Sunday 19th February 6.30pm - From Fruit Fly Love Songs to a Nobel Prize

From Fruit Fly Love Songs to a Nobel Prize Professor Charalambos Kyriacou   How a chance discovery led to a Nobel Prize.   Image by Madboy74, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Charalambos (Bambos) Kyriacou was born in Camden, London, in 1953 and was educated in North London, helping out during the week in his father’s restaurant in Finchley and during the summers working in the local graveyard. Bambos went to Birmingham University at 17 and read psychology where one of the lecturers sparked an interest towards behavioural genetics. Graduating in 1973 he started a PhD on Drosophila genetics and behaviour in the Departments of Psychology and Genetics in Sheffield. In 1976 he spent a year as a demonstrator in psychology at the University of Edinburgh before moving to Brandeis University, Boston, MA USA, in early 1978. Whilst there Dr Kyriacou initiated a project on fly circadian rhythms and has been working in this field of chronobiology ever since. In 1981 Dr Kyriacou moved back to the same department in Edinburgh as an independent SRC research fellow and then took a Lectureship in Genetics at Leicester in 1984. He was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000 and received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award(2003-8).   All welcome - admission free . Tea & biscuits. Donations welcome.