A Future without Antibiotics?
Tuesday 4 April, 6pm
Evening talk
Dr Laura Shallcross (University College London) on why we need new drugs, new diagnostics and a complete re-think about how we consume antibiotics.
Please reserve a ticket through Eventbrite.
Please note that the doors to the Museum will open at 5.45pm and the talk begins promptly at 6pm.
Back from the Dead: Curator-led Tour
Tuesday 18 April, 2pm
Tour
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of first human trials of penicillin, Back from the Dead at the Museum of the History of Science traces the miraculous and precarious nature of antibiotics from the 1940s to the present day. Join our curators in the Special Exhibitions Gallery to discover how penicillin has shaped Oxford and the World.
Curator-led tours of Back from the Dead are running regularly while the exhibition is open.
Regulation and Resistance
Thursday 27 April, 6pm
Evening talk
Agricultural antibiotic use has a long and controversial history in Western food production. Dr Claas Kirchhelle (University of Oxford) discusses why antibiotics were introduced to food production, tracks the development of agricultural antibiotic use on both sides of the Atlantic, and examines why regulations designed to curb bacterial resistance differ in the US and Europe.
Please reserve a ticket through Eventbrite.
Please note that the doors to the Museum will open at 5.45pm and the talk begins promptly at 6pm.
Back from the Dead: Curator-led Tour
Thursday 18 May, 1pm
Tour
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of first human trials of penicillin, Back from the Dead at the Museum of the History of Science traces the miraculous and precarious nature of antibiotics from the 1940s to the present day. Join our curators in the Special Exhibitions Gallery to discover how penicillin has shaped Oxford and the World.
Curator-led tours of Back from the Dead are running regularly while the exhibition is open.
The Magic of Crystallography: From Penicillin and Chocolate to Drug Discovery
Tuesday 9 May, 6pm
Evening Talk
Professor Elspeth Garman (Biochemistry, University of Oxford) discusses how Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin unravelled the 3-D shape of penicillin using crystallography, and highlights what else this field has taught us since Hodgkin’s pioneering work in the 1940s.
Please note that this talk is on Tuesday 9 May, not Thursday 11 May as advertised elsewhere.
Please reserve a ticket through Eventbrite.
Please note that the doors to the Museum will open at 5.45pm and the talk begins promptly at 6pm.