guarantee a safe long-lasting solution able to reach the parts of the world the current blood supply cannot access. More recently TV and films have used artificial blood as a tool to enable vampires to live in harmony with human beings. This talk will show how modern chemical techniques have played a vital part in this research. Chris Cooper is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Essex and Director of the Centre for Sports and Exercise Science. His research interests involve using chemistry to understand oxygen transport in the body, whether it be to the leg of a cyclist in the Tour de France or to the brain of a patient who has suffered a traumatic brain injury. He currently has a patent to develop an artificial blood substitute. Examination Session Do you want to improve your grades? In this short optional session for students and their teachers, Dr Sally Allatt will offer advice appropriate to all specifications about AS and A2 examinations. Sally has been an A-level Chemistry teacher for many years and was a senior examiner for two major examination boards Gods, Devils and Alcohol Dr Peter Wothers, University of Cambridge Explore the often-convoluted history behind the names of the chemical ingredients. What connects a urinating camel to a spiral fossil? What was the significance of a birthing rat? How did Egyptian eyeliner end up making us drunk, but amethyst kept us sober? In which brands of shampoo can you find “Fooles Bolloxe” and “beaver testicles?” Under the surface of the dry, impenetrable code understood only by the initiated, the language of the chemist contains a fascinating insight into the ideas and achievements of mankind through the ages from astrology to zoology. This lecture guarantees you will never look at a bottle of shampoo in quite the same way again! Dr Peter Wothers is a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College. His fascination with chemistry that started at the age of 8 continues to this day. Indestructible Energy Jamie Gallagher, University of Glasgow Energy, we all need it and sometimes it feels like we never have enough - but what is it? What does one unit of energy look like? Feel like? Famelabber and one of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s “faces of chemistry” Jamie Gallagher is an energy materials scientist - join him for a whirlwind tour of all things energy. Explore how chemists are working to turn humans into walking batteries to power our daily life and the energy bound inside a molecule of food. Jamie Gallagher has an honours degree in chemical physics from the University of Glasgow and is studying for a PhD in thermoelectronics – devices that can take waste heat and convert it directly to electricity. He is particularly interested in energy materials. How Small Can You Get? Entering and Defining the Nano World Paul O’Brien FRS, University of Manchester – 5th December and 18th March only. There is tremendous interest in all things “nano”- atoms, molecules and objects on the scale of one billionth of a metre in diameter. Recent developments have huge implications for the future of medicine; from the production of pharmaceuticals to tissue regeneration. How small can we go? Paul O’Brien is the Chair of Inorganic Materials Chemistry at the University of Manchester. His research centres on developing new chemical processes for thin films and nanoparticles. Paul has lectured widely at venues as diverse as the Royal Society, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Institute of Contemporary. From Waste to Wealth Using Green Chemistry Professor James Clark, University of York – 19th November only Society faces the twin problems of resource depletion and mounting waste. We are running out of traditional reserves of many critical elements, and our landfill sites are filling up. Green Chemistry provides the tools to address both problems - through using wastes as a resource! e.g. plants to capture metals from waste streams and the use of microwaves to convert waste orange peel into valuable chemicals. James Clark is a founding director of the Green Chemistry Network and is also an author of numerous books on the subject. He holds the Chair of Industrial & Applied Chemistry at the University of York and heads the Clean Technology Centre. 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