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SUMMARY:The Story of Insulin: How Wool Wove a Path from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold
DESCRIPTION:30 April 2025\nVirtual Lecture Dr Kersten Hall (Leeds University)\, organised by The Clothworkers’ Company \n19.00 – 20.00 (London time)\nZoom details for the event will be sent to registered guests in advance of the lecture.\nFree virtual event\, but registration is required as space is limited. Register here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-story-of-insulin-a-lecture-by-dr-kersten-hall-leeds-university-tickets-1252979177449?aff=oddtdtcreator  \nAbout the Lecture \nWhen Canadian scientist Fred Banting first received the news in October 1923 that he had been awarded a Nobel prize for his role in the discovery of insulin\, he should have been delighted. Until this time\, a diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes was a certain death sentence. Little could be done for patients other than to put them on a starvation diet to delay their inevitable slide into a fatal coma. \nAll this had changed dramatically in January 1922\, when 14-year-old diabetic patient Leonard Thompson was injected with what one clinician described as 15cc of ‘thick brown muck’ prepared by Banting and his colleagues. Why then was Banting furious to hear that he had just been awarded the most coveted accolade in science for this achievement? And how did the humble wool fibre play a crucial role in transforming Banting’s ‘thick brown muck’ into a multi-million dollar pharmaceutical product made by genetic engineering? Join us for this lecture to learn the answers. \nAbout Dr Kersten Hall \nAfter studying biochemistry at St. Anne’s College\, Oxford\, Dr Kersten Hall worked for several years as a molecular biologist in the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds before finally hanging up his white coat and swapping the laboratory bench for the library to write about science. His book\, The Man in the Monkeynut Coat (OUP 2014)\, told the story of physicist William Astbury. Astbury’s research into wool fibres\, which was carried out in Leeds in the 1920s and 30s\, played a crucial – but little known – role in the discovery of the structure of DNA (the genetic material and the emergence of the powerful new science of molecular biology). The book was shortlisted by the British Society for the History of Science prize; a revised edition is now available in paperback. \nThe inspiration for Dr Hall’s most recent book\, Insulin: The Crooked Timber\, came not from professional interest as a historian in this field\, but rather from his own sudden diagnosis with type 1 diabetes. Being now dependent on insulin himself\, he was inspired to research the events surrounding its discovery. It is a story that he has likened in parts to ‘Game of Thrones’ – enacted with lab coats and pipettes\, instead of chain mail and poisoned daggers. The book was published in 2022 to mark the centenary of the discovery of insulin and has been featured on the BBC World Service\, BBC History Extra\, The New York Review of Books\, and the journal Nature. \nDr Hall is now a visiting fellow in the Centre for History of Science at the University of Leeds and describes his work as writing about long-dead scientists whom few people have heard of and trying to persuade us why their stories matter.
URL:https://liverycommittee.org/event/the-story-of-insulin-how-wool-wove-a-path-from-thick-brown-muck-to-wall-street-gold/
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SUMMARY:Sleep\, Colour and Light: A Free Lecture by Prof Stephen Westland
DESCRIPTION:This free lecture will introduce the importance of sleep on health and wellbeing and the role that colour and light plays in healthy sleep. Increasingly\, today people are not getting enough sleep and this can have many adverse health effects including increased risk of diabetes\, heart disease\, cancer and obesity. The role of colour and light on our sleep is only just becoming known. The talk will describe some research at the University of Leeds in this area. The implications for lighting design at home\, in care homes and in the workplace will be discussed. The talk will be illustrated by PowerPoint slides and followed by a Q&A. \nStephen Westland is Professor of Colour Science and Technology at the University of Leeds. He has published widely in the area of colour science\, including over 250 refereed publications and two textbooks. He was President of Society of Dyers and Colourists (2019) and is an active member of The Colour Literacy Project. \n17 February 2025\nDrapers’ Hall (Throgmorton Avenue\, London EC2N 2DQ) \n17:30 – 18.00: Doors open\n18:00 – 19:00: Lecture with Q&A 19:00 – 20:00: Drinks reception (with light refreshments)\n20:00: Carriages \nThis lecture is brought to you from the Textile Livery Group (TLG). The TLG brings together 13 Livery Companies of the City of London which share a common aim to support skills and sustainable growth within the UK textile industry: \n• The Broderers’ Company;\n• The Clothworkers’ Company;\n• The Drapers’ Company;\n• The Dyers’ Company;\n• The Feltmakers’ Company;\n• The Framework Knitters’ Company;\n• The Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers’ Company;\n• The Haberdashers’ Company;\n• The Mercers’ Company;\n• The Merchant Taylors’ Company;\n• The Upholders’ Company;\n• The Weavers’ Company;\n• The Woolmen’s Company
URL:https://liverycommittee.org/event/sleep-colour-and-light-a-free-lecture-by-prof-stephen-westland/
LOCATION:Drapers’ Hall\, Throgmorton Avenue\, London\, EC2N 2DQ
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