eg334's list

Building and Breaking the Neural Tube

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User Clare Buckley (PDN, University of Cambridge) .

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

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

User Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

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

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

User Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

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User Eva Zaffarini (McCaig Institute, University of Calgary).

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

Junctional Remodelling in Vascular Morphogenesis

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User Maria Paraskevi Kotini (Biozentrum, Basel Switzerland).

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

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

User Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

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

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

User Dr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK.

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

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

Applications of X-ray imaging in Archaeology and palaeontology

User Diamond Light Source .

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

House Hardy Building room 101.

Political ecologists on the inside: insights from attending CBD COP15

User Ellie Kirkland, Chris Sandbrook, Chloe King.

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

The Closeting of Secrets

User Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

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

Soil microbiomes and one Health

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

House Online only.

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

User Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford).

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

House Zoom Meeting ID: 831 416 6462 .

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

User Prof Jan Selby , Sheffield University.

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

Mechano-chemical feedbacks in plant regeneration

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

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

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

User Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

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

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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User Kyogo Kawaguchi .

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

House Hardy Building Room 101.

Plot: On Black Spatial Insurgency

User Dr J.T. Roane, Rutgers University.

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

Evolution of Morphogenesis: the case of cephalic furrow

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

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

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

User Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

User Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

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

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

User Dr Vanessa Campanacho.

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

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

User Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

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

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

User Dr Steven McGreevy, University of Twente.

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

Dynamics and mechanics of cell shape changes during cellular state changes

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

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

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

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

The recently discovered ties between teeth and infants in human evolution

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User Dr Leslea Hlusko.

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

User Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

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

Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petals

User Lucie Riglet, Sainsbury's Laboratory, Cambridge University.

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

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

User Katharine Goodwin (Princeton, MRC LMB) .

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

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

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

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User Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

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

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

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

Inferring the evolution of skeletal gracility in hominins and extant mammals

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User Dr Habiba Chirchir.

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

User Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

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

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

User Dr Jared Margulies, University of Alabama.

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

Computational Models of the Development of the Central Nervous System

User Dagmar Iber, ETH Zurich (Computational Biology) .

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

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

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

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

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

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User Dr Jorge Lopez-Tello.

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

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

User Dr Paula Satizábal, Oldenberg University.

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

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

User Bénédicte Charrier .

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

User Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA.

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

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

Biological diversity among modern human populations

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User Dr Fernando Rozzi.

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

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

User Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

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

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

User Alasdair Neilson, Cambridge University.

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

Cell extrusion—an exciting start to the end of life

User Jody Rosenblatt, King's College London.

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

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

User Professor Tor Benjaminsen, NMBU.

House HB101.

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

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

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

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

Primate responses to death: insights into death awareness

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User Dr Alecia Carter, University College London .

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

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

User Robin Beaven, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

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

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

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

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

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

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

User Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

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

House In person (venue TBC).

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

User Aalayna Green (University of Cornell) .

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

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways

User Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

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

House In person in the David Attenborough Building.

Conflict resolution for the future of biodiversity conservation

User Alexandra Zimmermann (University of Oxford) .

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

4D reconstruction of developmental trajectories

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User Giovanni Dalmasso (EMBL Barcelona, Sharpe Lab) .

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

Exploring variation in neural crest development among East African cichlid fishes

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User Aleksandra Marconi (Zoology Department, Santos lab) .

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

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis

User Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

The trouble with relational values

User Rogelio Luque Lora (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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User Geraldine Jowett (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) .

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

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

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User Antonia Weberling (PDN, Cambridge) .

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

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

User Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

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

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

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

User Dr Dorit Hockman.

House Zoom.

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

House In person (venue TBC).

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

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

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

Drivers of cnidarian morphogenesis

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User Aissam Ikmi (EMBL, Heidelberg).

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

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

User Professor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester.

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Dr Edwige Moyroud.

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

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

User Eric Ober.

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

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

User Darius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

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

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

User Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

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

Multicellular coordination in context

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

User Takashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands .

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

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

User Professor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol .

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Prof Gaspar Jékely.

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

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

User Guy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

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

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

User Elia Apostolopoulou (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Daniel Kierzkowski Montreal University .

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

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

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

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Dr Jordi Solana.

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

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

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

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Prof Paola Oliveri.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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User Matteo Rauzi (IBV, Nice).

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

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

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

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

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

User Ji Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

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

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

Plotting the Coloniality of Conservation - reading discussion

User Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul, Ariadne Collins, Judith Krauss.

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

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

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

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

User Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

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

The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site

User Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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User Natalie Dye (POL Dresden) .

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

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

User Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

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

Who Cares About Hornworts?

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

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

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

User Kate Meehan, King's College London.

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

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

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User Paul K. Strother (Boston College) .

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

Food and Cultural History

User Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Dr Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London.

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

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

User Reading discussion led by Chris Sandbrook.

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

Mechanisms generating robustness in plant organ size and shape

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User Adrienne Roeder .

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

Food as Expression

User Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

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

Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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

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

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

User 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.

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

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

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

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

X-rays and Food Safety

User Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

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

Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis

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

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

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

User Dr Jaap Saers, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Tom Fry, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

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

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

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User Laura Pellegrini (LMB, Cambridge).

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

Food, Power and Society

User Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

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

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

User Dr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar.

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

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

User Reading discussion led by Roge Luque-Lora.

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

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

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User Sundar Naganathan (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) .

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

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

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User Xuan Liang (PDN, Cambridge University) .

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

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

User Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

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

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

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

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

Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction

User Helen Curry, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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User Marie-Cécile Caillaud, CR CNRS.

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

Food and Climate Change

User Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

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

Developmental Control of Avian Skin Patterning

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User Marie Manceau.

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

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

User Dr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Talk by Annette Green

User Annette Green.

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

POSTPONED*Drivers of Morphological complexity: a Cnidarian Perspective

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User Aissam Ikmi.

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

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

User Dr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

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

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

User Thomas Pienkowski.

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

Symplasmic auxin movement and the evolution of plant architecture

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User Yoan Coudert.

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

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

User Dr Julia Walter, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Urban Political Ecology

User Dr. Kate Meehan.

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

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

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User Bertrand Benazeraf.

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

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

User Professor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

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

Human Evolution at the Crossroads

User Professor Katerina Harvati.

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

Strange Natures

User Prof. Bill Adams.

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

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

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User Ben Steventon, Jamie McGinn.

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

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

User Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

RAI Anthropology & Conservation conference debrief

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants

User Dr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

TBC

User Professor James O’Connell and Professor Kristen Hawkes.

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

Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development

User Hannah Parris, University of Cambridge .

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

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

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User Renske Vroomans; Matteusz Trylinski.

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

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

User Dr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

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

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

User Bruce Huett and Riamsara Knapp.

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

Morphogenesis and cell ordering in bacterial biofilms

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User Jing Yan.

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

Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

User Professor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri.

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

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

User Professor Richard Wrangham.

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

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

User Dr. Liana Chua.

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

Cell shape determination: Mechanical competition vs. endogenous genetic programme

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User Maria Leptin.

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

Mapping and deliberating values for Uplands management

User Janet Fisher, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

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

User Rashmi Priya, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

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

Situating vegetal lives in political ecology: from plantationocene to planthroposcene

User Anna Lawrence, University of Cambridge.

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

"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

User Buffy Eldridge, PDN, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Toby Andrews, Department of Zoology, Univeristy of Cambridge.

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

Forthcoming Museum of Zoology Programme

User Dr Rosalyn Wade (University of Cambridge).

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

de novo gene emergence in cichlid fishes

User Emília Santos (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Susie McLaren, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

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

More-than-human nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland

User Guillem Rubio Ramón, University of Edinburgh.

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

The roots of our ecological crisis

User Rogelio Luque-Lora, University of Cambridge.

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

Morphogenesis of the mouse and human embryo beyond implantation

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

User Matteo Molè.

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

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

User Revati Pandya, University of Wageningen.

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

Size sensing in biological systems- new insights from planarians

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

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

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

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

User Chris Lambing, Henderson group.

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

John Muir, Indigenous erasure, and conservation reckoning

User Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

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

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

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

User Sally Horne-Badovinac, University of Chicago.

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

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

User Prof Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

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

Stochastic gene expression drives mesophyll protoplast regeneration

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

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

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

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

User Arpitha Kodiveri, European University Institute..

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

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

User Kumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Prof Hailing Jin, UCR Riverside.

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

Blood Sculptures

User Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

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

Postponed - Protecting the Environment

Postponed for now. Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

How places matter: A new theory of environmental value.

User Dr Simon P. James, University of Durham.

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

The evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes

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

User Buzz Baum.

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

Cold Blood

User Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

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

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

User Krishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

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

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

User Dr Amber Huff, Institute of Development Studies.

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

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

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

User Olivier Ali.

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

Blood villains and heros

User Ms Rose George, Journalist.

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

Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum

Now at 3pm

User John Ferguson, Kromdijk group.

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

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

User Dr Wolfram Dressler, University of Melbourne.

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

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

User Eva Pillai.

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

Bloodlines of the British

User Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

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

Soil fungi for us

NOTE TIME CHANGE

User Maarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia.

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

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

User Adam Searle, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Charlotte Kirchhelle.

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

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

User Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

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

Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences

User Dr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning.

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

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

User Dr George Holmes, University of Leeds.

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

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

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

User Caren Norden.

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

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

User Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Vivian Irish, Yale University.

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

From cell dynamics to robust tissue folding

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

User Magali Suzanne.

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

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

User Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

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

From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses

User Dr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group.

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

Cell shape, cell division and the development of early embyos

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

User Nicolas Minc.

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

Battle Blood

User Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

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

Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions

User Frank C. Schroeder, Cornell University.

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

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

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

User Anna Erzberger (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany).

House Webinar (via Zoom 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.

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

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

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

BioAnth Seminar Series PhD research presentations

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Negotiating the panoptic gaze: power & conservation surveillance

User Trishant Simlai, Department of Geography.

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

Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres

User Matthew Naish, Henderson Group.

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

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

Assessing the locomotor behaviour of early humans using biomechanical modelling

User Dr Ashleigh Wiseman (Royal Veterinary College).

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

Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion?

User Professor Dame Sandra Dawson.

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

Democratising infrastructure? Governing energy democracy in South Africa

User Dr Jon Phillips.

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

Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development

User Prof Siobhan Brady, UC Davis.

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

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

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

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Conservation finance in a post-covid world

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

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

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

User Abdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud .

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

House Online, via MS Teams.

Opportunities and challenges for an ecological Constitution in Chile

User Beatriz Bustos, University of Chile.

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

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

User Claudia Dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

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

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

Communication, cooperation and culture in Shark Bay dolphins

User Stephanie King (University of Bristol).

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

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

User Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota.

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

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

User Patrick Dickinson, Hibberd group.

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

House Venue to be confirmed.

Debrief of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) conference

User -.

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

Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis

User Dr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group.

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

Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis

User Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

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

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

User Greg Reeves, Hibberd group.

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

Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice

User An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group.

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

User Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

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

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

Life-course health and disease: an evolutionary perspective

User Rihlat Said-Mohamed (University of Cambridge).

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

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

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

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

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

User Laure Segurel (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle).

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

User Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

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

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

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

User Trishant Simlai, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

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

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

TBA

User Ines Varela-Silva (Loughborough University).

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

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

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

User Gediminas Lesutis, University of Cambridge.

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

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

This talk is cancelled

User Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

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

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

Unrecorded history: what genomes tell us about ancestry and admixture

User Aylwyn Scally (University of Cambridge).

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

The Enigma of Emotion

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

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

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

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

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

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

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

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

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

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Richard Smith, John Innes Centre.

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

User Justin Crocker, EMBL.

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

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

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

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

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

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Tina Schreier, Hibberd group.

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

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

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

User Doug Clark, University of Saskatchewan (Canada).

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

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Katie Field, University of Leeds.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Conserved defences underpin host responses to oomycete infection in liverworts

User Philip Carella, SLCU.

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

TBC

User Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

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

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

Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Forest Governance in Guyana and Suriname

User Ariadne Collins, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry .

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Engineering NLR immune receptors to combat rice blast disease

User Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre.

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

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

Social Assessment of Protected Areas

User Rob Small, Fauna and Flora International .

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Post Doc invited speaker

User Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

TBC

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

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

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

The Political Ecologies of Urban Macaques in India

User Anindya Sinha, Indian Institute of Science.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

User James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Tales of growth and buckling: Micro-pattern formation on petal surface cells

User Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-13:30

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

Mid-Late Pleistocene human evolution in Eurasia

User Professor Chris Stringer (NHM).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Coal, custom, and constitution: worldly politics in contemporary KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

User Thomas Cousins, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mechanisms conferring seasonal flowering responses in annual and perennial plants

Post Doc invited speaker

User George Coupland, Max Plank Institute.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

User Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Understanding the use of green spaces using social media data – possibilities and challenges

User Dr. Tuuli Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Digital Geography Lab.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains

User Hester Sheehan, Brockington group.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:00-13:30

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

Affective economies and the atmospheric politics of lively capital

User Maan Barua, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

21st Century Crop Science Wo(man)

User Alison Bentley, NIAB.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Zombie leopards, voodoo science and post-truth challenges to conservation

User Martin Walsh, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution

User Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Chromatin and Cell Cycle in Cell Fate Decision

User Dr. Clara Novo (Babraham) & Dr. Rodrigo Grandy (SCI).

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 18:30-20:00

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

The continued marginalisation of cocoa farmers: from colonialism to contemporary, climate-smart governance

User Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul University of Oxford.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

The Politics of Marine Biodiversity Data: Global and National Policies and Practices of Monitoring the Oceans

User Alice Vadrot University of Vienna.

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The evolution of reproductive isolation: multiple hybrid zones in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

User Boris Delahaie, Glover group.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-13:30

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

‘To dam or not to dam?’ Issues in financing and developing large hydropower.

User Judith Plummer Braeckman - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Escaping Mendel’s laws: Epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum.

User Claudia dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

User Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Nature in the City: thinking 'post' ecologies in Delhi

User Suresh Babu Ambedkar University Delhi .

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Science and Policy Lectures & Seminars

Is the British Civil Service an endangered species?

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Main Lecture Theatre, Divinity School, St John’s College.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 17:30-18:45

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

3D Organoid Cultures to Study Tissue Development and Diseases

User Dr. Roberta Azzarelli (MRC) & Dr. Laura Pellegrini (LMB).

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Dynamics in forest microclimates provide new insights into biodiversity responses to climate change

User Florian Zellweger, Coomes group.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods

User Prof Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London.

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

User Rt Honourable Andrew Mitchell MP.

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:45-18:45

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function

User Caroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Making sense of the world of scents

User Dr. Kelsey J.R.P. Byers (Zoology) & Dr. Erika Pinheiro de Castro (Zoology).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 18:30-20:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

TBC

User Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Who can afford (not) to mitigate? Agency, inequality, and additionality in agricultural carbon finance

User Connor Joseph Cavanagh Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction

User Julian Schroeder, UCSD.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Saving forests with love? Connection with nature at a tropical deforestation frontier

User Dr. Kasia Mikolajczak.

Tuesday 16 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

A 3D cell model for developmental biology: Using gastruloids to study early developmental events

User Dr. Peter Baillie-Johnson (SCI), Dr Naomi Moris (Genetics) and Dr David Turner (Genetics).

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 18:30-20:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

User Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Single Cell Multi-Omics Technologies and Applications

User Dr Lia Chappell (Sanger) & Mr Ricard Argelaguet (EMBL-EBI).

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Antarctic snow algae blooms – analysing community function from microscopes to satellites

User Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-13:30

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

Protecting a Beyul: Harnessing the Power of Mountain Gods and Environmental Law to Protect a Sacred Landscape

User Bruce Huett, Associate member Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Perception of Visual Space

User Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity

User Alexandre Antonelli, Kew.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Creating predictable gene knock-outs at scale with CRISPR/Cas9

User Dr. Luca Crepaldi (Sanger) & Dr. Felicity Allen (Sanger).

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 18:30-20:00

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

Women, wellbeing and wildlife management areas in Tanzania

User Professor Katherine Homewood, Dept of Anthropology, UCL.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

User Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Vision

User Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

User Paul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Homo sapiens evolution through the Asian lens

User Professor María Martinón-Torres, CENIEH.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

User Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Assembling Conservation as Territoriality in Timor-Leste.

User Dr Alexander Cullen, Lecturer in Political Ecology, Geography Department, University of Cambridge..

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

Viewing the Universe

User Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD

User Mike Blatt, Glasgow.

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

From Stars to Life

User Dr. Paul B Rimmer (Cavendish, LMB) and Dr Claudia Bonfio (LMB).

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-20:00

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

North American Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions: was it murder or climatic mayhem?

User Professor David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail

User Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg.

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

Appearance and Physical Reality

User Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Targeted grafts as a tool to enhance tomato preservation

User Sara Lopez-Gomollon, Baulcombe Lab.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-13:30

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

New approaches to modeling technological evolution

User Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld, University of Cambridge .

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

User Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Engaging Conservation: Forest-Employed Villagers and Intervention Bureaucracies in Central India

User Adam Runacres, UCL.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Vision of Future Technology

User Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development

User Dominique Bergmann, Stanford.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Tracking a killer: using ancient DNA to understand the evolutionary history of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

User Professor Anne Stone, Arizona State University.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution of the Eye

User Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Sychronized cells as a model for the diel regulation of Rubisco-EPYC1 interactions in the Chlamydomonas CCM

User Indu Santhanagopalan, Griffiths lab.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

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

Folktales, languages and genes: the plot thickens

User Dr. Jamshid Tehrani, University of Durham.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila

User Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Endangered genes and the International Seed Bank: conserving crop diversity after the Green Revolution

User Dr Helen Curry, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Colour and Vision

User Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

From start to finish: Emerging functions of the N-end rule pathway of proteolysis in plants

User Dan Gibbs, Birmingham.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

The Journey of Human Early Development: from Gametes to Embryos and the Germline Specification

User Dr. Marta Shahbazi (PDN) & Dr. Naoko Irie (Gurdon).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:30-20:00

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

The evolution of animal construction and why it matters to anthropologists

User Dr. Sally Street, University of Durham.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Resilient Leadership: Place-Based Learning for Sustainable Transformation.

User Ajay Rastogi, Director of the Foundation for Contemplation of Nature based in Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India..

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Visions

User Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

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

How to train your boyfriend: Integrating evolutionary psychology and behaviourist learning theory

User Dr. Diana Fleischman, University of Portsmouth.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination

User Andy Tock, Henderson Lab.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

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

Digging ancient haplotypes out of modern human genomes

User Dr. Luca Pagani, University of Padova.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

User Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Cambridge.

Deadly Truths and Lively Tensions: Saving Nature in the Era of Post-Truth and Platform Capitalism

User Bram Büscher, Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

User Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Apologies, due to flight cancellation this talk will be rescheduled

User Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Building with DNA: From DNA Crystals to Designer Proteins and Enzymes

User Dr Ryan Brady (Cavendish) and Dr Alexander Ohmann (Cavendish) .

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project

User Dr. Susana Carvalho.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

From a white desert to a strategic resource: history of the commodification of the Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia

User Daniela Sanchez-Lopez, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How do betalains evolved? Consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales

User Samuel Lopez, Brockington group.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Josephine Joordens.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

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)

User Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment University of Manchester.

House To be confirmed.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 00:00-00:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

New, Intelligent Systems for Disease Surveillance and Diagnosis

User Dr Nicole Wheeler (Sanger) and Dr Joshua Kaggie (Radiology).

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

The Life History of Hunting Skill in 40 Human Societies

User Professor Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute).

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis

User Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Institutionalising environmental values and valuation into policy

User Dr Jacob Phelps, Lecturer in Tropical Environmental Change and Policy, Lancaster University.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Coordinated approaches to assess the effects of interacting global change drivers on forest composition and function

User Kris Verheyen, University of Ghent.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Could ‘dark logic’ help to avoid causing harm in conservation interventions?

User Peadar Brehony, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

In vivo Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network in Physiological and Pathological Conditions

User Dr. Luca Pellegrinet & Dr. Jessica Hitchcock.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Major Transitions in Evolution: When’s the Next One?

User Dr. Kit Opie (Bristol).

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity

User Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Discussion of chapters from Steven Pinker's book "Enlightenment Now"

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How the nutrient status of the plant controls its engagement with microorganisms

User Giles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Music first: hunter-gatherers and the evolution of language

User Dr. Jerome Lewis (UCL).

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

User Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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.

User Murat Arsel, Murat Arsel, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis

User Leonie Luginbuehl, Hibberd group.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-13:30

The role of early-career researchers in changing the culture of scholarly communication

User Dr. Avasthi (Hemenway Life Sciences Innovation Center at the University of Kansas), Dr Brown and Dr. Palfy (preLights) .

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 18:00-19:30

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

The Nearly Naked Ape: Human Evolution Just Got Hairier

User Tina Lasisi (Penn State) .

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Group discussion of decolonising conservation – based on a video of Paige West’s plenary session at this year’s Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) conference

User Jose Chambers.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

User Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Jason Hodgson (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

The production of an urban post-political ecology: Or, is the apocalypse really such a good thing?

Note this talk is unusually on a Monday, thereafter unless otherwise specified, PE talks will be on a Tuesday 1-2pm. As this is the first session of term, there will be a short introduction at the beginning.

User Earl Harper, University of Bristol.

Monday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

AI-driven Automated Image Analysis of Biological Data

User Andrea Dimitracopoulos (PDN).

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Our Ways: Toolmaking and the Origins of Normative Cognition

User Professor Jonathan Birch (LSE).

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry

User Dr Frank Hirth, King's College London.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies

User Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago.

Monday 17 September 2018, 14:00-15:00

The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies

User Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Using Human Studies in Health Research

User Ulla Sovio and Sarah Jackson.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 18:30-20:00

Local perceptions of Justice and Natural Resources in a Mexican fishing community

User Karen Wong-Perez, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Hidden problems in the global wind industry

User Dr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

The effectiveness of wooden spears as hunting weapons

User Annemieke Milks (University College London).

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Transforming global “win-win” discourse

User Josie Chambers, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Developing and Funding a Global System for the Conservation of Crop Diversity in Genebanks

User Luigi Guarino, Crop Trust.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Journey to the Clinic

User Thomas Moreau and Daniel Ortmann .

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Climate crises: their social, technological and demographic impact on the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Angkor

User Charles Higham (University of Otago).

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Assemblages for sustainable development: omissions and transformations in Bolivia

User Jessica Hope, University of Bristol.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A Ser/Thr receptor-like kinase, Ark1, is required to maintain arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice

User Ronelle Roth, Paszkowski Lab.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

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

T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project

User Susana Carvalho (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours?

User Zuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague).

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biodiversity offsetting, urbanization and the right to nature

User Elia Apostolopoulou,University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics

Third "Enid MacRobbie Women in Science" lecture

User Anne Osbourne, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Targeted sequencing for in-depth characterisation of the disease phenotypes

User Kousik Kundu and Tom McKerrel.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Cultural evolution of kinship diversity: the micro and macro of talking about family

User Fiona Jordan (University of Bristol).

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Urban livestock keeping in Hanoi: policies, risks and benefits

User Johanna Lindahl, Intl. Livestock Research Institute, Uppsala University.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Multiple macroevolutionary routes to becoming a biodiversity hotspot

User Javier Igea, Tanentzap Lab.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

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

A reassessment of plant foods in Neanderthal diets

User Amanda Henry (Leiden University).

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan?

User Naoki Irie (University of Tokyo).

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Alison Richard’s Building, S1, Sidgwick Site.

Session on the Green Economy: How does politics and economics interact with respect to the environment?

User Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 12:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Explosive seed dispersal

User Angela Hay, Max Planck.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Network analysis of large-scale human neuroimaging data

User Rezvan Farahibozorg and Sarah Morgan.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User To be confirmed.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Manatee Room, David Attenborough Building (DAB).

Managing telecoupled landscapes for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation

User Julie Zaehringer, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

User Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

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

Past, present, and future of orangutan conservation

User Serge Wich (Liverpool John Moores University).

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox

User Stephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

The political ecology of voice (PEV) of oil company-community relations in Peru’s Loreto Region

User Adrian Gonzalez, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Unlocking the secrets of medicinal crops: from artemisinin to morphine, why are plants still better than bugs at making these drugs?

User Ian Graham, University of York.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Organic Bio-Electronic systems: from tissue engineering to drug discovery

User Anna-Maria Pappa and Dr. C. Pitsalidis.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Is that really helping? Critical analysis of breastfeeding support in the UK from an evolutionary perspective

User Emily Emmott (University College London).

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita

User Juan Fraire-Zamora (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona).

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Coslett (COS207), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

GSI Seminar - Using stories in energy research: Snapshots of three approaches

User Dr Rosie Robison, Dr Chris Foulds, Dr Mel Rohse (Global Sustainability Institute).

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

(Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape

Special Seminar

User Joe Ecker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological studies.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Modelling Complex Behaviours in Rodents

User Julija Krupic (PDN) & Bianca Jupp (Psychology).

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB002), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Debating Nature's Value Conference

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 09:30-19:00

House Helmore (HEL113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

GSI / Environmental Law seminar - Richard Buxton Law

User Matthew McFeeley and Hannah Brown, claimant lawyer at Richard Buxton Environment and Public Law Firm.

Tuesday 10 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Miniguts: A System to Understand Intestinal Pathologies

User Dr. Fernanda Schreiber (Sanger) & Dr. Maria Duque (Sanger).

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Evolution’s Bite: Dental evidence for the diets of our distant ancestors

User Peter S. Ungar (University of Arkansas).

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

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

Primate tourism: opportunities and challenges

User Laetitia Marechal (University of Lincoln).

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Small Lecture Theatre (SLT), Department of Geography .

To be confirmed

User Bram Buscher.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Animal Migration

User Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Protein targeting within the chloroplast: a cell-biological view of starch biosynthesis

User Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Dive into the Lives of Flies and Ants

User Erika Dona & Danielle Mersch .

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Social support and breastfeeding in the UK: evolutionary perspectives and implications for public health

User Emily Emmott (University College London).

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution

User Jordi Solana (Oxford Brookes University).

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

To be confirmed

User Jess Hope.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Migration in Science

User Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

Friday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED-Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-13:30

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

Ancient DNA studies of early modern humans and late Neanderthals

User Mateja Hajdinjak (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

House HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Biodiversity offsetting and the construction of "Equivalent natures": A Marxist critique

User Elia Apostolopoulou, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

The Partition of India and Migration

User Ms Kavita Puri, BBC.

Friday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Magnetic Resonance on Two Scales for Research into Cell Cycle and Stroke

User Dr. Samuel Furse (Dept of Biochemistry) Dr. Zhongzhao Teng (Dept of Radiology).

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Anthropological engineering and hominin dietary ecology

User Michael Berthaume (Imperial College).

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Modularity, criticality and evolvability of a developmental GRN

User Berta Verd (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

The Politics of Dam Resurgence: Exclusion and Inclusion of Socio-Ecological Impacts From Three Case Studies

User Barnaby Dye, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Disease Migration

User Professor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

Friday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phylogenetic hypothesis of the Oleeae tribe (Oleaceae)  Diversification and molecular evolution patterns in plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA

User Loubab Zedane, Brockington Lab.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

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

Diagnosing diseases of childhood: a bioarchaeological and palaeopathological perspective

User Carolyn Rando (University College London).

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

The Shaman is the White Man's Computer": The interaction of shamanism and conservation in Amazonian Guyana

User Lewis Daly.

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Refugees and Migration

User Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants Plant host-pathogen coevolution and exploring local adaptation of an Arabidopsis thaliana complex Resistance gene locus

User Jane Parker, MPI Cologne.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Intravital Imaging – Applications and Image Analysis/ Information session on Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowships

User Justyna Rak and Reema Khorshed.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Anthropology, mass graves and the politics of the dead

User Constantine Eliopoulos (Liverpool John Moores University).

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration

User Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin).

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Reflecting on success and failure in community-based conservation: a case study from Western Amazonia

User Joe Hawes.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Art and Migration

User Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

From vesicles to responsive artificial tissues

User Emma Talbot, Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

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

Prehistoric cannibalism: why such a fuss?

User Silvia Bello (Natural History Museum).

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates

User Shunsuke Sogabe (University of St Andrews).

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Charcoal Power: Woodfuels and Political Violence in Uganda

User Adam Branch, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immigration and Freedom

User Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

Friday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED-Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Using NanoBiT® Technology to Study Protein-Protein Interactions in Living Cells

User Mr. Andrei Smid (Dept of Medicine) & Dr. Jacek Mokrosinski (IMS).

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Knowledge on wild plants in BaYaka hunter-gatherers and its implications on cultural evolution and health

User Gul Deniz Salali (University College London).

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain centers

User Gaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Perceptions across scales of governance and the Indonesian peatland fires

User Rachel Carmenta, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Black and British Migration

User Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Using the auxin-inducible degron in yeast to understand the spliceosome cycle

User Gonzalo Mendoza, Smith Lab.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-13:30

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

The domestication of the seasons, a later critical stage in the transformation of cultivated plants

User Professor Martin Jones (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

User Hernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Towards understanding of photoacclimation in algal photosynthesis – regulation via redox and Ca2+

User Michael Hippler, University of Munster.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

Translation, Partnership and Impact (lunchtime seminar)

User Dr. Paula Frampton (CATS) & Dr. Vibhuti Patel (Bioscience Impact Team).

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 12:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Increasing Crop Productivity Sustainably by Bioengineering Improved Photosynthetic Efficiency

User Stephen Long, University of Illinois.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Mindfulness Training: Effects on Psychological Distress and Immune Cell Activation Patterns

User Julieta Galante and Lori Turner.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Beyond recognition: The application of biological anthropology to identification of the more recently deceased

User Heather Bonney (Natural History Museum).

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

User Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Conservation by Algorithm

User Bill Adams, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Marketing in Conservation

User Diogo Verissimo, John Hopkins University.

Friday 24 November 2017, 14:30-16:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Identification of a suppressor of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis in rice

User Jeongmin Choi, Paszkowski Lab.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

User Brian Metscher (University of Vienna).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion

User Daniel Jackson (University of Göttingen).

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

What do conservationists believe about people, nature and markets?

User Chris Sandbrook, Department of Geography, University of CAmbridge.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant intracellular immune receptors; diversity, deployment and dissection

User Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Biomaterials for tissue engineering

User Sasha Berdichevski (Dept of Engineering) and Dan Bax (Dept of Material Science).

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Culture and the EEA: Origins of human social structure, cognition and language

User Lucio Vinicius (University College London).

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series

Can you handle the truth? Facts, figures and communicating uncertainty

Attendance at this event is by registration only.

User David Spiegelhalter (Statistical Laboratory).

House Peterhouse Lecture Theatre, Trumpington Street.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 17:30-20:00

Scarce land, diverse livelihoods - Tracking 35 years of change in central Mali

User Professor Camilla Toulmin, Lancaster University and iied.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Not just a pretty flower- an ancestral function for LEAFY in shoot development of non-seed vascular plants

User Andrew Plackett, Hibberd Lab.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

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

The ecology and evolutionary origins of Australopithecus

User René Bobe (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders

User Emilia Santos (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Managing the global land resource

User Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Protein misfolding and aggregation, from test tube to disease

User Tessa Sinnige and Karen Stroobants (Dept. of Chemistry).

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

What’s so social about primate sociability?

User Robin Dunbar (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Petroleum in the Norwegian Arctic: Local content or dreams at sea?

User Raghnild Freng Dale.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Sustainable bioenergy and biofuels from microalgae: a systems biology perspective

User Maria Huete Ortega, Smith Lab.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

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

Morphological and palaeoecological perspectives on baboon evolution

User Sarah Elton (Durham University).

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Drought, Politics or Historical Injustice? Reflections on fieldwork during the 2017 'Laikipia crisis’ in Kenya ?

User Sipke Shaughnessy.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Highlighting industry collaborations in Plant Sciences

This is a CAMBPLANTS Industrial Talk

User CINTRIN.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

How to Share Research Data + Tour of CERN with Higgs Boson Physicist

User Jenny Grant Rankin and Stephen Goldfarb.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Huns and Romans: relationships between pastoral and agricultural populations on the late Roman frontier

User Susanne Hakenbeck (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Multilevel Governance Theory in Practice: How Converging Models Explain Urban Climate Change Mitigation Policy in Bristol

User Meredith Keller.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The surprising evolution of TTG1-WDR proteins

User Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Deciphering the enamel and dental development in hominins. The importance of the Atapuerca dental remains

User Mario Modesta Mata (CENIEH, Burgos).

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array

User Michael Bok (University of Bristol).

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Securing the ‘value of nature’? Biodiversity offsetting in England and the implications for conservation policy at home and abroad

User Louise Carver.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Developing ways to image single proteins in living cells

User Srinjan Basu (Dept of Biochemistry) and Aleks Ponjavic (Dept of Chemistry).

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 18:30-20:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Stress and adaptation - a life history perspective using endurance sports

User Daniel Longman (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Prefigurative politics and plant-based food in the Anthropocene: quiet activism within Sydney's foodscapes

User Andrew McGregor, Geography and Planning, Macquarie University.

Tuesday 12 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

User Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Comparative genomics to understand the roots of antibiotic resistance in bacteria: find ways to address it

User Prof. Stephen D. Bentley: Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Dr. Florent Lassalle: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Dr. Marco Galardini: EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

Salamander regeneration: regulation and evolution

User Professor Andras Simon, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Time and space in insect segmentation

User Erik Clark (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Epigenomics: When high-throughput sequencing met epigenetics

User Melanie Eckersley-Maslin and Christel Krueger (Babraham Institute).

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Is there anybody out there? Reconstructing large-scale prehistoric population dynamics and migration processes

User Isabell Schmidt (University of Cologne).

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:30-17:30

The politics creating a mismatch between conservation project win-win logics and local realities in Peru

User Josie Chambers.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Competitive coexistence between phoretic mites: between ecology and biomechanics?

User Syuan-Jyun Sun - Department of Zoology.

Friday 02 June 2017, 17:00-17:30

Red vs. Yellow: Genetics of carotenoid coloration in weaverbirds

User Hanlu Twyman - Department of Zoology.

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A synthetic biology approach to harness the regulatory potential of miRNAs in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

User Francisco J. Navarro, Baulcombe group.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 13:00-13:30

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

The Most Rational People in the World

User James Holland Jones (Stanford University & Imperial College).

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton

User Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder).

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Discerning the food from the trees

User Marcus Nyman.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

The birth of a memory in wakefulness and sleep

User Dr. Aya Ben-Yakov (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) and Dr. Anat Arzi (Dept. of Psychology).

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Evolutionary perspectives on maternal investment - from conception (or not) onward

User Sarah Myers (University of Kent).

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Human bycatch from camera traps

User Rogelio Luque Lora.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Insects at the extreme: midges, beetles, DNA and physiology in the Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic regions.

User Felipe Simões - Department of Zoology.

Friday 19 May 2017, 17:00-17:30

How does exposure to prenatal cortisol affect foraging success in meerkats?

User Tejasvini Chalikonda - Department of Zoology.

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Towards a General Theory of Lorenz Ordering Applied to Ecological Domiance and Earth Observation Systems of Forest Ecosystems

User Ruben Valbuena, Coomes group.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Bawls, balls and brains: primate vocal communication and the evolution of speech

User Jacob Dunn (Anglia Ruskin University).

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Evaluating the socioeconomic and ecological implications of land use interventions using agent-based modelling

User Anca Serban.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CambPlants Industrial Talks

This is a CPPS sponsored seminar

User Dr Vitor Verdelo Viera, A4F and Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Next Generation Gravimetric Biosensing Using FBARs

User Dr. Mario De Miguel Ramos and Dr. Ewelina Wajs, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 18:30-20:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Aboriginal body shape and clothing, and the Tasmanian problem(s)

User Ian Gilligan (Department of Archaeology, University of Sidney).

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

The Status of Mini-Grids: Are they the 'next' big thing, or an un-economic diversion?

User Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy, UC Berkeley.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Biodiversity Scenarios.org: Science and strategy in IPBES

User Jasper Montana.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Ageing Rates in Meerkats

User Jack Thorley - Department of Zoology.

Friday 05 May 2017, 17:00-17:30

How do predators use social information about defended prey?

User Liisa Hämäläinen - Department of Zoology.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:30-17:00

House Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

Public Policy Seminar: Cycles of Invention and Discovery

User Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences .

Friday 05 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Evaluating ex-situ conservation of threatened plants in the botanic garden network

User Ross Mounce, Brockington group.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum

User Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool).

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Who are the Eco-precariat?: Theorizing Labour & Work in an Environmental Service-based economy

User Ben Neimark.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB111), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub

User Duncan Catchpole, Cambridge Organic Food Co.

Friday 28 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Salicylic acid and its binding proteins at the crossroads of plant and human health

User Dan Klessig, Cornell University.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Sheep models in neuroscience research: Opportunities and challenges

User Dr Nicholas Perentos and Dr Franziska Knolle - Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

Subsidies and state corruption in Eastern Europe

User Eszter Kovacs.

Tuesday 25 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Communication and Coordination: how individuals shape groups

User Riva Riley - Department of Zoology.

Friday 21 April 2017, 17:00-17:30

The role of p53 in cell competition and leader cell migration

User Katarzyna (Kasia) Kozyrska - Department of Zoology.

Friday 21 April 2017, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Importance of Fluctuations in Light on Plant Photosynthetic Acclimation

User Silvere Vialet-Chabrand, Griffiths group.

Thursday 20 April 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies

User Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley).

Thursday 06 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Transcriptional response to environment in plants: how to deal with variability and redundancy

User Dr. Sandra Cortijo and Dr. Daphne Ezer (Sainsbury Laboratory).

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Sustainability and health – what are the issues

User Stefi Barna, University of East Anglia.

Monday 03 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Endoplasmic reticulum hosts the activities of plant microRNAs

User Xuemei Chen, UC Riverside.

Thursday 30 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Using synthetic biology in algae for the production of designer lipids

User Katrin Geisler, Smith Group.

Thursday 23 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

What are you worth? Valuing ourselves and our natural environment

User Prof Aled Jones, Global Sustainability Institute.

Thursday 23 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Single Cell Nucleic Acid Techniques

User Dr. Stephen Clark and Dr Wendi Bacon.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures

User Kathryn Kavanagh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth).

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

Public Policy Seminar: A Strategy for the UK Steel Industry

User Professor Julian Allwood, Faculty of Engineering.

Friday 17 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Fast Fashion: Slowing it down

User Kristen Nuttall, Appso-Supro.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Thinking of becoming an Entrepreneur: What questions will you be asked?

User Paul Mantle, Frontier IP Group.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Abundant phased siRNAs in plant reproductive organs

User Blake Meyers, Donald Danforth Centre.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Ecological and evolutionary responses of species to climate change

User Jane Hill, Department of Biology University of York.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

An ancient origin for contemporary chronic disease risk in South Asia?

User Emma Pomeroy (Liverpool John Moores University).

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes

User Ildiko Somorjai (University of St Andrews).

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Reporting from Extreme Environments

User Lyse Doucet, BBC.

Friday 10 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mathematical modelling of the citrus disease Huanglongbing

User Andrew Craig, Gilligan Group.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Time, space and disorder in the expanding protein universe

User Chris Taylor (CRUK) & David Minde (Cambridge Centre for Proteomics).

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Change and necessity: forest resilience and conservation for the 21st century

User Jonathan Spencer, Head of Planning & Environment Forest Enterprise Forestry Commission.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

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

Fishermen, fossils and flints: varied approaches to targeting and investigating submerged Palaeolithic archaeology in the North Sea

User Rachel Bynoe (Natural History Museum, London).

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila

User Nicolas Gompel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Extreme Ageing

User Professor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

Friday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

Public Policy Seminar: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze over Time in the UK - Eternal Verities or a Changing Game?

User Professor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

Friday 03 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Physiology and Development From a Cut Flower Supplier Perspective

CambPlants Industrial Talk

User MM Flowers and Beverley Glover.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Understanding consumer demand in the wildlife trade

User Amy Hinsley, Oxford Martin School University of Oxford.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Primate stone tool use for paleoanthropologists

User Michael Haslam (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford).

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Extreme Politics

User Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The role of forests in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from boreal freshwater ecosystems

User Erik Szkokan-Emilson, Tanentzap Group.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:00-13:30

Organoids - making organs in a dish

User Meri Huch (Gurdon Institute) & Iva Kelava (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Conservation and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems

User David Aldridge, Department of Zoology University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

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

The Acheulean in East Africa: results of recent research

User Ignacio de la Torre (Institute of Archaeology, University College London).

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton

User Kate Criswell (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Extremes of the Universe

User Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Dynamic regulation of gibberellin gradients influencing plant growth patterning

User Alexander Jones, SLCU.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Sex, eggs and videotape: techniques in threatened bird conservation

User Debbie Pain Director of Conservation, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT).

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Recent Investigations into the Stone Age site of Isimila, Tanzania

User James Cole (University of Brighton).

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Extreme Rowing

User Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

Friday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

User Johannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum).

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Greening up the Cavendish and the University: the Maxwell Centre as a test case

User Ottavio Croze.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Is achieving no net loss of a globally rare species achievable for a mining project in the Caucasus global biodiversity hotspot possible?

User Pete Carey, Tanner Group.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Modelling the human brain: Psychometric and neurodevelopmental perspectives

User Dr Roger Kievit (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) & Dr Lizanne Schweren (Department of Psychiatry).

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Lessons from plants that don’t stay put: Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias

User Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité Université de Lausanne.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

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

The genetic history of Papua New Guinea: 50,000 years of independent human evolution

User Chris Tyler-Smith (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution

User Neal Anthwal (King's College London).

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Dealing with Extremism

User Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Public Policy Seminar: Inequality and Education Policy

User Professor Anna Vignoles, Faculty of Education.

Friday 03 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Climate Change and Nature Conservation

User Brian Eversham, CEO, BCN Wildlife Trust.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

When does environmental science get used in policy and practice?

User David Rose, Department of Geography University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

What lies beneath? How microtomography is providing new insights into systematics and functional morphology in the human fossil record

User Matthew Skinner (School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent).

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

User Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB109), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Organisations + Change: Lessons for Sustainability?

User A panel of speakers from different disciplinary perspectives.

Friday 27 January 2017, 14:00-15:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The role of Chrisanthemum virus B p12 in the regulation of plant transcription and supression of RNA silencing.

User Nina Lukhovitskaya, Carr Group.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Flow Cytometry: from immunodiagnostics to chemical biology

User Lorinda Turner (Dept. of Medicine) and Maria Matos (Dept. of Chemistry).

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

UNESCO biosphere reserves: concept, challenges and opportunities

User Professor Martin Price, Perth College Chair of the UK MAB Committee Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development Director, Centre for Mountain Studies.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

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

Communal breeding and life history trade-offs in Agta foragers

User Abigail Page (Department of Anthropology, University College London).

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning

User Sebastian Shimeld (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB109), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Failing States, Collapsing Systems

User Nafeez Ahmed, Author, Security Scholar and Journalist.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 16:00-17:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB109), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Book Launch & Talk: Failing States, Collapsing Systems

User Nafeez Ahmed, Visiting Fellow of the Global Sustainability Insititute.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 16:00-17:30

Extreme Weather

User Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

Friday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The global movement of plant pests and pathogens: implications for food security

User Sarah Gurr, University of Exeter.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Can we infer patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data?

User Enrico Crema (Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Gene silencing in plant development and disease resistance: lessons from tomato

User Zhengming Wang, Baulcombe Group.

Thursday 12 January 2017, 13:00-13:30

Can phenotypic plasticity allow specialist parasites to colonise new hosts?

User Gabriel Jamie - Department of Zoology.

Friday 09 December 2016, 17:00-17:30

Walking response of crickets depends on surface structure of the substrate

User Edith Julieta (Julie) Sarmiento-Ponce - Department of Zoology.

Friday 09 December 2016, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Light sensing in the Ocean: new perspectives from the study of the diatom photoreceptors

User Angela Falciatore, CNRS Paris.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Responsible Futures: A twenty-first century university

User Sammi Whitaker, Anglia Ruskin University.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Developing tools to map the brain at synaptic resolution

User Marta Costa (Dept. Genetics) and Philipp Schlegel (Dept. Zoology / L.M.B).

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 18:30-20:00

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

Renewed investigation of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene sequence from Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania, and the Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Eastern Africa

User Jason E. Lewis (Turkana Basin Institute & Stony Brook University).

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 16:30-17:30

The post-carbon world? the role of financial derivatives in the regime of environmental management

User Sarah Bracking.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 12:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Exploiting natural variation to identify genes that impact nutritional seed traits

User Sabrina Gonzalez-Jorge, Henderson Group.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

European large carnivores are coming back, but can we keep them?

User Guillaume Chapron, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

European large carnivores are coming back, but can we keep them?

User Guillaume Chapron, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Brains growing on the tree of life. A phylogenetic approach to brain structure & function

User Prof Dr Robert A. Barton, Institute of Advanced Study (Social Science & Health) & Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, Durham University.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Spaces of pastoralism and conservation in northern Kenya

User Liz Watson.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Early life social behaviour and learning in juvenile Hihi

User Victoria Franks - Department of Zoology.

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Criminal - why people do bad things. Tom Gash, Institute for Government

User Tom Gash, Institute for Government.

Friday 25 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Engineering Meiosis and Recombination to Unlock Genetic Diversity

CambPlants Industrial Talk

User Giacomo Bastianelli, Meiogenix and Ian Henderson.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

An overview of molecular imaging: from macroscopic to microscopic level

User Bangwen Xie (Cancer Research Uk C.I.) and Jerome Boulanger (MRC L.M.B).

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Unravelling the ecology of insect invasions : from individuals to communities in Britain and beyond

User Helen Roy, NERC, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology .

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Financialisation for Development? Accelerating financialising logics, narratives and partnerships

User Emma Mawdsley.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Coslett Building (COS 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

The great devolution debate

Please let us know if you plan to attend this event at gsi-info@anglia.ac.uk

User Panel of experts from academia and local government.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 13:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Seed size and its rate of evolution correlate with species diversification across angiosperms

User Javier Igea, Tanentzap Group.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Cuckoos, swifts and nightingales: Tracking Afro-Palaearctic migrants to understand population declines

User Chris Hewson, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Cuckoos, swifts and nightingales: Tracking Afro-Palaearctic migrants to understand population declines

User Chris Hewson, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

The role of climate in shaping human demography and migrations during the out-of-Africa expansion

User Dr. Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge University.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Expression of segment polarity genes in brachiopods supports a non-segmental ancestral role of engrailed for bilaterians

User Bruno Vellutini (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology).

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

URBAN-WASTE: rubbish, tourism and gender in Europe

User Susan Buckingham.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Speciation in Heliconius butterflies: Pheromones and Female Choice

User Kathy Darragh - Department of Zoology.

Friday 11 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB214), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

All paths lead to rain: The social construction of a water crisis in India

User Dr Zareen Bharucha, Anglia Ruskin University.

Friday 11 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phytoplankton membrane transport: The big physiological and evolutionary secrets of small cells

User Colin Brownlee, Marine Biological Association .

Thursday 10 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Translating research: commercialisation of ideas and products from University laboratories by life scientists

User Dr Rachel Atfield (Cambridge Enterprise) Dr Paulina Chilarska (Cambridge Biolabs) Dr Jelena Aleksic (Geneadviser) Dr Tim Guiliams (Healx).

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Information gaps in conservation science: from data collection to analysis and practices

User Tatsuya Amano, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Digital Environmental Politics and the New Geographies of Anonymous Online Power

User Brett Matulis.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Biotechnological Exploitation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

User Doris Gangl, Smith group.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Causes and mechanisms underlying changes in the migratory behaviour of birds

User Aldina Franco, School of Environmental Sciences, University East Anglia.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

The functional significance of facial differences among recent hominins

User Prof Dr Paul O'Higgins, Centre for Anatomical & Human Sciences, Department of Archaeology and Hull York Medical School, University of York.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evo-devo in cartilaginous fishes - teeth, scales and the cartilaginous skeleton of the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula

User Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud (University of Montpellier).

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Discussion of Bruce Braun chapter "From critique to experiment: rethinking political ecology for the anthropocene"

User Chris Sandbrook.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Correct behaviour: how plant cells respond appropriately to different symbiotic partners

User Martin Parniske, University of Munich.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Inner and outer wellbeing: A double perspective on the processing of thoughts and environment

User Dr Keri Wong and Dr Laurie Palmer (Dept. of Psychology).

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Surviving the 21st Century

User Martin Rees, Partha Dasgupta, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Bonnie Wintle, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 – Evolution of digit number through modification of embryonic Sonic hedgehog signalling

User Megan Davey (University of Edinburgh).

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

IPBES between Theory and Practice: How weighted concepts travel

User Alice Vadrot.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Examining the molecular basis of speciation through flavonoid-tinted glasses

User Hester Sheehan, Brockington Group.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Developing more systematic approaches for measuring, connecting and expanding the global conservation area network

User Bob Smith, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

The complex origins of modern humans and their diversity

User Dr Marta Mirazón Lahr, LCHES, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Social Assessment of Protected Areas

User Rob Small.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

France’s Nuclear Energy Transition: Turning Points in National Policy and Innovation

User Dr. Kathleen Araújo, Stony Brook University.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Plant Morphogenesis

User Enrico Coen FRS, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Estimating conservation status of Grauer’s gorillas

User Andrew Plumptre, Albertine Rift Program, Wildlife Conservation Society.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution of embryonic form: a genetic and cellular analysis of arthropod development

User Matt Benton (University of Cologne).

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

An analysis of proposals to engage local people in conservation of the Vietnamese Saola (and whether it could use some more political ecology)

User Nicholas Wilkinson.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

The importance of Bioinformatics in studying a wide range of diseases

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Maternal effects in Speckled Wood butterflies: an eco-evo-devo approach

User Casper Breuker (Oxford-Brookes University).

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 207), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

SO WHAT is the Global Sustainability Institute?

User Meet the team!.

Tuesday 20 September 2016, 16:00-17:30

Zebrafish as a model to understand development and disease

User Ana Lopez Ramirez and Helena Khaliullina (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

Wednesday 20 July 2016, 18:30-20:00

Using Brain Imaging to Evaluate Nutritional Intervention Strategies in Resource Poor Settings

User Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (University of London) and Dr Sophie E. Moore (MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge).

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 18:30-20:00

CRISPR/Cas9 – the good, the bad and the ugly!

User Dr Aisling Redmond (CRUK CI), Dr Florian Merkle (Stem Cell Institute) & Dr Alasdair Russell (CRUK CI).

Wednesday 22 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cancer: Finding New Targets and Novel Therapies

User Dr Molly Taylor (Astra Zeneca), Dr Chiranjeevi Sandi (Astra Zeneca) & Dr James Lynch (Astra Zeneca) .

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Flies, bees, aphids and frogs: what can this menagerie tell us about the evolution of developmental processes?

User Elizabeth Duncan (University of Leeds).

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

House English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07.

Naked Diplomacy: Power and statecraft in the digital age: book launch and presentation by Tom Fletcher, CMG

User Tom Fletcher, CMG and former British Ambassador to Lebanon.

Monday 06 June 2016, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Evolutionary and demographic genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in plants

User Spencer Barrett FRS, University of Toronto.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

CCFMarine Seminars

90 days to secure the deal! The creation of a large new shark sanctuary within the Galapagos Marine Reserve

User Pippa Heylings.

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Friday 27 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Epigenetic examination of heterosis in tomato

User Sebastian Müller, David Baulcombe Lab.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 13:00-13:30

Resource Sharing, Organization, and Databases

User Chris Wilkinson and Tibor Auer.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 18:30-20:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Local adaptation in humans: lessons from modern and ancient genomes

User Dr Aida Andrés, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Trinity Hall Lecture Theatre.

Understanding Inequalities: new thinking for public policy

User Keynote address from Vince Cable, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 09:00-17:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

User Elizabeth Murchison, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge Veterinary School.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Energy Catalyst

User Michael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

In vivo analysis of calcium dynamics in Arabidopsis: tools and applications

User Alex Costa, University of Milan.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens

User Prof Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum, London.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Progress and future prospects of resolving the animal tree of life in the era of genomics

User Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard).

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology

User Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Plant Molecular Biology.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Sequencing archaic human genomes

User Dr Matthias Meyer, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of the Animal Face: from Principles to Mechanisms

User Arkhat Abzhanov (Imperial College London).

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Syria series: Humanitarianism, state sovereignty and authoritarian regime maintenance in the Syria conflict.

User Reinoud Leenders, King's College London.

Monday 09 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

The behavioural ecology of bacteria in infection

User Dr. Ashleigh S. Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Perturbation Analysis of LEAFY in the Floral Transition Network of Arabidopsis thaliana

User Gitanjali Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) New Delhi India.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Neanderthal interbreeding: fact or fiction?

User Prof Bill Amos, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Raising the whale: defining zoology at Cambridge

User Prof Jim Secord, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Pave the road to land: evolution of water-conducting cells in land plants

User Bo Xu, Sam Brockington Lab.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-13:30

Open Data and Reproducibility

User Dr. Marta Teperek and Dr. Kirstie Whitaker.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 18:30-20:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Cultural transmission of tool selection in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)

User Dr Lydia Luncz, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes

User Christopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Selecting For Plasticity in the Harlequin Ladybird

User Lea Van De Graaf - Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 April 2016, 17:00-17:30

The comparative landscape of duplications in Heliconius melpomene and Heliconius cydno

User Ana Pessoa Pinharanda - Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:30-17:00

House SG2, Alison Richard Building, POLIS.

Now for the Hard Part: Building State Capability for Implementation as the Frontier Development Issue’

User Michael Woolcock, World Bank.

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:00-17:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 109), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Spending time in a low carbon society: Less stuff, more fun?

User Angela Druckman, University of Surrey.

Friday 22 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Spatial homogeneity of seagrass faunal biodiversity

User Pr. Richard S K Barnes, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy

User Gareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The maize leaf – from development to environmental response

User Sarah Hake, Director USDA Gene Expression Center.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

CCFMarine Seminars

CSI of the Sea: the science behind cetacean strandings

User Rob Deaville, Cetacean Strandings Investigation.

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 17:30-18:30

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

Field experiments reveal the scope of social learning in vervet monkeys

User Dr Erica van de Waal, University of Zurich.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

TCF/Lef regulates the Gsx ParaHox gene in central nervous development in chordates.

User Myles Garstang, University of St Andrews.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 109), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Opportunity Peterborough’s Role in the Development of a Sustainable City

User Trevor Gibson, Opportunity Peterborough.

Friday 15 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Mind the Gap: Nanotechnology for Molecular Sensing and Nanomedicine

User Dr Jennifer Hare (AstraZeneca) and Dr Seti Kasera (Dept. Of Chemistry).

Wednesday 13 April 2016, 18:30-20:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Kinship and sex-biased parental investment among the Mosuo of Southwest China

User Dr Siobhán M. Mattison, University of New MExico.

Wednesday 13 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

Nurturing a political economy for a sustainable future: technology, innovation, and science

User David Bent - Forum for the Future.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A three-dimensional approach to community turnover: Pleistocene extinctions, abrupt climate change, and (dis)equilibrium dynamics

User Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Geneses. How frequently does life emerge?

User Markus Ralser and Amaury Triaud.

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Marconi Building (MAR 102), Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford.

Bringing together energy and water: a useful Nexus or just another network?

User Michael Green and Chris Foulds, Global Sustainability Institute.

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

An assessment of individual learning abilities and their phenotypic traits in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)

User Claudia Martina Luna - Department of Zoology.

Friday 11 March 2016, 17:00-17:30

The role of individual differences in defining a species niche

User Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun - Department of Zoology.

Friday 11 March 2016, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Incorporating uncertainty into the optimal development of disease control measures

User Ciara Dangerfield, Chris Gilligan Lab.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Room 206, Sir William Hardy Building.

Commons and commodities: Struggles for hegemony in environmental governance

User Professor Erik Gomez-Baggethun (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NMBU).

Thursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Impact Evaluation of Protected Areas: what do we know about impacts, moderators and mechanisms?

User Humanitas Visiting Professor in Sustainability Studies, John Hopkins University.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Behind every good man: women's production and reproduction in the Hadza hunter-gatherers

User Dr. Colette Berbesque.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Evolution of Developmental Regulation in Spiders and Flies: Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts

User Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University).

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Nigeria: energy past to climate future

User John Ward, Vivid Economics & Norbert Edomah, Global Sustainability Institute.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Gene editing for conservation: a desirable future?

User Jasper Montana (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

The Game Theory of Conflict

User Dr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

Friday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Effects of fluctuating light on photosynthesis and stomatal behaviour: impacts on carbon gain and water use efficiency

User Tracy Lawson, Director of Plant Phenomics, University of Essex.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Policy, Politics and Morality in the Regulation of Gambling: the UK Experience'

User Professor David Runciman, POLIS.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 12:30-13:30

Sequencing Ebola virus in an insect filled tent; how real-time next generation sequencing aided the epidemic response.

User Professor Ian Goodfellow (Division of Virology, Department of Pathology) and Dr Matt Cotten (Sanger Centre).

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Hook, line and extinction: can science save albatrosses from fisheries?

User Richard Philips, British Antarctic Survey.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

Studying culture in the laboratory in human and nonhuman primates

User Prof Christine Anna Caldwell, University of Stirling.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

Encountering the global and local on space: Uranium, wildlife and people in Southern Tanzania

User Christine Noe (University of Dar es Salaam).

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Games Animals Play

User Professor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Ancient genome reveals continuity in East Asia over the last 9,000 years

User Veronika Siska - Department of Zoology.

Friday 26 February 2016, 17:00-17:30

Rewilding and the Future of HNV Species – does restoring flood disturbance recreate suitable habitat for HNV species?

User Tim Kasoar - Department of Zoology.

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:30-17:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

‘Of mice and men - and birds, too: how to pack lots of neurons in tiny brains, and why that should matter

User Pr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Integrating phylogenetics, ecology and evo-devo to understand the origin of plant species: the role of spur length evolution in speciation of the genus Linaria

User Mario Fernandez-Mazuecos, Beverley Glover Lab.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 13:00-13:30

Public Policy Research Seminar: Doing Development Differently

User Mr Andy Ratcliffe, Deputy CEO and Director of Strategy and Development, Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI)..

Thursday 25 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Why are slow lorises venomous and will this help or hinder their conservation?

User Anna Nekaris, Primate Conservation, Oxford Brookes University.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Postnatal ontogeny of the cranial base in modern humans and chimpanzees

User Dr. Sandra Martelli, University College London.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of animal body axes: insights from the oral-aboral axis of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

User Chiara Sinigaglia.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Tibetan Pastoralists’ Vulnerability to Climate Change

User Bruce Huett.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Change agency: working with difference and conflict

User Laurie Michaelis.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Games for the Brain

User Professor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

Friday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Symmetry Matters in Gynoecium Development

This is a CPPS Seminar

User Lars Ostergaard, Head of Crop Genetics, JIC.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Analysing the transcriptome of cells: computational challenges and applications of single cell RNA-sequencing

User Dr Catalina Vallejos (MRC Biostatistics Unit & EMBL-EBI) & Dr Antonio Scialdone (EMBL-EBI).

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Hot dogs: understanding climate change impacts in a tropical mammal

User Rosie Woodroffe, Institute of Zoology, London.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

Chronology of the earliest prehistoric settlements in Europe. When did Homo reach Europe?

User Dr. Christophe Falguères, CNRS - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 006), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Sustainability in performing arts: “So shines a good deed in a naughty world”

User James Phillips, Global Sustainability Institute.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Jessica Hope.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

"Losing the New Great Game"

User Dr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

Friday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A bird's-eye view of forest ecosystems

User Tommaso Jucker, David Coomes Lab.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 13:00-13:30

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Skills and Techniques of an NGO'

User Dame Barbara Stocking, President, Murray Edwards College, former CEO Oxfam GB.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Bats and Emerging Infectious Diseases: conflicting priorities between conservation and public health?

User James Wood, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge .

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Cross-talk between cultural and genetic evolution in humans

User Prof Evelyne Heyer, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

User Albert Arhin (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Games in Sports

User Sir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

Friday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Big data, local data and global change

User Philip Grime, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Being a Special Adviser (SPAD)'

User Giles Wilkes, Financial Times Former Special Adviser to Vince Cable.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Science Volunteering in Africa

User Dr Jelena Aleksic and Dr Nicola Yates.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Managing tropical agriculture to minimise biodiversity loss

User David Edwards, Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

Towards the understanding of the genetic bases of complex adaptations in the human genome

User Prof Jaume Bertanpetit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Comparative Analyses of Neuromesodermal Progenitor Dynamics in vivo

User Ben Steventon (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Reclaiming Sustainability - a talk based on the book ‘Sustainability: a cultural history’, by Ulrich Grober

User Ray Cunningham.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

How to Overcome Inequality

User Robert Wade (London School of Economics).

House Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 01 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Wittgenstein's Games

User Professor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

Friday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Inter-organellar interactions - known unknowns in metabolic engineering of membrane-spanning pathways in plants

User Payam Mehrshahi, Alison Smith Lab.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 13:00-13:30

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Using Research to Influence Government Policy'

User Jo Casebourne, Programme Director, Institute for Government.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Science Policy and Expertise

User Rob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Linguistic laws in primate vocal communication

User Prof Stuart Semple, University of Roehampton.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Three phases of Wnt signaling define three phases of axis development in the hemichordate S. kowalevskii

User Jens Fritzenwanker (Stanford University).

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Guiseppe Feola Between Change and Continuity: Peasant Institutions and Cultural Models in the Colombian Andes

User Guiseppe Feola.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

The Game of Crime and Punishment

User Mrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Living Laboratory for Sustainability

User Emily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Development and evolution of land plant rooting systems

User Liam Dolan, University of Oxford.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Public Policy Research Seminar: ‘What’s Wrong with the British Constitution? Implications of the Scottish and EU Referendum Votes’

User Iain McLean, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, Vice-President for Public Policy, British Academy.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

Ensuring data are Understood

User Dr Jenny Grant Rankin ((Illuminate Education) and Dr Margie L. Johnson (Metropolitan Nashville Public School).

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Biodiversity conservation and the Green Economy: complementary or competing objectives? Can we have both, and what do we need to know?

User Kathy Willis Department of Zoology, Oxford University & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

New Steps of Change: Looking Beyond Protected Areas to consider other effected area-based conservation measures

User Harry Jonas.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Personal Principles and the Political Game

User Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

Friday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

"Transforming an 800 year old University to make it even better"

User Professor Jeremy Sanders, Pro-Vice Chancellor of The University of Cambridge.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Two Things Evolution Can Tell Us About Metabolic Engineering

User Steven Burgess, Julian Hibberd Lab.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Microbes play a central role in a plant's solutions to ecological problems

User Ian Baldwin, Max Planck Institute.

Thursday 07 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Competition and conjugation: the tale of antibiotic resistance spreading in three colours

User Pakpoom Subsoontorn, Jim Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 17 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Optometry Building 102, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Après Paris: Exploring the shadow of COP21

User David Wasdell, Director of the Apollo-Gaia Project.

Monday 14 December 2015, 13:00-15:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Prof Robert D. Putnam in conversation

User Robert D. Putnam Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University.

House Mill Lane Lecture Room 7.

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 10:00-11:30

Cambridge University User Experience

Digital Government: Not Complicated, Just Hard

User Tom Loosemore - Government Digital Service.

House Norwich Room, University Information Services, West Cambridge.

Friday 04 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

House LectureTheatre I, Cambridge Judge Business School,Trumpington Street, University of Cambridge CB2 1AG Cambridge.

Public Policy Lecture: Inside the Nudge Unit, how small changes can make a big difference

Registration from 5.30 pm. A drinks reception will follow the lecture. Registration Required at: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inside-the-nudge-unit-how-small-changes-can-make-a-big-difference-tickets-19473894944

User Dr David Halpern, Director, Behavioural Insights Team.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 18:00-19:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Discovery of methylation loci and analyses of differential methylation in Dicer-like mutants of Arabidopsis

User Thomas Hardcastle, David Baulcombe Lab.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 13:00-13:30

Reverse Thinking: First Image Analysis then Immunostaining Protocol

User Dr Hélène Gautier (PDN) and Dr Leila Muresan (CAIC).

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 18:30-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Conservation impacts of a warming climate: changes in Massachusetts since the time of Thoreau (1817-1862)

User Richard Primack, Biology Department, Boston University.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 17:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

The Pope and the planet: religion in climate change

User Ian Christie (Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey).

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

To Be Confirmed

User Sunita Chaudhary.

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phenotyping is an F-word: crop research in Fields, on Farms, with Farmers

This is a CPPS Seminar

User Roger Sylvester-Bradley, ADAS.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

State, religious institution and community: Conservation and stigmatized slaughter in pastoral societies in the Himalayas

User Mari Miyamoto (Extra Session!).

Thursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

The Silicon State

sandwiches from 12.30 pm

User Adrian Brown, Boston Consulting Group, Centre for Public Impact.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature

User Jamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

Social evolution in human and non-human primates

User Dr Kit Opie, University College London.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Ten years gone: urban political ecology in prospect and retrospect

User Matthew Gandy.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Role Models: research models to answer policy questions

User Mr. Davide Natalini (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, uk) James Woodcock, Centre for Diet and Activity Research.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Lubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Climate Change Policy: A Focus on Demand Reduction?

Please register for this event at: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-change-demand-reduction-seminar-tickets-18818616990

User Presented by Professor Julian Allwood, Engineering.

Monday 23 November 2015, 14:00-17:00

House Seminar Room 138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Research at Behavioural Insights Team

User Dr Michael Sanders, Head of Research, Behavioural Insights Team.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A pioneering imaging approach to arbuscule development in rice

User Ronelle Roth, Uta Paszkowski Lab.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias: lessons from plants that don’t stay put

User Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Collective Sensing and Decision-Making in Animal Groups: From Fish Schools to Primate Societies

User Iain Couzin.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

House SCR, St. Catherine's College .

Political Ecology of Invasive Species

User Christian Kull (Extra Session!).

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Endodermal contribution to orofacial structures in non-teleost fishes: How ancient is the pre-oral gut?

User Martin Minařík (Charles University, Prague).

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Ph.D. Presentation (1st Year Grad Forum)

User Karen Wong (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

This lecture will be preceded by the CSAR AGM

User Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 16 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 006), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Unusual questions/ extraordinary answers

User Hands-on exhibition bringing new perspectives to sustainability.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests

User David Edwards, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Co-production: an inclusive approach to climate action

User Dr Candice Howarth (Global Sustainability Instititute).

Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Policy and Politics: synergy or dysergy?

User Lord Andrew Lansley, Former Secretary of State for Health and Leader of the House of Commons.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff?

User Sandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Cultural transitions during the Iberomaurusian in Morocco

User Dr Louise Humphrey, Natural History Museum London.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

House S1, Alison Richard Building, POLIS.

The Syria series ‘War, disasters and data: the need for an evidence-based humanitarian response’

User Talk by former Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and World Health Organization, Middle East field epidemiologist - Jesse Berns.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Where do ideas about conservation come from? The story of how a beach conversation became REDD+

User Albert Arhin (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Genetic factors controlling meiotic crossover: Lessons from natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

User Piotr Ziolkowski, Ian Henderson Group.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Discovering Policy Lab: Design in Policy Making

User Dr Lucy Kimbell, University of the Arts, London.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

House Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns: disease threats to Tasmanian Devils, frogs, koalas and woylies

User Hamish McCallum, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London .

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

Legends of Facial Hollows - the science of inner space

User Dr Todd C. Rae, University of Roehampton.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Room S2 (2nd floor), Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT.

Syria: where to now?

First in Forthcoming Syria Series

User Martin Chulov, The Guardian Middle East Correspondent.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Discussion: ‘In the Nature of the Non-City: Expanded Infrastructural Networks and the Political Ecology of Planetary Urbanisation’ by Martín Arboleda

User Prof. Bill Adams.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 002), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Clim'art' therapy: where do climate change, the arts and psychotherapy meet?

User Panel Discussion with artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Marina Velez and Zoe Svendsen led by Dr Renee Lertzman (Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC).

Thursday 29 October 2015, 18:30-20:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Learning circuits and cue integration in navigating ants

User Barbara Webb.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica’s climate history

User Jane Francis, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

The challenge of feeding 9-10 billion people without losing most biodiversity

User Charles Godfray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Papuan pasts: genetic evidence so far

User Dr Robert Attenborough, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of eye development in Astyanax blind cavefish

User Hélène Hinaux .

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Biodiversity offsetting and the capitalist production of nature: reflections from England

User Elia Apostolopoulou.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 109 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Environmental melancholia

User Dr Renee Lertzman (Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC).

Monday 26 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Room 302, Helmore Building (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Limits to growth - a new generation

User Irma Allen and Roberto Pasqualino (Global Sustainability Institute).

Friday 23 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How our Botanic Gardens Work (and how they can work for you)

User Dr Sam Brockington, Cambridge University Botanic Garden Curator.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions

User Anthony Martin, South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project, South Georgia Heritage Trust and University of Dundee.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

The Dawn of Technology: 3.3-million-year-old Stone Tools from Lake Turkana, Kenya

User Prof Sonia Harmand, Stony Brook University, New York.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

RNA viruses: comparative genomics and gene expression mechanisms

User Andrew Firth, Dept of Pathology.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Conflicts in conservation: hunting for solutions

User Steve Redpath, Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen University.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

The origins of modern humans and Neandertals: the Atapuerca evidence

User Prof Juan Luis Arsuaga, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Friday 09 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Learning from Students to Shape Plant Sciences Teaching for the 21st Century

User Katherine Hubbard, Teaching Officer.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Kirsten Bomblies, Harvard University.

Thursday 01 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Homo naledi, a new homini species from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa

User Prof. John Hawks, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Monday 21 September 2015, 16:30-17:30

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Con Co Ngua: a c. 4,500 BC Complex Hunter-Gatherer Site in Northern Vietnam

User Dr Marc Oxenham and Anna Willis, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University.

Friday 18 September 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The molecular basis of developmental buffering: a key to understanding the interface between environment and evolution?

User Dr Atsuko Sato (Ochanomizu University).

Wednesday 05 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Regulation of PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR7 by photosynthetically derived sugars in Arabidopsis thaliana.

User Alexander Frank, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 09 July 2015, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Role of phytic acid in plant defence responses

User Jacquelyne Poon, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 09 July 2015, 13:00-13:30

How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly)

User Florian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

Wednesday 08 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

User Nick Talbot, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter.

Thursday 02 July 2015, 13:00-14:00

Remote control of cell signalling using chemogenetics

User Johan Alsio & Bianca Jupp (Department of Psychology).

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

“Leveraging Social Psychological Theory to Understand Engagement with Personalized Genomic Information”

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

User William Klein, Associate Director, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA.

Friday 26 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Algal-bacterial consortia: towards the commercialisation of microalgae for industrial biotechnology

User Christian Ridley, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 25 June 2015, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Migration Research Network

Doing research in conflict & humanitarian settings - lessons from health assessments in the Middle East

User Andrew Means Co-Founder and Jesse Berns Director Field Data Collection - Impact Lab.

House Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Monday 22 June 2015, 14:00-15:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Beta oxidation in signalling and development. What plants can teach us about yeast and animals

User Alison Baker, University of Leeds.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Mapping shared markers for a childhood liver disease across a Polynesian population

User Sophia Cameron-Christie, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Monday 15 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Looking back: some conclusions from my career in Science

User Pr. Martin Raff - MRC LMCB, UCL.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Effects of sugarcane on the Cerrado biodiversity: land use change, habitat loss and greenhouse gas emissions

User Jessica Fonseca Da Silva, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome is compressible

User Surge Biswas, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 13:00-13:30

Exome Sequencing Methods

User James Hadfield & Oscar Rueda (Cancer Research UK).

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Long-distance wound signals in Arabidopsis leaves

User Edward Farmer, University of Lausanne.

Thursday 04 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A vitamin B12 dependent mutualism between a microalga Lobomonas rostrata and a rhizobium – Mesorhizobium loti

User Vaibhav Bhardwaj, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Optimize nutrients dynamic in litters to enhance yields and sustainability of traditional cocoa agroforests in a climate change context in Southern Bahia, Brazil

User Lauranne Gateau, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices

User Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Where the bee flies: and why it matters

User Juliet Osborne, University of Exeter.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud

User Dr. Nick Hopwood - Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape

User Christen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência).

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

The Evolution of Exaggerated Sexual Swellings in Female Non-Human Primates

User Gillian Brown and Sally Street (School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews).

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Molecular insights into the evolutionary history of plants in Antarctica

User Elise Biersma, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Biodiversity conservation within a REDD+ framework: case of victoria-anepahan ranges in Palawan Islands, Philippines

User Minerva (Jojo) Singh, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Cognitive development assessed by object manipulation in great apes and humans

User Dr. Misato Hayashi (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University).

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates

User Andrew Gillis (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Seabirds and Conservation: One Life, Many Islands

User Dr Michael Brooke.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Understanding plant root developmental plasticity using cell type-specific genomics

User Miriam Gifford, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

Financial History Seminar

Thursday 07 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015

User Dr Mike Finn, Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and David Howarth, Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10..

House Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 19:00-20:00

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

Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees

User Dr. Cat Hobaiter (School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews).

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Improving the pollination of the field bean (Vicia faba L.)

User Emily Bailes, 3rd yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-15:30

Title to be confirmed

User Juheon Lee, 3rd yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 14:30-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Patrick Dickinson, 3rd yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 14:00-14:30

Paramutation in tomato

User Quentin Gouil, 3rd yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 12:00-12:30

Engineering riboswitches to enable rational control of transgene expression

User Christopher Finch, 1st yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 11:30-12:00

Identification of effectors from Rhizophagus irregularis and their role in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis establishment.

User Clement Quan, 1st yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 11:00-11:30

A forward genetic screen for Arabidopsis gene(s) that control meiotic recombination

User Divyashree Nageswaran, 1st yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 10:00-10:30

Risk of long-distance airborne spread of infectious plant diseases

User Marcel Meyer, 1st yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 09:30-10:00

Title to be confirmed

User Alexander Blackwell, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 15:00-15:30

Molecular genetics of autistic: the arbuscular mycorrhizal mutant of maize

User Darius Riahy, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:00

Discovery of genetic elements determining the C4 photosynthetic phenotype using introgression lines from C3-C4 hybrids

User Gregory Reeves, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:00-14:30

Fifty shapes of maize

User Rozi Vofely, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 12:00-12:30

~ From Carrots to Sticks ~ Conserving threatened avifauna with ecosystem management and market-based instruments

User Alexandra Bell, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 11:30-12:00

Understanding morphogenesis and wall mechanics in brown algae

User Marina Linardic, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 11:00-11:30

Mobilizing terrestrial primary production into aquatic food webs

User Chloe Orland, 1st year grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 10:00-10:30

Evolution of plant breeding systems: Male form and function in the nightshade family.

User Gwendolyn Davis, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 09:30-10:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

The History of Millet in Southern Caucasus: A Stable Isotope Perpsective

User Dr. Estelle Herrscher (Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LAMPEA - UMR 7269, France).

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 027 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Who should value nature?

Lunch provided

User Dario Kenner, Why Green Economy.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

Genetic Perspectives on Indigenous Ancestry in the Caribbean

User Dr. Jada Benn Torres (Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, USA)..

Monday 27 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Exploring the genetic toolkit for pattern formation and diversification in butterfly wings

User Arnaud Martin (UC Berkley).

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 005 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Remaking our future: a radically different approach

Lunch Provided

User Rob Shaw, Director of Sustainability & Climate Change, LDA Design.

Friday 24 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Multiple mechanisms limit meiotic crossovers

User Raphael Mercier, Versailles INRA.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Patents in theory and in practice

User Dr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley.

Thursday 16 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Genetic screening of the human kinome identifies a cellular signalling network predictive of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease & Circadian abnormality in Alzheimer's disease: insights from animal models

User Becky Inkster (Dept Psychiatry) & Ko-Fan Chen (Dept Genetics).

Wednesday 15 April 2015, 18:30-20:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 027 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Why we get back under the duvet when climate change is mentioned...

Lunch Provided)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 15 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The mechanism by which calcium affects the circadian clock

User Carmen Marti (Webb Lab).

Thursday 26 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

An integrated structural biology approach to flower development

User Francois Parcy, Grenoble.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) – from data acquisition to results interpretation

User Natalia Bulgakova (Gurdon Institute).

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 18:30-20:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Regulatory Programme and Evolution Underlying the Development of Echinoderm Skelton

User Paola Oliveri.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Imaging Brawny Mice and Hypercarnivorous Canids: Applications of CT and MRI for Soft & Hard Tissues

User Dr Nathan Jeffrey, University of Liverpool.

Monday 16 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

A remarkable set of contemplations

User Craig Bennett - Friends of the Earth.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigating the O3-induced Ca2+ signalling pathway in Arabidopsis

User Katie Wilkins (Davies Lab).

Thursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Biodiversity in a World of Human Dominance and Rapid Change – Anthropocene Challenges and Opportunities

User Professor Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Testosterone and Human Gender Development

User Prof Melissa Hine (Hormones and Behaviour Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Raising the shield: How cell migration changes got the turtle its shell (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME)

User Scott Gilbert.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Paradise Lost? How the Internet has changed

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

User John Naughton, Vice-president of Wolfson College.

House Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 109 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Sustainability success: Leadership influence or serendipity?

User Prof Janet Haddock-Fraser, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences & Dr Peter Rands, Director of Sustainability Development Canterbury Christ Church University.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Technology Development

User Dr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Managing Innovation: an oxymoron?

CPPS Seminar

User David Lawrence, Syngenta.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Peptides as drugs and tools to study biological systems

User Emma Cahill (Dept Psychology) & Albert Isidro-Llobet (GSK).

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 18:30-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Trees, ‘tribes' and taboos: The political ecology of conservation and culture in Madagascar

User Dr Ivan Scales, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

Experimental Studies of Social Intelligence in Chimpanzees

User Prof Satoshi Hirata (Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University, Japan).

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The curious incident of the seal in the pond

User Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki).

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Economic Development

User Dr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

Friday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Decreasing the oxygenase activity of Rubisco: a synthetic biology approach

User Marek Szecowka (Hibberd Lab).

Thursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Science in a human-dominated world

User Professor Georgina Mace, UCL.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Tool Use by Capuchin Monkeys in Sierra da Capivara National Park (Brazil)

User Dr. Tiago Falotico (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford).

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 109 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Soil erosion in Britain – is it a problem?

User Dr Bob Evans, Global Sustainability Institiute .

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

User Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

Friday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Can genomics impact forestry?

User Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

REDD+ and Biodiversity Conservation: Are The Challenges What We Thought They Were?

User Dr Valerie Kapos, UNEP-WCMC.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

A Look Inside Hominins: New Insight on the Hobbit (LB1), Broken Hill and La Ferrassie

User Dr. Antoine Balzeau (CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR 7194).

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Development of Climate Science

User Professor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

Friday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Beyond the pit latrine - developing new tools for organic waste management in the global south

User John Mullet - SOWTech Ltd.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Evolution of the miRNA-mediated RNA silencing pathway: the plant that wanted to be an animal

User Adrian Valli (Baulcombe Lab).

Thursday 12 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Evaluating the social and ecological outcomes of conservation interventions: Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas

User Professor Katherine Homewood, UCL.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Population Genetics of Greenlanders Evolution and Genetic Adaptation to Climate

User Dr. Matteo Fumagalli (University College of London Genetics Institute, Division of Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences).

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Developing a Sense of Self

User Professor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

Friday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The Evolution of Imprinted Gene Expression in Cultivated Rice

User Daniel ZIlberman, Berkeley.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Biodiversity and the feel good factor

User Dr Zoe Davies, University of Kent.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Human Pigmentation

User Dr. Sandra Beleza (Department of Genetics, University of Leicester).

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

User Vahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London).

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

The Development of Galaxies

User Professor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

Friday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Carbon fluxes and biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes – modelling with airborne lidar

User Will Simonson (Coomes Lab).

Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Where did plant diversity and sustainability begIn? Arboriculture in the ancient Roman world

User Dr Robyn Veal, Dept of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Fitness Meets Fitness: The Evolution and Genetics of Evolutionary and Physical Fitness in Humans

User Dr. Erik Postma (Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich).

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The earliest deuterostomes, or something else entirely?

User Simon Conway Morris (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Development of an Athlete

User Dr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

Friday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms

User Dr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The Future Directions of Rothamsted Research

User Achim Dobermann, Rothamstead.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Is Evolution (Not) Working for Infected Amphibians?

User Dr Trent Garner, Zoological Society of London.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

Revisting the Savanna Hypothesis

User Prof Julia Lee-Thorp (Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford).

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The development and evolution of vertebrate oxygen-sensing cells

User Dorit Hockman (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Reprogramming Animal Development

User Professor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge.

Friday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Going for Gold

User Professor Tom Welton, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London.

Friday 16 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Inferring a Deep Time Evolutionary Anatomical Context of Primates and Hominoids

User Dr. Jeroen Smaers (Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University).

Thursday 15 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Inhospitable: early signalling events during cereal symbiosis

User Enrico Gobbato (Paszkowski Lab).

Thursday 15 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Early events in Arabidopsis bud activation

User Maddie Seale, Sainsbury Lab.

Thursday 18 December 2014, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A physiological basis to agronomic development

User Celestin Ukozehasi, Griffiths Lab.

Thursday 18 December 2014, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Potential effects of transposable element activation throughout tomato development

User Alex Canto Pastor, Baulcombe Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 12:00-12:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Grip, Slip, petals and pollinators

User Jonathan Pattrick, Glover Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 11:30-12:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Using metagenomics to identify emerging viral pathogens, and RNA silencing to combat them

User Luke Braidwood, Baulcombe Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 11:00-11:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Identifying microRNAs conditioning strong plant anti-aphid resistance

User Deusa Abreu, Carr Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 10:00-10:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigation of natural modifiers of meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana

User Catherine Griffin, Henderson Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 09:30-10:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Study and characterization of MET1 homologues in Arabidopsis thaliana

User Christophe Buser, Sainsbury Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 09:00-09:30

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH DAY

User Various.

House TBC.

Thursday 11 December 2014, 09:00-18:00

Apptimistic research: Studying well-being and behaviour change using sensor data from mobile phone apps

User Gillian Sandstrom (Dept. Psychology), Neal Lathia (Dept. Computer Science), Felix Naughton (Dept. Public Health and Primary Care) .

Wednesday 10 December 2014, 18:30-20:00

Heliconius butterflies: How do bird predators perceive them?

User Denise DD (University of Cambridge).

Friday 05 December 2014, 17:00-17:30

Simultaneous camouflage and conspicuous signalling in an island lizard

User Kate Marshall.

Friday 05 December 2014, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mixtures or Alternation? Assessing Fungicide Anti-Resistance Strategies

User James Elderfield, Cunniffe Lab.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigating heat shock signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

User David Schoepfer, Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 13:00-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Extending freshwater conservation beyond shorelines by linking aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

User Dr Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 17:00-18:00

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

Osteoarchaeology in India: Present and Future Perspective

User Dr Veena Mushrif-Tripathy (Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, India).

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 16:30-17:30

Behavioural mechanisms limiting cheating behaviour in the cleaner wrasse Labroides bicolor

User Max Gray.

Friday 28 November 2014, 17:00-17:30

The Fitness Exchange Hypothesis

User Ana Mosterin (University of Cambridge).

Friday 28 November 2014, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Sustainable Farming - making it happen. The Science, delivery and pitfalls of Integrated Farm Management

CPPS Seminar

User Caroline Drummond MBE. LEAF Chief Executive.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Creating transparent intact animal organs for high-resolution 3D deep-tissue imaging

User Keith Siew (Centre for Clinical Investigation), Filipe Lourenco (Cancer Research UK).

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 18:30-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tracking marine turtles for conservation

User Professor Brendan Godley, University of Exeter.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Extreme pattern of genetic diversity in humans

User Dr. Vincenza Colonna (Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy).

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Bdelloid rotifers: unveiling the mystery of an evolutionary scandal

User Chiara Boschetti (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

The Politics of Conservation

User Bill Adams and Chris Sandbrook.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Dealing with Sudden Oak Death in the UK

User Matt Castle, Gilligan Lab.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Landscape scale conservation - a bird's eye view

User Dr Juliet Vickery, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 220 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

The age of climate resilience

User Dr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 16:30-18:15

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

How does an alga become a parasite?

User Ellen Nisbet (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

Principles of Functional Craniology in Paleoneurology and Evolutionary Neuroanatomy

User Dr. Emiliano Bruner (CNIEH, Burgos, Spain).

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Coslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

The age of climate resilience”

User Dr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald.

Friday 14 November 2014, 16:30-18:15

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Elucidating stress signalling response pathways in Arabidopsis and crops

User Marc Knight, Durham University.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

House William Thatcher Room, Fitzwilliam College.

Making bamboo a high tech material for large wind turbine blades

User Dr. Jim Platts.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 19:00-20:00

Super-resolution imaging: Getting and understanding microscopy images with more details

User Leila Muresan, Martin Lenz (Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre).

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 18:30-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Environmental and Science Learning through Participation in Scientific Research: From Learning to Conservation Action

User Professor Heidi Ballard, UC Davis.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Neanderthal Pathology – Evidence of an Atypical Human Hunter-Gatherer?

User Dr Simon Underdown (Dept. of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University ).

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

User Judith Schleicher.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

The Analysis of King Richard III

User Dr Piers Mitchell (Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge).

Friday 07 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Scum of the Earth?

User Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

MPAs, mangroves and carpets: cause for #OceanOptimism?

User Dr Nick Hill, Zoological Society of London.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Services and Slums: Rethinking Infrastructures and Provisioning across the Nexus

User Tatiana Thieme and Eszter Kovacs.

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics in seasonal timing

Enid MacRobbie Woman in Science Lecture

User Caroline Dean, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Planetary Boundaries 2.0: the latest advancements on defining a safe operating space for humanity on Earth

User Johan Rockström Professor in Environmental Sciences Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

The Evolution of Culture

User Prof Kevin N. Laland (School of Biology, University of St Andrews).

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

A Natural Life: Beheading the political ecology of nature conservation

User Jose Antonio Cortes Vazquez.

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Roles of splicing in plant reproductive development

User Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 13:00-13:30

House The Long Room, Murray Edwards College.

The Effect of transport policy/regulations on emissions

User Professor Nick Collings.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 19:00-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

How do we know if we're making a difference? Finding solid ground in the shifting sands of conservation evaluation

User Professor E J Milner-Gulland, Imperial College Conservation Science.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

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

Division of labour in European Prehistory: New insights from human skeletal remains

User Dr. Sébastien Villotte (PACEA, CNRS-Université Bordeaux 1).

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Morphogenesis and Molecular Regulation of Colour Patterning in Natural Populations

User Marie Manceau (Collège de France).

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Discussion on Resilience

User Dr. Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mapping Gene Regulatory Networks in Arabidopsis and Tomato Roots

User Siobahn Brady, UC Davis.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

Ebola!

User Peter D. Walsh, Division of Biological Anthropology.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Snow Leopards and the Soul: Conservation and religion in the 21st Century

User Jonny Hanson.

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

'From individuals to populations to communities: Climate change impacts on birds'

User Dr James Pearce-Higgins, Director of Science, British Trust for Ornithology.

Monday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Teaching: Inspiration, Innovation and Investigation

User Katharine Hubbard, Teaching Associate.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 13:00-13:30

Endemic Apes & Foreign Wealth: Conservation and Scientific Tourism in the Democratic Republic of Congo

User Lys Alcayna-Stevens.

Tuesday 07 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Coslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

You can’t stop progress

Sustainable Lunch Provided. Free to attend.

User Rupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia.

Monday 06 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The Genetic Architecture of Natural Ionomic Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

User David Salt, University of Aberdeen.

Thursday 02 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

ek334's list

Influencing industrial facility compliance in rapidly developing countries: Provincial practices of wastewater discharge monitoring and inspection, and responses to development agency capacity building in Vietnam

User Marta Lang.

House Seminar Room (Department of Geography, Downing Site).

Tuesday 30 September 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Part II room, Department of Genetics. Please use the entrance by the Part II room and tea room underneath the external fire escape. Main entrance is not connected to Part II room due to refurbishment..

Deep Time and Modern Brains

Please contact the organiser, Liria Masuda-Nakagawa (lm546) if you would like to meet Professor Strausfeld after the seminar.

User Professor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona).

Friday 12 September 2014, 12:00-13:00

Meeting the challenges of cancer through nanotechnology.

User Quentin Harmer.

Monday 01 September 2014, 16:00-17:00

Acoustic classification of New World bats based on phylogenetic and ecological constraints on call design

User Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez.

Friday 22 August 2014, 17:00-17:30

The Bush-crow, the swallow, and a curious climate bubble

User Andrew Bladon.

Friday 22 August 2014, 16:30-17:00

Conservation of reef sharks in Arabia: between science and fisherman gossip

User Dareen Almojil.

Friday 08 August 2014, 17:00-17:30

Foraging ecology, distribution and individual specialisation of brown skuas

User Ana Carneiro.

Friday 08 August 2014, 16:30-17:00

Antigenic variation among dengue viruses

User Leah Katzelnick.

Friday 25 July 2014, 17:00-17:30

Periodic incremental markings in the enamel of cynodonts and mammaliaforms: the origin of mammalian growth patterns

User Rachel O'Meara.

Friday 25 July 2014, 16:30-17:00

Consistency in leaf use by tooth-billed bowerbirds

User Carmen Panayi.

Friday 11 July 2014, 17:00-17:30

Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different?

User Professor David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Monday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Coslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Feasibility of Wind & Solar Energy Systems for Large Geographic Domains

User Dr Christopher Clack, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Monday 23 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Political ecology of nature conservation and sustainable tourism in Chinese conservation areas

User Eric Alms (University of Zürich).

House HB101.

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Understanding human life history variation: sleep patterns, personality traits, relationship status, and hormone

User Prof Dario Maestripieri, University of Chicago.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Amphioxus: A laboratory surrogate of the ancestral chordate giving insights into vertebrate head origins

User Elia Benito Gutierrez (EMBL).

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Landesque capital: chaotic concept, or useful step towards understanding the value of enhanced nature?

User Prof. Tim Bayliss-Smith.

House HB206.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bio-geo-graphy: landscape, dwelling and the political ecology of human-animal relations

User Dr. Maan Barua, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford .

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Great Apes at the Interface: Chimpanzee Flexibility in Dynamic Anthropogenic Habitats

User Dr Kimberly Hockings, Oxford Brookes University.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences

User Hannah Long (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bridging the gap between social-metabolism and ecological debt: the case of a northern open economy

User Eneko Garmendia, Ph.D..

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

RESCHEDULED - The Devil's in the Detail: Designing Instruments, Incentives and Institutions for Stewardship Initiatives on Private Land

rescheduled from end of 2013-14 series

User Dr Andrew Knight; Imperial College London.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Developmental Constraints? Why blind cavefish still have eye at embryonic stage

User Yoshiyuki Yamamoto (University College London).

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Was the evolution of the modern human brain the result of social or environmental pressures?

User Dr Susanne Shultz.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Conservation in a crowded place: people and forest on Mount Elgon, Uganda

Please note that this session will take place in a different room.

User Dr. Marieke Sassen, UNEP-WCMC.

House HB101.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Current Issues in Energy Policy

User Dr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge).

Monday 12 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

The use of conservation drines for monitoring wildlife and its habitat

User Prof Serge Wich, Liverpool John Moores University.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Using barcoding to understand British Collembola (Springtails)

User Peter Shaw (University of Roehampton).

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Involving local communities in planning the establishment of no‐take zones in the Red Sea National Parks of Elba and Wadi Gemal, Egypt

User Dr. Salwa El-Halawani.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Terrible teens: an osteological investigation of adolescence and health in medieval England

User Dr Mary Lewis, University of Reading.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment

User John Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham).

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

The political ecology of a customary conservation practice: understanding processes of translation and hybridisation

User Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

House LAB 222 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

GSI Research Seminar Series - When and how will human society collapse?

User Dr Aled Jones, Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI).

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila

User Benjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy).

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Academic Survivorship Events for Zoology Postdocs

Time management for Postdoc Careers

User Dr Geraint Wyn Story and Dr Anne Forde, University of Cambridge.

House Part II lecture hall, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 08 April 2014, 14:00-15:30

The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application?

User Dr. Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Monday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cricket’s Playlist: an evolutionary neuroanalysis of the singing central pattern generators in different cricket species.

User Pedro Jacob (University of Cambridge).

Friday 21 March 2014, 17:00-17:30

Cricket’s Playlist: an evolutionary neuroanalysis of the singing central pattern generators in different cricket species.

User Pedro Jacob (University of Cambridge).

Friday 21 March 2014, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wheat breeding for sustainable productivity, an oxymoron waiting to happen?

This is a CPPS seminar - note the time change

User Richard Summers (RAGT).

Thursday 20 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Electric buses - can they really compete on the front line?

User Professor John Miles.

Monday 17 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Message ends: How alternative polyadenylation of mRNAs affects plant gene expression and development

User Gordon Simpson (James Hutton Institute, Dundee).

Thursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

The future of biodiversity in tropical landscapes

Come along for this very special lunchtime talk to find out about the future of biodiversity! Feel free to bring your own lunch, but light refreshments will be also provided.

User Ed Turner, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Planetary Boundaries and Action2020: Innovations in corporate Sustainability

User Professor Gail Whiteman; Erasmus University.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

The expensive brain: when does natural selection favor increased brain size?

User Prof Carel van Schaik, University of Zurich.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Floral quartets link flower development and evolution

User Günter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Ivan Scales presents on 'The future of conservation and environmental management in Madagascar: More than just flagships, forests and furry animals?’

User Dr. Ivan Scales, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

House LAB 222 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

GSI Research Seminar Series - Operationalising resilience: linking the conceptual and practical for a more sustainable world

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 11 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plagues & Metaphor

User Dr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

Friday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

Sympatric speciation on islands

This is a Sporne seminar. Venue = Sainsbury Lab

User Vincent Savolainen (Imperial College, London).

Thursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution of branching patterns in plants

User Jill Harrison (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Just how unique are humans anyway?

User Prof Alice Roberts, University of Birmingham.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

System of Rice Intensification and the Shifting Dynamics of Gender and Labour

User Regina Hansda, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plagues & Economic Collapse

User Professor Ian Morris, Stanford University.

Friday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

House LAB 027 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

GSI Research Seminar Series - Ethical Consumption vs. Sustainable consumption

User Dr Dan Welch, Sustainable Consumption Institute.

Friday 28 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Language in deep time

User Prof Klaus Zuberbuhler, St Andrews & Neuchatel.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The Genetic and Epigenetic Basis of Fruit Ripening – Science Discovery into Commercial Practice

User Graham Seymour (University of Nottingham).

Thursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Trapping CO2 using sponge-like materials

Slight refreshment will be provided.

User Pu Zhao, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Hybrid corn and endangered maize: historical perspectives on the conservation of plant genetic resources

User Dr Helen Curry; Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Integration in Morphological Structures: how it affects evolution and how it evolves

User Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester).

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Urban political ecology of small towns in Africa and India

User Dr Tatiana Thieme, Dr Bhaskar Vira, Dr Emma Mawdsley and Dr Ivan Scales, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

The Human Plague

User Professor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

Friday 21 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cow vs. bird: Balancing food production and biodiversity conservation in the Neotropics

User David Williams (University of Cambridge).

Friday 21 February 2014, 17:00-17:30

Modelling the Drosophila pair-rule gene system

User Erik Clark.

Friday 21 February 2014, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Regulation of early receptor kinase-mediated innate immune signalling

Graduate-invited lecture

User Cyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich).

Thursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Mapping Methane in the Arctic

User Dr Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

The Politics of Thinking Big in Conservation

User Professor Bill Adams; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Anthropological Engineering: The Interface of two Dissimilar Disciplines

User Dr Michael Berthaume, University of Massachusetts.

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Making similar embryos with divergent genomes

User Patrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier).

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bhaskar Vira presents (title to be confirmed)

User Dr. Bhaskar Vira, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plagues, Populations & Survival

User Professor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

Friday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: Planetary predictions from anywhere: Food, carbon, forests, biodiversity, plankton, roads...

Cancelled due to illness

User Matt Smith (Microsoft Research, Cambridge).

Thursday 13 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Producing Eden: Can wildlife thrive beyond national parks in India?

Joint seminar, hosted with the Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS)

User Dr Paul Robbins; Department of Geography International Fellow & University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Evidence for sedentism before the onset of agriculture during the Epipalaeolithic in Northwest Africa?

User Dr Isabel de Groote, Liverpool John Moores University.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Paul Robbins leads an Early Career Researcher Seminar

User Professor Paul Robbins, International Fellow from University of Wisconsin-Madison..

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

The Nature of Plagues

User Professor Angela McLean, University of Oxford.

Friday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

The role of previous social experience on risk-taking and leadership behaviour in three-spined sticklebacks

User Jolle Jolles.

Darwin College Science Seminars

Friday 07 February 2014, 17:00-17:30

Cassandra's Climate

User Michael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger.

House 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 13:10-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: Striga, the scourge of Africa: Understanding the molecular basis of resistance in cereals to the parasitic witchweeds

This talk has been replaced

User Julie Scholes (University of Sheffield).

Thursday 06 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Manipulating plant cell wall polysaccharide synthesis to understand cell wall architecture for biorefining and bioenergy

User Paul Dupree, Department of Biochemistry.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Lessons from the conservation of Europe's Large Blue butterflies

User Professor Jeremy Thomas OBE; University of Oxford.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

On the antiquity of speech and language: did the Neandertals talk and why would it matter?

User Dr Dan Dediu, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp will lead a discussion on Traditional Ecological Knowledge

User Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Silicon Plagues

User Mikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist.

Friday 31 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Circadian regulation of chloroplasts

User Antony Dodd (University of Bristol).

Thursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

The relevance of botanic garden greenhouses in the modern era

User Alexander Summers, Botanic Garden.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Friend or foe? Making sense of social research and biodiversity conservation

User Dr Chris Sandbrook; UNEP-WCMC & Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Populations in statistical genetics: what are they, and how can we infer them from whole genome data?

User Dr Dan Lawson ().

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Cracking the code of crocodile skin

User Michel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva).

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

House LAB 222 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

GSI Research Seminar Series - Climate change and Migration

User Alex Randall, Climate Outreach Information Nework.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Biofuels and Marginal Lands: Interrogating the Land Use Change Impacts of Jatropha Promotion in South India

User Dr. Jenn Baka, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Sciences.

Tuesday 28 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Business-oriented Solutions for Resource Recovery and Reuse at Scale in Developing Countries

User Luca Di Mario.

Monday 27 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plagues & History

User Professor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Diversity and function of stream invertebrates in tropical forest and oil palm ecosystems in Sabah, Malaysia: Effects of habitat conversion and strategies for conservation

User Sarah Luke (University of Cambridge).

Friday 24 January 2014, 17:00-17:30

Investigation of the molecular mechanisms of Minute competition in Drosophila

User Iwo Kucinski (University of Cambridge).

Friday 24 January 2014, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How biotrophic fungi manipulate their hosts: new functions of effectors

User Regina Kahmann (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg).

Thursday 23 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem services to environmental change

User Professor Adrian Newton; University of Bournemouth.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Michael Bravo leads a discussion on three articles by Paul Robbins

User Dr. Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute, Geography Department, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plagues & Medicine

User Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

House LAB 222 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

GSI Research Seminar Series - Professor Tim O'Riordan - 'Redefining Sustainability in a Post Austerity Britain'

User Professor Tim O'Riordan OBE, DL, FBA, University of East Anglia.

Friday 17 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance

User Jerzy Paszkowski (SLCU).

Thursday 16 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Open-ended inorganic nanotubes: band-gap and bands-engineering of a photo-catalyst

User Dr Gilberto Teobaldi.

Monday 16 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The endocrine organs of Drosophila as new model to study extreme evolutionary divergence and epithelial to mesenchymal transitions during development

User James Castelli-Gair Hombría (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville).

Wednesday 11 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

Finding the balance: agriculture, biodiversity, and ecosystem services

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 06 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

Finding the balance: agriculture, biodiversity, and ecosystem services

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 06 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Understanding and manipulating antibiotic production in actinomycetes

User Mervyn Bibb (John Innes Centre, Norwich).

Thursday 05 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

The (moral) dilemmas of (conservation) research(ers?)

User Dr Bhaskar Vira; Director, Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) and Department of Geography.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Gender, Science and Myths of Merit

User Marlene Zuk (University of Minnesota).

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Discussion on 'Environmental Humanities'

User Dr. Bhaskar Vira, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow

User Prof Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School.

Monday 02 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

House LAB 005 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

The Passivhaus Building Standard: Questioning the energy saving magic bullet

User Chris Foulds, Global Sustainability Institute, ARU.

Monday 02 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phylogenetic shadowing guided by the cycling transcriptomes of two distantly related Brassicaeae species reveals the atlas of cis-regulatory elements of daytime-specific and daytime-unspecific pathways

User Korbinian Schneeberger (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne).

Thursday 28 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Commercial Whaling: Science, Society and International Relations

User Dr Simon Brockington, International Whaling Commission.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

RNA regulation during development and evolution

User Claudio Alonso (University of Sussex).

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham Room, Magdalene College.

Mysterious goings-on around Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

User Alek Petty, Earth Sciences Department, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, UCL.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Topic to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Glaciers: from the Kilimanjaro ice fields to the IPCC

Please note the change in venue to the Main Lecture Theatre.

User Georg Kaser, Professor for Climate and Cryospheric Research, University of Innsbruck, Austria. IPCC Working Group 1 Lead Author in Assessment Report 4 and Assessment Report 5.

Friday 22 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Molecular breeding of medicinal crops and discoveries along the way

User Ian Graham (University of York).

Thursday 21 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Conservation of UK seabirds: a big issue or a done deal?

User Prof. Sarah Wanless, Seabird Ecologist, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC.

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes

User Gáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham Room, Magdalene College.

Using underwater robots to observe the rapidly melting Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

User Louise Biddle, University of East Anglia.

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Securing Insecurity: Rethinking Livelihoods, Violence, and Vulnerability in DRC's Cannabis Trade

User Dr. Ann Laudati, University of Bristol.

Tuesday 19 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House LAB 216 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Nuclear Weapons and the Global Sustainability Agenda: time to abandon traditional forms of Sovereignty?

User Paul Ingram, BASIC.

Tuesday 19 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Recent advancements in global biodiversity scenarios

User Piero Visconti (Microsoft Computational Ecology and Environmental Science).

Friday 15 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

User Rebecca Stott (University of East Anglia, Norwich).

Thursday 14 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Recognition of "self": receptor-ligand interactions and signalling networks that trigger Programmed Cell Death in self-incompatible Papaver pollen

Enid MacRobbie Women in Science seminar

User Noni Franklin-Tong (University of Birmingham).

Thursday 14 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Valuing nature for better environmental decision-making: A collaborative toolkit for real-world conservation

User Jenny Birch, Ecosystem Services Officer, BirdLife International.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Deciphering the onychophoran ‘segmentation gene cascade’: inferences about the evolution of segmentation

User Ralf Janssen (Uppsala University).

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Discussion session: Urban political ecology of waste

User Dr. Tatiana Thieme, Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Drivers and biodiversity consequences of landscape-scale deforestation in the western Brazilian Amazon

User Jose Ochoa Quintero, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 08 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House LAB 005 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Goings on in the engine room: How the hidden layer of our mind connects with the future of the planet

User Professor Chris Rapley, UCL.

Friday 08 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Tales from Television: bringing the natural world to your living room

User George McGavin (University of Oxford).

Thursday 07 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Strategies of microorganisms to conquer plant tissues

User Sebastian Schornack (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge).

Thursday 07 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Predicting Amazonian deforestation and its biodiversity impacts

User Dr Rob Ewers, Reader in Ecology, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Island Conquerors: the population dynamics and management of invasive rats on islands

User James Russell (University of Auckland).

Friday 01 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making: Frontiers in Research and Policy

** Note:one-off THURSDAY seminar - no Wednesday session this week ** Joint seminar with CRASSH - Humanitas.

User Prof. Gretchen Daily, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

Thursday 31 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Addressing the wheat yield plateau

CPPS seminar to be held at 4pm, with tea-room networking afterwards.

User Tina Barsby (National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge).

Thursday 31 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Topic and venue to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Developmental Modularity, and Evolvability of the Head Skeleton

User Charles Kimmel (University of Oregon).

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Get Fat Before You Fly: Carry-over Effects and Reproductive Success in An Arctic-nesting Migratory Bird

User Xavier Harrison, Instute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London.

Friday 25 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Global change and life on Earth: reciprocal effects in a walk from genes to biosphere

User Josep Penuelas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona).

Thursday 24 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Predicting wildlife dynamics in a changing environment

User Dr Ben Collen, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, UCL.

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Assessing participatory forest management: a practice based approach

User Professor Bas Arts, Wageningen University.

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Studies on the evolutionary and functional morphology of mammalian ear ossicles

User Prof Dr Wolfgang Maier (Chair of Systematic Zoology (emeritus) University of Tübingen).

Thursday 17 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

The genotype-phenotype map in Arabidopsis

This event will be held in the Sainsbury Laboratory

User Magnus Nordborg (The Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna).

Thursday 17 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Lessons from the Dodo: restoring species and ecosystems on Mauritius

User Prof. Carl Jones, Scientific Director of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, and International Conservation Fellow at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Discussion session: Contribution of Systematic Reviews to Management Decisions.

User Discussion session.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Norwegian Nature Index: Challenges and Successes

User Per Arild & Iulie Aslaksen, Statistics Norway.

Tuesday 08 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials Discovery

User For full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery.

Monday 30 September 2013, 09:00-18:00

Using sunlight-activated photo-catalysts to disinfect water

User Dr Vasant Kumar.

Monday 09 September 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment

User Dr Rosamunde Almond.

Monday 12 August 2013, 16:00-17:00

Energy efficient magnetic cooling technology

User Dr Sibel Ozcan.

Monday 15 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Thanh-Lan Gluckman.

Friday 28 June 2013, 17:00-17:30

Title to be confirmed

User Kwaku Aduse-Poku.

Friday 28 June 2013, 16:30-17:00

House Part II Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Probing the molecular and cellular basis of developmental morphogenesis

User Tassos Pavlopoulos, Max Planck Institute at Dresden.

Thursday 27 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Political ecologies of the Anthropocene

Please note this session is on Wednesday 19th June

User Professor Bill Adams, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Safeguards and ‘Dangerguards’: Towards a framework for unpacking social safeguards for REDD+

User Albert Arhin, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Creating Impact from Research

User Dr Andrea Cantone and Dr Gillian Davis, Cambridge Enterprise.

Monday 17 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

The end of taxonomy as we know it?

User Alfred Vogler (University of East Anglia).

Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

The King Returns: Politics, culture and conservation in the Mountains of the Moon, Uganda

User Dr. Mark Infield, Director, Cultural Values and Conservation, Fauna & Flora International.

Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Chi Onwurah MP - Digital Government - for the many or the few?

User Chi Onwurah MP.

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 17:30-19:00

Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila

User Christen Mirth, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Does Ice have Politics? The Materiality and Mobility of Frozen States

User Dr. Michael Bravo, Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

How to bridge the gaps between conservation science and practice

User Jessica Walsh.

Friday 31 May 2013, 17:00-17:30

Title to be confirmed

User Lina Maria Arenas.

Friday 31 May 2013, 16:30-17:00

Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors

User Melinda Modrell, University of Cambridge, UK.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Making connections in a recently collapsed empire: when Nenets reindeer herders meet with Soviet-era settlers and mobile oil workers above oil deposits

User Rémy Rouillard, Post-doctoral Researcher, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Fifty Years of Computers, statistics and the Tree of Life

User Anthony Edwards (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration

User Ildiko Somorjai, University of St Andrews, UK.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Biological photovoltaic systems

User Prof Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry.

Monday 20 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

West-African straw-coloured fruit bats as a reservoir for viral zoonoses

User Kate Baker, Zoological Society of London.

Friday 17 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Museums and Science

User Ian Owens (Natural History Museum, London).

Thursday 16 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: stories from electric fish, scorpions and mice

User Harold Zakon, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Changing Landscapes and Lifestyles: Adapting and Building Resilience to Droughts in Turkana, North-West Kenya (1963—2013)

User Gregory Akall, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Geography.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

open discussion / roundtable

User Discussion session.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Alexis Braun.

Friday 03 May 2013, 17:00-17:30

Title to be confirmed

User Krzysztof Kozak.

Friday 03 May 2013, 16:30-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Metabarcoding: emerging technology allows rapid, large-scale monitoring of biodiversity for conservation and management.

User Catharine Bruce, University of East Anglia.

Friday 03 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Life, death and resurrection in the Early Carboniferous

User Jenny Clack (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

What do conservationists think about markets?

User Dr. Chris Sandbrook, UNEP-WCMC, Affiliated Lecturer.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty

User Andrew Balmford (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Pollinator diversity and land sharing/sparing

User Discussion session.

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Open Access: common good or uncommon danger?

User Stephen Curry (Imperial Collge London).

Thursday 18 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User David Labonte.

Friday 05 April 2013, 17:00-17:30

Title to be confirmed

User Alexander Hackmann.

Friday 05 April 2013, 16:30-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Ramona Mogling.

Friday 22 March 2013, 17:00-17:30

Title to be confirmed

User Marius Somveille.

Friday 22 March 2013, 16:30-17:00

Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads!

User Dr Chris Forman, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).

Monday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

The Nature Conservancy’s Marine Habitat Restoration: Achievements from the last decade and challenges for the future.

User Dr Boze Hancock, The Nature Conservancy.

Friday 15 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Membrane biology in plant-microbe interactions

User Silke Robatek, JIC.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Re-wilding: putting natural processes back on track

**Last talk in Series!**

User Frans Vera, Director, The Foundation of Natural Processes, The Netherlands.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Small Lecture Theatre.

Tax justice for snow leopards? Tax dodging and the environment

User Jonathan Hanson, PhD candidate, Dept. Geography.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

User Professor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

Friday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Jumping without slipping: spiders need sticky feet for take-off

User Hanns Hagen.

Friday 08 March 2013, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plastic Fantastic

User Sinead Collins, Edinburgh University.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

From invasion to restoration: how enlightened are New Zealand's conservation policies?

User Dr David Coomes, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The developmental, genetic, and adaptive bases of morphological evolution: the case of water-walking insects

User Abderrahman Khila, Lyon, France.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

Mitigating the effects of methane and manure: A small insight into reducing emissions in UK agriculture

User Emily Scott, MPhil, Land Economy .

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

John Lanchberry on the politics of the UNFCCC

User John Lanchbery, RSPB.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Foresight and Self-Control

User Professor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

Friday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

What can plants tell us about the evolution of sex chromosomes?

Note Venue

User Deborah Charlesworth, Edinburgh University.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Making Poverty History – what role for biodiversity conservation?

User Dr Dilys Roe, International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED).

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Developmental plasticity and life history evolution in amphibians

User Ivan Gomez-Mestre, Seville, Spain.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

Agricultural adaptation and crop diversity: How developing countries can adjust to climate change

User Stella Nordhagen, PhD Student, Department of Land Economy.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Discussion of MacDonald and Corson (2012) 'TEEB Begins Now'

User Reading and Discussion session.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability and Architecture

User Prof Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture.

Monday 25 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foreseeing Space Weather

User Dr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

Friday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Do mites influence social interactions in the burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides?

User Ornela De Gasperin Quintero.

Friday 22 February 2013, 16:30-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

The lost ark. Global amphibian declines, can zoos really make a difference?

User Ben Tapley, Zoological Society of London.

Friday 22 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum as a model to study the ancestral mechanisms of bilaterian metazoan development

Note unusual day and time

User Hiroki Oda, Osaka, Japan.

Friday 22 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Putting things in perspective: multiscale integration of stomatal development

User Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University and HHMI.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Expert judgements, Delphi groups, prediction markets: forecasting the future for conservation and national security

User Professor Mark Burgman, ACERA, University of Melbourn, Australia.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

User Steffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

Translating knowledge about climate change into policy: Lessons from the use of climate science in biodiversity conservation policy in England

User David Christian Rose, PhD Student, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

House UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

Debrief on the IPBES-1 Plenary

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Foresight in Music

User Professor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Linkages between plants, soil microbes, and the carbon cycle

CPPS seminar

User Richard Bardgett, Lancaster Environment Centre.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Rethinking the scope of REDD+ : Carbon stocks or triple wins?

User Dr Heike Schroeder, University of East Anglia (UEA).

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

Is black the new green? The potential role of biochar in climate change mitigation

User Laura Plant, MPhil Student, Land Economy.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Sir William Hardy Building, room 206.

Bernardo Strassburg - presentation

User Bernardo Strassburg, International Institute for Sustainability (IIS), Rio de Janeiro.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Foresight in Scientific Method

User Professor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

Friday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

In the Belly of the Beeb

User Nick Crumpton.

Friday 08 February 2013, 16:30-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dave Daversa.

Friday 08 February 2013, 16:00-16:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Metabolomics- an update

User Alisdair Fernie, Max-Planck-Institute, Golm.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Conservation of migratory species: the importance of seasonal interactions

User Dr Jenny Gill, University of East Anglia (UEA).

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Hydra, a model for deciphering the principles of stem cells and regeneration

User Brigitte Galliot, Geneva, Switzerland.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

Thinker-doers: Adding value in a climate crisis

User Gracen Johnson, MPhil Student, Land Economy Faculty.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Discussion of 'Reducing REDD risks: affirmative policy on an uneven playing field' by Ribot and Larson

User Reading and Discussion session.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Foresight and Fiction

User Robert J Sawyer, Author.

Friday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Turning over phytate: enzymic and structural perspectives

Note Venue

User Charles Brearley, UEA.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Conservation and climate change: how radical do we need to be?

User Professor Chris Thomas, University of York.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

The Eating Local Challenge: Thinking about the contribution food makes to climate change

User Helen Karapandzic, Cambridge Carbon Footprint.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

open discussion / roundtable

User Discussion session.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Foresight in Journalism

User Ms Bridget Kendall, BBC.

Friday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The geometric basis of morphogenesis

User Przemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary University.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Molecular biology and sustainable agriculture

**First for Lent Term**

User Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

House Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

Biofuels, indirect land use change and greenhouse gas emissions: A perfect storm of incomplete science and irresolvable politics?

User James Palmer, PhD Student, Department of Geography .

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Conservation Scenario in India: opportunities for collaboration

User Dr. Shivaji Chavan.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Improving industrial energy efficiency through technology, process and behaviour innovation - policy applications of research

User Niall Mackenzie, DECC.

Monday 21 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

User Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room and Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Dept Geography First Year Graduate Forum

User various.

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 11:00-17:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

Health, healthcare, sustainability and climate change. Line in the sand or head in the sand?

Lunch will be provided

User David Pencheon, NHS Sustainable Development Unit.

Monday 17 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history

User Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany.

Thursday 13 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

**last for Michaelmas Term**

User Prof. Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor & Australian Laureate, JCU, Australia.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Integrative evolutionary biology: a need for interdisciplinary studies of development, ecology and population genetics

User Ralf J. Sommer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history.

User Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany.

Monday 10 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of body axes in Eumetazoa: what can we learn from Cnidaria?

User Grigory Genikhovich, University of Vienna, Austria.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

Int'l Land Grabbing and 'Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature?'

User Reading and Discussion session.

Tuesday 04 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Genetics of speciation in Petunia

User Cris Kuhlemeirer, Bern University.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

'Prosuming' Conservation: interrogating the value of conservation in the web 2.0 age

User Prof. Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Hardy Bldg Rm 206, Department of Geography.

Prosuming Conservation: Web 2.0, Nature and the Intensification of Value-Producing Labour in Late Capitalism

User Dr. Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, and visiting Associate Professor at the Dept. Geography, Environmental Management & Energy Studies, U. Johannesbur.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

User Siegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Wordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

Food for Thought: ‘Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms’

User Emma Cross, PhD Student, Dept. of Earth Science, British Antarctic Survey..

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Towards a grounded and dynamic sociology of climate change adaptation

User Dr. Martin Mulligan, Associate Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Chemical and Physical Signals Interact to Create Pattern in Plant Development

NOTE VENUE CHANGE

User Elliot Meyerowitz, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge University.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

The state of the world's birds: how science underpins conservation and advocacy.

User Dr Stuart Butchart, Global Research and Indicators Co-ordinator, BirdLife International.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

User Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Wordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

Food for Thought: ‘Carbon Foot-Printing’

User Jon Coello, PhD Student, Dept. of Engineering & the Environment, University of Southampton..

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Judge Business School, LT2.

Shaz Ansari on 'Constructing a Climate Change Logic: An Institutional Perspective on the "Tragedy of the Commons"'

User Judge-Us Seminar .

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

Art and the environment

Lunch will be provided

User Dave Pritchard, CIWEM Arts and Environment Network Steering Group.

Monday 19 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The art and design of harmony - molecular genetics of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals

User Uta Paszkowski, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Shifting baselines and habitat restoration: Setting appropriate goals

User Dr Line zu Ermgassen, visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Control of segmentation clock period and segment number in the zebrafish

User Christian Schroeter, University of Cambridge, UK.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Wordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

Food for Thought: Ecosystem Services & Sustainable Land Use Practices in Social-Ecological Systems

User Aiora Zabala, PhD Student, Dept. of Land Economy..

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Conservation/Agriculture Relationship in the EU: High Nature Value Areas in Hungary

User Eszter Kovacs, PhD Candidate, Dept. Geography.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money?

User Dr Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School.

Monday 12 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Pieter Santema.

Friday 09 November 2012, 17:00-17:30

Title to be confirmed

User Yanmin Zhou.

Friday 09 November 2012, 16:30-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

A comedy of the commons: Toward sustainable use of the Louisiana public oyster grounds

User Thomas M. Soniat, Department of Biological Sciences and Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans.

Friday 09 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Ephrin and netrin synergy in spinal motor neuron axon guidance

User Dr. Artur Kania, Neural Circuit Development research unit Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM).

Thursday 08 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The deep evolutionary origins of stomata and stomatal physiology

User David Beerling, Sheffield University.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Smarter ways to monitor wildlife

User Prof Kate Jones, Joint UCL and ZSL Chair, Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Zoology, ZSL.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

User Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Wordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

Food for Thought: ‘Transitions to Climate Change Resilient Cities’

User Marta De Olazabal, PhD Student, Dept. of Land Economy.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Local community participation in Wadi El-Gemel National Park

User Salwa Elhalawani, PhD Candidate, Dept. Geography.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Ancient bones, current issues: marine bioarchaeology as historical ecology

User David Orton, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

From VB Wigglesworth to H-factors. Lessons from my first 50 years of research

User Peter A. Lawrence, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Making new molecules

User Anne Osbourn, JIC.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

How useful is local ecological knowledge for conservation management? Case studies from the EDGE

User Dr Samuel Turvey, Research Fellow, Institute of Zoology, ZSL..

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Wordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

Food for Thought: 'The Air Quality and Climate Tradeoffs in Road Transportation.’

User Uven Chong, PhD Student, Dept. of Engineering.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Contested Forest: National Park, Local State, and Forest Owners in Postsocialist Romania

User Dr. Stefan Dorondel, Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest & Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sequencing/genotyping the wheat genome

Note Venue

User Keith Edwards, Bristol University.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Landscape configuration, connectivity, conservation and climate change

User Dr. Jenny Hodgson, University of York.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Saving the Tasmanian devil from a transmissible cancer

User Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge & Research Fellow in Cancer Genetics & Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Wordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

Food for Thought: Can the US and China build trust to establish institutions?

User Michael Tai, PhD Student, Centre for Development Studies.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Discussion of Global Political Ecology, eds. Peet, Robbins & Watts (2011)

User Reading and Discussion session.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

What do Students, Farmers, Scientists and Skeptics have in common?

Lunch will be provided

User Aimee Roberts, Ella Wiles, Lydia Wade.

Monday 22 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series

Joint Research Centre: Science and Policy - the view from inside the European Commission

User Dominique Ristori,Director-General of the Joint Research Centre, European Commission.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 17:30-19:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Implementation of analog arithmetic division for control of reserve utilization in plants

User Martin Howard, JIC.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tropical forests in the Anthropocene: what does this mean for conservation?

User Dr Simon Lewis, Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Wordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

Food for Thought: 'Shallow Geothermal Systems for Space Heating and Cooling’

User Denis Garber, PhD Student, Energy Efficient Cities Initiative.

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Discussion of Sandel (2012) What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

User Reading and Discussion session.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Genetic dissection of cell death and signalling between endosperm and embryo during seed development

User Justin Goodrich, Edinburgh University.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

How might we make space for nature in landscapes of the future?

** First talk of term **

User Dr Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Microtubule assemblers

User Rob Cross, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology,Warwick Medical School .

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

'Nature, Inc.' and 'Grabbing "Green": Questioning the Green Economy'

User Reading and Discussion session.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

From Mammoth to Microscope: Life History and Dental Development in Mammals

User Dr Wendy Dirks, University of Newcastle.

Thursday 04 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Parasite-induced swarming behaviour in Artemia spp.

User Nicolas Rode, Center for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology, Montpellier, France.

Thursday 04 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Climate finance: barriers and opportunities

User Dr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University.

Monday 24 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Lord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

Water meter debate: vital for adapting to climate change or doomed to failure?

Lunch will be provided

User Andy Brown (Anglian Water) and Dr James Jenkins (University of Hertfordshire).

Monday 24 September 2012, 13:00-14:00

House First Floor Seminar Room, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Burning for biodiversity? Testing the long-term effects of fire in the Jervis Bay Fire Experiment

Room changed

User Martin Westgate, Australian National University.

Tuesday 28 August 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Be careful what you wish for: the issues and politics of generating a potentially human-to-human transmissible bird flu virus

User Professor Derek Smith. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge..

Thursday 26 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

What scientists can do for sustainability that CEOs and Ministers can't

User Matthew Brown.

Monday 23 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

'Bacterial community diversity of the American alligator gastrointestinal tract'

User Sarah Keenan - Louisiana State University.

Thursday 19 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Cows under the radar: The genetics of tuberculosis susceptibility in Britain

User Bill Amos - Department of Zoology.

Thursday 05 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

The limits to energy and material efficiency

User Jonathan Cullen.

Monday 02 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

'Understanding the changing relationship between land and rural women in western Maharashtra, India: reflections from the field'

User Girija Godbole, PhD student, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution

note unusual location

User Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany..

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Using C. elegans as a model for neurodegenerative diseases

User Chris Li, City College of New York, USA.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Policy making in confined spaces: the politics of exclusion in Canada's planning reform agenda

User Lindsay Galbraith, PhD Student at the Department of Geography.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

The secret lives of the translesion polymerases

User Dr Julian Sale, LMB, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System

note unusual location

User Johannes Jaeger, CRG Barcelona.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Coordinating developmental timing with tissue growth

User Dr Alisson Gontijo, Instituto de Neurociencias, CSIC-UMH Unidad de Neurobiología del Desarrollo, Alicante.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci

note unusual location

User Matthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Valuing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Servicesin the Ewasu Ng'iro watershed

User Dr. Rob Small, Flora & Fauna International.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sustainable Manufacturing and the Myth of Efficiency

User Winton Community.

Monday 28 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

Intensification of West African agriculture: socio-economic processes and gender-influenced patterns in bird distribution.

User Hope Usieta.

Friday 25 May 2012, 17:30-18:00

Migrants in winter: how do ecological conditions in Africa affect the individual success of trans-Saharan migratory birds?

User Marjorie Sorensen.

Friday 25 May 2012, 17:30-18:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

The genetics underlying emergence and diversification of a wing decoration in fruitflies

User Dr Nicolas Gompel, IBDML, Marseille, France.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Fitting pieces and further puzzles - What 'nobody' can tell about the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis

User Georg Brenneis, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Women, water and work - examining the role of the statecraft in irrigation management in Northern India

User Alexandra Girard, DPhil candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Mobilising the geeks: Bringing science back to the centre of policy

User Mark Henderson, Head of Communications at The Wellcome Trust.

House The Howard Theatre, Downing College.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 17:15-19:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Neurochemical control of aggression - insights from crickets

User Professor Paul Stevenson, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Only what is counted counts? The scientific and economic representation of biodiversity

User Esther Turnhout, Associate Professor at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Controlling recombination: from worms to human disease

User Professor Simon Boulton, CRUK Clare Hall Laboratories, UK..

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate

note unusual time

User Seb Shimeld, University of Oxford, UK.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Assessing discursive practices associated with Terra Preta governance in Amazonas state, Brazil

User Isabel Melo Vasquez, Visiting student from the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Without a leg to stand on: locomotion in the earliest "land" animals

User Dr Stephanie Pierce, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and The Royal Veterinary College, London.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Energy Efficient Lighting

User Winton Community.

Monday 30 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Helmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Does gender matter to sustainable development?

User Professor Clare Griffiths, University of Chester.

Monday 30 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Defining synergies and tradeoffs between ecosystem services for integrative land use planning in degraded peatland regions of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

User Elizabeth Law, University of Queensland, Australia.

Friday 27 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

The physics of bird coloration

User Professor Doekele Stavenga, University of Groningen, NL..

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Impact of Recent Climate Change on Montane Mammals and Birds

User Steve Beissinger, University of California, Berkeley.

Monday 23 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

Ecological Transactions go Bonk.

User Yangchen Lin.

Friday 20 April 2012, 17:30-18:00

Biofuels

User Winton community.

Monday 16 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

House Sawyers Building 005 (Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford Campus).

Strategic decisions, climate change and resources

User Julie Winnard, Ford.

Monday 16 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Mapping plant diversity across the scales

User Laurens Geffert, Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn.

Friday 30 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

A window to the past: Does adult ornamental plumage reveal early life environments?

User Leila Walker.

Friday 23 March 2012, 17:30-18:00

House Coslett 408 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Climate models and uncertainty

User Erica Thompson (Imperial College London) and Emma Boland (University of Cambridge).

Monday 19 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Startle displays: halting predator attack.

User Alexandra Torok.

Friday 16 March 2012, 17:30-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Gödel, Escher, Mahler: love-hate dynamics in ecological networks

User Yangchen Lin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Unraveling a Transcriptional Network Involved in Maize Domestication

This is a Kenneth Sporne Lecture

User John Doebley, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

All things bright and beautiful; structural colour in biological systems

User Dr Pete Vukusic, Department of Physics, University of Exeter.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

User Professor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

REDD: a good idea, impossible to implement?

Last in Series for 2012!

User Arild Angelsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB).

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

User Diethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

"Reviewing the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation"

User Dr. Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography) and others.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

The After Life

User Professor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

Friday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Biodiversity after forty years of human re-colonization in the Amazon forest

User Jose Manuel Ochoa-Qunintero, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

Friday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, Bateman Street.

Specification of pre-meiotic cells in maize anthers

Note venue

User Virginia Walbot, Stanford University.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Potentials and Challenges of Developing Ecosystem-Based Co-management: A Case Study From the Swedish West Coast

User Dr Andrea Morf, University of Gothenburg, and the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making peace with the Earth

User Dr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Geodiversity, geoconservation & geomorphological services: Challenges beyond 2012.

User Tom Spencer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Genome evolution as seen from each of its genes: what "phylomes" can tell us about newly-sequenced species

User Toni Gabaldon, CRG, Barcelona.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Performance of Policy in Tanzanian CBNRM: Hidden Aspects of Governance and Participatory Spaces

User Kathryn Humphries, PhD student, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Michael Ashcroft Building 007 (Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford Campus).

The Politics of Energy Policy

User Robert Jones, former advisor to UK Government.

Monday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Life

User Professor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Empowering generations of conservation leadership - myth or reality!

User Kiragu Mwangi, Birdlife International.

Friday 02 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Molecular tools for the macroalgae

User John Bothwell, Queen's University Belfast.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Strategies to ensure robustness in genome replication

User Prof. Julian Blow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?

User Jonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Why Monitoring Matters when designing payment for ecosystem services schemes.

User Julia Jones, University of Bangor.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Morphological and molecular evolution of the arthropod nervous system: new insights from studies on the waterflea Daphnia magna

User Angelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary, University of London.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Reading: Land Sparing/Land Sharing

User Dr. Chris Sandbrook, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Tea time conversation

User Winton community.

Monday 27 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Are epiphytes important in oil palm plantations?

User Graham Prescott.

Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:00

Roles of sperm factors in the nuclear reprogramming.

User Marta Teperek.

Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:00

Life and Death of a Cell

User Professor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Predictive models in ecology: case studies of invasive fire ants and fire risks

User Yohay Carmel, Technion Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Israel.

Friday 24 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Molecular Pharming gets a green thumbs up

This is a CPPS Seminar

User Julian Ma, St. George’s, University of London.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Statistical inference in the fossil record: estimating the divergence time of primates

User Professor Simon Tavaré, Department of Oncology University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Getting the measure of biodiversity: birds as indicators of environmental change.

User Richard Gregory, RSPB.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

User Mandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

‘Framings of scale challenges in the governance of biodiversity’

User Dr. Evangelia Apostolopoulou, Visiting Scholar from the Department of Ecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Hydrogen fuel cells

User Winton community.

Monday 20 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

House Helmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Science and Technology in Parliament

User Dr Stephen Allen, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

Monday 20 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Life in Conflict

User Dr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Hidden Signposts of Plant Development

User Enrico Coen, JIC.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Organogenesis during planarian regeneration

User Dr Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change

User Dr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wombats, Weapons & Water: the making of international conservation treaties.

User Catherine MacKenzie, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

‘Biofuels and the politics of land-use change: The controversial place of "place" in environmental governance

User James Palmer, PhD student, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

An invasive species as a biofilter to improve water quality: using the bad guys for good.

User Claire McLaughlan.

Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:00

Understanding locust phase-shift.

User Katja Stettin.

Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:00

Life in the Ancient World

User Dr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

House Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, Bateman Street.

How plants survive the night

Note venue

User Alison M. Smith, JIC.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Regulating the actin cytoskeleton during Drosophila oogenesis

User Dr Margot Quinlan, UCLA.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The power of markets to protect nature

User Ian Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

How high should Climate Change taxes be?

User Chris Hope, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Drosophila segmentation paradigm: A product of molecular co-option and the blind clock breaker?

User Andrew Peel, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Reading, Jepson et al., (2011),‘What is a conservation actor?’

User Reading and Discussion session.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Michael Ashcroft Building 002 (Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford Campus).

Bradford University’s Ecoversity journey: barriers and breakthroughs

User Peter Hughes, Centre for Educational Development, University of Bradford.

Monday 06 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Spark of Life

User Professor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

Friday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Drought and diversity in tropical rain forests

User Patrick Meir, Edinburgh University.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

The role of mitochondrial DNA in neuronal development and neurodegeneration

User Dr Joseph Bateman, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open

User Dr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Linking science, policy & practice for wildlife conservation on farmland.

User Lynn Dicks, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The gap junction protein Innexin7 is required for cellularization of the Tribolium blastoderm

User Maurijn van der Zee, University of Leiden.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Reading: Forsyth (2011), ‘Politicizing environmental explanations: What can political ecology learn from sociology and philosophy of science?’

User Reading and Discussion Session.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Life in Ruins

User Dr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The control of flowering time

User Richard Morris, JIC.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

From fly embryos to single molecule studies: elucidating molecular mechanisms of cytoplasmic mRNA transport

User Dr Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

iTrade Wildlife: detecting rare online behaviour

First in Lent Term's Series

User David Roberts, DICE, University of Kent.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Lunch Social

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Helmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

I don't believe in Climate Change

User Dr David Viner, Red Kite Enterprise and Environment.

Monday 23 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

User Professor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Strigolactone signalling and the control of shoot branching

User Ottoline Leyser, SLCU.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Local coordination of cell polarity through cell-cell interactions

User Professor David Strutt - MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

‘Is it conservation or development? Pilgrimage or ecotourism? Identifying the genius loci in a hidden land (sbas-yul)'

User Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp, PhD Student, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Flies and cameras in times of economic crisis.

User Francisco Hernandez.

Friday 09 December 2011, 17:30-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mycorrhizal fungal power- harnessing photosynthate and transforming the Earth

User Jonathon Leake, Sheffield.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

The molecular and neuronal control of nutrient decisions in Drosophila

User Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Biodiversity offsets and the journey to No Net Loss.

Last talk of term

User Kerry ten Kate, BBOP Forest Trends.

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

User Stefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

'The rights of nature in the Ecuadorian constitution’

User Dr. Freddy Alvarez, Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Stripes and rings: how to make a centipede.

User Jack Green.

Friday 25 November 2011, 17:30-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

The importance of evaluating conservation management actions: unexpected outcomes of invasive predator control for malleefowl conservation

User Jessica C. Walsh, Conservation Science Group.

Friday 25 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The endodermis - a selective and protective interface between plant and soil

User Niko Geldner, Lausanne.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution

User Aurora Ruiz Herrera, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Getting real about Marine Protected Areas: pragmatism in design and implementation.

User Amanda Vincent, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia..

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Axial homologies re-examined: a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa

User Heather Marlow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

‘Creating protected areas in post-conflict Cambodia’

This talk is being organised by Flora and Fauna International

User His Excellency Dr. Mok Mareth, Senior Minister and Minister of the Environment, Royal Government of Cambodia.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Unravelling ecological dynamics at a macro scale: application of hierarchical models

User Dr Tatsuya Amano, Conservation Science Group.

Friday 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, Bateman Street.

Stomatal development and evolution

PLEASE NOTE VENUE

User Julie Gray, Sheffield.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Nano-scale pathfinders: how kinesins move along the microtubule

User Zeynep Oekten, Institute for Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Mapping Africa's natural capital: progress, problems, potential

User Ruth Swetnam, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila

User Alistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Reading: Goodall (draft paper) ‘Peak Stuff’ Did the UK reach a maximum use of material resources in the early part of the last decade?

User Chris Goodall.

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

From Armadillos to Abscisic Acid

User Juliet Coates, Birmingham.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Developmental function and possible role in morphological evolution of the vertebrate Cdx genes

User Stephen Gaunt, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

The Natural Way to Care: how exposure to natural environments shapes human relationships.

User Netta Weinstein, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Hardy Building Room 101.

‘Environmental assessment in Canada: The Mackenzie gas project'

This meeting is being organised in collaboration with the Travelling Knowledges reading group

User Dr. Peter Usher, Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

User Evelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Offspring sex ratio bias in meerkats (or a lack thereof).

User Kirsty MacLeod.

Friday 04 November 2011, 17:30-18:00

Genome re-sequencing reveals narrow islands of divergence among radiating butterflies.

User Simon Martin.

Friday 04 November 2011, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

From Clone to Clinic- oilseed based bio-pharmaceutical production

This is a CPPS Seminar

User Maurice Maloney, IACR Rothamstead.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Physiomimetics: generating functional membranes for buildings (lessons from the ventilation systems of African fungus-growing termites)

User Rupert Soar, Wolfson School of Engineering at Loughborough University.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Counting and Conserving the World's 'Missing' Species

User Lucas Joppa, CEES Microsoft Research.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

INFORMAL SEMINAR: Development and maturation of the respiratory system in Drosophila

User Maura Strigini, Heraklion, Crete.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

User Gregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

‘Political ecology: Meeting travellers along the way’

This talk is being organised by the Cambrige University Geographical Society

User Prof. Piers Blaikie, University of East Anglia.

House Emmanuel college.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Control of orientated cell division and cell expansion during plant development

User Simon Turner, Manchester.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

NO TEA TALK (Peter Lawrence Symposium)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 00:00-00:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Conserving India's Forests: participation, forest rights and ecosystem services.

User Bhaskar Vira, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

(note unusual location)

User Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, Bateman Street.

Evolution of C4 grasses: from genes to globe

PLEASE NOTE VENUE

User Colin Osborne, Sheffield.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Looking for novel regulators of cell morphogenesis using microscopy-based functional genomics approaches

User Rafael Carazo Salas, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

The Ecosystem Service Paradigm: progress towards a more sustainable future.

User Steve Albon, Valuing Nature Network,The James Hutton Institute.

Wednesday 19 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

Nature on the move: The emergence and circulation of fictitious conservation and liquid nature

User Bram Büscher.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 00:00-00:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Chromosome structure in the establishment and divergence of polyploids

User Andrew Leitch, QMUL.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Genetic basis of group dynamics in Drosophila

User Joel Levine, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Trade-offs, team work and the challenge of translating conservation science into policy: some lessons and thoughts from the Amazon.

User Dr Toby Gardner ( Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology).

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Comparative genomics: lessons, rationales and perspectives

User Jerome Salse, INRA Versailles.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Luminal sensing and neuromodulation in the gut: different roles for PYY and NPY

User Helen Cox, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College, London.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Projecto PalNiassa: New fossils from Mozambique

User Rui Castanhinha, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Museu da Lourinhã, Portugal.

Monday 03 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Colony defense by post-reproductive adults and young nymphs in a social aphid

User Keigo Uematsu. Department of General Systems Studies, University of Tokyo..

Friday 30 September 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Regulation and developmental role of the hypoxia response machinery in Drosophila

User Pablo Wappner, Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Friday 30 September 2011, 11:00-12:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

The convoluted evolution of behavior: insights from bird eggs and songs

User David C. Lahti, Department of Biology, Queens College, The City University of New York (CUNY).

Friday 15 July 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Electrolyte and water transport by the Drosophila midgut

User Subrata Tripathi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.

Thursday 07 July 2011, 16:00-17:00

Microfossils for macroevolution: planktonic foraminifera, the Court Jester and the Red Queen

User Prof. Andy Purvis, Imperial College, London.

Thursday 16 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Trying to make sense of all that nonsense (-mediated mRNA decay)

User Oliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, Switzerland.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

How can we save the rainforest in SW China? ---Mapping net present value (NPV) of rubber plantations and valuation of ecosystem services to identify targets for forest restoration.

User Yi Zhuangfang, PhD student, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Friday 03 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

The development and modulation of amphibian motor control systems

User Keith Sillar, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

A hot question in an age of global change: which model is the most sexy?

User Yangchen Lin, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Genetics and physiology of growth in Drosophila

User Pierre Leopold, Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, University of Nice, France.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Friends at the ends: a dynamic protein network controls the fate of microtubule tips

User Anna Akhmanova, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Building a practical toolkit for measuring ecosystem services

User Dr Kelvin Peh, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Acoustic techniques for identifying bats: new ways of obtaining distribution data

User Charlotte Walters. Institute of Zoology (London).

Friday 13 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series

An Innovation Odyssey – from Basic Research to the World’s Fastest-selling Consumer Electronics Product

To reserve your place at this lecture, please register using the link below.

User Professor Christopher Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 3, Judge Business School (http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/location.html).

Thursday 12 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling in Drosophila epithelia

User Isabel Guerrero, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Does money grow on trees? Implications of livelihood heterogeneity in Amazonian reserves

User Pete Newton, University of East Anglia.

Friday 06 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

From mice to molecules: the genetic basis of adaptation

User Hopi Hoekstra, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?

User Dr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Transient population dynamics: implications for life history, evolution and conservation

User Stuart Townley, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Polyploidy and epigenetics

User Prof. Jeffrey Chen, University of Texas at Austin.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

foraging: from nature to molecule

User Marla Sokolowski, University of Toronto, Canada.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Decarbonising the transport system

User Professor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

User Dr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tracking an invader: the spread of the harlequin ladybird in Europe and its effects on native ladybirds

User Peter Brown, Anglia Ruskin University.

Friday 11 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Epigenetic variation across generations: mechanisms and consequences of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

User Prof. Vincent Colot, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire des Organismes Photosynthétiques, ENS, France.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Neural and mechanical mechanisms of multifunctionality

User Hillel Chiel, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks

User Profesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

The genetic basis of Mullerian mimicry in Heliconius melpomene

User Carolina Pardo-Diaz.

Friday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:00

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

User Professor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

Friday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Conservation and Corporations

User Emma Marsden, University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Shaping the plant endomembrane system

User Prof. Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes University.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The origin and evolution of vision

User Dan Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time

User Dr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Title to be confirmed

User Tom Clements.

Friday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:00

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

User Professor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

Friday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Neural Circuits Involved in Kicking and Jumping in Locusts and Crickets

User Armando Castillo.

Friday 25 February 2011, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Modelling the distribution of Freshwater Invasive Species across Europe

User Dr Belinda Gallardo, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge..

Friday 25 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Why study early land plants?

User Prof. Dianne Edwards, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Cardiff.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Epithelial repair in Drosophila

User Antonio Jacinto, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities

User Professor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

User Professor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

Friday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Movement of British macro-moths through fragmented agricultural landscapes

User Claire McLaughlan, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Is there a limit to tomato yield?

Cambridge Partnership in Plant Sciences Seminar

User Prof. Daniel Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Drosophila intestinal epithelium as an immune barrier: from steady-state to pathology

User Bruno Lemaitre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Investment and maternal strategies in cooperative breeders

User James Savage.

Friday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:00

The Sound of Beauty

User Dr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

Friday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mating systems, hybridization, polyploidy, and continuing evolution in Senecio (ragworts) and Sorbus (whitebeams)

User Prof. Simon Hiscock, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution of transcriptional regulation

User Duncan Odom, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Landscape change and its biological consequences in the Amazonian forest

User Jose Ochoa-Quintero.

Friday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:00

Quantum Beauty

User Professor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Friday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

The centipede Strigamia maritima and the evolution of arthropod head patterning

User Vera Hunnekuhl.

Friday 04 February 2011, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

New Insights into Starch Metabolism in Arabidopsis and Other Plants

User Prof. Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

mRNA localisation at the neuromuscular junction

User Alejandra Gardiol, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)

User Professor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

How do cells coordinate entry to mitosis?

User Agata Lichawska.

Friday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:00

Beauty & The Grotesque

User Jose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid).

Friday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

The Arts of Aerobatics and Origami in Insect flight

User Kristien de Clercq.

Friday 28 January 2011, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Environmental physiology

Blackman Lecture

User Prof. Bill Davies, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Cell competition through growth factor signalling

User Eugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Energy Security and UK Energy Policy

User Professor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:30

Planar Cell Polarity: pointing towards the right direction

User Pedro Saavedra.

Friday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:00

Beauty & Truth

User Professor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

Friday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Who killed the megafauna? A tale of climate change, murder and mystery.

User David Williams and Graham Prescott, University of Cambridge.

Friday 21 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thermosensory mechanisms in plants

User Dr Phillip Wigge, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mammalian phylogenomics and evolution: where are we and what is next?

User Frederic Delsuc, CNRS, Universite Montpellier II, France.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Friday night at the movies: Fluorescence, lasers and 4D

User Matt Benton.

Friday 03 December 2010, 17:30-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Molecular control of flowering-time and vernalization

User Prof. Caroline Dean, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Continuous surprises: Live-Cell Imaging reveals that SMG6 and UPF1 inhibit release of nonsense mRNA from the transcription site

User Oliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Molecular neuroendocrinology: how the brain builds its peptidergic sprinkler systems.

User Paul Taghert, Washington University, St Louis.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 12:00-13:00

Developmental and functional crosstalk between the Drosophila gut and its neighboring tissues

User Gerit Linneweber.

Friday 26 November 2010, 17:30-18:00

Scans and Skulls and Holes and Moles

User Nick Crumpton.

Friday 26 November 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development

This is a Cambridge Partnership in Plant Sciences Seminar

User Dr Lars Ostergaard, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Control of sexual differentiation and behavior by the doublesex gene in Drosophila melanogaster

User Stephen Goodwin, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Towards a sustainable hydrogen economy

User John Andrews - Associate Professor RMIT University.

House LT6, Engineering Department.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Climate

Climate Change and Health

User Multiple speakers.

House Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Memorial Court, Clare College, Queen's Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AJ.

Saturday 20 November 2010, 09:00-17:30

Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series

The future of science in Parliament

This lecture is now full.

User Dr Evan Harris, former MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, and Dr Julian Huppert, MP for Cambridge.

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Friday 19 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

To be connected or not? Floodplain restoration and aquatic diversity

User Dr Amael Paillex, Aquatic Ecology and Biology Lab, University of Geneva.

Friday 19 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Structure and function of photosystem-I

User Prof. John Golbeck, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, USA.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

DNA combing and massive sequencing of replication intermediates suggest a domino model for replication origin activation in the human genome

User Olivier Hyrien, Department of Biology, ENS Paris.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Memorial Court, Clare College, Queen's Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AJ.

Treating carbon addiction in the NHS: sustainable clinical practice

User Dr Frances Mortimer, Campaign for Greener Healthcare.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 11:30-00:00

House Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Memorial Court, Clare College, Queen's Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AJ.

Secondary Health Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

User Prof Douglas Crawford-Brown, 4CMR, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 09:40-00:00

The Ins and Outs of Fly Guts

User Paula Cognigni.

Friday 12 November 2010, 17:30-18:00

Jaws 5: The Beginning

User Kelly Richards.

Friday 12 November 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Northern Africa

User Nieves Garcia. IUCN.

Friday 12 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant membrane transport

User Prof. Dale Sanders, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Why pain gets worse - the molecular basis of sensitization

User Peter McNaughton, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Rainforest conversion and tropical insect communities

User Sarah Luke, University of Cambridge.

Friday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Design principles in energy and carbon metabolism

User Dr Ron Milo, Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution and function of jaws: a study in taxonomic, morphological and functional variation

User Emily Rayfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Natural Resource Management - An Ecologist's Perspective

User Dr. Martyn Murray, MGM Environmental Solutions / University of Edinburgh.

Friday 29 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

From plant-pathogen interactions to plant-microbe communities

User Prof. Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Seeing in the dark: Vision and visual behaviour in nocturnal insects

User Eric Warrant, Department of Cell and Organism, University of Lund.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Setting meaningful restoration goals for a globally imperiled habitat

User Philine zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: UK Long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental

User Prof. Kathy Willis, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Is life impossible? Information, sex and the origin of complex organisms

User Joel Peck, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

UK Molecular plant-microbe-insect interactions

User Dr Saskia Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina revealed by two-photon laser scanning and serial block-face scanning electron microscopy

User Kevin Briggman (Denk lab), Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Potassium channel and Calcium signalling in Drosophila learning

User James Hodge, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol.

Thursday 07 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Homeostatic growth in the Drosophila intestine

User Bruce Edgar, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Thursday 16 September 2010, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series

Working on the Inside - Opportunities for scientists to work inside policy making

Attendance at this event is by registration only - please contact the organiser.

User Please see confirmed list of speakers below.

House The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street.

Monday 14 June 2010, 16:30-18:30

Opening a window on primate and afrotherian evolution: new early Tertiary mammals from Algeria and Tunisia

User Rodolphe Tabuce, Université Montpellier 2.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

p38 SAPK signaling protects the Drosophila larval hindgut against chronic stress

User Hugo Stocker, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Specification of muscle identity in Drosophila

User Laurence Dubois, Centre de Biologie du Développement, Toulouse.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Museum demonstration room, Department of Zoology.

Termites as ecosystem engineers. Water, soils and architecture in _Macrotermes_ mounds in Namibia

User J. Scott Turner, Syracuse University USA.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

From genes to shape: notions from the study of the Drosophila tracheal system

User Jordi Casanova, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Allure of the Centipede

User Michael Akam, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April)

This talk has been re-scheduled for 12th May, (postponed from 21st April)

User Professor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

How and why desert ants learn habitual routes

User Matthew Collett, University of Exeter.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory

User Professor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

CANCELLED

User Olivier Hyrien, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 00:00-00:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

User Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolutionary genetics of mito-nuclear cooperation, fitness and disease in Drosophila

User David Rand, Brown University.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Can Eco-compensation Restore Natural Forest in Xishuangbanna, China?

User Yi Zhuangfang, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Is chytrid fungus, a global scourge of amphibians, having an effect on the UK's rarest amphibian?

User Peter Minting, Institute of Zoology.

Friday 12 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Neural mechanisms of sky compass orientation in the desert locust (NOTE LATE START 17:00)

User Uwe Homberg, University of Marburg, Germany.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Delivering genuine sustainability in the built environment - obstacles and opportunities

User Dr David Strong CEO, Inbuilt Ltd; Board Member of UK Green Building Council.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The Energy Efficient Cities Initiative

User Steven Barret, Ruchi Choudary and Ying Jin - University of Cambridge.

House LT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

User Professor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

Friday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Exploring the Relationship between Extinction Risk and Skewed Adult Sex Ratios

User Jo Venables.

Friday 05 March 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

TALK CANCELLED

User Gustavo Canale.

Friday 05 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Genetic and environmental factors determine the stability of gene silencing in Arabidopsis

User Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid,Gregor Mendel Institute.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series

Science policy research - can research influence policy? How? And does it make for better policy?

User Professor Ben Martin, former Director of Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU).

House Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 17:30-18:40

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.

User Sebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford..

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Organizational Principles of the Locomotor Network of Drosophila Melanogaster

User Temur Yunusov.

Friday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:00

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

User Professor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

Friday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Replication Fork Dynamics - In Vivo Analysis of PCNA-interacting Proteins

User Shiphali Shetty.

Friday 26 February 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat

This is a CPPS Seminar

User Graham Moore, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Social cognition: lessons from corvids and children

see also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_MnwNyX0Ds

User Nicky Clayton, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cities of the Future

User Paul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc..

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Chemical Looping Combustion: One Technology for the Clean Utilisation of Coal

User Dr John S Dennis - Reader in Chemical Reaction Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House LT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Life-history trade-offs in the evolution of insect parental care (redux)

User James Gilbert.

Friday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:00

Risk, Security and Terrorism

User Professor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

Friday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

A Total Evidence Analysis of Ruminant Systematics

User Eva Baermann.

Friday 19 February 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wood mechanics, allometry, and life-history variation in a tropical rain forest tree community

User Lourens Poorter, University of Wageningen.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Fifty Years of Wild Chimpanzee Tool Use: Where Do We Stand?

User Bill McGrew, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

You must be joking; Cities as a force for good in the environment

User Professor Bruce Beck, University of Georgia.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy Transitions: Slow Transformations and Difficult Substitutions

User Dr Vaclav Smil - Distinguished Professor, University of Manitova.

House LT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Identifying PCNA Interactors in Human Cells

User Simon Cooper.

Friday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:00

Risk and Humanities

User Professor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

Friday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

The Regulation of Motoneuron Dendrite Growth in the Fruit Fly Larva

User Maarten Zwart.

Friday 12 February 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The Evolution and Development of Leaves

User Jane Langdale, University of Oxford.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Cognitive Architecture of a Mini Brain: Lessons from Honeybees

User Martin Giurfa, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

User Barry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Population Dynamics in Meerkats

User Andrew Bateman.

Friday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:00

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

User Professor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

Friday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Using Pathogen Effectors to Investigate Host Plant Resistance Mechanisms

User Jonathan Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Taking shape; how Drosophila renal tubules find their way

User Helen Skaer, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Reducing Energy Consumption in Paper Making using Advanced Process Control and Optimisation

User Dr Paul C Austin - Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.

House LT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Analysis of Kinesin-1 function during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis

User Lucy Williams.

Friday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:00

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty

User Professor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

Friday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Shells and Stones: Molluscan Analyses as a Means of Characterizing Hominin Habitats during the Pleistocene

User Tom White.

Friday 29 January 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Conservation in the Bolivian Amazon: Canoes, Capybara and Climate Change

User Claudia Comberti.

Friday 29 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Arabidopsis natural variation: QTL, genes and 'omics'

User Maarten Koorneef, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne..

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Multi-legged running in the real world: how do cockroaches, dogs, and horses handle different surfaces?

User Andrew Spence, Royal Veterinary College London.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Roadmap to 2050

User Professor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution of determinism: an evolutionary history of mechanisms underlying insect wing patterning

User Robert Ray, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Global Models of Mammal Distribution

User Dr Carlo Rondinini, Sapienza University of Rome.

Tuesday 26 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Top Tips for Organ Shape

User Helen Weavers.

Friday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:00

Risk: Science and the Media

User Dr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian.

Friday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Integrating Costs into Priorities for Conservation Planning in a Biodiversity Hotspot

User Jonathan Green.

Friday 22 January 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Unwinding the circadian clock with systems biology

User Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The developmental origins of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome

User Susan Ozanne, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Signatures of Historical Demography and Pathogen Richness on MHC Genes

User Nouar Qutob.

Friday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:00

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

User Professor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

The Influence of Phase Change on Learning and Memory in Desert Locusts

User Patricio Simoes.

Friday 15 January 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Basal Sexual Strategies: Sexual differentiation, haploid-diploid transitions, and uniparental inheritance of organelle genome

This is a Sporne Lecture

User Ursula Goodenough, University of Washington, St Louis.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mycobacterial disease in Drosophila: old signals, new biology

User Marc Dionne, Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology of Inflammation, King's College London.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

User David Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews.

Wednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV) for Europe: Economics, Technical and Social Issues

User David Faiman - Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), Ben Gurion National Solar Energy Centre.

Monday 07 December 2009, 17:00-18:00

Information and Energy Optimization in the Fly Visual System

User Nikon Rasumov.

Friday 04 December 2009, 17:30-18:00

A Bird's Eye View: Egg Pattern Mimicry by the Common Cuckoo

User Mary Caswell Stoddard.

Friday 04 December 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Long term drivers of aboveground-belowground linkages - evidence from invaders, islands and chronosequences

User David Wardle, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolutionary biomechanics of dinosaur locomotion

User John Hutchinson, Royal Veterinary College, Univ London.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

User Dorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Queens' College, Buttery & Erasmus Room.

Global Video Conference on the Copenhagen Treaty

User Various.

Saturday 28 November 2009, 11:30-16:00

Natural Hybridization in Heliconius Butterflies and the Role of Hybridization in Biological Diversification

User Patricio Salazar.

Friday 27 November 2009, 17:30-18:00

Biomechanical Problems of Load Transport: How Grass-Cutting Ants Avoid Falling Over

User Karin Moll.

Friday 27 November 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Systems analysis of lateral root development: an emerging story…

User Malcolm Bennet, Center for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Actin, pseudopods, and chemotaxis - cell biological and computational modelling approaches to cellular navigation

User Robert Insall, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Cambridge University Eco-Racing: Solar Cars

User Martin McBrien - Cambridge University Eco Racing Founder.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Fingers, fins and faces: the role of fossils in documenting the assembly of modern bodyplans

User Matt Friedman, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Seabirds as Indicator Species in the Southern Ocean

User Claire Tancell.

Friday 20 November 2009, 17:30-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Supporting local conservation overseas: land purchase as a strategy for conservation

User Claire Thompson, World Land Trust, UK.

Friday 20 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Signalling pathways that establish symbiotic interactions in plants

User Giles Oldroyd, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Does morality need religion? A selectionist approach

User Robert Hinde, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

The Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Blood

User John Cannon.

Friday 13 November 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Investigating the potential use of the sexually transmitted mite, Coccipolipus hippodamiae, in controlling populations of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis

User Emma Rhule, Genetics Department, Cambridge University.

Friday 13 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The secrets of a plant killer: Evolutionary and functional dynamics of Phytophthora infestans effector genes

User Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Smart foot sweat: two phasic foot pad secretion prevents slipping

User Chris Clemente, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Engineering Fundamentals of Energy Efficiency

User Jonathan Cullen - University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Systematics, homology and speciation in time and space.

User Julie Hawkins, University of Reading.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Botanising in Cambridgeshire and North East England

User Monica Frisch, Cambridge Natural History Society.

Friday 06 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Coordination of homologous recombination the key to accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis in Arabidopsis

User Chris Franklin, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Comparative analysis of the evolutionary development of brain size in mammals

User Isabella Capellini, University of Durham.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Getting under the skin: How do plants generate and maintain an effective epidermis?

User Gwyneth Ingram, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Life in rotten places: how O2 and CO2 sensing alter foraging in a worm

User Mario DeBono, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

PAS 2050: The BSI/Defra/Carbon Trust Specification for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Products and Services

User Professor Roland Clift - Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

What domestication missed: exploiting wild emmer to improve wheat

This is a CPPS seminar (http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/)

User Cristobal Uauy, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Physics, development, and evolution of avian structural colors

User Richard Prum, Yale University.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

User Artyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

The Evolution of Creationism

(NOTE TUES NOT THURS) see also http://ncseweb.org/about

User Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education USA.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Wildlife surveys and site management: the role of volunteers in local conservation work

User Dr Ed Turner, Ecology Groups Officer, The Wildlife Trust.

Friday 16 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Between a rock and a hard place - resistance evolution and genetic incompatibility in plants.

User Kirsten Bomblies, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Conflict and cooperation in social birds

User Andy Radford, University of Bristol.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

T2: How adding intelligence can dramatically reduce energy consumption – cheaply

User Pilgrim Beart - AlertMe.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

User Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

When satellites help predicting animal distribution, movement and performance

User Dr. Nathalie Pettorelli, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London.

Friday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Phylodynamics of HIV-1 infection and escape from neutralizing antibodies

User Simon Frost, Dept Veterinary Medicine, Univ Cambridge.

Thursday 08 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cradle to Cradle Design

User Bill McDonough William McDonough and Partners.

House Cambridge Unuiversity Engineerintg Department, LR0.

Wednesday 07 October 2009, 18:00-19:30

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Adaptive and process-based explanations in the study of parent-offspring communication: experiments with hand-raised house sparrow nestlings and game theoretical modelling

User Dr Uri Grodzinski, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 12 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

Plasticity of sex pheromone detection in male moths: modulation of behaviour and central nervous processing

User Sylvia Anton, Centre de Recherches de Versailles.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

A hierarchical Bayesian model for smoothed population indices: applications to wader populations in Japan

User Dr Tatsuya Amano.

Friday 05 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

A Green New Deal: Climate Change Mitigation as an Economic Stimulus

This talk is part of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) seminar series. Please bring your lunch.

User Dr Alex Bowen, Principal Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

House Land Economy Laundress Lane seminar room 1.

Friday 05 June 2009, 12:30-13:30

Synchronization of the Drosophila circadian clock by daily light and temperature fluctuations

User Ralf Stanewsky, Queen Mary College, University of London.

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

The Effect of Energy Prices on Operation and Investment in OECD Countries: Evidence from the Vintage Capital Model

This talk is part of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) seminar series

User Dr Karsten Neuhoff & Dr Jevgenijs Steinbuks. Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

House Land Economy Laundress Lane seminar room 1.

Friday 29 May 2009, 14:30-15:30

Ecomorphological diversification and origins of major clades in early mammal evolution

User Zhe-Xi Luo, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Arthropod biodiversity in Irish agricultural grasslands: results from the Ag-Biota Project

User Dr Alvin Helden, Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University.

Friday 22 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Studies of wound healing and inflammation in flies

User Paul Martin, University of Bristol.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Variation in response to intruder scent cues in meerkats

User Cesar Raff Mares (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Large Animal Research Group).

Friday 15 May 2009, 17:30-18:00

Genetic susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis in UK cattle

User Erin Driscoll (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Molecular Ecology Group).

Friday 15 May 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Evolution of Human Languages

User Mark Pagel, University of Reading.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

On the rebound: could energy efficiency improvements backfire?

User Hugh Parnell - Cambridge Energy Forum (CEF), Dr Terry Barker - 4CMR, Dr Philip Sargent - CEF, Steven Sorrell - University of Sussex, Blake Alcott, Prof Roger Kemp - Lancaster University, Dr Tim Foxon - University of Leeds, Tina Dallman - UK govmt DEFRA.

House Pitt Building, Trumpington Street.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 13:30-17:10

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Host-parasite arms races in bird colour space

User Dr Martin Stevens and Dr Claire Spottiswoode, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Monday 11 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Histone modification changes upon DNA damage

User Jorrit Tjeertes (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology).

Friday 08 May 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Risk taking, learning, and strategy choice: experiments with humans, bees, and sparrows

User Prof. Arnon Lotem.

Friday 08 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Role of the human origin recognition complex ORC in DNA replication

User Aloys Schepers, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

William MCDonough (CANCELLED)

User William McDonough Author of "Cradle to Cradle".

House CANCELLED.

Wednesday 06 May 2009, 00:00-00:00

Silicification in Eukaryotes

User Alan Marron (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Development and Evolution Group).

Friday 01 May 2009, 17:30-18:00

Contextual influences in filial imprinting; behaviour and neural correlates

User Stephen Town (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology).

Friday 01 May 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Species and diversity patterns in complex human-dominated landscapes: an Atlantic forest case study

User Dr Renata Pardini, University of São Paulo.

Friday 01 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Beyond GDP Growth: measuring real progress in a developing country

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

User Pavan Sukhdev, Chair of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets Centre, Mumbai.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 17:15-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Integrative and systems approaches to osmoregulation in insects (and people)

User Julian Dow, University of Glasgow.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

The genetics of pigmentation in the Red-billed quelea

User Neil Walsh (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group).

Friday 24 April 2009, 17:30-18:00

Elucidation of cyclin A function in the human cell cycle through proteomics

User Felicia Walton (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cell Biology Group).

Friday 24 April 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

25 decades of dodgy data

User Prof. Tim Sparks.

Friday 24 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

How can lead poisoning of California Condors be prevented?

User Rhys Green, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

What is Consciousness For?

User Professor Chris Frith, University College London.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

The Arctic on the Edge: Policy Issues in Canada's Back Yard

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

User Dr Peter Harrison, Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits

User Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA.

House William Harvey.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 16:45-17:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Identifying the Network of Selectively Vulnerable Neurons Associated With Symptom Onset in Alzheimer¹s Disease.

User Dr. Peter Nestor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 16:00-16:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Gambling and the Brain

User Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology..

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 15:30-16:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Glutamate, Spikes, and White Matter Disease

User Dr. Ragnhildur Káradóttir, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Soft Matters – Neuromechanics in Development and Disorders

User Dr. Jochen Guck, Department of Physics.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 12:30-13:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

What Can Worm Brains Tell Us About Big Brains?

User Dr. William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 12:00-12:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Visceral Neurons in Drosophila: What the Fly's Rear End Can Tell Us About the Brain

User Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Department of Zoology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 11:30-12:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Processing and Storage Within Neurons

User Professor Jeff Magee, Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 10:05-10:50

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Between a rock and a hard place: metal nutrition in Chlamydomonas

User Professor Sabeeha Merchant - UCLA.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mechanism of microtubule plus-end tracking by EB1 and CLIP-170 elucidated by in vitro reconstitution

User Thomas Surrey, EMBL Heidelberg.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Innovating to sustainability

User Professor Charles Ainger, MWH Ltd and Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University.

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

User Rahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evo-devo and the bristle patterning of flies: attempting targeted transfer of gene regulatory regions between species

User Richard Wallbank (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Skylab).

Friday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:00

The Boundaries of Darwinism

User Professor John Dupre, University of Exeter.

Friday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Deceptive signalling strategies in the fork-tailed drongo

User Tom Flower (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Bird Behavioural Ecology Group).

Friday 06 March 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Parental care in burying beetles

User Sheena Cotter, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Behavioural Ecology Group.

Friday 06 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants

User Professor George Coupland - MPI for Plant Breeding, Cologne.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Dendrite development - insights from insects

User Darren Williams, Kings College London.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economy

User Nigel Brandon, Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy - Imperial College.

House LR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport

User Dr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 15:30-16:30

The importance of forest fragments in the oil-palm matrix. Could parasitoids save the rainforest?

User Tim Cockerill (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Insect Ecology Group).

Friday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:00

Is Human Evolution Over?

User Professor Steve Jones, University College London.

Friday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Investigating nuclear reprogramming of the mammalian inactive X chromosome by somatic cell nuclear transfer to Xenopus laevis oocytes

User Vincent Pasque (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology).

Friday 27 February 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Intracellular metabolite transport in C3 and C4 plants

User Professor Andreas Weber - University of Düsseldorf.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Control of microtubule length by depolymerizing kinesins

User Joe Howard, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Wildlife and Environment

Alternatives to Fossil Fuels

David MacKay is a wonderful speaker: lively, funny, wonderfully clear and easy to follow. Do not think that you cannot understand the problem, or that talks by professors of physics are not for you. Professors are not what they used to be!

User David MacKay, Professor in the Department of Physics, CU.

House St John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 19:30-21:45

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability in the resources sector

User Paul Skinner Chairman Rio Tinto.

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

User Carsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Pups and personality: Individual variation in helping behaviour in cooperative meerkats

User Sinead English (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Large Animal Research Group).

Friday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:00

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

User Professor Craig Moritz, University of California.

Friday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Genetic linkage and reproductive isolation in Heliconius butterflies

User Richard Merrill (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Butterfly Genetics Group).

Friday 20 February 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Ecology and Conservation of the Lesser Kestrel in Portugal

User Ines Catry, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Conservation Science Group.

Friday 20 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

User Professor Nicholas Talbot - University of Exeter.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Olfactory specialist D. sechellia avoids costly appetitive learning

User Teun Dekker, SLU Alnarp, Sweden.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A sustainable technology strategy for engineers

User Dr Karel Muldur, TU Delft The Netherlands.

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

User Andreas Schäfer, Lecturer in Architecture - University of Cambridge.

House LR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Large-scale genetic structure and the demographic history of the domestic horse

User Vera Warmuth (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Archaeogenetics Group).

Friday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:00

Darwin and Human Society

User Professor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse.

Friday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Somatic knock-ins + Chemical Genetics = Unveiling the specific roles of Cdk1 and Aurora A

User Paola Marco (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cell Biology Group).

Friday 13 February 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Darwin in his time - and in ours

Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

User Professor Sir Robert May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 17:15-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Regulatory role of ribosomes in plant development

User Dr Mary Byrne - John Innes Centre, Norwich.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Exploring the hair follicle as an unconventional, but highly instructive tool for neuroendocrine research

User Ralf Paus, Uni-Luebeck, University of Manchester.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Water, health and sustainable development

User Dr Jamie Bartram, Co-ordinator of Water, Sanitation and Health at the World Health Organisation.

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

Information-Energy trade-offs in spiking and graded cells

User Biswa Sengupta (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Insect Vision Group).

Friday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:00

Darwin in the Literary World

User Professor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia.

Friday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Microcephaly genes and primate brain size evolution

User Stephen Montgomery (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group).

Friday 06 February 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Evolution of Bird Colour in a Tetrahedral Colour Space

User Cassie Stoddard, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Behavioural Ecology Group.

Friday 06 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The European potential to produce Bio-energy: Miscanthus potential for current and future climates

This is a CPPS seminar http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/

User Mr Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

CANCELLED due to inclement weather

User Andy Radford, Univ Bristol.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Development - great green dream or impossible ambition?

User Tony Juniper, former Director of Friends of the Earth.

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy use in the University of Cambridge

User Paul Hasley, University Energy Manager - University of Cambridge.

House LR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

The interaction of epigenetic remodelling and nuclear reprogramming, following nuclear transfer to an amphibian oocyte

User Richard Halley-Stott.

Friday 30 January 2009, 17:30-18:00

Global Darwin

User Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

Friday 30 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

How can the invasive Asian clam help us tackle freshwater pollution?

User Nicole Spann.

Friday 30 January 2009, 17:00-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Pollen tube growth: of male gametophytes and the need for models

User Professor José Feijó - University of Lisbon.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The mammalian middle ear: development, evolution and hearing defects

User Abigail Tucker, Kings College London.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The role of engineering in entering the ecological age

User Peter Head OBE FREng FRSA Director of Sustainability, Arup.

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 18:00-19:30

Darwin's Intellectual Development

User Professor Janet Browne, Harvard University.

Friday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Land use effects on birds of conservation concern in the Midwestern United States

User John McCarty and Lillian Wolfenbarger.

Friday 23 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Can Climate Engineering be a Sensible Plan B?

Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

User Dr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

RNA degradation and polyadenylation in Arabidopsis thaliana

User Dr Dominique Gagliardi - IBMP, Strasbourg.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Some evolutionary and neurophysiological aspects of hearing in bush crickets

User Andreas Stumpner, Uni-Goettingen.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

The Making of the Fittest

User Professor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin.

Friday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Early farming pathways: recent work on the archaeology and genetics of barley and broomcorn millet

User Professor Martin Jones - Archeology, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

House **FIRST FLOOR SEMINAR ROOM**, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

A child's eye view of the insect world

User Dr Ed Turner, Insect Ecology Group.

Friday 12 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Farming and the future of forest biodiversity in Ghana

User Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group.

Friday 05 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The (micro)diversity of pollination systems in the genus Ceropegia (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae): biogeographic and phylogenetic perspectives

User Dr Jeff Ollerton, University of Northampton.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Sex ratios and rarity in birds: an unhappy balance?

User Paul Donald, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Investigating stem cell differentiation and positional signaling in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

User Aziz Aboobaker, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Understanding Environmental Risk Perceptions: Climate Change, Energy Choices and Public Engagement with Science

User Nick Pidgeon, Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University and ESRC Climate Change Professorial Fellow.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 17:15-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Physical aspects of evolutionary transitions to multicellularity

User Professor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Hominoid ancestral population sizes and human-chimpanzee speciation

User Ziheng Yang, UCL.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy efficiency opportunities from heat pumps

User Alex White - Senior Lecturer in Thermofluids, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Using Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) to study the evolution of flower development

User Sinead Drea, University of Leicester.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Measuring protected area performance - Large vertebrate population declines in Africa's protected areas

User Ian Craigie, Conservation Science Group.

Friday 21 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Biodiversity loss: Mechanisms and consequences

User Dr Andy Hector, ETH Zürich.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Why equalising trade-offs aren't always neutral

User Dr Lindsay Turnbull, ETH Zürich.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-16:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Causes and consequences of avian personality differences

User Kees van Oers, Netherlands Institute of Ecology.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mexican blind cavefish as a model system for micro evolutionary research

User Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, University College London.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

P-p-p-problems with penguins- how population genetics and tagging studies can reveal the cryptic ecology of penguins.

User Tom Hart, Penguinologist, Institute of Zoology.

Friday 14 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Getting to the root of developmental networks

This is a Blackman Lecture

User Professor Philip Benfey, Duke University.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Macroecology of the oceans

User Simon Jennings, CEFAS Lowestoft.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Britain’s building stock: a carbon challenge

User Michael Kelly - Professor of Technology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Conserved regulatory networks in vertebrate development

User Greg Elgar, University of London.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Predicting the impact of agricultural management on fat deposition and grazing damage by white-fronted geese

User Dr. Tatsuya Amano, Conservation Science Group.

Friday 07 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

So you want to be an environmental consultant?

User Dr Melissa Barrett (Arthur D. Little) and Dr Nick Betson (RPM).

Thursday 06 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Discovery and analysis of novel riboswitches

User Professor Ronald Breaker, Yale University.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

West Indian mammal extinctions: how much do we know?

User Sam Turvey, Institute of Zoology London.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

User Angela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Farming and biodiversity in India - Title TBC

User Malvika Onial, Conservation Science Group.

Friday 31 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

The New Food Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible?

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

User Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 17:15-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

New Horizons of the Domestication of Crop Plants

This is a CPPS seminar

User Professor Wayne Powell, IBERS Aberystwyth.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Segregation of cell fate in C. elegans embryos

User Carrie Cowan, IMP Vienna.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy plans that add up

User David MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Comprehensive, effectively managed, and ecologically representative national and regional marine protected area networks – will we meet the Convention on Biological Diversity's 2012 target?

User Sue Wells, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Friday 24 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Cajal bodies, the nucleolus and fibrillarin are required for a plant virus systemic infection

User Dr Michael Taliansky, SCRI Dundee.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of the central nervous system in animals: a cell type comparative approach

User Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Carbon aspects of the cycles of metals

User Thomas Graedel - Professor of Industrial Ecology, Yale University.

Friday 17 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Bryozoan, Cordylophora and sponge biofouling in UK water treatment works

User Rebecca Mant, Aquatic Ecology Group.

Friday 17 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Blue light sensing in plants and bacteria: all you need is a little LOV

User Dr John Christie, University of Glasgow.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Diversification of the Toxicofera reptile venom system

User Brian Fry, University of Melbourne.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

User Gáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Alien movements across space and time: non-randomness in bird introductions

User Tim Blackburn, Institute of Zoology London.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Insulin-like peptide signaling in renal tubules of Drosophila is under control of stress-induced release of tachykinin-related peptide

User Dick Nassel, University of Stockholm.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

User Jeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany).

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

What to do with the CO2 we can’t eliminate?

User Mr. Derek McLeish (Carbon Sciences Inc).

Wednesday 24 September 2008, 14:15-15:00

The Future of Electric Vehicles & Fuel Cells

User Mr Richard Blundell (Think UK) and Mr Michael Evans (CMR Fuel Cells).

Wednesday 24 September 2008, 12:30-13:15

The Possibilities – Changing How We Approach Design

User Mr. Ross Lovegrove (Lovegrove Studios).

Wednesday 24 September 2008, 11:45-12:30

Public Policy

User Speaker TBC (AEA Technology).

Wednesday 24 September 2008, 10:30-11:15

Education of Climate Change at Cambridge & Beyond

User Professor David Mackay (Cambridge University).

Wednesday 24 September 2008, 09:45-10:30

Behaviour Change and the Role of NGOs

User Mr Duncan McLaren (Friends of the Earth Scotland) and Mr Gavin Starks (AMEE).

Wednesday 24 September 2008, 09:00-09:45

Solar Power: Incentives for Scaling Up

User Panel (chair: Prof. Peter Guthrie).

Tuesday 23 September 2008, 15:00-15:45

Large Scale Deployment of Solar Energy, Working with Policy and Investment

User Prof. Doenitz (MAN/ Solar Millennium), Dr. Joachim Reiss (Q-Cells) and Dr. Harry Zervos (IDTechEx).

Tuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Delivering Sustainable Energy Solutions; an Energy Company View

User Mr Angus Norman (EDF).

Tuesday 23 September 2008, 13:30-14:00

Commitments Through Policy and Incentive Schemes: Facilitating Innovation & Investment

User Panel (char: Mr Nick Butler).

Tuesday 23 September 2008, 11:45-12:30

Energy Efficient Cities - An Integrated Approach to Achieving Low Carbon

User Prof. Ann Dowling (University of Cambridge) And Clare Shuttleworth (White Young Green).

Tuesday 23 September 2008, 11:00-11:45

Venture Capital, Risk and the Business of Global Climate Change - A Global View

User Mr. Bernie Bulkin (Vantage Point Venture Capital) and Prof. Michael Manielli (ZYen, London Accords).

Tuesday 23 September 2008, 09:45-10:30

Policies for an Environmentally Sustainable Economy

User Mr. Roman Webber (Deliotte) and Paul Ekins (Green Fiscal Commission).

Tuesday 23 September 2008, 09:00-09:45

Fundamental Challenges to Investment in Sustainable Energy in Transition Economies

User Panel (chair: Prof. David MacKay).

Monday 22 September 2008, 16:00-16:45

Nuclear Power – What else?

User Dr Fabian Roques (CERA).

Monday 22 September 2008, 15:15-16:00

Role of Business in Responding to Climate Change Risks and Opportunities

User Leo Johnson (Pricewaterhouse Coopers).

Monday 22 September 2008, 14:00-14:45

Overview of Alternative Technology Expansion & Its funding

User Filipe Santos (Martifer Solar) and Sarah Forrest (Goldman Sachs).

Monday 22 September 2008, 13:15-14:00

Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air

User Prof David Mackay (Cambridge University).

Monday 22 September 2008, 11:30-12:15

The Economics of A Zero Carbon Society

User Dr Terry Barker (Tyndall Centre, 4CMR).

Monday 22 September 2008, 10:45-11:30

Global Context of Energy Crisis

User Prof Robert Watson (DEFRA).

Monday 22 September 2008, 09:30-10:15

Evo-Devo and 'Typological Thinking': An Exculpation

User Tim Lewens, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

House First Floor Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Scent Communication in Banded Mongooses

User Neil Jordan, Large Animal Research Group.

Friday 06 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Delivering 'born-again' (Virus-Eliminated) sweet potato to half a million small holder farmers in Zimbabwe

User Dr Ian Robertson, University of Zimbabwe.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Fossils and phylogeny: a waste of time?

User Matthew Wills, University of Bath.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Austin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)

Note changed location and time!!!

User Urs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A..

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

House First Floor Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Deforestation in western Madagascar: Understanding the past, reframing the present

User Ivan Scales, Department of Geography.

Friday 30 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

What comes next in biological microscopy?

User Brad Amos, MRC Molecular Biology Cambridge.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Austin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The genetic loci underlying phenotypic evolution in animals and plants: from single case studies to general principles

Note changed location!

User Vigrinie Orgogozo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

House First Floor Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

How can we save the endangered Giant Ibis?

**Please note change in location**

User Omaliss Keo, Conservation Science Group.

Friday 23 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Molecular Architecture of the novel RNA binding protein Rrp47 and its role in Exosome-Mediated RNA Processing and Surveillance

Please note room change

User Phil Mitchell, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms: the role of non-coding RNAs in Hox gene regulation

User Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Slicing, Spreading and Copying Silent Heterochromatin with RNAi

User Rob Martienssen.

Monday 19 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Policies for Reducing Personal Carbon

Registration Required:

User Dr Terry Barker, 4CMR, and others.

House Pitt Building, Trumpington Street.

Friday 16 May 2008, 13:45-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Sexual dimorphism, life history, and social structure in early hominin species

User Charlie Lockwood, University College London.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evo-devo in the tropics

User Catherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability

Please note location and time!

User Alexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Are coral reef fishes at risk or resilient to climate change?

**Please Note Change in Day**

User Dr. Morgan Pratchett, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University.

Monday 12 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Why does a mussel have the shape it has? Ecomorphological trends in freshwater mussels and their use for reconstructing palaeoenvironments

User Alexandra Zieritz, Aquatic Ecology Group.

Friday 09 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Timing the end of neural proliferation in Drosophila

User Alex Gould, National Institute for Medical Research London.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

User Andreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

International environmental governance

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

User Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 17:15-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics

User Professor Robert Watson (Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre).

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

User Adam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday).

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Emerging complexities in the recovery of Canadian lakes from acidification: the influence of climate change, metal toxicity and Ca decline

User Norman Yan, York University Toronto.

Monday 28 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Colour Pattern Polymorphism in the Harlequin Ladybird: an Evolutionary Conundrum

User Laura-Jane Michie, Department of Genetics.

Friday 25 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

User Professor Nick Owens, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 17:15-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Genetic control of tissue growth and form in Drosophila

User Barry Thompson, Cancer Research UK.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Development at the Eden Project

User Tim Smit (Eden Project).

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

User Jessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A..

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Ecosystem decay in Amazonian forest fragments

User Bill Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

Thursday 20 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Department of Engineering, Production Processes Group Seminars, Institute for Manufacturing

Engineering fundamentals of energy efficiency

User Jonathan Cullen (Department of Engineering).

House Seminar Room B at the Institute for Manufacturing, Mill Lane.

Friday 14 March 2008, 11:30-12:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

To grow or not to grow

User Professor Nicholas Harberd, University of Oxford.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Macrophage migration and chemotaxis in Drosophila embryos

User Will Wood, University of Bath.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Respiratory Responses To Temperature By Ectomycorrhizal Fungi

User Dr. Glenna M. Malcolm, Pennsylvania State University.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Carbon Footprinting: Industry, People, the Universe and Everything

User Professor Adisa Azapagic (Manchester University).

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Lighting for the 21st Century

User Colin Humphreys - Professor of Material Science, University of Cambridge.

House LR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

User Gerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Queens' College Politics Society

National and International Environmental Policy and Climate Change

User Sir Martin Holdgate.

House Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Friday 07 March 2008, 19:30-21:00

Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology

User Professor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University.

Friday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Theories in alien invasions: Resistance vs. Meltdown

User Philine zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group.

Friday 07 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Creating a healthy environment: challenges facing China

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

User Sian Griffiths, Professor of Public Health, Chinese University, Hong Kong.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 17:15-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Everything you always wanted to know about potassium

User Dr Anna Amtmann, University of Glasgow.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

mRNA quality control: How do cells recognize and degrade aberrant mRNAs?

User Elisa Izaurralde, Max Planck Inst Developmental Biology, Tuebingen.

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Physical Limitations on Energy Supply

User David J.C. MacKay, Physics Department.

House Land Economy Laundress Lane seminar room 1.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 17:10-18:30

Cosmological Serendipity

User Simon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer.

Friday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

First steps in manipulating cell wall polysaccharide synthesis: functional and industrial implications

User Dr Paul Dupree, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Mammoth's Tale: Evolution and Extinction in the Ice Age

User Adrian Lister, Natural History Museum London.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Development in the Built Environment; Progress or Procrastination?

User Professor Peter Brandon and Dr Patrizia Lombardi (Salford University).

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Can we live on renewables?

User David MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

House LR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Ecdysozoan phylogeny and the origins of crustacean complexity: new data from the Cambrian fossil record

User Tom Harvey, Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Induced epigenetic variation and its impact on Arabidopsis phenotype

User Dr Brande B H Wulff, Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas Cuidad Politecnica de la Innovacion Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 10:00-11:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Insect Pest Control: overcoming the problems?

User Professor Lin Field, Head of Insect Molecular Biology, Rothamsted Research.

Monday 25 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Serendipity as a Force in Physics

User Professor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Establishing distribution, habitat and landscape-use of the Andean bear

User Shaenandhoa Garcia-Rangel.

Friday 22 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Building plant bodies from hair

User Professor Liam Dolan, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Patterning the fish inner ear: development and evolution

User Tanya Whitfield, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

User Jordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Serendipity in Political Life

User Oliver Letwin, Member of Parliament.

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Friday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Beyond Bali: Status and Prospects for International Cooperation

User Christine Zumkeller.

House Mill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 2.

Friday 15 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Biodiversity hanging by a thread: assessing the importance of fungal hyphae in maintaining rainforest biodiversity

User Jake Snaddon, Zoology Department.

Friday 15 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

The Economics of Climate Change: Governments, Companies and Households

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

User Adair Turner, Former Director-General of the CBI.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 17:15-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Towards an interdisciplinary view of shoot apical meristem function

User Professor Jan Traas, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

How do insects generate fast and powerful movements?

User Malcolm Burrows, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Creating a Better Place - the Environment Agency - and shaping sustainability

User Baroness Barbara Young, Chief Executive of Environment Agency.

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

High efficiency, low emissions: Power generation on the road to thermotopia

User John Young - Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge.

House LR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Recapitulating ancestral mammalian incisor dentitions through disruption of NF-kB and Wnt signalling in the mouse

User Jim Blackburn, Dept of Craniofacial Development, Kings College London.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life

User Simon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'.

Friday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The impacts of climate change on Indian Ocean coral reef biodiversity

User Professor Charles Sheppard, University of Warwick.

Friday 08 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How repeatable is evolution? The genetics of parallel architectural evolution in Brassicaceae

User Professor David Baum, University of Wisconsin.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The early evolutionary history of amniote vertebrates: new insights, new fossils.

User Johannes Müller, Humboldt University Berlin.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Climate change, peak oil, and the coming global energy crisis

User Dr Jeremy Leggett (Solar Century).

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Transgenic and transgenomic strategies for studying the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution: prospects and pitfalls

User David Baum, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A..

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

HIV and the Naked Ape

User Professor Robin Weiss, University College London.

Friday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

CUCHI 2007: Twelve 3rd year Natscis learn about conservation science in the Chilean Lake District

User Claire Thompson, Part II Student, Zoology Department.

Friday 01 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Recent dynamics and biomass carbon balance in the Amazon forests - what on earth is going on?

User Professor O.P. Phillips, University of Leeds.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

4D-microscopy & some results: fate, migrations, form in C. elegans & some other curious animals

User Ralf Schnabel, University of Braunschweig.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Directions to 2050

User David Hone - Group Climate Change Adviser, Royal Dutch Shell.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Stratigraphy of Serendipity

User Professor Susan Alcock, Brown University.

Friday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mapping European Seabed Habitats

User Sarah Young, Marine Ecologist, Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

Friday 25 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Travelling 1st class on the Titanic?

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

User Barbara Young, Chief Executive, Environment Agency.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 17:15-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Improving wheat for processing and nutrition

This CPPS Seminar is followed by drinks in the tea room

User Professor Peter Shewry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Heliconius colour patterns: from gene expression to speciation ecology

User Chris Jiggins, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The challenges of managing the American foreign aid program post-9/11 in Pakistan and Afghanistan

User Mark Ward, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 18:00-19:30

Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy

User Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Free-loading, racketeering and murder: a day in the life of cowbirds

User Professor Mike Clinchy, University of Western Ontario.

Friday 18 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

CANCELLED

User Tim Blackburn, Institute of Zoology London/Cambridge.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The centipede tree: an evolutionary framework for segmentation studies

User Greg Edgecombe, Natural History Museum, London.

Wednesday 16 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Functional genomics of salinity tolerance in plants

User Prof Mark Tester, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Monday 17 December 2007, 11:00-12:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Locomotion and adhesion: tarsal attachment control in ants

User Thomas Endlein, Insect Biomechanics Workgroup, Zoology Department.

Thursday 13 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

User Andreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A..

Wednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mathematical Models of Microcolony Formation in Bacteria

User Dr. Leah Johnson, National Centre for Statistical Ecology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 07 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Testing hypotheses about sexual selection and species recognition in Australian Bowerbirds using principles from sensory ecology

User John Endler, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Phylogeography reveals South Africa's hidden vertebrate diversity

User Paulette Bloomer, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Wednesday 05 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Aquatic Alien Invasions: Teleportation or Transportation?

User Philine zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group.

Friday 30 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant water-use efficiency and optimisation: From minutes to millennia

User Dr Peter J. Franks.

Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Spatial Neutral Theory, biodiversity, and coexistence

User Stephen Cornell, University of Leeds.

Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Drinking in the last chance saloon: what hope for 2° C?

User Dr Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester & Dr Terry Barker, University of Cambridge.

House Mill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 1.

Monday 26 November 2007, 13:45-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Combining Economics and Ecology to Predict the Effects of Zero Set Aside on Winter Food for Farmland Birds

User Dr. Ira Cooke, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

Friday 23 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Epigenetic asymmetry in plant gametes

User Dr Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, HRI Warwick.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Predicting dental macroevolution from development: what happened to microevolution?

User Jukka Jernvall, University of Helsinki.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Material, Energy and Climate Change

User Ernst Worrell, Lead-author of the Fourth IPCC Assessment Report.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Great Divide: Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition

User Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Debating Chamber, Union Society.

Carbon Detox

User George Marshall, COIN (Climate Outreach Information Network).

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 18:45-20:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Getting the Biggest Buck for the Bang: Conservation Management of Deer in New Zealand

User Dr. David Coomes, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Cell-to-cell transport of PVX involves novel features of the endomembrane network

User Professor Jeanmarie Verchot Lubicz, Oklahoma State University.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Development and evolution of the brain: insights from insects

User Heinrich Reichert, University of Basel.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 12:00-13:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

User Guillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change

User Rachel Warren, University of East Anglia.

House Laundress Lane Seminar Rooms.

Monday 12 November 2007, 16:00-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Birds and People

User Dr Nigel Collar, BirdLife International.

Friday 09 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Genome- and species-wide analysis of sequence variation and its functional consequences

User Professor Detlef Weigel, MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

‘The weather within’; 9 Bio-climatic designs

User Alan Short, Professor of Architecture - University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

User Benoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Baboon Metaphysics

Note unusual day

User Dorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania.

Tuesday 06 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

A Bird in the Hand: Stone Curlew Conservation

User Alison Johnston, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Asking the plant about what's important in plant-herbivore interactions

User Professor Ian T. Baldwin, MPI for Chemical Biology, Jena.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tinkering with toxicity: How basic research on drug transporters can translate to policy changes on environmental pollution

User David Epel, Stanford University.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Science of the Skies - what the government needs to know in the fight against climate change

User Dr Victoria Pope, Head of Climate Change for Government at the MET Office Hadley Centre.

House LG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Kakapo: The Conservation Biology of the World's Weirdest Parrot

User Professor Mick Clout, University of Auckland.

Friday 26 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

21st century crop science man

User Professor Andy Greenland, NIAB.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The race to prevent the extinction of South Asian vultures

User Rhys Green, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Sequestration of carbon from conventional fossil fuel power plants

User Andy Woods, BP Professor - BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

User Tom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

House LG18, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Panel Discussion on the UK Climate Bill

User Dr Terry Barker, Dr David Frame, Tim Helweg-Larsen.

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 14:45-16:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Locomotion in Australian Monitor Lizards: Ecomorphological and Ecophysiological Considerations

User Dr. Chris Clemente, Insect Biomechanics Workgroup, University of Cambridge.

Friday 19 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Community assembly and phylogenies in tropical forest trees

User Dr Jérôme Chave, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Jak/Stat regulates dpp transcription in support cells to maintain Drosophila ovarian niche

User Acaimo Gonzalez-Reyes, Universidad de Sevilla.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Happiness, Global Catastrophe, and the National Assembly for Wales

User Gareth Clubb, Senior Research Officer, National Assembly of Wales.

Friday 12 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Biogenesis and regulation of the photosynthetic apparatus

User Professor Jean-David Rochaix, University of Geneva.

Thursday 11 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution of life history strategies: individuals, populations, species

User Oliver Krueger, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 11 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

Agrofuels and the risk of ecosystem collapse

User Deepak Rughani, BioFuelWatch.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 19:00-20:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Engineering for a Low Carbon Future: challenges and opportunities

User Julian Allwood, Senior Lecturer - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

User Marcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Green light effects on plant growth and development

User Professor Kevin Folta, University of Florida.

Thursday 04 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Book Launch of 'Cool it' - bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg's latest release

User Prof Bjorn Lomborg.

House The Cambridge Union.

Wednesday 03 October 2007, 19:00-20:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Impact of genetic factors on extinction risk and implications for conservation management in New Zealand.

Note unusual day

User Ian Jamieson, University of Otago, NZ.

Tuesday 02 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

User Anjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

Please note unusual time!

User Alistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

Tuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders

Please note location and time!

User Wim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

Thursday 26 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra

Please note location and time!

User Alexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford.

Thursday 19 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Biodiesel Production: Different Aspects of the Process

User Mónica Berrios Caballero, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain,.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Chemical Engineering.

Wednesday 18 July 2007, 14:55-15:15

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Improving Waterflood Oil Recovery: Understanding the Habitat and Targetting Recovery of Remaining Oil

User Cliff Black, BP Senior Advisor Waterflood Management & IOR.

House Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 July 2007, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Sustainable Energy - Without the BS

Open to non-BAS; please contact Ryan Woodard (rywo@bas.ac.uk or 221383) if you would like to attend.

User David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory.

House British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Tuesday 26 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

Conservation Science Talks

CCF Seminar: The Global Oil Depletion Debate

User Steven M. Gorelick, Cyrus F. Tolman Professor, Stanford University.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 17:00-18:00

House Austin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

Please note different location!

User Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

Environmentally informed material choice: strategies, tools, data and difficulties

THE NINTH KELLY LECTURE

User Professor Mike Ashby CBE, FRS, FREng., Engineering Department, Cambridge University.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

Materials Development for Fusion Energy

User Dr Geoffrey Cottrell, Culham Science Centre.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

Sustainable Air Travel - The Challenge for Aero-Engine Materials

User Dr Neil Glover, Rolls-Royce Plc.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 16:00-16:30

House Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

Excitonic Solar Cells: New Approaches to Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion

User Professor Laurie Peter, Department of Chemistry, University of Bath.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 15:05-15:30

House Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

Novel Nanostructured Hydride Composites: Hydrogen Storage Materials for Zero-Emission Car

User Professor Dr Rüdiger Bormann, Institute for Materials Research, GKSS Research Centre, 21502 Geesthacht,, Germany.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 14:35-15:05

House Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

The Research Councils Energy Programme and its role in supporting fuel cell research

User Professor Nigel Brandon, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 14:05-14:35

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nuclear Fusion as a Global Energy Source? Work at UKAEA Culham Laboratory and elsewhere to harness fusion energy

User Professor Chris Llewellyn-Smith FRS. Director, UKAEA Culham Laboratory, Abingdon, Oxford.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 11 June 2007, 19:30-21:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of packaging in society

User Dick Searle, Chief Executive of the Packaging Federation.

House Lecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 17:00-18:00

House Austin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms

Please note different location!

User Peter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The UK's National Industrial Symbiosis Programme

User Peter Laybourn, Director of NISP.

House Lecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

House Lounge, The Graduate Union.

Wednesday 16 May 2007, 20:00-21:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Gene Networks and Natural Selection

User Andreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Wednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Impacts of Climate Change on Contaminated Land and Containment Systems

User Sinead Smith (CUED).

House Engineering Department - LR6.

Friday 04 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Made in the shade: light signals, phytochromes and plant development

Re-scheduled from 8 February 2007

User Professor Garry Whitelam, University of Leicester.

Thursday 03 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Development

User Professor Sir David King (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government).

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Gilding the Lily: The Evolution and Development of Specialized Petal Cell Types

User Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Silbury Hill – An Ancient Environmental Icon

User Dr Dick Parry.

House Engineering Department - LR6.

Friday 27 April 2007, 16:30-17:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Why sustainable development might be bad for the environment

User Professor Susan Owens, Cambridge University.

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Sex Determination in Musca domestica, a Prime Example of Evolutionary Plasticity in Development

User Daniel Bopp, Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

Stephen Stretton's list

An Environmental Case for Nuclear Energy? Talk and kick-off meeting

User Stephen Stretton: Cambridge Zero Carbon Society & Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy.

House Bowett Room, Queens College.

Thursday 15 March 2007, 19:30-20:45

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The legume toolbox for the Rhizobium root nodule symbiosis

User Professor Ton Bisseling, Wageningen University.

Thursday 15 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A new sustainable way of life - the sine qua non of human development ? CANCELLED

User Clare Short MP (CANCELLED).

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 18:00-19:30

Soc Doc Soc

'Garbage Warrior' sneak-preview screening with director and producer for Q&A

FREE members, £2 non-members

User Ollie Hodge and Rachel Wexler.

House Robinson College, Umney Theatre.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 17:00-19:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

User Aleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A..

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS

User Peter Crane, University of Chicago.

Friday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Natural variation in Antirrhinum and Arabidopsis

User Dr Andrew Hudson, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 08 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Nuclear power in the light of climate change

User Keith Barnham (Imperial College London), Dave Elliott (Open University), Steve Kidd (World Nuclear Association), Bill Nuttal(Cambridge University Judge Business School).

House Law Faculty LG17.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 18:45-20:30

One Planet Living

User Pooran Desai OBE (Technical Director and co-founder of Bioregional).

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

User Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF

User Philippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado.

Friday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Are treelines responding to climate change?

User Professor Emeritus Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews.

Thursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Can we quantify sustainability ?

User Professor Richard Darton, Oxford University.

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Embryos and Ancestors

User Phil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

IDENTITY AND THE MIND

User Raymond Tallis, Manchester University.

Friday 23 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

House Queen's College, Bowett's Room.

Carbon Calculation and your personal footprint

User Rosemary Randall and Andy Brown, Cambridge Carbon Footprint.

Thursday 22 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The role of fungi in self-organisation of the soil-microbe complex

User Professor John Crawford, University of Abertay, Dundee.

Thursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

When the Rivers Run Dry

User Fred Pearce, New Scientist.

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

User Pauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

User Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

About the importance of molybdenum for life

User Dr Florian Bittner, Technische Universität Braunschweig.

Thursday 15 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

Neanderthal Genomics

Please note different location and time!

User Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

House McCrum Lecture Theatre, Benet's Street (behind the Eagle Pub).

New technology: the answer to climate change?

User Jonathan Kohler, Tyndall Centre.

Monday 12 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY

User Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford University.

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Friday 09 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

The promise of energy biosciences

User Dr Steven Koonin (Chief Scientist, BP).

House Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 18:00-19:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Amphioxus Model in Evo-Devo/Neofunctionalization of Retinoic Acid Receptors in Vertebrates

User Hector Escrivà, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer, France.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

House St Catharine's College, Ramsden Room.

Joss Garman from Plane Stupid: Why the green movement is taking to the streets

User Joss Garman, Co-Founder of Plane Stupid.

Tuesday 06 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

IDENTITY OF MEANING

User Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The first cyanobacterium. A redox switch hypothesis for the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis.

User Professor John Allen, Queen Mary, University of London.

Thursday 01 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

VISUALISING IDENTITY

User Ludmilla Jordanova, King's College London.

Friday 26 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Exploiting Cowpea mosaic virus in bio- and nano-technology: 101 things to do with a plant virus

User Dr George Lomonossoff, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 25 January 2007, 16:00-17:00

fpk1's list

Global Earth Science and Sustainability

C. P. Snow Lecture

User Professor Charles Kennel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego).

House Theatre, Christ’s College.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 17:00-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tweaking the Hinge and Caps: Testing a Model of the Organization of the Gnathostome Skull

User Michael Depew, King's College, London.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

MUSICAL IDENTITY

User Christopher Hogwood.

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Friday 19 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Nanotechnology and precautionary risk management

NOTE: Rescheduled from Tuesday 5th.

User Professor Roland Clift (Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey).

House Lecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

Wednesday 06 December 2006, 17:00-18:00

Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Discussion

User Chair: Ian Fells, University of Newcastle.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 December 2006, 16:40-17:30

Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nuclear fission and fusion

User William J Nuttall, Judge Business School, Cambridge.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 December 2006, 15:50-16:30

Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Tide, Wave, and Offshore Wind

User Trevor Whittaker, Queen's University of Belfast.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 December 2006, 14:30-15:10

Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Biofuels

User Karl Carter, British Sugar.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 December 2006, 13:30-14:10

Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Carbon Sequestration

User Jon Gibbins, Imperial College London.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 December 2006, 11:30-12:10

Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Transition from Fossil Fuels

User Nick Butler, B.P..

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 December 2006, 10:10-10:50

Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Big Picture

User Daniel Nocera, MIT.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 December 2006, 09:10-09:50

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Hurricane Katrina - A Study of Geosystems in Crisis

5.00pm *LR0*

User Professor Tom O’Rourke (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University).

House Engineering Department - LR0.

Thursday 30 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Grasses bite back: Silica as an anti-herbivore defence

User Professor Susan Hartley, University of Sussex.

Thursday 30 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Institution of Civil Engineers (Cambridge Branch)

Driven to Extinction? How transport policy can save the world

User Nigel Brigham SUSTRANS.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

"Climate change and global warming" - Dr William Connolley

User Dr William Connolley.

House Lounge, The Graduate Union.

Tuesday 28 November 2006, 19:30-20:30

House Chemical Engineering Department LT1.

Zero Carbon City Dongtan

User Dr Neil Kirkpatrick, Associate Director, Arup.

Monday 27 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Rubbish

User Claire Barlow, Production Process Group.

House Seminar Room B, Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

Friday 24 November 2006, 10:00-10:40

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Hormonal control of shoot branching

User Professor Ottoline Leyser, University of York.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Chloroplast DNA - the case of the vanishing genome

User Professor Chris Howe, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Well Dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the UK

User Julian M.Allwood, Søren E Laursen, Cecilia M de Rodriguez, Nancy M P Bocken (IfM, University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

Wednesday 15 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Small RNA-directed pathways in plants

User Professor Jim Carrington, Oregon State University.

Thursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Getting to grips with the metabolic network of Arabidopsis

User Dr Lee Sweetlove, University of Oxford.

Thursday 02 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

House Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, CB2 1TA.

Sustainable Energy - Without the Bullshit

User Prof. David MacKay, Physics Dept.

Thursday 26 October 2006, 20:00-21:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Population structure and evolution of virulence in plant viruses

User Professor Fernando García-Arenal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Thursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Advantages of travelling by tube - explorations of fungal networks

User Professor Lynne Boddy, Cardiff University.

Thursday 19 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Metal cofactor assembly in chloroplasts

User Dr Marinus Pilon, Colorado State University.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

House Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Introductory Talk and Discussion

User Steve Stretton.

Tuesday 10 October 2006, 19:30-20:15

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Emissions trading, energy efficiency, and the law of unintended consequences

User Michael Grubb, Director of the Carbon Trust, and professor of economics in Cambridge and Imperial College.

House Lecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

Monday 08 May 2006, 17:00-18:00

SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE

User Diana Liverman, Oxford University.

Friday 10 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

SURVIVING LONGER

User Cynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco.

Friday 03 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE

User Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Friday 24 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS

User James Jackson, Cambridge University.

Friday 17 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

SURVIVING DISEASE

User Richard Feachem, Global Fund.

Friday 10 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES

User Peter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London.

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Friday 03 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

To be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Seminar Room B, Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

Wednesday 01 February 2006, 17:00-18:00

SURVIVAL OF CULTURE

User Edith Hall, Durham University.

Friday 27 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES

User Paul Kennedy, Yale University.