
Dr Nick Lane’s talk on ‘The Origins of Life’ focused on the evolution of complex life. See: the energetics of genome complexities
Dr Fernan Federici’s visually captivating presentation looked at plant synthetic biology, His images can be seen here and videos here.

Federici giving a practical demo on transforming plants via agrobacterium mediated transfer.

Professor John Ward's talk on model organisms.

Observation of one such model organism, nematodes, under the microscope via screens.
