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Thursday, 11 January 2018 at 11:00 in the CNR Seminar Room, EMBL Rome
Media of Mass Destruction: How Fake News is Killing Italy’s Olive Trees
Giorgia Guglielmi, Science writer

Friday, 16 March 2018 at 14:00 in the Chadwick Amphitheatre, Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble
The global burden of infectious diseases: past, present, and a glimpse into the future
Claire Standley, Georgetown University

Friday, 20 April 2018 at 10:00 in the Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg
The Serengeti Rules; The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
Sean Carroll, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Monday, 14 May 2018 at 14:00 in the Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg
Why is left-handedness ubiquitous and constant in space and time?
Rik Smits, Science writer

Monday, 4 June 2018 at 15:00 in the Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg
Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute for Advanced Studies

Friday, 22 June 2018 at 14:00 in the Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg
Slow, closed, expensive and ineffective: How science publishing is killing science and how to fix it
Michael Eisen, University of California, Berkeley

Friday, 7 September 2018 at 11:00 in the CNR Seminar Room, EMBL Rome
The world within: Operating the epigenetics toolbox across science and society
Giuseppe Testa, European Institute for Oncology, Milan

Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 14:00 in the Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg
Genetic history: What ancient and modern DNA tells us about our human past
Stephan Schiffels, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

Friday, 9 November 2018 at 14:00 in the Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg
How should we value "novelty" in science?
Barak Cohen, Washington University School of Medicine

CANCELLED Monday, 19 November 2018 at 14:00 in the EMBL Seminar Room, EMBL Grenoble
Population Genomics and the Re-writing of History
Veronika Lipphardt, University College Freiburg