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List members may be interested in the following events which form part of a series by the Royal College of Pathologists: Pathologists; the Secret Heroes of Transplantation Tuesday 4th February, 1pm, Hunterian Museum, Entry - £4 The quest for organ donors is on-going as organ donation remains the only hope for many critically ill patients. Supply of organs is essential but so are the skills of pathologists who work behind the scenes to ensure that donations are successful. Join Dr Deborah Sage, Consultant histocompatibility specialist, as she explains the key role which pathologists play in successful organ transplants. Booking: Call the Hunterian Museum on 020 7869 6568 to book. Mission Impossible? Tuesday 4th March, 7pm, Think tank, Birmingham, Entry - Free Have you ever wondered what medical services are available to soldiers on the front line? Or how civilian medicine has benefited from battlefield experiences? Then join Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and Consultant Haematologist, Dr Heidi Doughty, as she discusses the challenges and innovations of frontline transfusion medicine. Booking: No need to book - just turn up, first come, first served basis! Staphylococcus aureus - biography of a bug sometimes super, most often not. Friday 11th April, 1pm, Royal Society, London, Entry - Free Thirty percent of us carry Staphylococcus aureus up our nose. Boils and infections after surgery bring it to our attention. Mutant clones are called MRStaphylococcusAureus. All these things make it important today. Attempts in the past to fight it and understand it have led to major discoveries. Nearly 150 years ago it was effectively challenged for the first time by Joseph Lister and his carbolic. It was given its name by the Professor of Greek at Aberdeen University, and was one of the few bacterial species harmful to humans to be described in Britain rather than in Germany during the golden age of bacteriological discovery at the end of the nineteenth century. Aureus refers to its golden colour, and Alexander Fleming's research to understand this better led to the discovery of penicillin. It evolves in real time, and so we have not finished with it as a significant adversary. Professor Hugh Pennington's lecture will tell its story. Booking: No need to book - just turn up, first come, first served basis! Please feel free to contact me if you would like any more information. Kind regards Lucie Lucie Houghton Public Engagement Manager The Royal College of Pathologists 2 Carlton House Terrace London, SW1Y 5AF Tel: 020 7451 6727 Websites: www.rcpath.org<http://www.rcpath.org/> www.ilovepathology.org<http://www.ilovepathology.org/> Follow us on Twitter<https://twitter.com/RCPath> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [log in to unmask] and delete the material from your computer. The Royal College of Pathologists gives no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of this email after it is sent over the Internet and accepts no responsibility for changes made after it is sent. Any opinion expressed in this email may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of the College. We have taken precautions to minimise the risk of transmitting software viruses, but we advise that you carry out your own virus checks on any attachments to this message. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage caused by software viruses. Please consider your impact to the environment before printing this email. The Royal College of Pathologists is a registered charity - No: 261035. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************