This event is a celebration of Durham University legacy donors and gifts made in memory of loved ones. It offers an opportunity to engage with Durham's inspiring, transformative research and teaching. The evening will consist of three talks from our researchers and PhD students, our special guest speakers will demonstrate the depth and variety of research that is undertaken here at Durham University.
Professor Anthony Atkinson, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, is a member of the Durham Centre for Imaging (DCI), of Durham University’s Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition, and of the Department of Psychology’s Cognitive Neuroscience research group. Tony will examine How we look at faces (to understand others) and explore why do we move our eyes? Why do we look where we look? How do we look at others’ faces? Does the way we look at faces – and thus the information we can extract from them – differ depending on what we want to find out about the person? In this talk, Tony will introduce you to these questions and what we currently know of their answers, highlighting along the way his recent, modest contributions to understanding how where on a face one looks influences the interpretation of its emotional expression.
Dr Kelly Jakubowski, Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, examines a range of topics within music psychology and empirical musicology, including memory for music, music-evoked autobiographical memory, and musical imagery and imagination.
Kelly will explain her project Prevalence, features, and retrieval of music-evoked autobiographical memories. This project used multiple methodologies (online surveys, diary studies, experiments) for collecting a large and diverse dataset of lifetime memories triggered by listening to music. This allowed for the exploration of the prevalence and situational features of music-evoked autobiographical memories in everyday life, how music-evoked autobiographical memories vary across different groups of people, and whether music has any unique ability to bring back salient memories from our lives in comparison to other common memory cues.
Together, our talented Doctoral Researchers in the MoSMed (Molecular Sciences for Medicine) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), Laura Filipe and Abbey Butler will explain MoSMed and describe their respective projects to showcase the broad range of biomedical challenges that MoSMed tackles. Third-year student Laura will discuss her project The tropical disease leishmaniasis which is caused by the insect-borne protozoa Leishmania. There is an urgent need for new and safer drugs to treat human leishmaniasis, and the ultimate aim of this project is to facilitate the development of those drugs in the future. Second-year student Abbey will discuss her project Unravelling the mysteries of retinoid signalling. The overall goal of her project is to develop a toolbox of synthetic specific retinoids that are specific for applications ranging from drug discovery to fluorescent probes in cell biology.
These talks promise to give an insight into fascinating areas of research and there will be opportunities to ask our speakers questions.
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Your continued interest in our work and ongoing support are deeply appreciated. We hope to welcome you along.
For information about putting a gift in your will, please go to dunelm.org.uk/legacies or phone Louise McLaren on 0191 334 6313.