BBQ and games this Friday!

The Postgraduate Social Seminar series and the George Square Post Docs are getting fired into our preparations for this fridays BBQ and games in George Square gardens!

We've got the food, booze entertainment to kick off the summer celebrations in style. We'll be starting  the BBQ and games around 4.30 pm on friday the 6th of June but late comers are welcome! 

So far in terms of games we've got a number of great activities lined up including rounds, tug of war, limbo, capture the flag, hula hoop challenge, frisbee and much more! We'll also have prizes for each winner!

Join our Facebook page on the event to get more details and updates @ https://www.facebook.com/events/269830163197223

Last meeting before the BBQ this Friday! Be sure to join our Facebook event: https://t.co/rKkDKbe86t pic.twitter.com/dTiKMUl3hF
— G2 Post Docs (@g2_pd) June 2, 2014

We hope to see you all there this Friday! 

The Postgraduate Social Seminar series

See the following pages for more information:
BBQ and games event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/269830163197223

George Square PostDocs twitter: https://twitter.com/g2_pd/

George Square PostDocs Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeSquarePostDocs

Postgraduate Social Seminar Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SBMSPGSS

Summer celebrations: BBQ and Games with the George Square PostDocs

Calling all SBMS Postgrads and PostDocs!

To celebrate the end of another fantastic year, the Postgraduate Social Seminar Series will be joining forces with the George Square PostDocs to host a special BBQ and games in George Square gardens.

We'll be flippin' burgers, fryin' up hotdogs and pouring chilled drinks (yes that includes alcohol) so all you need to do is bring yourselves along, mingle and have fun! We're also going to have plenty of games, so make sure you bring your competitive side!

This will take place at 4.30 pm on the 6th of June, so please, cross your fingers for sunny weather. Maybe your toes too since this is Scotland were talking about!


Watch this space for more updates closer to the time.

See you all soon!

The Postgraduate Social Seminar Series

Seminar: 13/3/2014 - Katie and Lindsay

This months seminar will be next week on the 13th of March, and we have just the talk to chase away the last of those winter blues.

Lindsay Mizen and Katie Marwick - 'Ask the Psychiatrist: Psychiatric Disorders studied in the Hugh Robson Building'

Katie and Lindsay will be doing an interactive session with a few slides for introduction followed by a Q&A. We are hoping to get a good discussion going so please prepare of any questions you might want to ask!

And of course afterwards we will have plenty of pizza and beer :)

See you Thursday, in the Hugh Robson building (G6)

We're back!

Hi folks!

We're happy to announce the Postgraduate Social Seminar Series blog is back up and running! We will be posting monthly updates on our upcoming seminars, speakers and extracurricular activities so please stay tuned for updates!

As always the Social Seminar Series is dedicated to providing great seminar's each month with the usual shenanigans along with beer, pizza and other snacks and drinks. Seminar's will be held on the 2nd thursday of every month, and for now, we are located in G-6 in the Hugh Robson building.

G-6 is located on the ground floor next to the reception area in the Hugh Robson building. As you come into HRB turn right, walk through the opaque glass door (i.e. not the lecture theatre), and continue straight through the door.

Our next seminar will be held on the 13th of March 2014 which is just over 2 weeks from now. Details of the seminar including speakers and titles of each talk will be released within the next week.

Lastly, if anyone would like to help run the Seminar Series, or give a talk, please don't hesitate to contact myself (s.a.tennant@sms.ed.ac.uk) or any other committee representative to sign up or get more information. We always welcome a wide variety of speakers, from formal to informal, so don't be shy!

Thanks! We look forward to seeing you all at the Seminar Series.

The Postgraduate Social Seminar Series representatives,

Sarah, Peter, Ines and Hannah.

Welcome Social

Our first session will be a social to get everybody back together after the summer and welcome our newcomers. Therefore we won't have any speakers and head straight to beer and pizza. It will take place on the 11th of October at 4:30.

Since our beautiful library has been turned into yet another e-phys lab (read: pit of despair) we have moved to room G-6.

G-6 is located on the ground floor next to the reception area. As you come into HRB turn right walk through the opaque glass door (i.e. not the lecture theatre), continue straight through the next door.

G-6 is smaller than the old library and if we find that there are too many people we will head up to the common room.


We are also looking for a new committee, as we have done this for a while and want to give others the chance to run the series while we focus on our respective PhD projects.

Organising the postgraduate seminar series is great fun, you get to know loads of people and is a nice thing to put on your CV regardless of what you do after your PhD/MSc/postdoc so I would encourage everybody to do it. I will provide more information during the welcome session.

See you on Thursday!

Seminar: 17/05/2012 - Abi and Sean

Summer is almost here but it is hiding good. A great way to lighten the mood is to listen to these two great speakers followed by free beer and pizza:

Abi Hermann - Uncovering the proteomic basis of mitochondrial dysfunction in relation to Alzheimer’s Disease

Sean McKay - Elucidating How Different NMDA Receptor Subunits alter Excitatory Signalling

See you on Thursday, 17.05 at 4:30pm in the HRB library!

Seminar: 19/04/2012 - Sarah and Hugh

this month we have two fantastic speakers lined up again:

Sarah Roche - The importance of axo-glial interactions in the peripheral nervous system

Hugh Pastoll - Insights into the mouse spatial navigation system

See you on Thursday, 19.04 at 4:30pm in the HRB library!