Holden Botany Lecture

Topic: Biotechnology and biodiversity - friends or foes?

By Dr Sandra Knapp, Natural History Museum

Additional Information

Dr Knapp is the world expert in the taxonomy of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, and has spent much time in the field in Central and South America collecting plants. She started at the Natural History Museum in 1992 and manages the international project Flora Mesoamericana - an inventory of the approximately 18,000 species of plants of southern Mexico and the isthmus of Central America.

She has extensive experience with media broadcasts including: BBC Radio 4 – Natural Histories- The Big Story (23/12/2015-25/12/2015), Natural History Heroes, The Life Scientific: Discussion of Sandy Knapp's scientific career with Jim Al-Khalili, and was part of the panel for The Infinite Monkey Cage, Should we Pander to Pandas? - Comedy programme with Brian Cox and Robin Ince.

How to get to Sutton Bonington Campus

The Holden Botany Lecture will be held at 6 pm on the 2nd May 2017 in A33 Food Science Building on The Sutton Bonington Campus of the University of Nottingham.

To get here

• From University Park: The University provides a free Hopper Bus service which runs from University Park Campus to Sutton Bonington Campus leaving from East Drive.
• By Car: When driving to Sutton Bonington Campus via satellite navigation, please use LE12 5RD as the postcode. For further directions please refer to the University website: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/visitorinformation/mapsanddirections/suttonbonington.aspx