Past Events
Festival of the Future
09/10/2024 - 13/10/2024Festival of the Future is the University of Dundee's flagship festival programme that celebrates and enhances collaboration between science, arts,..
Doors Open Day 2024
29/09/2024 - 29/09/2024Come and explore one of the most fascinating corners of the University of Dundee's city campus, with a combination of..
Magnificent Microbes
09/03/2024 - 09/03/2024The University of Dundee's long-running Magnificent Microbes makes its first appearance in Dundee Women's Festival with a new exciting venue-twist...
Royal Society of Chemistry Christmas Lecture for Schools
05/12/2023 - 05/12/2023Join us for either the 10-11am show or the 1-2pm afternoon slot of what is sure to be a highlight..
Tackling TB – opening night party
07/10/2023 - 07/10/2023Exciting news - we're opening a brand-new exhibition with Verdant Works. Join us for an exciting museum late at Verdant..
Tackling TB -Dundee scientists fighting the killer cough
07/10/2023 - 01/04/2024Produced in collaboration with Dundee Heritage Trust, this family-friendly exhibition explores the past, present and future of tuberculosis. Learn about..
Doors Open Day 2023
24/09/2023 - 24/09/2023Exciting news! Following an excellent time last year, we'll be returning for Doors Open Day in 2023. This year we're..
Parasite Soup: Word Broth
06/04/2023 - 06/04/2023Whether you see you see yourself as an artist or a scientist, both, or neither, we all use words. We..
Drug Discovery Mission
19/03/2023 - 24/03/2023Drug Discovery Mission (DDM) is designed as an interactive tool to understand the processes involved in drug discovery. Drug discovery..
Drawing and Creating in LifeSpace: DWF 2023
04/03/2023 - 04/03/2023Join us for this unique experience as part of Dundee Women's Festival. You'll have the chance to spend time with..
Diagnosis: Kidnapped at Dundee Science Festival
19/02/2023 - 19/02/2023It’s a terrifying situation. Scientists kidnapped! Our crack team of malaria experts has been taken from a conference. They’re on..
Launch event – Bonding: Electrons are FREE
16/02/2023 - 16/02/2023Join us for the launch of this brand new exhibition, featuring a special performance by sound artist Semay Wu. What..
Bonding: electrons are FREE
16/02/2023 - 08/04/2023What happens when an artist and a scientist meet through the time of Covid? Two radical spirits bond to explore..
Practical Aspects of Drug Discovery: At the Interface of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacology
14/11/2022 - 18/11/2022In collaboration with the Wellcome Connecting Science (WCS) Global Training Programme, and the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo and Universidad de..
Festival of the Future – Science Mural Making Workshop
15/10/2022 - 15/10/2022Do you think of yourself as a scientist or an artist? Or can you be both at the same time?..
In Conversation With… Andrew and Cedric: Medicines Without Frontiers?
13/10/2022 - 13/10/2022What challenges do scientists working outside the UK face, and how can the University of Dundee play its part righting..
Festival of the Future – Discovering New Medicines: Design – Make – Test
12/10/2022 - 12/10/2022Millions of people take medicines every day, whether that’s an antihistamine for hayfever, or an antacid for a rumbly tummy...
SPPIRIT one-day Research Symposium
26/09/2022 - 26/09/2022The Scottish Parasitology Partnership in Research, Innovation and Training network (SPPIRIT) is hosting its first research symposium at Moredun Research..
Doors Open Day at the WeeCAIR Garden
25/09/2022 - 25/09/2022For the very first time, we're taking part in Doors Open Day with our beautiful medicinal garden. You can come..
Boomerang Family Fun Day
13/08/2022 - 13/08/2022Following the 2-year break in our lives of Covid, we're really excited to be returning to the Boomerang Centre in..
Maryfield Family Food and Fun Day
28/07/2022 - 28/07/2022We'll be joining forces with the Maryfield Regeration Team to bring science-based fun to the Wee Forest. Inspired by our..
In Conversation With… Luke, Ngaire, and Kevin
30/06/2022 - 30/06/2022Making medicines is a long and expensive process. The first time we test a potential medicine in humans is in..
An Arty Party in Stobby
18/05/2022 - 18/05/2022After what feels like a long break, we're excited to have an art event return to Arthurstone Library for Stobfest...
Stobfest
16/05/2022 - 21/05/2022Stobswell will again be hosting its local festival, Stobfest, returning to in-person events for 2022. We'll be doing a lot..
In Conversation with Jeremy Besnard
26/04/2022 - 26/04/2022The world is full of data. Such vast amounts of knowledge out there begins to create new problems. With so..
Dundee Women’s Festival 2022
05/03/2022 - 20/03/2022On March 8th International Women’s Day is celebrated all over the world, to recognise women’s rights, their qualities and their achievements...
A New Creative Corner of Campus
05/03/2022 - 05/03/2022Join us online, for an event featuring the women who shaped a new creative corner of campus. We will be..
In Conversation With Ian and James: Making Medicines Means Millions
01/03/2022 - 01/03/2022What would you do with $1 billion? How many of the world's problems could you solve? Would you bring world..
In Conversation with Kit and Emily
23/02/2022 - 23/02/2022LGBT+ History Month is a time to celebrate what we can achieve by breaking down barriers. In the past, LGBT+..
LGBT+ History Month 2022
01/02/2022 - 28/02/2022At WCAIR we are passionate about equality, diversity, and inclusion. As such we are delighted to be able to support..
In Conversation With…the TB Taskmasters
09/11/2021 - 09/11/2021Meet the University of Dundee's TB Taskmasters to discover how we're fighting this deadly disease... Lots of people might think..
Dundee Science Festival
01/11/2021 - 14/11/2021Dundee Science Festival is an annual fun-filled series of family events. It runs online and in-person, focusing on climate, space,..
Festival of the Future 2021
13/10/2021 - 17/10/2021After resting in 2020, Festival of the Future will return in 2021. Keep watching out for more information on it...
The Art of Engagement
20/08/2021 - 20/08/2021Collaboration between public engagement professionals, researchers, and artists can be an amazing way of reaching new audiences. These collaborations aren't..
ScotPEN Annual Gathering
17/08/2021 - 26/08/2021The Scottish Public Engagement Network (ScotPEN) is a group dedicated to supporting practitioners of public engagement across Scotland, both within..
In Conversation With… Public Engagement: ZA to DD
23/06/2021 - 23/06/2021We live in an ever more complex world. How can scientists and publics listen to and understand one another? How..
StobFest 2021: Both Sides Now- Art and Science
12/05/2021What can scientists and artists learn from each other? A surprising amount, it turns out! Join us to meet a..
Stobfest 2021 – watch this space!
10/05/2021 - 15/05/2021After being forced to cancel the event in 2020, Stobfest is returning in a new, largely online format. We've got..
In Conversation With… Chimed and Fritiof: Molecular Models to Manufacture
07/04/2021 - 07/04/2021Chemists are present from the very first conversations about a target right through ongoing manufacture of a drug. But not..
Girlguiding Dundee Virtual Sleepover: Science Camp
27/03/2021 - 28/03/2021We’re excited to announce our first virtual sleepover. It’s going to have a science theme running throughout it and can..
HERbology and Health: Lady’s Mantle to Foxglove
09/03/2021 - 09/03/2021Join our researchers and experts as they discuss how research into women’s health has been effected by plants. In collaboration..
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
11/02/2021 - 11/02/2021Calling all inquisitive minds! We have an emergency - save our scientists! February 11 is International Day of Women and..
In Conversation With…Ian and Kev
27/01/2021 - 27/01/2021For many the ‘pharmaceutical industry' conjures strong images and emotions. Ideas around technology, testing and, perhaps above all else, money,..
Practical Aspects of Drug Discovery: At the Interface of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacology (Montevideo, Uruguay)- Applications Open
29/11/2020 - 04/12/2020Due to the COVID-19 pandemic this course has been postponed until 28/11- 03/12 2021. If you have already applied the..
The WeeCAIR Medicinal Garden
19/11/2020 - 19/11/2020Unearth the science and history of the medicinal plants which influence modern medicine. Find out what's been going on and..
In Conversation With…Beatriz and Irene – Women on the Edge (of a Malarial Breakthrough)
18/11/2020 - 18/11/2020Malaria kills over half a million people every year, and the parasite is rapidly evolving resistance to current treatments. New..
Escape online, with Dundee Science Festival
09/11/2020 - 29/11/2020Undeterred by the Covid crisis, Dundee Science Festival returns for 2020. They have some exciting new format options, including the..
In Conversation With…Beatriz Baragana
03/09/2020 - 03/09/2020A new online event series... We’re excited to announce the start of a new series of Teams Live events. ‘In..
Practical Aspects of Small Molecule Drug Discovery: At the Interface of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacology
21/06/2020 - 26/06/2020This course will now take place 20-25 June 2021. Applicants should have been contacted by someone from the Wellcome Genome..
BCDD Guest Speaker – Brian Suarez-Mantilla
13/05/2020Cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak. Inositol Pyrophosphates Signalling in Trypanosoma cruzi: Novel insights from an ancient organismy. Dr Brian Suarez-Mantilla..
Heal the World at Glasgow Science Centre
17/04/2020 - 17/04/2020Cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak Can you save the world from a terrifying disease? There’s been an outbreak, somewhere in..
Parasites: Designing an exhibition about scientific research
14/04/2020Cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak. Parasites: Battle for Survival Exhibition Curator Sophie Goggins chairs a panel discussion with researchers from..
BCDD Seminar – 11 March 2020
11/03/2020This weeks BCDD seminar will be given by Mary Wheldon a member of the Innovative Targets group chemistry team and..
5th WCAIR Symposium
05/03/2020The 6 monthly WCAIR Symposiums are open to all members of WCAIR. They are an opportunity to share the research..
BCDD Seminar – 04 March 2020
04/03/2020Kicking off March BCDD seminars we have Julia Wcislo a PhD in the DDU DMPK group and Beatrice Colon from..
BCDD Guest Speaker- Ed Tate
03/03/2020""Protein modification: from chemical biology to drug discovery"" Ed Tate is Professor of Chemical Biology at Imperial College London, a..
BCDD Seminar Series-26 February
26/02/2020The presenter at the BCDD Seminar series in the last week of February is Sandra Carvalho a postdoc in the..
Wander the World
22/02/2020 - 22/02/2020We're collaborating with Girlguiding Scotland to take part in Wander the World as it hits Dundee. This large-scale event will..
Spotlight on: Parasites
20/02/2020Join National Museum of Scotland curator Sophie Goggins to explore the fight to eliminate five parasitic tropical diseases and the..
BCDD Guest Speaker – Craig Mckenzie
19/02/2020Drug discovery in reverse: Blues, utopioids, spice and the ever evolving world of novel psychoactive substances and street drugs ..
BCDD Seminar Series-12 February
12/02/2020This weeks presenter at the BCDD seminar is Michele Tinti a bioinformatician with the Ferguson group. The Chair is malaria..
BCDD Seminar Series- 05 February
05/02/2020Sharon Shepherd, lead of the Protein Production Team, gives the first BCDD seminar series in February. The Chair is Rupa..
Translations: from laboratory to print studio exhibition
01/02/2020 - 25/04/2020Closed due to Covid-19 outbreak. WCAIR's latest Science-Art collaboration is now open at LifeSpace. Over the last 18 months scientists..
Translations: from laboratory to print studio exhibition launch
30/01/2020 - 30/01/2020Join us for the launch of this exciting new exhibition. Artists from WCAIR have been working with the Dundee Print..
BCDD Seminar Series-29 January
29/01/2020To complete the January talks in the BCDD seminar series we have Senyo Botchie a WCAIR Trainee from Ghana who..
BCDD Seminar Series-22 January
22/01/2020The 2020 BCDD seminar series continues with talks from Stephen Thompson a chemist with the TB portfolio and Adam Bond..
BCDD Seminar Series-15 January 2020
15/01/2020The 2020 BCDD seminar series starts with talks from Luciana Paradela from the Mode of Action group and Victor Sheidt..
Parasites: Battle for Survival
06/12/2019 - 19/04/2020We have partnered with the National Museum of Scotland , Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology (University of Glasgow) and Edinburgh Infectious..
Parasites Exhibition S1-S6
06/12/2019 - 31/03/2020Book a teacher led visit to Parasites for your class. Interactive tours can be booked throughout the exhibition run (..
Parasites Exhibition P4-7
06/12/2019 - 31/03/2020Visit the Parasites: Battle for Survival interactive STEM exhibition with your class to discover more about fight to eradicate five..
BCDD Seminar Series- 27 November
27/11/2019This week's speakers are Ning Zhang from Mark Field's group and Joao Pisco from DDU Biology group. The Chair is..
BCDD Guest Speaker – Barry Morgan
19/11/201925 years of DNA Encoded Chemistry: managing serendipity in pre-clinical small molecule drug discovery? Dr Barry Morgan, Chief Scientific Officer at..
Federation of Infection Societies Conference 2019
11/11/2019 - 14/11/2019Hosted by Microbiology Society
BCDD Seminar Series-6 November
06/11/2019This week's speaker is Norma Padilla-Meija from Mark Field's group . The Chair is DDU Chemist Malcolm Taylor.
BCDD Seminar Series-30 October
30/10/2019This week's speaker is Conner Craigon from Alessio Ciulli's group . The Chair is Anna Trenaman from David Horn's group...
Diagnosis: kidnapped!
20/10/2019 - 20/10/2019Join us as part of Dundee Science Festival and Dundee Festival of the Future for a brand-new escape game experience...
Diagnosis: kidnapped! Copy
20/10/2019 - 20/10/2019Join us as part of Dundee Science Festival and Dundee Festival of the Future for a brand-new escape game experience...
Street Food 3
17/10/2019 - 17/10/2019Join us at the School of Life Sciences as Street Food makes its triumphant return! We'll be pairing our researchers..
BCDD Seminar Series-16 October
16/10/2019This week's speaker is WCAIR and DDU chemist Peter Campbell from the Malaria group . The Chair is Conner Criagon..
BCDD Seminar Series-09 October
09/10/2019This week's speakers are WCAIR Trainee Kit Kay Mak and Zhe Ji from the Ferguson group . The Chair is Justin..
Dundee Science Festival
05/10/2019 - 20/06/2019Back for 2019 We're excited that Dundee Science Festival will be returning from 5 to 20 October 2019. We've already..
BCDD Seminar Series-02 October
02/10/2019This week's speaker is Victor Corpas Lopes from the Mode of Action group. The Chair is Ning Zhang.
BCDD Guest Speaker – Ian Goodfellow
01/10/2019Will we ever have a therapeutic for Noroviruses? Ian Goodfellow is Professor of Virology and Deputy Head of Department (Pathology). His..
BCDD Seminar Series-25 September
25/09/2019This week's speakers are Michael Ness a PhD Student with the DDU DMPK group and Maikel Izquierdo Rivero a WCAIR trainee..
Wellcome Centre Public Engagement Officers Quarterly Meet Up
24/09/2019 - 25/09/2019This week WCAIR is hosting the quarterly gathering of public engagement officers from across the Wellcome Centres. The PE officers..
BCDD Guest Speaker – Wael Houssen
18/09/2019Enzymatic modification of cyclic peptides for enhanced cellular permeability Dr Wael Houssen is a Senior Research Fellow in the School..
BCDD Guest Speaker- Professor Ariel Silber
11/09/2019Proline, a "metabolic penknife" for the dangerous lifestyle of Trypanasoma cruzi. Ariel graduated and made his PhD at the Faculty..
BCDD Guest Speaker- Gavin Wright
04/09/2019Genome-led vaccine target discovery for animal African trypanosomiasis. Gavin is interested in the molecular basis of cellular recognition events. The..
4th WCAIR Symposium
02/09/2019Save the date ! The 4th WCAIR symposium will take place on Monday 2nd September. The WCAIR Symposiums bring together..
BCDD Guest Speaker- Rob Moon
03/07/2019Unravelling parasite invasion in P. knowlesi: from basic biology to vaccine and drug development After a PhD at Imperial College working on..
BCDD Seminar Series-12 June
12/06/2019This week's speakers are Luciana De Sousa Paradela from the Mode of Action group and Kayo Ono from Mark Field's..
Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 8th Annual Symposium
05/06/2019EID are pleased to announce their 8th Annual Symposium on Wednesday 5th June at the Royal College of Physicians on..
BCDD Seminar Series-29 May
29/05/2019This week's speaker is Liam Ferguson who is a PhD student with the DMPK group. Liam will be presenting on..
WCAIR at Stobfest 2019
18/05/2019 - 18/05/2019We're going on a day trip to Stobfest! In partnership with Dundee Science Centre, we'll be at Stobfest's fabulous Gala..
Setting our sights on infectious diseases
12/05/2019 - 15/05/2019The Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) invites you to join us in Dundee from 12-15 May 2019. The aim..
Drug design: drug discovery
11/05/2019 - 11/05/2019With Drug discovery, drug design, you can explore the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research’s latest work. Our LifeSpace science art..
Para-site-seeing: Departure Lounge
04/05/2019 - 31/08/2019Para-site-seeing: Departure Lounge is an art-science collaboration between Rod Dillon and Jen Southern. We're inviting you to imagine life from..
Para-site-seeing: Departure Lounge Preview
02/05/2019 - 02/05/2019PARA-SITE SEEING: DEPARTURE LOUNGE Rod Dillon and Jen Southern Join us for the preview of PARA-SITE-SEEING: DEPARTURE LOUNGE on Thursday..
BCDD Guest Speaker- Marcus Lee
24/04/2019New genetic approaches for antimalarial target discovery The repeated emergence of antimalarial resistance underscores the importance of identifying new drug..
Practical Aspects of Drug Discovery: At the Interface of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacology (Cape Town, South Africa)
07/04/2019 - 12/04/2019In collaboration with the Wellcome Genome Campus and the Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), University of Cape Town, we are pleased..
BCDD Seminar Series-27 March
27/03/2019This week's speakers are Malcolm Taylor from the Cryptosporidium Chemistry team and Neil Norcross from the Apicomplexan Chemistry team. The..
BCDD Guest Speaker – Giulia Bandini
20/03/2019Toxoplasma gondii has distinct secretory and nucleocytosolic O-fucosylation pathways We welcome back to University of Dundee Professor Guilia Bandini...
BCDD Guest Speaker – Dr Mostafa Rateb
15/03/2019Microbial Natural Products: challenges - success Natural products discovery is currently quite challenging as the rate of re-isolation is quite..
BCDD Guest Speaker- Dr. Guzmán Álvarez
13/03/2019AN ANTIPARASITIC DRUG AGAINST T. CRUZI, T. BRUCEI AND LEISHMANIA SPP. One shoot three birds.
4th Meeting of Infectious Diseases Research Initiative Scotland
06/03/2019 - 07/03/2019The 4th 'Infectious Diseases Research Initiative Scotland' or IDRIS Meeting is combined with the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research Spring..
BCDD Guest Speaker – Professor Matthias Marti
27/02/2019Revisiting Plasmodium transmission biology for malaria elimination Matthias Marti is a molecular and cell biologist with 20 years of experience..
BCDD Guest Speaker – Dr Elizabeth Ballou
13/02/2019Environmental signals trigger ploidy shifts in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans Elizabeth's lab focus on the major human fungal..
BCDD Guest Speaker- Dr Steven Cobb
04/02/2019The Development of Peptide- and Peptoid-based Agents for Combating NTDs Biography Steven Cobb carried out his PhD with Professor David..
Disentangle, Science in a Gendered World
02/02/2019 - 06/04/2019An exhibition of contemporary art, historical objects and scientific case studies that consider how gender can be 'seen' or 'positioned'..
Preview: Disentangle, Science in a Gendered World
31/01/2019An exhibition of contemporary art, historical objects and scientific case studies that consider how gender can be 'seen' or 'positioned'..
BCDD Seminar Series-30 Jan
30/01/2019This week's speakers are Alasdair Smith from the DDU chemistry team and Apicomplexan portfolio and Kwok Ho Chan from Allessio..
BCDD Seminar series-23 Jan
23/01/2019This week's speakers are Filip Zmuda from the DDU Biology team and Kinetoplastid Portfolio and Michele Tinti from Mike Ferguson's..