Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

** CANCELLED** From known to unknown? Investigating Pleistocene landscapes at Happisburgh’

Dr Rachel Bynoe, University of Southampton.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

From active surfaces to evo-devo-mechanobiology

Guillaume Salbreux, University of Geneva, Switzerland .

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plastik: Dense objects, racialised worlds, and black holes

Lydia Gibson (Georgetown) .

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Carbon Futures in the Mire? Knowledge Controversies in the Remaking of European Peatlands for Climate Mitigation

James Palmer (Bristol).

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Fengzhu Xiong.

in person at LMB and Online.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Health and nutrition among the Maya

Dr Ines Varela-Silva, Loughborough University.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Revisiting the paradigm of African ape and human origins

Prof David Begun, University of Toronto.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

From settler ecologies to ecologies otherwise? The possibilities and limitations of inclusive conservation in northern Kenya

Charis Enns (Manchester) & Brock Bersaglio (Birmingham) .

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Deciphering how complex organ form emerges in development

Timothy Saunders.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Workers of the Earth. A research and political agenda

Stefania Barca (Santiago de Compostela) .

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Developmental patterning of head-like inflorescences in Asteraceae

Paula Elomaa,University of Helsinki .

Online.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

World-making / -breaking: Towards a Political Ontology of Rhythm

Carolyn Smith (Cambridge).

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Juan Alonso-Serra -Hydraulic patterns in plant development; Ana Patricia Ramos-Forming an Eye: from cell behaviour to tissue shape changes.

Juan Alonso-Serra,University of Helsinki; Ana Patricia Ramos, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal .

Online.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Reconstructing the hominin tree

Dr Suzy White, University of Reading.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Akantsha Jain-Unveiling the choreography of human brain development;Yamini Ravichandran-Topology changes of the regenerating Hydra define actin nematic defects as mechanical organizers of morphogenesis

Akantsha Jain,Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland; Yamini Ravichandran,University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Online.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Genetic adaptation to pathogens and the environment in humans and other primates

Dr Aida Andres, UCL.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Teaching Political Ecology and Environmental Justice with and against the canon

Alex Loftus (King’s College London).

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Fundamental principles during the egg-to-embryo transition

Andrea Pauli, IMP (Institute of Molecular Pathology), Vienna, Austria.

Online.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home

Maya Youssef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 31 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

What can toothed whales teach us about the evolution of menopause?

Dr Sam Ellis, University of Exeter.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Morphogenetic control of cellular differentiation during gastrulation

Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

in person at Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, PDN and online.

Monday 27 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

Professor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Sagittal cresting among apes and capuchin monkeys: implications for understanding fossil hominins

Dr Katharine Balolia (Australian National University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

CANCELLED: World-making / -breaking: Towards a Political Ontology of Rhythm

Carolyn Smith, University of Cambridge.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Helminth parasites of humans: past, present and future

Dr Thomas Crellen (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

China’s Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier

Tom White, Kings College London.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Modelling Self-Organisation

Jeremy Green-King’s College London, London, United Kingdom.

Online.

Monday 25 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Public private parks: the soft privatization of London’s parks and green spaces

Andrew Smith, University of Westminster.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Chemo-mechanical signal in embryo development

Roberto Mayor.

In person at Physiology Lecture Theather, and online.

Monday 18 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Are we the storytelling apes: great ape gesture and beyond

Prof Cat Hobaiter (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Group Discussion: ‘Beyond the hype: navigating the social implications of AI for conservation’ by Chris Sandbrook, University of Cambridge

Chris Sandbrook, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Bioengineering neural organoid morphogenesis

Adrian Ranga.

Online.

Monday 11 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

London EvoDevo meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

Queen Mary University of London (Math Building Lecture Theatre).

Friday 08 November 2024, 13:00-17:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Intensive kinship and violence against women

Dr Olympia Campbell .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Species In Between: Negotiating Animal Belonging in a Changing World

Sarah Crowley, University of Exeter.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Noah Mitchell - Mapping the Mechanics and Dynamics of Gut Morphogenesis; Stefan Harmansa - Shaping Growing Tissues by Basement Membrane Mechanics

Noah Mitchell - University of Chicago & Stefan Harmansa-Living Systems Institute - University of Exeter United Kingdom.

Online.

Monday 04 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Denisovans, Dragon Man and more

Prof Chris Stringer.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ghost Rats: Afterlives of Eradication on Lord Howe Island

Sally Montgomery, University of Cambridge.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Duy-Chi Trinh-How do flowers close themselves: the story from Arabidopsis; Liyuan Sui-Cell tilting: A novel mechanism driving three-dimensional epithelial morphogenesis

Duy-Chi Trinh-ENS de Lyon, France; University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam & Liyuan Sui-Postdoc from Christian Dahmann’s Lab School of Science, Technische Universität Dresden.

Online.

Monday 28 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The FINDER Project: a (molecular) journey across Eurasia to identify new Denisovans

Dr Katerina Douka, University of Vienna.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Friday 25 October 2024, 10:00-11:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evolving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity

Dr Adam Hunt (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

Kasia Paprocki, London School of Economics.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Developmental Constraint Underlying the Evolution of Morphological Diversity

Madelaine Bartlett, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

in person at Genetics, Part II teaching room and online.

Monday 21 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Non-apical mitoses contribute to cell delamination during mouse gastrulation

Isabelle Migeotte IRIBHM - Jacques E. Dumont Institut Interdisciplinaire en biologie humaine et moléculaire - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BE .

online TUESDAY.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Discussing: Huber, Matt ‘Ecology at the Point of Production: Climate Change and Class Struggle’

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Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functions

Eva Deinum.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 10 June 2024, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Wolfram Pönisch-Deciphering the role of noise in cell shape changes during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition; Constance Le Gloanec-Protect and provide: the dual role of the cauline leaf.

Constance Le Gloanec and Wolfram Pönisch.

Online.

Monday 03 June 2024, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multiscale mechanical linkage elongates tissues in development

Shinuo Weng, Johns Hopkins University.

online TUESDAY.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

You are not encoded - a biological theory of form

Alan Rodrigues, Rockefeller University.

Online.

Monday 20 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Xinnian Dong, Duke University, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 12:15-13:45

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanisms and mechanics of morphogenesis

Katja Röper, University of Cambridge.

In person at Bryan Matthews Room, PDN and online.

Monday 13 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Towards an Ecological Mathematics

Dr Siddharth Unnithan Kumar.

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enid MacRobbie Women in Science Lecture

Philippa Borrill, John Innes Centre.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 12:15-13:45

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Playing with Patterns via VisualPDE

Andrew Krause, Durham University.

Online.

Monday 29 April 2024, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Jiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Bones of Contention: Piecing together the puzzle of fossil hominin long bones

Dr Julia Aramendi (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanisms underlying colour pattern variation within and between species of cichlid fishes

Emilia Santos, Department of Zoology.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 11 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

Ms Tania Branigan.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering the molecular basis of cell-surface immune signaling

Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

New insights into the social flexibility of chimpanzees and gorillas

Dr Jake Funkhouser (University of Zurich) .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Holly Lovegrove: Mitosis in Motion: Cell division during collective cell migration; Leo Otsuki: Puzzling out tissue regeneration.

Holly Lovegrove, University of Manchester and Leo Otsuki, Elly Tanaka lab, IMP, Vienna .

Online.

Monday 04 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Rhett Harrison, CIFOR.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Evolution of Locomotion Through the Development Lens: Insights into the Morphology of the Human Talus and Calcaneus

Dr Carla Figus (University of Bologna) .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

CRISPy Chickens-screening fate transitions from caudal epiblast to neural tube-Ashley Libby; Coupling mitochondrial energy metabolism to branching morphogenesis in the developing avian lung-Bezia Lemma.

Ashley Libby, Briscoe lab,The Francis Crick Institute; and Bezia Lemma, Nelson lab, Princeton University.

Online.

Monday 26 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

Professor Frances Spalding.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Kenneth Sporne Lecture: Uncovering the drivers of complexity in vascular plants, new insights from fossils and genes

Sandy Hetherington, University of Edinburgh.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human Remains from Pompeii. Excavation, research and valorisation

Dr Valeria Amoretti (Archaeological Park of Pompeii).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Insights into the mechanism of hind limb initiation in Xenopus laevis

John Young, Department of Biology, Simmons University.

Online.

Monday 19 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Water Insecurity Experiences Scales (wwwWISEscales.org): The Value of Globally Comparable Data on Water Access, Use, and Reliability.

Dr Sera Young (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Temporal patterning during development and tumorigenesis

This seminar will be host at PDN and we will be streaming it on zoom as well, for details please check our email or website.

Cedric Maurange, IBDM, Marseille,France.

In person at PDN and online.

Monday 12 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

FF Blackman Memorial Lecture in Plant Physiology

Alex Costa, University of Milan, Italy.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Unpacking the Beauty Premium: A multidimensional and evolutionary exploration of the impact of physical attractiveness on social and economic outcomes

Dr Jeanne Bovet (Northumbria University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Echinoderm embryos to model epithelial morphogenesis: from cell biology to evo-devo

Vanessa Barone, Hopkins Marine Station, Biology Department, Stanford University.

Online.

Monday 05 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Darwinian fitness

Prof Lloyd Demetrius (Harvard University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

*CANCELLED*: Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functions

Sorry due to some unforeseen circumstances, this talk is cancelled and will be reschedulled in next term hopefully.

EE (Eva) Deinum, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 29 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation

Luke Mackinder, University of York.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The human pelvis and childbirth: reframing 'normality'

Dr Lia Betti (University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

From microscopy images to mechanical models of tissues and back

Hervé Turlier, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, College de France.

Online.

Monday 22 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sleeping giant – opening access to the untapped scientific data held in the Cambridge University Herbarium

Dr Anne Dubéarnès, Cambridge University Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

PhD and post-doc speed talks

Various.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Why be a monk?

Prof Ruth Mace, UCL.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Monday 27 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multicellular and extracellular matrix dynamics underlying skin morphogenesis.

Dr. Hironobu Fujiwara, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Kobe, Japan.

Online.

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

Professor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

How Cell and Tissue Geometry Influences Morphogenesis

Dr. Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie .

Online.

Monday 20 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mining the medicinal plant treasures of a biodiversity hotspot using biotechnological tools

Professor Nokwanda Makunga, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Scribbles and archaeological pareidolia, or technaesthetic explorations? Considering Neanderthal material engagements

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes, University of Liverpool.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Turning biological morphology into numbers

Dr. Virginie Uhlmann, EMBL.

Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium+online.

Monday 13 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chasing the ghost behind germination and starvation: the unidentified hormone ‘KL’

Dr Thomas Irving, Cereal Symbiosis Group, Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences..

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The myth of archaic introgression into humans: 3 more telling vignettes!

Prof William Amos, Dept of Zoology, Univ of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Drosophila axis extension is robust to an orthogonal pull by invaginating mesoderm-Dr. Claire Lye; Decoding cell fates in the shoot apical meristem through single-nuclei transcriptomics-Dr. Sebastian Moreno.

Dr. Sebastian Moreno, Sainsbury Laboratory and Dr. Claire Lye, PDN.

Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium+online.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

RR-Myb related transcription factors, novel regulators of chloroplast biogenesis

Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human-wildlife cooperation: Honeyguides et al.

Dr Dominic Cram, University of Cambridge (Zoology).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Coordinated alternative splicing in development, featuring Transformer2b and ciliary tissues.-Dr. Charlotte Softley.

Dr. Holliday Lovegrove, Univ of Manchester & Dr. Charlotte Softley, University Clinic Freiburg.

Online.

Monday 30 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A symplastic, not a simplistic, path: new insights into the role and structural properties of the plasmodesmata cell wall

Dr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The links between primate socio-ecology, human-primate interactions, and microbial ecology: insights from macaques

Dr Krishna Balasubramaniam, Anglia Ruskin University .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcuCtrTwoG9I1M856dIPOpwYUO3q4WdIv.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mitotic rewiring on evolutionary timescales

Dr. Gautam Dey, EMBL.

Online.

Monday 23 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling

Dr Lee Cackett, Plant Physiology and Symbiosis Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Dr. Natasha Shylo-Morphological changes and two Nodal paralogs drive left-right asymmetry in the squamate veiled chameleon; Dr. Nicole Edwards-Discovering the developmental basis of trachea-esophageal birth defects: evidence for endosomeopathies.

Dr. Natasha Shylo, Stowers Institute for Medical Research & Dr. Nicole Edwards, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Online.

Monday 16 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Beyond Campus: Industry Expert Seminar - Enhancing the sustainability of the food system through SEEDesignTM

Dr Mike Nuccio, Senior Director of AI at Inari, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Do Neandertal and Modern Human Neanderthal craniofacial differences reflect contrasting sexual selection for vocal pitch?

Professor Stanley Ambrose ( University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcuCtrTwoG9I1M856dIPOpwYUO3q4WdIv.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Role of mechano-gated ion channels in epithelial tissue morphogenesis

Prof. Jorg Grosshans, Philipps University Marburg, Germany.

Online.

Monday 09 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Connecting spaces and scales in embryos

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Jesse Veenvliet.

Online.

Monday 19 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level

Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The wolf’s tale retold: How capitalism and more-than-human agencies co-produce societal relationships with wolves

Valerio Donfrancesco, University of Cambridge.

HB101.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cued or cueless? Mechanisms that shape mesoderm and enable cell ingression

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Sevan Hopyan .

Online.

Monday 12 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

TLWD scaffold proteins sustain circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis

Dr Eva Herrero Serrano, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

Online.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Opening doors and boosting energy: cellular programs that enable macrophage tissue infiltration.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Daria Siekhaus, ISTA, Vienna Austria.

MRC LMB + online (hybrid).

Monday 05 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants

Professor Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

Online.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Rambo in Palestine: Desert, War and the Making of the Planetary Frontier

Dr Daniel Mann, Queen Mary University of London.

HB101.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rubisco activity and the response of crop leaf photosynthesis to shade

Dr Samuel Taylor, University of Lancaster.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

Dr Rachel Carmenta, University of East Anglia.

HB101.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Are plant cells balloons? A biomechanical perspective on plant cell growth.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Yuchen Long .

Online.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Immunity activation and execution in plants: a biochemical perspective

Professor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute, Germany.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

Dr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

In conversation with Tom Fry on political ecologies of rewilding and conservation subjectivities

Dr Tom Fry, University of Cambridge.

HB101.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

You shall not pass! How ectoderm patterning modulates lateral mesendoderm migration in the early zebrafish gastrula.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Stefania Tavano, ISTA Vienna, Austria .

Online.

Monday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

STOMATA DIVISION ORIENTATION: INTERPLAY BETWEEN GEOMETRY, GROWTH, AND MECHANICAL STRESS

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Leo Serra The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, United Kingdom .

Online.

Monday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Circadian regulation of sunflower development

Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development

Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

Professor Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University London and Royal Botanic Garden Kews, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

"Heroes and Villains in the discourse of the Amazonian Bioeconomy of Brazil"

Emiliano Cabrera Rocha, University of Cambridge.

HB101.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

Dr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen).

Online.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Patterning and folding of intestinal villi by active mesenchymal dewetting

Tyler Huycke (UCSF).

Online.

Monday 24 April 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Modelling active morphogenesis of patterned epithelia

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Diana Khoromskaia (Crick Institute, London).

Online.

Monday 24 April 2023, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unraveling the molecular evolution of betalain-producing enzymes to boost their industrial application

Dr Alejandra Guerrero Rubio, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: A Great Ape Dictionary: now what?

Dr Cat Hobaiter, Wild Minds Lab, University of St Andrews.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcuCtrTwoG9I1M856dIPOpwYUO3q4WdIv.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Connecting spaces and scales in embryos

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Jesse Veenvliet .

Online.

Monday 13 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Considering B vitamin metabolism in plants, and for food and nutritional security

Professor Teresa Fitzpatrick, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The status of 3D replicas of human bones and ethical considerations

Dr Vanessa Campanacho, BioantTalks.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sdOGrqDwtH9DwT4Tba-QxoyFA2Z8eMLuC.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish

Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political Ecologies of Whale Biology

Anna Guasco, University of Cambridge.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Life and death of cells a mystery solved through biomechanics

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) .

Online.

Monday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanics and patterning combine to orient cell divisions in a planar polarised epithelium

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Guy Blanchard, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Monday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unravelling the molecular mechanism of petal spot initiation in sexually deceptive South African daisy Gorteria diffusa.

Dr Udhaya Ponraj, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: Neanderthal Technaesthetics: Material Minds and Complex Cognition

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvdO-vrT8sGdEYFuLdBRtsAQ9Cc4OWPlad.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

Dr Marie Manceau (College De France).

Online.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Current Directions of Political Ecology Scholarship. A broad overview from the Editor of Journal of Political Ecology

Prof Simon Batterbury, University of Melbourne.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

On the specification of leaf dorsiventrality

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Agata Burian (University of Silesia in Katowice) .

Online.

Monday 27 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development

Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

CANCELLED.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: Constructing Identity in Death: A Case-study from Metal Period Philippines

Professor Marc F Oxenham, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland and School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University, Australia.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsduigrTwtEtMPh6m9S7OnOef5SaPcSYOn.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Building and Breaking the Neural Tube

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Clare Buckley (PDN, University of Cambridge) .

Online.

Monday 20 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Bumblebees' floral preferences are shaped by rapid valuation of sensory nectar properties

Dr Fei Peng, Visiting Researcher, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKES: Eugenics, and the Misuse of Mendel

Dr Adam Rutherford, Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkd-qsqzMuH9Tk68gRcyOhzhF_Tae1s9_G.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the Devonian

Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cephalo-pelvic integration in hybrid mouse models and implications for human obstructed labour

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Eva Zaffarini (McCaig Institute, University of Calgary).

Online.

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Junctional Remodelling in Vascular Morphogenesis

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Maria Paraskevi Kotini (Biozentrum, Basel Switzerland).

Online.

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular insights into abiotic and biotic factors shaping diatom ecophysiology and signalling

Dr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Applications of X-ray imaging in Archaeology and palaeontology

Diamond Light Source  .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom - https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcOuvrDsvGNNzMF5svFLoXHVu2MGHcTMr.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political ecologists on the inside: insights from attending CBD COP15

Ellie Kirkland, Chris Sandbrook, Chloe King.

Hardy Building room 101.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil microbiomes and one Health

Professor Marcel van der Heijden, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Online only.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Divided Environment: an International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security

Prof Jan Selby
, Sheffield University.

Zoom Meeting ID: 831 416 6462 .

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechano-chemical feedbacks in plant regeneration

Kalika Prasad (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India).

Online.

Monday 30 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Alternative meristems: mapping the expression landscape of transcription factor in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

Dr Facundo Romani, Haseloff Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:15-13:45

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Kyogo Kawaguchi .

Online.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plot: On Black Spatial Insurgency

Dr J.T. Roane, Rutgers University.

Hardy Building Room 101.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Evolution of Morphogenesis: the case of cephalic furrow

Pavel Tomancak (MPI CBG, Dresden, Germany & CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic).

Online.

Monday 23 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The status of 3D replicas of human bones and ethical considerations

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMudeuhrzsjE9A6AAjyZolY3T4c7dVV2FT7

Dr Vanessa Campanacho.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution

Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

Online.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

Dr Steven McGreevy, University of Twente.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Dynamics and mechanics of cell shape changes during cellular state changes

Ewa Paluch, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. .

Online.

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

Professor Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The recently discovered ties between teeth and infants in human evolution

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpce-grT4tG93AfVcXL_rbGWU2AlEpF84e

Dr Leslea Hlusko.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petals

Lucie Riglet, Sainsbury's Laboratory, Cambridge University.

Online.

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Branching morphogenesis of the lung: tales of the sculptor and the sculpture

Katharine Goodwin (Princeton, MRC LMB) .

Online.

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The molecular basis of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

Dr Roman Kellenberger, Evolution and Development, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Single-cell phenomics reveals behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpinning migratory activity during mouse anterior patterning

Shankar Srinivas, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford .

Online.

Monday 14 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

Dr Edith Forestier, Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Inferring the evolution of skeletal gracility in hominins and extant mammals

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldO2hqjstH9zpVafHVA5N3h7VJUeQ0Otd

Dr Habiba Chirchir.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The place of desire for more-than-human political ecology

Dr Jared Margulies, University of Alabama.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Computational Models of the Development of the Central Nervous System

Dagmar Iber, ETH Zurich (Computational Biology) .

Online.

Monday 07 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing Parasite-Resistant Systems in Tomatoes to Control Infestations of Cuscuta campestris

Dr Min-Yao Jhu, Sustainable Crop Nutrition Group, Crop Science Centre.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Placental hormones and bacterias: partners in crime in the regulation of fetal growth

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvdeqhqT0rG9ck3KEPeMuQIMHgFVbfnK9F

Dr Jorge Lopez-Tello.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

30% – ‘Re-percent-ing’ ocean governance

Dr Paula Satizábal, Oldenberg University.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Submerged by 4-way junctions: how the early embryo of the brown alga Saccharina e-copes

Bénédicte Charrier .

Online.

Monday 31 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century

Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Biological diversity among modern human populations

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ode6urzMqH9eGFEsF57KAtJyf4ISTTbFJ

Dr Fernando Rozzi.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?

Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

Online.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

A game of semantics: a political ecology of Kenya's tree planting targets and forest metrics

Alasdair Neilson, Cambridge University.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cell extrusion—an exciting start to the end of life

Jody Rosenblatt, King's College London.

Online.

Monday 24 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Why do rural people in Mali join jihadist groups? A political ecological explanation

Professor Tor Benjaminsen, NMBU.

HB101.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

Dr. Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Evolution & Development Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Primate responses to death: insights into death awareness

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcOirpjwjEtPISEaorcLGNQgd0PnfMGVI

Dr Alecia Carter, University College London .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG. .

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 16:30-17:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multi-organ FGF crosstalk orchestrates the construction of the water conserving cryptonephridial complex in a beetle

Robin Beaven, University of Edinburgh.

Online.

Monday 17 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

How tissues orchestrate growth and morphogenesis – lessons from the vertebrate retina 

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Mauricio Rocha Martins (Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal) .

Online.

Monday 17 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Protein import into chloroplasts and its regulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system

R. Paul Jarvis, Section of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford .

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)

Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

Online.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Gendered Dimensions of Urban Wildmeat Trafficking in the Republic of Congo

Aalayna Green (University of Cornell) .

In person (venue TBC).

Tuesday 21 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways

Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Conflict resolution for the future of biodiversity conservation

Alexandra Zimmermann (University of Oxford) .

In person in the David Attenborough Building.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

4D reconstruction of developmental trajectories

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Giovanni Dalmasso (EMBL Barcelona, Sharpe Lab) .

Online.

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Exploring variation in neural crest development among East African cichlid fishes

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Aleksandra Marconi (Zoology Department, Santos lab) .

Online.

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis

Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The trouble with relational values

Rogelio Luque Lora (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

CANCELLED!!!!!! Cell invasion: a casualty of dysregulated cell extrusion

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Jody Rosenblatt, Randall’s Division for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London..

Online.

Monday 06 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ringing the alarm for a liveable future: Reproductive anxiety and the climate crisis

Katie Dow (University of Cambridge) and Heather McMullen (Queen Mary University of London).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Organoids – how can they shed light on immune-mediated development and disease?

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Geraldine Jowett (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) .

Online.

Monday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Differentiation of the extra-embryonic endoderm is required for development of the pluripotent epiblast

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Antonia Weberling (PDN, Cambridge) .

Online.

Monday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Small RNA-directed Reprogramming of Gene Expression During Host-bacteria Interactions

Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

Dr Dorit Hockman.

Zoom.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ecoterritorial Turn and Relational Narratives in Latin America. From the Indianist moment to the Ecofeminist moment in the fights against Neo-extractivism

Maristella Svampa (University of Cambridge) (in person).

In person (venue TBC).

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Drivers of cnidarian morphogenesis

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Aissam Ikmi (EMBL, Heidelberg).

Online.

Monday 23 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Belowground Microbial Community Responses to Climate Change: Resistance, Resilience, and Alternative States

Professor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Dr Edwige Moyroud.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Root System Architecture Traits Supporting High Yielding Winter Wheat

Eric Ober.

Online.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: NSP2 and the Regulation of the Symbiotically Permissive State

Darius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Smart, Commodified and Encoded: Blockchain Technology for Environmental Sustainability and Nature Conservation

Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multicellular coordination in context

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Takashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands .

Online.

Monday 16 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Stomatal evolution and using knowledge of stomatal function to breed more resilient crops

Professor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol .

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Prof Gaspar Jékely.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

Guy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

Online.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Silk Road Urbanization: Cities, Infrastructure-led development and Global Inequality

Elia Apostolopoulou (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cell-type-specific behaviour underlies cellular growth variability in plants

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Daniel Kierzkowski Montreal University .

Online.

Monday 09 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

Professor Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemas.

Online.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Dr Jordi Solana.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Women, girls and biodiversity loss: an evidence and policy review

Francesca Booker (IIED), Hilary Alison (Green Goals) and Fleur Nash (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Prof Paola Oliveri.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genotypic variation in maize influences rates of soil organic matter mineralisation and gross nitrification

Dr Lumbani Mwafulirwa, Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Characterising the epistatic relationship between signalling pathways for AM symbiosis in rice

Raffy Hull, PhD student, Paszkowski group, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Composite morphogenesis: how can a tissue fold and extend at the same time

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Matteo Rauzi (IBV, Nice).

Online.

Monday 25 April 2022, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Revealing the “box” code: the spatial and temporal regulation of plant-parasitic nematode pathogenicity

Clement Pellegrin, Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Combining multi-scale phenotyping, AI-powered analysis with genetic mapping studies to connect lab-based plant research with in-field crop improvement

Ji Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Pre-breeding, food security and net zero: so much to do, so little time and money

Phil Howell, Head of Cereals Pre-Breeding, NIAB .

Online.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Improving the mycorrhizal symbiosis in spring barley – lab and field studies

Dr Tom Thirkell, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, CSC.

Online.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

Dr Kostya Kanyuka, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plotting the Coloniality of Conservation - reading discussion

Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul, Ariadne Collins, Judith Krauss.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

Online.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site

Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Getting into shape: new insights into morphological patterning from the Drosophila wing

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Natalie Dye (POL Dresden) .

Online.

Monday 07 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Who Cares About Hornworts?

Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

"There is no better place to lie about: Racial capitalism and the urban metabolism of water in U.S. cities

Kate Meehan, King's College London.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

The fossil origins of eukaryotic morphogenesis: exploring the beginnings of complex multicellularity in the Holozoa

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Paul K. Strother (Boston College) .

Online.

Monday 28 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mechano-eco-evo of the Common Dandelion: What the Notorious Weed Tells Us About Plant Dispersal Strategies

Dr Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London.

Online.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Smart, Commodified and Encoded: Blockchain Technology for Environmental Sustainability and Nature Conservation

Reading discussion led by Chris Sandbrook.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanisms generating robustness in plant organ size and shape

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Adrienne Roeder .

Online.

Monday 21 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Dr Indu Santhanagopalan, Physiological Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ringing the alarm for a liveable future: Reproductive anxiety and the climate crisis

Heather McMullen and Katharine Dow Queen Mary University of London, Institute of Population Health Sciences, Centre for Global Public Health Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Understanding the role of the extracellular matrix: from elasticity to viscoelasticity

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Alberto Elosegui-Artola (Francis Crick Institute & King’s College London, London, UK) .

Online.

Monday 14 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis

Dr Pallavi Singh, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences .

Online.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The brain-bone connections shaping skeletal form and function: can we use bone structure to study neural development in human evolution?

Dr Jaap Saers, University of Cambridge.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ethnographic citizen science: camera traps and human-fox relations in inner-city London

Tom Fry, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Adhesion-regulated junction slippage controls cell intercalation dynamics in an Apposed-Cortex Adhesion Model

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Alexander Nestor-Bergmann (PDN, University of Cambridge).

Online.

Monday 07 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Breaking the barrier: CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids model pathogen and drug entry to the brain

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Laura Pellegrini (LMB, Cambridge).

Online.

Monday 07 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Entangled Lives: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

Dr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar.

Online.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Before colonization (BC) and after decolonization (AD): The Early Anthropocene, the Biblical Fall, and relational pasts, presents, and futures

Reading discussion led by Roge Luque-Lora.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Emergence of a left-right symmetric body plan during embryonic development

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Sundar Naganathan (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) .

Online.

Monday 31 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

CADHERIN mediated AMIS localisation - Using mouse embryonic stem cells 3D culture as a model

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Xuan Liang (PDN, Cambridge University) .

Online.

Monday 31 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Uncovering Mechanisms of Cell-type-specific Gene Expression in Rice

Dr Leonie Luginbuehl, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction

Helen Curry, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Characterization of a Mechanical Hotspot for Cell Plate Guidance Near an Adjacent Three-Way Junction

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Marie-Cécile Caillaud, CR CNRS.

Online.

Monday 24 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Developmental Control of Avian Skin Patterning

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Marie Manceau.

Online.

Monday 06 December 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

Dr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Talk by Annette Green

Annette Green.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

POSTPONED*Drivers of Morphological complexity: a Cnidarian Perspective

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Aissam Ikmi.

Online.

Monday 29 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

Dr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

Online.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Situating mental health within the nature-climate-wellbeing triple challenge: Evidence from rural Uganda

Thomas Pienkowski.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Symplasmic auxin movement and the evolution of plant architecture

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Yoan Coudert.

Online.

Monday 22 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Decoupling Photoprotective Roles of Carotenoids in the PSII Light Harvesting Complexes for Improved Plant Growth

Dr Julia Walter, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Urban Political Ecology

Dr. Kate Meehan.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

To stay or leave? Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and progenitor’s segregation within the bird embryonic tail

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Bertrand Benazeraf.

Online.

Monday 15 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

Professor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

Online.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human Evolution at the Crossroads

Professor Katerina Harvati.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Strange Natures

Prof. Bill Adams.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Jamie: "A biomechanical switch regulates the transition towards homeostasis in oesophageal epithelium" Ben: "Integrating pattern formation and cell movements in our understanding of morphogenesis"

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Ben Steventon, Jamie McGinn.

Online.

Monday 08 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

RAI Anthropology & Conservation conference debrief

Speaker to be confirmed.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants

Dr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

TBC

Professor James O’Connell and Professor Kristen Hawkes.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development

Hannah Parris, University of Cambridge .

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Matteusz: "Insights into the mechanism and evolution of glial ensheathment" Renske: "Evolution of selfish multicellularity: changes in gene regulation at the origin of multicellularity"

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Renske Vroomans; Matteusz Trylinski.

Online.

Monday 25 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

Dr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

Online.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Leveraging cultural and scientific knowledge and practices for environmental conservation in Tali, Bhutan

Bruce Huett and Riamsara Knapp.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Morphogenesis and cell ordering in bacterial biofilms

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Jing Yan.

Online.

Monday 18 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

Professor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri.

Online.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Goodness Paradox: How self-domestication contributes to explaining the uniquely human combination of good and evil.

Professor Richard Wrangham.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Only the orangutans get a life jacket: Uncommoning responsibility in a global conservation nexus

Dr. Liana Chua.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cell shape determination: Mechanical competition vs. endogenous genetic programme

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

Maria Leptin.

Online.

Monday 11 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Mapping and deliberating values for Uplands management

Janet Fisher, University of Edinburgh.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Building organs – emergence of form and fate through local force imbalance

https://zoom.us/j/99568066060?pwd=VjFEYVlwM2ZZY0Z6VHByY1NvRE0yZz09

Rashmi Priya, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Online.

Monday 14 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Situating vegetal lives in political ecology: from plantationocene to planthroposcene

Anna Lawrence, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

"Investigating the role of Syndecan, a conserved heparan sulphate proteoglycan, in the maintenance and proliferation of progenitor cells in the adult Drosophila midgut"

recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8

Buffy Eldridge, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Monday 07 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

"Single-cell morphometrics reveals ancestral principles of notochord development"

recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8

Toby Andrews, Department of Zoology, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Online.

Monday 07 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Forthcoming Museum of Zoology Programme

Dr Rosalyn Wade (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:55-15:20

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

de novo gene emergence in cichlid fishes

Emília Santos (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:30-14:55

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Stretching out the embryo - Anterior expansion and posterior addition to the notochord mechanically coordinate embryo axis elongation

https://zoom.us/j/94691632022?pwd=a1lrNi82ekE2OHFZYjNLekR3WTU5Zz09

Susie McLaren, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 14:30-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Regulation of Phyllotaxis by Auxin Transport Proteins

recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwSKckxt930

Henrik Ahl, Sainsbury's laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

More-than-human nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland

Guillem Rubio Ramón, University of Edinburgh.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The roots of our ecological crisis

Rogelio Luque-Lora, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Morphogenesis of the mouse and human embryo beyond implantation

https://zoom.us/j/95435060718?pwd=QzIyS0FTcXF3LzlkT2RiVjdmZDhYUT09

Matteo Molè.

Online.

Monday 24 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Subject formation through the influence of conservation governance: A feminist intersectional approach to neoliberal environmentality

Revati Pandya, University of Wageningen.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Size sensing in biological systems- new insights from planarians

https://zoom.us/j/98275702948?pwd=ODl2MDhjb0t5ckV5bnpOdURnazRxdz09

Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen,Germany..

Online.

Monday 17 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

Chris Lambing, Henderson group.

Online.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

John Muir, Indigenous erasure, and conservation reckoning

Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Wisdom of the crowd – Mechanisms that coordinate individual cell movements for epithelial migration

https://zoom.us/j/99970909084?pwd=U0k1RUxOWnhmUlQ4cTZOL3RJNFZSQT09

Sally Horne-Badovinac, University of Chicago.

Online.

Monday 10 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

Prof Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

Online.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Stochastic gene expression drives mesophyll protoplast regeneration

https://zoom.us/j/94519300866?pwd=clh6eU83aHg5Z1QrMEpTUW14WlpLdz09

Yuling Jiao, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Online.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Limits of Stewardship: land rights, legal mobilization by forest-dwelling communities and extraction in Odisha, India.

Arpitha Kodiveri, European University Institute..

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

Kumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

Online.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

‘Fine-tuning cell mechanics at the onset of collective cell motion’

https://zoom.us/j/97700351610?pwd=MlRTeE5BYzZyU0Z1Wm5UdGFwMWx5dz09

Elias H Barriga, Group Leader at Mechanisms of Morphogenesis Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal.

Online.

Monday 26 April 2021, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cross-Kingdom RNAi and extracellular vesicle-mediated small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

Prof Hailing Jin, UCR Riverside.

Online.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Online.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Postponed - Protecting the Environment

Postponed for now. Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

How places matter: A new theory of environmental value.

Dr Simon P. James, University of Durham.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

The evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes

https://zoom.us/j/95511029379?pwd=aXE2M29BWC9tS2lLK2I5blhaSEJFdz09

Buzz Baum.

Online.

Monday 08 March 2021, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

Online.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

Krishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

Online.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Pacification and the engineering of ‘green’ extraction in southern Madagascar

Dr Amber Huff, Institute of Development Studies.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Against the grain; Modeling seed growth control as an mechano-sensitive incoherent feedforward loop.

https://zoom.us/j/9605624368?pwd=VVM3d203RGRQdkNjbXFhRTYvRWJidz09

Olivier Ali.

Online.

Monday 01 March 2021, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Online.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum

Now at 3pm

John Ferguson, Kromdijk group.

Online.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Defending lands and forests: NGO histories and extraordinary violence in the Philippines.

Dr Wolfram Dressler, University of Melbourne.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 10:00-11:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Two signals converge on a nerve cell’s path: The interplay between chemical and mechanical signals in the developing brain

https://zoom.us/j/92408292136?pwd=WkFSM3k0MDFoT0VacHFQb0o1TG5Edz09

Eva Pillai.

Online.

Monday 22 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

Online.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil fungi for us

NOTE TIME CHANGE

Maarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia.

Online.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Celia’s ghosts: On biotic loss and recovery in the Pyrenees.

Adam Searle, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

The importance of being edgy: directional growth control in Arabidopsis lateral roots

https://zoom.us/j/97556405670?pwd=ZU13RzBIY1NZQVVteVZaSWE2OVdnQT09

Charlotte Kirchhelle.

Online.

Monday 15 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Online.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences

Dr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning.

Online.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Landscape values, rewilding, and contested discourses of rural change in West Wales.

Dr George Holmes, University of Leeds.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Generating order out of (pseudo)chaos during vertebrate retinal lamination

https://zoom.us/j/95883597197?pwd=NHJSZVJWQ2R6clV1Qlp1WXoyWUFqZz09

Caren Norden.

Online.

Monday 08 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A thorny question: tinkering to evolve a novel mode of plant stem cell arrest

Vivian Irish, Yale University.

Online.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

From cell dynamics to robust tissue folding

https://zoom.us/j/97571586365?pwd=Tlg2TnRWWnh6andadWdIbzJsRmdHdz09

Magali Suzanne.

Online.

Monday 01 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

Online.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses

Dr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group.

Online.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cell shape, cell division and the development of early embyos

https://zoom.us/j/95172051126?pwd=YllZNXlTcTJJdDAwUkRRd0ZQbkFmQT09

Nicolas Minc.

Online.

Monday 25 January 2021, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

Online.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions

Frank C. Schroeder, Cornell University.

Online.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

First a war then a dance: How sensory organs take shape

https://zoom.us/j/94781964934?pwd=eDQvMUZjV0tTY3hYZ1drYlJmczlNQT09

Anna Erzberger (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany).

Online.

Monday 18 January 2021, 14:30-16:00

CambPlants Hub

Celebrating the FAO International Year of Plant Health: A forward looking perspective on tackling the grand challenges in plant health to transform agriculture sustainably.

Dr Richard Harrison - Director of Cambridge Crop Research, NIAB..

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

BioAnth Seminar Series PhD research presentations

Speaker to be confirmed.

Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here using link circulated by email.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Negotiating the panoptic gaze: power & conservation surveillance

Trishant Simlai, Department of Geography.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres

Matthew Naish, Henderson Group.

Online.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Assessing the locomotor behaviour of early humans using biomechanical modelling

Dr Ashleigh Wiseman (Royal Veterinary College).

Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/2Gcbbou.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion?

Professor Dame Sandra Dawson.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Democratising infrastructure? Governing energy democracy in South Africa

Dr Jon Phillips.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development

Prof Siobhan Brady, UC Davis.

Online.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Assessing the double burden of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from the Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort

Speaker to be confirmed.

Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3n5e7E8.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Conservation finance in a post-covid world

Dr Sophia Cooke, Dr Chris Sandbrook & Prof Bhaskar Vira.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Translation research in plant breeding, can we finish the job!

Abdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud .

Online.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Opportunities and challenges for an ecological Constitution in Chile

Beatriz Bustos, University of Chile.

Online, via MS Teams.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defying Mendel’s laws: epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum

Claudia Dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Online.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Multiple burdens of malnutrition among Maya families in Yucatan and how language (Spanish vs Mayan) impact health outcomes

Dr Inês Varela-Silva (University of Loughborough), with Hugo Azcorra, Maria Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Sabine Little.

Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/349mHZG.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Does stress lead to wrinkles?. The case of petal cuticles

Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Online.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Communication, cooperation and culture in Shark Bay dolphins

Stephanie King (University of Bristol).

Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3ncLK75.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolutionary legacies on ecosystem function and implications for global change: new insights from spectral biology

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota.

Online.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A bipartite transcription factor module controls bundle sheath preferential expression in Arabidopsis

Patrick Dickinson, Hibberd group.

Online.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Debrief of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) conference

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Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis

Dr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group.

Online.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis

Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

Online.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the species barrier to allow hybridization of C3 and C4 cereals

Greg Reeves, Hibberd group.

Online.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice

An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group.

Online.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The role of FoxN3 in the development of the chondrocranium and associated head muscles in the African Clawed-frog, Xenopus laevis

Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering the Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA): Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and its Nutrient Regulation in Barley

Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Life-course health and disease: an evolutionary perspective

Rihlat Said-Mohamed (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Response of the human gut and saliva microbiome to urbanisation in Cameroon

Laure Segurel (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing [CANCELLED]

Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Negotiating the panoptic gaze: people, power and conservation surveillance in the Corbett tiger reserve, India

Trishant Simlai, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

TBA

Ines Varela-Silva (Loughborough University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

The infrastructural other: spatial effects of the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya

Gediminas Lesutis, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cancelled: Understanding drivers and consequences of plant diversity across temporal and spatial scales in an era of rapid global change

This talk is cancelled

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Unrecorded history: what genomes tell us about ancestry and admixture

Aylwyn Scally (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Invasive species and ecological imperialism in South America. Current interactions between wood industry, wild boars, perroquets and hunters in Uruguay

Juan Martin Dabezies, Universidad de la República (Uruguay).

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth

Richard Smith, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function

Justin Crocker, EMBL.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Gender and Extractivism in Plurinational States – An intersectional approach to mining in Bolivia and Ecuador

Isabella M. Radhuber, University of Vienna (Austria).

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development

Tina Schreier, Hibberd group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-13:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

The political ecology of polar bear conservation: a circumpolar policy trainwreck

Doug Clark, University of Saskatchewan (Canada).

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbiosis through the Phanerozoic

Katie Field, University of Leeds.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Conserved defences underpin host responses to oomycete infection in liverworts

Philip Carella, SLCU.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Forest Governance in Guyana and Suriname

Ariadne Collins, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry .

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering NLR immune receptors to combat rice blast disease

Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Social Assessment of Protected Areas

Rob Small, Fauna and Flora International .

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Post Doc invited speaker

Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Political Ecologies of Urban Macaques in India

Anindya Sinha, Indian Institute of Science.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Tales of growth and buckling: Micro-pattern formation on petal surface cells

Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mid-Late Pleistocene human evolution in Eurasia

Professor Chris Stringer (NHM).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Coal, custom, and constitution: worldly politics in contemporary KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Thomas Cousins, University of Oxford.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mechanisms conferring seasonal flowering responses in annual and perennial plants

Post Doc invited speaker

George Coupland, Max Plank Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Understanding the use of green spaces using social media data – possibilities and challenges

Dr. Tuuli Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Digital Geography Lab.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains

Hester Sheehan, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:00-13:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Affective economies and the atmospheric politics of lively capital

Maan Barua, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

21st Century Crop Science Wo(man)

Alison Bentley, NIAB.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Zombie leopards, voodoo science and post-truth challenges to conservation

Martin Walsh, Wolfson College.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution

Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Chromatin and Cell Cycle in Cell Fate Decision

Dr. Clara Novo (Babraham) & Dr. Rodrigo Grandy (SCI).

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 18:30-20:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The continued marginalisation of cocoa farmers: from colonialism to contemporary, climate-smart governance

Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul University of Oxford.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Politics of Marine Biodiversity Data: Global and National Policies and Practices of Monitoring the Oceans

Alice Vadrot University of Vienna.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The evolution of reproductive isolation: multiple hybrid zones in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

Boris Delahaie, Glover group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-13:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘To dam or not to dam?’ Issues in financing and developing large hydropower.

Judith Plummer Braeckman - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Escaping Mendel’s laws: Epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum.

Claudia dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Nature in the City: thinking 'post' ecologies in Delhi

Suresh Babu Ambedkar University Delhi .

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Science and Policy Lectures & Seminars

Is the British Civil Service an endangered species?

Speaker to be confirmed.

Main Lecture Theatre, Divinity School, St John’s College.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 17:30-18:45

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

3D Organoid Cultures to Study Tissue Development and Diseases

Dr. Roberta Azzarelli (MRC) & Dr. Laura Pellegrini (LMB).

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Dynamics in forest microclimates provide new insights into biodiversity responses to climate change

Florian Zellweger, Coomes group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods

Prof Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Sinews of Sustainable Development Distinguished Speakers Series

Britain after Brexit: How to redesign the UK's role in sustainable development

Rt Honourable Andrew Mitchell MP.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:45-18:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function

Caroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Making sense of the world of scents

Dr. Kelsey J.R.P. Byers (Zoology) & Dr. Erika Pinheiro de Castro (Zoology).

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 18:30-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Who can afford (not) to mitigate? Agency, inequality, and additionality in agricultural carbon finance

Connor Joseph Cavanagh Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction

Julian Schroeder, UCSD.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Saving forests with love? Connection with nature at a tropical deforestation frontier

Dr. Kasia Mikolajczak.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

A 3D cell model for developmental biology: Using gastruloids to study early developmental events

Dr. Peter Baillie-Johnson (SCI), Dr Naomi Moris (Genetics) and Dr David Turner (Genetics).

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 18:30-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Single Cell Multi-Omics Technologies and Applications

Dr Lia Chappell (Sanger) & Mr Ricard Argelaguet (EMBL-EBI).

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Antarctic snow algae blooms – analysing community function from microscopes to satellites

Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-13:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Protecting a Beyul: Harnessing the Power of Mountain Gods and Environmental Law to Protect a Sacred Landscape

Bruce Huett, Associate member Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity

Alexandre Antonelli, Kew.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Creating predictable gene knock-outs at scale with CRISPR/Cas9

Dr. Luca Crepaldi (Sanger) & Dr. Felicity Allen (Sanger).

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 18:30-20:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Women, wellbeing and wildlife management areas in Tanzania

Professor Katherine Homewood, Dept of Anthropology, UCL.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

Paul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Homo sapiens evolution through the Asian lens

Professor María Martinón-Torres, CENIEH.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Assembling Conservation as Territoriality in Timor-Leste.

Dr Alexander Cullen, Lecturer in Political Ecology, Geography Department, University of Cambridge..

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD

Mike Blatt, Glasgow.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

From Stars to Life

Dr. Paul B Rimmer (Cavendish, LMB) and Dr Claudia Bonfio (LMB).

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-20:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

North American Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions: was it murder or climatic mayhem?

Professor David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail

Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Targeted grafts as a tool to enhance tomato preservation

Sara Lopez-Gomollon, Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

New approaches to modeling technological evolution

Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld, University of Cambridge .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Engaging Conservation: Forest-Employed Villagers and Intervention Bureaucracies in Central India

Adam Runacres, UCL.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development

Dominique Bergmann, Stanford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Tracking a killer: using ancient DNA to understand the evolutionary history of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Professor Anne Stone, Arizona State University.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sychronized cells as a model for the diel regulation of Rubisco-EPYC1 interactions in the Chlamydomonas CCM

Indu Santhanagopalan, Griffiths lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Folktales, languages and genes: the plot thickens

Dr. Jamshid Tehrani, University of Durham.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila

Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Endangered genes and the International Seed Bank: conserving crop diversity after the Green Revolution

Dr Helen Curry, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From start to finish: Emerging functions of the N-end rule pathway of proteolysis in plants

Dan Gibbs, Birmingham.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

The Journey of Human Early Development: from Gametes to Embryos and the Germline Specification

Dr. Marta Shahbazi (PDN) & Dr. Naoko Irie (Gurdon).

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:30-20:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The evolution of animal construction and why it matters to anthropologists

Dr. Sally Street, University of Durham.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Resilient Leadership: Place-Based Learning for Sustainable Transformation.

Ajay Rastogi, Director of the Foundation for Contemplation of Nature based in Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India..

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

How to train your boyfriend: Integrating evolutionary psychology and behaviourist learning theory 

Dr. Diana Fleischman, University of Portsmouth.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination

Andy Tock, Henderson Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Digging ancient haplotypes out of modern human genomes

Dr. Luca Pagani, University of Padova.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Deadly Truths and Lively Tensions: Saving Nature in the Era of Post-Truth and Platform Capitalism

Bram Büscher, Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Apologies, due to flight cancellation this talk will be rescheduled

Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Building with DNA: From DNA Crystals to Designer Proteins and Enzymes

Dr Ryan Brady (Cavendish) and Dr Alexander Ohmann (Cavendish) .

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 18:30-20:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project

Dr. Susana Carvalho.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

From a white desert to a strategic resource: history of the commodification of the Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia

Daniela Sanchez-Lopez, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How do betalains evolved? Consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales

Samuel Lopez, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Josephine Joordens.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Inheritance law and the uniform civil code in India

Time and title to be confirmed. This talk will be held in conjunction with Cambridge University India Society (CUIS) and the Cambridge Society For Economic Pluralism (CSEP)

Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment University of Manchester.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 00:00-00:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

New, Intelligent Systems for Disease Surveillance and Diagnosis

Dr Nicole Wheeler (Sanger) and Dr Joshua Kaggie (Radiology).

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 18:30-20:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Life History of Hunting Skill in 40 Human Societies

Professor Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis

Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Institutionalising environmental values and valuation into policy

Dr Jacob Phelps, Lecturer in Tropical Environmental Change and Policy, Lancaster University.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Coordinated approaches to assess the effects of interacting global change drivers on forest composition and function

Kris Verheyen, University of Ghent.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Could ‘dark logic’ help to avoid causing harm in conservation interventions?

Peadar Brehony, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

In vivo Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network in Physiological and Pathological Conditions

Dr. Luca Pellegrinet & Dr. Jessica Hitchcock.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 18:30-20:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Major Transitions in Evolution: When’s the Next One?

Dr. Kit Opie (Bristol).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity

Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Discussion of chapters from Steven Pinker's book "Enlightenment Now"

Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How the nutrient status of the plant controls its engagement with microorganisms

Giles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Music first: hunter-gatherers and the evolution of language

Dr. Jerome Lewis (UCL).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Bombarding with data? Drones, oil extraction and environmental justice in the Amazon

Note this talk will be held on a Wednesday, while ordinarily the Political Ecology talks are on a Tuesday.

Murat Arsel, Murat Arsel, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis

Leonie Luginbuehl, Hibberd group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-13:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

The role of early-career researchers in changing the culture of scholarly communication

Dr. Avasthi (Hemenway Life Sciences Innovation Center at the University of Kansas), Dr Brown and Dr. Palfy (preLights) .

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 18:00-19:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Nearly Naked Ape: Human Evolution Just Got Hairier

Tina Lasisi (Penn State) .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Group discussion of decolonising conservation – based on a video of Paige West’s plenary session at this year’s Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) conference

Jose Chambers.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00