Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Maturing the heart: implications for disease modelling, drug discovery & regenerative medicine

Prof Enzo Porrello - Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia.

Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 11 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Mapping the genetic and cellular basis of atherosclerosis using single cell sequencing and functional genomics

Prof Minna Kaikkonen-Määttä - Professor of Cardiovascular Genomics and Director of the Single Cell Genomics at University of Eastern Finland.

Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 28 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

What has genomics ever done for us? A 20-year history of the human genome

Klaudia Walter, Sanger Institute.

Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

Thursday 21 March 2024, 19:15-21:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Bayesian behavioural-change epidemic models: is your population alarmed?”

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vceqsqDwtHNLalYuBk7GmojclSXN5wIcE

Rob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1500

Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclceGorT0qE9YE3YCcRSFhCPPH_6ZNFPgh

Dimitris Rizopoulos, Professor of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Uncertainty Quantification in the Digital Medicine Era"

This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsduitrTotGNZxFmtFPPAx6Jh2LZfCYbV3

Marcos Matabuena, Harvard University .

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychedelics in psychiatry

Rayyan Zafar, Imperial College London.

Online.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference

Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Protecting the physical health of people with severe mental illness - what I've learnt from being a carer over the last 30 years

Prof David Shiers.

hybrid .

Thursday 29 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

How to Vaccinate the Masses? Safety, compulsion, and the success of vaccination policy in nineteenth-century Britain

Jonathan Neil Chapman (Bologna).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity

Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity and UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health.

Webinar (via Teams).

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350

Catherine Rider (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Balancing BMP and TGFβ signaling to maintain cardiac homeostasis and reduce fibrosis: where PAH and HHT meet

Prof. Marie-Jose Goumans Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

In vivo mapping of pharmacologically induced functional reorganization onto the human brain’s neurotransmitter landscape

Andrea Luppi, Oxford University.

Online.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Quantifying job loss and job creation, 1851-1911

Hillary Vipond (LSE).

Seminar Room 2, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine

Various speakers.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Statistical modelling for state-of-the-art gene editing experiments"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdOmqqzsuE9HyOT32ptW3DZiTCmkZT-3X#/registration

Magdalena Strauss, European Bioinformatics Institute .

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Unlikely Allies: the approach of clinical Neuromusicology in Neonatal Intensive Care

Dr. Artur C. Jaschke.

Online.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYocuCvpjotHNQoiEBwivER-WSnaKd-IlFw

Ida Scheel, University of Oslo.

Online Seminar.

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic

Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Inference, psychosis, and insight

Dr Guillermo Hoga.

Online.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Wildlife from space: detecting, monitoring and studying wildlife using satellite imagery

Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Monday 05 February 2024, 19:00-21:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Disentangling depressive symptoms throughout development using network analyses: examples from looked-after children, adolescents vs older adults, and a psychological intervention study

Dr Sharon Neufeld.

Online.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Morbidity among working-class men and women in early-twentieth century Sweden

Bernard Harris (Strathclyde University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:15-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730

Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Semiparametric posterior corrections"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-quqjkiHtRsIwSM3Sec0QFfHrtRftXa

Andrew Yiu, University of Oxford.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Bioengineering and Biofabrication for Cardiovascular Research

Professor Shery Huang, University Lecturer in Bioengineering in the Department of Engineering and Director of Studies in Physics at Homerton College.

Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Evaluating individual differences with neuroimaging in UK Biobank to guide reproducibility of personalised brain stimulation

Dr Ying Zhao.

Online.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present

Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Causal machine learning for biomarker subgroup discovery in randomised trials".

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf-qppzwsEtEisA_2ZCkA3KoJ3d53uW1P

Paul Newcombe, GlaxoSmithKline.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Decision making research

Dr Neil Garrett.

Online.

Thursday 11 January 2024, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Hyper-Localization and Predictive Modeling of Rapid Lung Function Decline in Cystic Fibrosis"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOyurDkjHdO0RzdaqWctUrYMks1YPvY1

Rhonda Szczesniak and Emrah Gecili, both from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

COGNITIVE REMEDIATION IN THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

Rafael Penadés.

Herschel Smith Building large meeting room.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar - Air pollution and health in the 21st Century

Dr Gary Fuller, Imperial College London.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Wednesday 06 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Unravelling the mechanisms and decision-making logic of biological systems"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtdOisrTosGNIMVJIXmGuq2X_so_tpo7s6

Giorgos Minas, St Andrew's University.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Single-molecule approaches to exploring a nanomotor dysfunction; Impaired motor function as a trigger to pathological cardiac remodelling in cardiomyopathy

Dr. Mamta Amrute-Nayak.

Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Apathy in Huntingdon's disease

Akshay Nair, UCL.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6245857987?pwd=WS9QWWxCTXU0ZXFvcUpzU2E2SkRyZz09..

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

Early Science and Medicine

The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia

Neha Vermani (University of Sheffield).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Brain health and illness in a 15-year longitudinal, community based study of people living in precarious housing or homelessness

Prof William G. Honer, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Herschel Smith Building large meeting room.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

TBA

Dr Rayyan Zafar.

Online.

Friday 24 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Neuropsychopharmacology

Dr Georgios Schoretsanitis, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Assistant Professor, The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, NY, USA..

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6245857987?pwd=WS9QWWxCTXU0ZXFvcUpzU2E2SkRyZz09.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Quantifying personal exposure to air pollution with sensor technologies and digital science

Lia Chatzidiakou/Rod Jones.

Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 19:00-21:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar – What are the Policy Levers for Impact on Health and Sustainability?

Professor Jeremy A. Lauer, University of Strathclyde.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933

Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A new frequentist implementation of the Daniels and Hughes bivariate meta-analysis model for surrogate outcomes"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcuuurzIuGtEUj6y8h6vKpM1Krt5hj60L

Dan Jackson, AstraZeneca.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Harnessing Extra Randomness: Replicability, Flexibility and Causality"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofuihqzgvHNyG24AgAAytgHlr1nmpetpx

Richard Guo, Stas Lab, University of Cambridge.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Primary Care

We need to talk about the workers: researching the health and social care workforce

Annual Lecture, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR)

Jill Manthorpe CBE, Professor Emerita, King’s Policy Institute, King’s College London.

Online.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Disadvantageous Decision-Making in Gambling Disorder: Clinical Insights and Implications for Compulsive Disorders

Dr Ruth J. van Holst, Associate professor at Amsterdam UMC.

Zoom online.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics

Claire Shaw (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Sarah Rae, Jon Wilson and Corinna Hackman.

Herschel Smith Building large meeting room.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe

Philippa Carter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Is NHST a QRP?

Null Hypothesis Significance Testing should, in some scientific fields, be regarded as a questionable research practice perpetrated by the scientific community as a whole.

Professor Alexander Bird.

Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

“Worrying trends in children and young people’s mental health: from descriptions of the problem to assessing potential causes

Dr Matthias Pierce.

Herschel Smith Building large meeting room.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain

Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Measuring mobility outside the laboratory with digital health technology: are we there yet?

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89965171767?pwd=RlJSUCtaVHlPL0laTzM2VzB6d1V6UT09

Silvia Del Din, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle Univerisity.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online (zoom link on this page).

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Dynamic survival analysis: modelling the hazard function via ordinary differential equations"

This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlce-spjIqHdQ4PYgBuSHSUSDRmLBAJQ5n

Dr F. Javier Rubio, University College London.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The impact of three major emergencies, namely: 1) COVID-19; 2) humanitarian crisis; and 3) prolonged conflict on Drug-Resistant and Drug-Susceptible TB prevalence in developing countries affected by conflict or natural disaster

Dr Haqmal Mohammad.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6245857987?pwd=WS9QWWxCTXU0ZXFvcUpzU2E2SkRyZz09.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies

Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Young at heart: new strategies for accelerating regeneration

Professor Nadia Rosenthal The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor Maine US, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London UK.

Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Using wearable-derived cardiac signals to predict cardiovascular events

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89965171767?pwd=RlJSUCtaVHlPL0laTzM2VzB6d1V6UT09

Michele Orini, Institute of Healthcare Engineering, UCL.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Online Behavioural Research - Just a fad, or here to stay?

Jo Evershed, Founder CEO of Gorilla Experiment Builder.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6245857987?pwd=WS9QWWxCTXU0ZXFvcUpzU2E2SkRyZz09.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill seminar - Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemic

Meaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistics and Data Analytics in the Film Industry

Allègre L. Hadida, Cambridge Judge Business School & Magdalene College.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 19:15-21:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China

Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

External Seminars from the IMS-MRL (Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories)

Obesity-related alterations in beta-cell function and heterogeneity of metabolic function in obesity and in response to weight loss

Professor Bettina Mittendorfer, Division of Geriatrics & Nutritional Science, Washington University, USA.

in person & via zoom .

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 13:15-14:15

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Single session interventions: A scalable way to expand access to early help for adolescent depression?

Dr Maria Loades.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6245857987?pwd=WS9QWWxCTXU0ZXFvcUpzU2E2SkRyZz09.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Precision approaches to improving obesity prevention in Queensland, Australia

Dr Oliver Canfell, University of Queensland.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic Data

Dr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic Data

Dr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Some advances and applications of robust gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdOypqTwrH9LeiEEIL8dXxO_IpOC8lVMS

Sam Livingstone, University College London.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 03 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

External Seminars from the IMS-MRL (Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories)

Uncovering Novel GPCR Pathways for the Treatment of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Professor Zach Gerhart-Hines, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen.

in person & via zoom .

Tuesday 03 October 2023, 13:15-14:15

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Independent and Joint Effects of Multiple Pollutants and their Interactions with Meteorological Variables on Stroke Hospitalization

Lei Li, Huazhong University of Science, China.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Wednesday 27 September 2023, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

The impact of dysregulated metabolism on cardiovascular function

Dr Dunja Aksentijevic, Reader in Cardiovascular Physiology and Metabolism, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London. Hosted by: Dr Xuan Li..

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 21 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Do boutique cohort studies have a role in diabetes epidemiology?

Professor Timothy Davis, University of Western Australia.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Tuesday 12 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Cardiac regenerative therapy–is it viable?

Dr. Kenta Nakamura.

Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 23 August 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Translating informed consent from persons to data & biospecimens

Jeffrey M Skopek.

Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 13 July 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar - Diet-gut microbiome interaction for type 2 diabetes

Ju-Sheng Zheng, Westlake University, China.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 06 July 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

The dyslipidemic insult – how APOB-lipoproteins provoke systemic responses

Dr Stephen Malin Karolinska, Institute Department of Medicine, Solna, Sweden. Hosted by Dr Tian Xhao.

Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 29 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Postponed - Bradford Hill Seminar – Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemic

Meaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar – Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemic

Meaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

General Practice in Crisis: is there a positive future? IN-PERSON

Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research "In Conversation"

Professor Martin Marshall CBE, Chair of the Nuffield Trust, Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Board member at Royal Devon University Foundation Trust.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College.

Thursday 22 June 2023, 18:00-19:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Health resilience and weather changes in Germany, 1890-1913

Asst Professor Daniel Gallardo-Albarran (Wageningen University).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Antibodies meet the atheroma plaque: perspectives and puzzles

Dr Almudena R Ramiro, CNIC, Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research. Hosted by: Dr Meritxell Nus. .

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19'

This will be an online seminar. To register to attend, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocO6qrTsiH9V3mlmvd_EOYT1sTBOKOmUZ

Dr Lampros Bouranis, Athens University of Economics and Business.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Mariages a la Parisienne: Cohabiting couples in Parise during the inter-war period

Dr Sandra Bree (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic Data

Dr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

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

Early Science and Medicine

The history of medicine in early South Asia: using digital humanities to quell the panic of facing huge manuscript traditions and the value of doing research in plain view

Dominik Wujastyk (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Modelling the response to vaccine in non-human primates to define SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection'

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-usqDovGdf1TbAtYgsGCRJmoz0Hmbfi

Mélanie Prague, Inria, University of Bordeaux.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elizabeth Moreau (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – UPF: a need for clarification to enhance public health policies

Dr Zoé Colombet, University of Liverpool.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Monday 15 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Agent based Modelling for Urban Health Impact Assessment

Tabea Sonnenschein, University of Utrecht.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Friday 12 May 2023, 09:00-10:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Mapping the Miasma’. The geographies of a forgotten contagion: Ireland and the 1832 cholera epidemic

Dr Fiona Gallagher (Dublin City University).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine

Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The Norwegian Historical Population Register (1801-1964): Current Status, Impact and Future Prospects

Professor Hilde Sommerseth (The Arctic University of Norway).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

CANCELLED

Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

The structural basis of inherited heart disease

Dr Charlotte Anne Scarff, BHF Jacqueline Murray Coomber Fellow & University Academic Fellow in Structural Biology, University of Leeds. Hosted by: Dr Wei Li.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Experiments with Incomplete Covariate and Outcome Data'

Prof Fan Li, Duke University .

Online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMoc-yoqj4uHNMIXU5Js9MmiIW6mBtvGGFA.

Tuesday 18 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Neuroimaging of schizophrenic symptoms

Edith Pomarol Clotet, FIDMAG Sisters Hospitallers Research Foundation.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 30 March 2023, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar – Driving sustainable improvements in patient outcomes through point of care patient outcome measurement and clinical benchmarking

Professor Kathy Eagar, Australian Health Services Research Institute.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Understanding aortic smooth muscle cell dysfunction in ageing and disease

Dr Derek Warren, University of East Anglia.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 23 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Effort-Cost Decision-Making and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Adam Culbreth, University of Maryland.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 23 March 2023, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Physical Activity research: strengthening ties between Brazil and the United Kingdom

Dr Samuel Dumith, Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Monday 20 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Development, diversity and data science: A transdiagnostic approach to neurodevelopment

Duncan Astle, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 16 March 2023, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

CANCELLED: Territorial pervasiveness of epidemics and health emergencies in the Southern Netherlands/Belgium, 1650-1920

Cancelled due to industrial action

Dr Jord Hanus (University of Antwerp).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

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

Early Science and Medicine

Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period

Tina Asmussen (Bergbaumuseum Bochum – Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Obesity Prevention: The role of evidence in the policy cycle

Dr Tazeem Bhatia, Office of Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Monday 13 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960

Dora Yao (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Methods for Bayesian optimal design of experiments, with application in biological science’

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrd-uoqjMiGN3f68WQc7zJQ7LmM4sZa2rx

Prof Dave Woods, University of Southampton.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

TBA

Dr Virginia Newcombe (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 02 March 2023, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Improving mental heath care for self-harm

Rose McCabe, University of London.

In person at Herschel Smith Building .

Thursday 23 February 2023, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The Link-Lives project and studying mortality in 19th century Denmark

Louise Ludvigsen and Mads Perner (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian Covariance Structure Modelling of Clinical Trial Data'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpf-uvrDMiGtLpMKemoVfOPmiD91Ju0-Xq

Stef Baas, University of Twente.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar - Diabetes No More: lessons from the DiRECT trial and beyond - Professor Mike Lean

Professor Mike Lean, University of Glasgow.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Monday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

TALK CANCELLED

Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Cancer Institute.

Cancelled - apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 09:30-10:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity – Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'From Data to Decisions: Causal Inference Motivated by Policy Questions'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodOytqjItGNL_he9tZXSxmdT7KTWWQRgF

Prof Mats Stensrud, EPFL.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Something is moving in Catatonia.

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 09 February 2023, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Revealing disease ecology from historical records over the last seven centuries

Professor David Earn (McMaster University, Canada).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990

Camilla Røstvik (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680–1688

Trude Dijkstra (University of Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Phases of research for statistical methods’

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtd--hrzItHtTIezm0p763Lsc95VI0Q254

Dr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition

He Bian (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 16:00-17:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Genome-wide pharmacogenomic studies of clozapine

Antonio F Pardinas, Cardiff University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:30-13:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk prediction models and their applications to prevention and early detection

Prof Antonis Antoniou, Dept of Public Health and Primary Care.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 09:30-10:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Addressing Health: Morbidity, mortality and occupational health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office

Joint meeting with the Modern Economic and Social History & Policy Seminar

Professor David Green (King's College London).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:15-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Detecting National, Regional and Global Changes in Terror Activity'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf-iqrjoiGd3egbADJAIx6u477THr4Et9

Dr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850

Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:30

Genetics Seminar

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 12 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Statistical approaches for differential analyses on transcriptomics data"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfuivpj0jEta0t6wA4iKlz8YOaojvNwdt

Dr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 10 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Double soft-thresholded model for multi-group scalar on vector-valued image regression'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOmvrj4pHd3vnOm5ReIZ1wmXR9x-xC1z

Prof Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Friday 16 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Biological factors associated with the onset of psychosis

This meeting will be held in-person and online

Dr Boris Chaumette, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris.

Herchel Smith Building Seminar Room and on Zoom (contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk) .

Thursday 15 December 2022, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Mild traumatic brain injury – a misnomer?

Dr Virginia Newcombe, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 08 December 2022, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative Evidence

Speaker to be confirmed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative Evidence

Speaker to be confirmed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Peeking Inside Black Boxes: New Insights Into Depression Recovery with Deep Brain Stimulation Using Explainable AI

Dr Christopher Rozell, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India

Sonia Wigh.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar - Realising the health potential through sustainable built environment designs

Dr Ronita Bardhan, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar – Designing efficient clinical trials during a pandemic

Speaker to be confirmed.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

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

Primary Care

The potentials and pitfalls of digital healthcare in the 21st Century

CCHSR Annual Lecture 2022

Professor Jonathan Benger CBE MD FRCS FRCEM, interim Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) for NHS England.

Zoom webinar.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century

Jenny Bangham (QMUL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Using Electronic Health Records for Scientific Research: Promises and Perils”

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctduyqrjgsEtYxJkz-fTWdzMmjL7qFrnAC

Professor Bhramar Mukherjee, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

The (not so) smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis

Marie-Luce Bochaton-Piallat, University of Geneva..

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 10:30-11:30

Early Science and Medicine

From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The HealthGap study: Using linked administrative data to understand cardiovascular health of Indigenous people living in Victoria, Australia"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpc-qtqD4iHtMcJUj5fiD4uVwRqMWP4XkI

Dr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdu6gpjgrHd1yp38Mi3xQxgCg_5BOQThO

Prof Christopher Yau, University of Oxford .

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Digital Youth: understanding risk, building resilience and harnessing solutions with young people in the digital world

This seminar will be held in-person and online

Prof Ellen Townsend, University of Nottingham.

Herchel Smith Building Seminar Room and on Zoom (contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk) .

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century

Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Huntington's disease, the Young Adult Study (HD-YAS)

Dr Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images

Surekha Davies (Utrecht University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Moving beyond one-size-fits-all: Exploring patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviour across the lifespan

Dr Gregore Mielke, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Making all pairwise comparisons in multi-arm clinical trials without control treatment"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlc-Grrj0vHNCSqPPY92EKkTJG5Xjm5yhY

Dr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor Luc Pellerin, Universite de Poitiers.

TBC Heart Lung Research Institute Seminar Room, Biomedical Campus Cambridge.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s

Tinne Claes (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Epigenetic Regulation of Vascular Ageing and Calcification

Professor Catherine Shanahan, Prof of Cellular Signaling, Cardiovascular Div, KCL.

TBC Heart Lung Research Institute Seminar Room, Biomedical Campus Cambridge.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Identification of candidate neural biomarkers of OCD symptom intensity and response to Deep Brain Stimulation

Dr Nicole Provenza, Baylor College of Medicine.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714)

Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built

Professor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: "Variable Selection and Prioritization in Bayesian Machine Learning Methods"

This will be a free virtual seminar. To register, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc--rrT8qGNMFApbQ8304Icj6vW4CDcFo

Lorin Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University .

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?

Prof. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Translational Biomarkers of Cognitive Control and Reward Responsivity

Dr James Cavanagh, University of New Mexico.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

This seminar will be held in-person and virtually

Prof Chris Hollis & Prof Ellen Townsend, University of Nottingham.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and prediction"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcuipqTMuGtP_pIJrVQDLQGbP3ndqAh-N

David Balding, Honorary Professor of Statistical Genetics at UCL Genetics Institute and University of Melbourne.

Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Monday 22 August 2022, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Integrating Genomics and Multi-omics at Population Scale for Disease Insights

TGM126 - Cambridge Mathematics of Information in Healthcare Hub (CMIH) - Academic Engagement Event

Adam Butterworth (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 July 2022, 16:15-16:45

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Challenges in risk prediction using routinely collected health data"

This will be a free online seminar. To register, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdOupqDspHtK1D30gXlBykdbIvLV8DMdH

Dr Elizabeth Williamson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine .

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 14 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Targeting non-coding RNAs in vascular cell therapy

Lars Maegdefessel, Technical University Munich & Karolinska Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 07 July 2022, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Design and Inference for Enrichment Trials with a Continuous Biomarker"

This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to attend virtually, please register for free here - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErduCprzwiEtQhPshDBMXcqhwlvdZtp_IP

Prof William Rosenberger, George Mason University.

Seminar Room 12, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Tuesday 05 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar - Using time use and trajectory data to unpack the interrelated geographies of food, care, and household labor

Dr Michael Widener, University of Toronto.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Computer-based trainings as an add-on to the treatment of alcohol addiction: Where are we, how did we get there, and where should we go?

Prof Mike Rinck, Radboud University.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Historical and contemporary perspectives of the nutrition transition

Dr Cornelia Guell, University of Exeter.

Online.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

CRASSH

'Ethno-Science': Recent reflections on bioprospecting | gloknos Research Group

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Medical Staff Round

Title: Travelling Communities: Challenging Misconceptions

Presenter: Dr Kathryn Dixon.

Zoom.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 13:30-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Optimising the discovery and development of gene silencing drugs with genetics and genomics”

This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudeGqrDgpH9w6XLGADT0ZoJB-ARc5EdD0

Dan Swerdlow, Silence Therapeutics .

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Multi-modal neuroimaging biomarkers in dementia with Lewy bodies: An overview

Dr Elijah Mak, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

El-Erian Institute Events

"Welfare Now"

Attendance is free, but registration via Eventbrite is essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/welfare-now-with-prof-cass-r-sunstein-tickets-329641375227

Prof Cass R Sunstein, Harvard Law School.

Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College, Cambridge .

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What is a delusion? Results and implications of phenomenological research

Dr Jasper Feyaerts, Ghent University.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 26 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America

Kathryn Renton (UCLA).

Zoom.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Virtual Seminar: “Group Testing in Structured and Dynamic Networks”

This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960970204?pwd=dnVyWUFTSkM1bjJkWGMvc0ViLzA2Zz09

Batuhan Arasli, University of Maryland.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

Prof Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thoughts that go bump in the night: sleep-sensitive circuits in psychiatry

Prof Matt Jones, University of Bristol.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 12 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

The future of cancer screening: stratified, pan, both or neither?

Professor Peter Sasieni, King’s Clinical Trials Unit, King’s College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Optimal design of First in Human trials via dynamic programming”

This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to participate virtually, please register using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvf-qgrTwrHNMDOZ_UZNN7h-wCbi90t9bA

Dr Lizzi Pitt, University of Bath.

Seminar Room 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Assisting in the response to the COVID19 pandemic using internet data, Dr Elad Yom-Tov - MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required

Dr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Monday 09 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Brain charts for the human lifespan

Dr Richard Bethlehem, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 05 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Consumer Healthcare - Finding Research that Changes the World

Talk is presented in person at CGC Seminar room or online, register for online access at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/88168435422

Tom Watt, Claudia Maw, Philip James. GSK Consumer Healthcare.

Electrical Engineering, Department of Engineering - CGC Seminar Room, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Developments in Photoplethysmography

Clinical applications of photoplethysmography

John Allen, Coventry University; Panicos Kyriacou, City University of London.

Online - see registration link.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What can genetics tell us about depression?

Dr David Howard, King's College London.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 28 April 2022, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity

Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Sparse Hamiltonian Flows (or: Bayesian Coresets Without all the Fuss)"

This will be a virtual seminar. FREE registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-2vpz4qHNxdJ4Cm4hyLEn4BVOG5YcIt

Prof Trevor Campbell, The University of British Columbia .

This will be a virtual seminar. FREE registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-2vpz4qHNxdJ4Cm4hyLEn4BVOG5YcIt .

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Giving Voice to Digital Democracies

Children and artificial intelligence: risks, opportunities and the future

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/children-and-artificial-intelligence-risks-opportunities-and-the-future-tickets-266694980867

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Monday 25 April 2022, 13:30-17:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Impacts of Socio-economic Determinants of Coronavirus: Lessons Learned and Future Resilience for UK Policy/Health

TGM119 - Socio-Economic Determinants of Coronavirus in the UK

Jeanelle de Gruchy (Department of Health and Social Care).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 15:15-15:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Talk 7 - The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

TGM119 - Socio-Economic Determinants of Coronavirus in the UK

Clare Bambra (Newcastle University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 14:45-15:15

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lessons learned from neurobiological characterization studies of functional neurological disorder

Dr David Perez, Harvard Medical School.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 31 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The UKHSA/University of Cambridge Real-time Pandemic Modelling Project

TGM117 - Epidemic Models: Insights from the RAMP Project

Paul Birrell (UK Health Security Agency).

No Room Required.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 14:15-14:45

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Virtual reality in the assessment, understanding, and treatment of mental health disorders

Chair: Dr Graham Murray

Prof Daniel Freeman, University of Oxford.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 24 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Treating Gaming Disorder in the NHS: A two year overview

Chair: Dr Valerie Voon

Prof Henrietta Bowden-Jones (President of Psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine).

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 17 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade

Yijun Wang (New York University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Centre for Science and Policy Lectures & Seminars

Democracy and Distrust after the Pandemic

Professor Sheila Jasanoff.

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

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-19:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can We Rewrite Maladaptive Memories? The Potential and Challenges of Harnessing Memory Reconsolidation as a Therapeutic Target in Mental Health

Chair: Prof Jeff Dalley

Dr Ravi Das, University College London.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 10 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Aortic disease in Marfan syndrome: new molecular drivers and therapeutic targets (postponed from Nov 21)

Juan Miguel Redondo.

Zoom Webinar Link to be released 2 days before talk from webmaster@cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Conferences on Classical Architecture

Architecture and Spaces of Healing

Downing College, Cambridge.

The Howard Building, Downing College.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 12:00-19:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Adding to the census: using Medical Officer of Health Reports to further our understanding of child mortality inequalities in early twentieth century London

Sarah Rafferty (University of Cambridge).

Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:15-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

Wayne Soon (Vassar College).

Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wellbeing and mental health: What is the right relationship?

Chair: Dr Julieta Galante

Prof Anna Alexandrova, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 03 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

An optogenetic on/off switch to decipher mechanisms of cardiac remuscularisation

Prof Thomas Eschenhagen, Director, Dept of Experimental Pharmacology & Toxicology, University Medical Center Hamburg.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two (Theo Chalmers LT).

Thursday 03 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

apc31's list

‘Bio terror and the next global security threats’

Hamish de Bretton Gordon.

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The impact of COVID-19 on young adolescent depression and behavioural problems: separating pandemic from age effects using repeated pre and post pandemic data

Dr Nicky Wright, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 24 February 2022, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Sickness experience in England, 1870-1949

Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton).

Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong

Professor Benjamin Cowling, School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION - Changing demography: eastern European female migrants to England at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries

Prof Kevin Schürer (University of Leicester) and Dr Hannaliis Jaadla (University of Cambridge).

JCR, Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Neighbourhood Disadvantage, Everyday Urban Mobility, and Well-Being

Professor Robert J Sampson, Harvard University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: "A flexible sensitivity analysis for sample selection bias"

This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-matt-tudball-tickets-251838374357

Matt Tudball, University of Bristol.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Insights into emotional processing from intracranial recordings and their potential for biomarker discovery in affective disorders

Chair: Dr Valerie Voon

Dr Saurabh Sonkusare, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 10 February 2022, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i

Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Hacking aversive memory in humans: towards improved treatments for stress-related disorder

Chair: Dr Noham Wolpe

Prof Dominik Bach, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 03 February 2022, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720)

Philippa Hellawell (National Archives, UK).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: "Using Variational Bayes for fast inference in large longitudinal datasets”

This will be a free virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-virtual-seminar-dr-david-hughes-tickets-242962345917

Dr David Hughes, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool.

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The phenotypic expression of neuropsychiatric copy number variants

Dr Kimberley Kendall, Cardiff University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 27 January 2022, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico

Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University).

Zoom.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Why it’s inconceivable that Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are one and the same: How emotion influences similarity perception

Dr Deborah Talmi, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 20 January 2022, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Treatment Refractory Depression: re-emergence of a promising treatment

Chair: Prof Ed Bullmore

Prof Charles Conway, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 16 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Makes Some Intelligent Agents Conscious

Chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

Dr Hakwan Lau, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 09 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Lovesickness (ʿishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200–1520)

Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University).

Cockroft Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 17:00-18:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts: opportunities and challenges

Dr Katie Harron, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Online.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

How local and global metacognition shape mental health

Chair: Dr Graham Murray

Dr Stephen Fleming, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

The Ca2+-gated Cl- channel TMEM16A is a crucial amplifier of capillary pericyte contraction in the normal and ischemic brain.

Dr Paolo Tammaro, Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Oxford.

Zoom Webinar Link to be released 2 days before talk from webmaster@cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids

Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

Zoom.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Actionable analytics: harnessing electronic health record data to improve mental healthcare outcomes

Chair: Prof Tamsin Ford

Dr Rashmi Patel, King's College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China

Dror Weil (Faculty of History).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU virtual seminar: "Assessing batch effects and their implications in single cell RNA sequencing experiments"

This will be a virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for the joining information.

Prof Sarah Langley, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore.

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Primary Care

Universal NHS healthcare: has the pandemic changed the promise?

CCHSR Annual Lecture 2021

Charlotte Augst, Chief Executive, National Voices .

Online panel format.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

New paradigms for the negative symptoms

Chair: Prof Peter Jones

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Computational models of compulsivity - State learning and control in OCD and gambling disorder

Dr Frederike Petzschner, Brown University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-sir-david-spiegelhalter-frs-obe-tickets-188164062777

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?

CANCELLED

Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU seminar: "NanoSplicer: Accurate identification of splice junctions using Oxford Nanopore sequencing"

This will be a online seminar. You can register for free at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-heejung-shim-tickets-198278104147

Dr Heejung Shim, Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG), University of Melbourne.

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 10:00-11:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)

Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: “Methodological Advances in Risk Prediction"

This will be a virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for the joining information.

Dr Glen Martin, University of Manchester.

Virtual Seminar .

Friday 22 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can we develop cost-effective interventions for youth mental health? Lessons from Kenya

Tom Osborn, Shamiri Institute.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Non-canonical ventral pallidal circuits and their relevance for treating addiction

Dr Meaghan Creed, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Meaghan Creed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Meaghan Creed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Functional genomics of cardiomyopathies

Lucie Carrier, PhD. Professor of Functional Genomics of Cardiomyopathies.

Zoom Webinar Link to be released 2 days before talk from webmaster@cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain

Chris Otter (Ohio State University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Personalized Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Dr Martijn Figee, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 07 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Virtual Seminar: “Estimating treatment effects from adaptive clinical trials”

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Prof Ian Marschner, University of Sydney.

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 14 September 2021, 09:30-10:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do

Dolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy).

Online.

Monday 19 July 2021, 12:00-13:15

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do

Dolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy).

Online.

Monday 19 July 2021, 12:00-13:15

Primary Care

Mentalising, Epistemic Trust and Attachment: Changing Theories and their Practice Implications

Book Launch: Robbie Duschinsky and Sarah Foster's 'Mentalising and Epistemic Trust: The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre.'

Chair: Dr Dickon Bevington, Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the NHS, and Medical Director for Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.

Zoom webinar.

Thursday 15 July 2021, 18:00-19:00

Babraham Seminar

Research Ecosystems, Cognitive Bias and Incentives

This webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required.

Prof. Marcus Munafò; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol .

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 30 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Sodium channel complexes and cardiac arrhythmia

Samantha Salvage (Tony Jackson Lab) Dept Biochemistry/Neuroscience.

Zoom Webinar Link to be released 2 days before talk from webmaster@cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 24 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Poverty, Old Age and Outdoor Relief in Late-Victorian England

Tom Heritage (Southampton).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Experts by Personal and Professional Experience: A Novel Anti-Stigma Intervention Targeting Healthcare Professionals and Students

Chair: Dr Rashid Zaman

Dr Ahmed Hankir, King's College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 10 June 2021, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Disentangling marriage seasonality: Family, politics and economy in the Barcelona area, 18th-19th centuries

Joana Pujadas-Mora (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Dr Vitor Hadad, Stanford University.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Translational medicine in Alzheimer’s disease – taking the unfolded protein response as a therapeutic target in to clinical trials.

Chair: Prof John O'Brien

Dr Ben Underwood, Deputy Medical Director CPFT.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 27 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Development of virtual heart for the study of cardiac arrhythmias

Henggui Zhang, Professor of Biological Physics, University of Manchester.

Zoom Webinar Link available from webmaster@cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Probabilistic models of transcriptomic dysregulation in human genetic disease'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Prof David Knowles, Columbia University.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Clinical Neuroscience and the Heart-Brain Axis

Chair: Prof Paul Fletcher

Prof Sarah Garfinkel, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 20 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

Monique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Adapting Real-World Experimentation To Balance Enhancement of User Experiences with Statistically Robust Scientific Discovery'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Professor Joseph Jay Williams, University of Toronto .

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What’s behind the trauma

Chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

Prof Helen Minnis, University of Glasgow.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 13 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Challenges and Opportunities in Exploiting Reconsolidation to Treat Mental Health Disorders

Chair: Prof Jeff Dalley

Dr Amy Milton, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 06 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Integrating diverse data sets to improve causal inference

Professor Judith Green, University of Exeter..

Online.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Statistical Inference with M-Estimators on Bandit Data’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Kelly Zhang, Harvard University.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Striatal dopamine computations in learning about agency

Chair: Prof Paul Fletcher

Prof Michael Frank, Brown University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 29 April 2021, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Stemcell International Seminar - Prof. Paul Riley. BHF Oxbridge Centre for Regenerative Medicine

Prof Paul Riley (University of Oxford) Director of BHF Oxbridge Centre for Regenerative Medicine.

zoom link from events@stemcells.cam.ac.uk.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1915

Eric Schneider (LSE).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychedelics: brain mechanisms

Chair: Dr Graham Murray

Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, Imperial College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 22 April 2021, 12:30-13:30

Babraham Seminar

The biology of CNS progenitor ageing

This webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required.

Prof. Robin Franklin; Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell institute, University of Cambridge, UK.

Zoom webinar.

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Bayesian pyramids: Identifying interpretable deep structure underlying high-dimensional data’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Professor David Dunson, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA.

Virtual Seminar .

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Neurocognitive Predictors of Depression Relapse

Chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

Dr Quentin Huys, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 25 March 2021, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

A Network of Macrophages Supports Mitochondrial Homeostasis in the Heart

Prof. José Antonio Enriquez, Centro Nacional de Investigaciónes Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Spain .

Zoom Webinar Link to be released near the time.

Thursday 25 March 2021, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

From a pragmatic weight management intervention to bariatric surgery

Dr Helen Parretti, University of East Anglia..

Online.

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

A digital revolution for mental health science

Chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

Dr Claire Gillan, Trinity College Dublin .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 18 March 2021, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940

Aro Velmet (University of Southern California).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Online.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Going beyond 60 years of D2 blockers: what underlies psychosis and the implications for new treatments

Chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

Prof Oliver Howes, King's College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Major macro-socioeconomic driving forces of China’s mortality decline in recent decades

Note unusual time

Zhongwei Zhao (School of Demography, Australian National University).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 10:00-11:00

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Opportunities and Pitfalls from a Decade of Discovery in Functional Neurological Disorders (Conversion disorder)

Chair: Dr Valerie Voon

Prof Mark Edwards, St George's University of London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 04 March 2021, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s

Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

YouTube Lecture available online now

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Youtube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

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

Bennett Institute for Public Policy

Levelling up after Covid: the value of social infrastructure

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online Event on Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:30-19:00

apc31's list

‘Syria, Salisbury and savings lives at war: what next for foreign policy and humanitarian intervention?’ Book launch and panel discussion with Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, Sir Stephen O'Brien and Sir Christopher Greenwood

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_c-Wrmd12Qs20tQqM8gdTOw.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Behavioral addictions: COVID-19 considerations and more (NOTE time: 1-2 pm)

Chair: Prof Ed Bullmore

Prof Marc Potenza, Yale University School of Medicine.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Cardiovasculal MR - New Insights in Heart Diseases -today and in future

Jeanette Schulz-Menger @ MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICIN, BERLIN .

Zoom Webinar ask for details vr314@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Can the slope of adult mortality by age be changed? An examination of case fatality for pneumonia under different treatment regimes, 1822-2010

Jim Oeppen (Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Virtual Seminar: 'A Simulation-Free Approach To Assessing the Performance of the Continual Reassessment Method'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Professor Thomas Braun, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA.

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition

Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Society, brains and mind research - insights from studies of ageing populations

Chair: Prof Tasmin Ford

Prof Carol Brayne, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 11 February 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can exposure to green space reduce the risk of anxiety and depression among young people aged 14-24 living in urban settings?

Chair: Professor Tamsin Ford

Dr Issy Bray, UWE Bristol.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 04 February 2021, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Renaissance eugenics

Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The impact of suicide bereavement: what clinicians should know and what researchers should investigate next

Dr Alexandra Pitman, University College London .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 28 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

CANCELLED

chair: Dr Shahid Zaman

Dr Kimberly Kendall, Cardiff University .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Happiness in the brain: A computational and neural model for mood dynamics

chair: Prof Paul Fletcher

Dr Robb Rutledge, Yale University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Novel Mitochondrial Mechanisms for Cardiometabolic Disease

Dr E Dale Abel, Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa. USA.

Zoom Webinar ask for details vr314@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 17 December 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: ‘The DURATIONS design: a practical trial design to optimise treatment duration’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Dr Matteo Quartagno, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL.

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 15 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'PROGRESS in sample size calculations for clinical prediction model research'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Professor Richard Riley, Centre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University.

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 08 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

The COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on thinking and practice in some key sectors going forward

COVID-19 and its influence on knowledge, skills and health

Please register via https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/hhevents/the-covid19-pandemic-impact-on-thinking-and-practice-in-some-key-sectors-26-nov/

Professor Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry; Dr Caroline Trotter, Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Pathology; Professor Paul Tracey, Judge Business School; Professor Ricardo Sabates Aysa, Faculty of Education.

Online.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion?

Professor Dame Sandra Dawson.

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: ‘Score driven modeling of spatio-temporal data’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Alessandra Luati, University of Bologna .

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Alcohol and Older People. What's the Use?

chair: Prof John O'Brien

Dr Tony Rao, King's College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

Leah DeVun (Rutgers University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Primary Care

Closing the survival gap: The importance of screening and early diagnosis in improving cancer survival in England

CCHSR Annual Lecture

Professor Sir Mike Richards.

Zoom webinar.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

Victoria Lee (Ohio University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Using auxiliary variables in mediation analysis to address unmeasured confounding'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Professor Richard Emsley, NIHR Research Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Taking control of innate immunity with nanobiologics

Willem Mulder, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

Zoom Webinar ask for details vr314@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Don't go breaking my heart: antipsychotics and cardiometabolic health in schizophrenia (and what clinicians should be doing)

chair: Dr Hisham Ziauddeen

Dr Toby Pillinger, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Paranoia in patients attending child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)

Dr Jessica Bird, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)

Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow).

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Values-based Practice in Psychiatry

chair: Dr Asha Praseedom

Dr Robert Dudas, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust & Department of Psychiatry .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

Zoom.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Social risk taking in adolescence

chair: Prof Tamsin Ford

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993

Grace Redhead (University College London).

Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Stochastic treatment interventions in causal survival analysis'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Dr Lan Wen, Harvard University .

Virtual Seminar .

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders

chair: Prof Peter Jones

Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Rod Jones, Department of Chemistry.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 19:15-21:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Autoimmune psychosis; is it a thing?

chair: Dr Golam Khandaker

Professor Alasdair Coles, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 01 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

sw801's list

“Misinformation, pseudoscience and the unhealthy commodity industries”

Professor Mark Petticrew, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 01 October 2020, 11:00-12:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Assumption-lean inference for generalised linear model parameters'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Prof Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University .

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 24 September 2020, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What should we do to prevent dementia?

chair: Prof John O'Brien

Professor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, University College London .

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 24 September 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Health as an asset: estimating the causal effects of health conditions and health behaviours on social and economic outcomes using Mendelian randomization

This seminar will be broadcast live online, please register in advance for this meeting: https://mrc-epid.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckcu6vqTwoHdNAY3h7JqDyxMYglX6JTQuT

Dr Laura Howe, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol.

Online.

Tuesday 15 September 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Detecting the early spread of SARS-Cov-2 in humans by phylogenetic network analysis

Dr Peter Forster, Cambridge.

Zoom Webinar ask for details vr314@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 30 July 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 treatment: cardiac safety

Prof. Ming Lei, Oxford.

Zoom Webinar ask for details vr314@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 23 July 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Driving and Mental Health

chair: Dr Jonathan Wood

Dr Eliott King, DVLA Doctor .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 16 July 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Targeting inflammation in hypertension - from novel mechanisms to clinical validation

Prof. Tomasz J Guzik, Glasgow.

Zoom Webinar ask for details vr314@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 09 July 2020, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days

chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 09 July 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychiatric presentations of coronaviruses: past and present

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

Dr Jonathan Rogers, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 02 July 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Gestational Diabetes: a nutritional disorder?

Dr Claire Meek, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, UK..

Online.

Monday 22 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Symptoms of the Schizophrenia Treatment

chair: Dr HIsham Ziauddeen

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, consultant psychiatrist and associate lecturer, Clozapine Clinic Cambridge and University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Parameterizing Causal Marginal Models'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Prof Robin Evans, University of Oxford.

Virtual Seminar .

Tuesday 16 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Integrating physical and mental health care in children's services

chair: Prof Tamsin Ford

Professor Isobel Heyman, Psychological Medicine Team, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar - The Greek National Survey on Health and Nutrition (the HYDRIA Project)

Dr Elissavet Valanou, European Food Risk Assessment (EU-FORA) Fellow, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens..

Online.

Tuesday 09 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The Truth about Suicide: the effect the death of a patient by suicide has on the clinician

chair: Dr Judy Rubinsztein

Dr Rachel Gibbons, Director of Therapies for the Priory Group.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression

chair: Dr Graham Murray

Professor Jonathan Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Minimal clinically important differences: a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine

chair: Prof Tim Dalgleish

Professor Glyn Lewis, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: “Delayed-acceptance Sequential Monte Carlo”

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Joshua Bon, Queensland University of Technology.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 21 May 2020, 10:00-11:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Neurodevelopment in global contexts: early brain markers of memory development from infant cohorts in the UK and The Gambia

To access this Zoom talk please email Kate Shaw (ks723@cam.ac.uk) so that she can send you the meeting access ID and password.

Dr Laura Katus - Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.

Zoom online.

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

CANCELLED Transcriptional control of heart development and regeneration CANCELLED

Enzo Porrello, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Melbourne.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Role of Inflammation in Depression: exciting therapeutic opportunity or fake news?

chair: Dr Graham Murray

Dr Golam Khandaker, Lead, Inflammation and Psychiatry Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge .

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Movement behaviours and cognitive development in early childhood: Evidence, insights and interventions from South Africa

Dr Catherine Draper, MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand..

Online.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Systems approaches to obesity: The lived experience of young people

Dr Wendy Wills, Professor of Food and Public Health, Director of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care..

Online.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The Challenges of Meta-analysing Metabolomics Data; Experiences from the Consortium Of METabolomics Studies (COMETS).

Dr Rachel Kelly, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA..

Online.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: “Including expert knowledge in genomic selection through intuitive tree-based joint priors”

Ingeborg Hem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 16 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Movement behaviours and parenting in the first two years of life

Dr Alessandra Prioreschi, Associate Director of the SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand..

Online.

Thursday 16 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes

Professor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark..

Online.

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Introducing the Propensity to Cycle Tool and explaining the new health impact calculation methods

Dr Anna Goodman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, London..

Online.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

Primary Care

CANCELLED: How perspectives from social sciences can help address practical questions of healthcare improvement

Seminar from Applied Social Science Group, PCU

Dr Alex Gillespie, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, and Dr Mary Adams, Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London.

Thomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort’s Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN.

Tuesday 24 March 2020, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

CANCELLED Translational approaches with human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes CANCELLED

Thomas Eschenhagen, University Medical Centre Hamburg.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

PublicHealth@Cambridge

EAST OF ENGLAND GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE:RESEARCH, PRACTICE, EDUCATION

SPEAKERS INCLUDE: DAME SALLY DAVIES PROF. AMANDA HOWE PROF. PETER HUTCHINSON EDWIN PANFORD-QUAINOO DR. ROSALIND PARKES-RATANSHI & MORE.

Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Wollaston Road, Cambridge, CB1 2EW.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 09:00-20:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Healthy Cities from the Bottom Up: A Human-centred Approach to Urban and Transport Planning

Dr Andy Hong, Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford..

Online.

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Primary Care

CANCELLED: Rethinking Medicine

Annual GP Lecture organised by Cambridge General Practice Education Group. PLEASE BOOK

Dr Martin Marshall Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Improvement Science London and Chair-elect of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge CB2 0SP, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 17 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes

Professor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

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

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Using next generation sequencing to delineate novel chamber-specific molecular mechanisms in different aetiologies of human heart failure

Dr Emma Robinson, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Maastrict .

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

chair: Prof Tamsin Ford

Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Squeezing the most out of ridge”

Professor Mark van de Wiel, Amsterdam University Medical Center.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

CANCELLED

Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Applications of geospatial data and methods in environmental epidemiology

S.M. Labib, Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University of Manchester..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Season of death: mortality in infancy and beyond in Scotland, 1861-1973

Beata Nowok (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic

Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology?

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

Professor Matthew Broome, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Predicting addiction: myth or reality?

chair: Dr Karen Ersche

Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900

Catalina Torres (University of Southern Denmark).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

PHG Foundation

Creating policy impact International lessons from science and health

Speaker to be confirmed.

McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:30-19:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The impact of uncertainty on trade agreements between the UK and EU

Oliver Exton, Department of Economics.

Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB..

Monday 03 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Gene Therapy in Duchenne Cardiomyopathy

Dr Frederica Montanaro, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

chair: Prof John O'Brien

Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages

Nicholas Stacey, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science & SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice.

chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin

André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf website.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Recent insights into drug resistant Shigella: a major contributor to the global diarrhoeal disease burden

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Stephen Baker, Professor of molecular microbiology, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease .

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The use of mobile games to assess cognitive function of elderly with and without cognitive impairment

chair: Prof Barbara J. Sahakian

Dr Bruno Bonnechère, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel .

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s

Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Public Health Policy Talks

How can your research influence policy? Event for Post-Docs & Early Career Researchers

Prof Jonathan Mant, Dr Clare Oliver-Williams, Dr Sarah Gentry & Caitlin Grant .

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre 2.

Monday 13 January 2020, 12:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Motherhood and madness: bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis

chair: Dr Nikolett Kabacs

Professor Ian Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

ReproSoc

Whose Biological Clock? Temporal Inevitability and Assisted Reproduction in Contemporary India

Anindita Majumdar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

The Pitt Building Trumpington Street CB2 1RP.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Purinergic control of inflammation and cell death

Leanne Stokes, UEA Norwich.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Food for health - food for thought

chair: Dr Graham Murray

Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge..

West Forvie Building Seminar Room, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia

CANCELLED

Dror Weil (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Big data and small talk: why we need both

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Prof. Nick Steel, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Cardio-oncology - A compatible Marriage of Convenience?

Grzegorz Piotrowski, Nicolaus Copernicus Centre of Oncology, Lodz Poland.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How feasible is DNA as a long-term digital storage system?

Nick Goldman, European Bioinformatics Institute.

The Statistical Laboratory,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:15-21:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The neuropsychiatry of social knowledge and moral motivation

chair: Dr Hisham Ziauddeen

Dr Roland Zahn, Reader in the Neurocognitive Bases of Mood Disorders, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar - Community engagement to prevent and control of diabetes in Bangladesh - Dr Ed Fottrell

Dr Ed Fottrell, Director, UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases..

Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London

Elaine Leong (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Video games in psychiatry: "a vicarious experience with a dazing, almost anaesthetic, effect on the mind"?

chair: Dr Graham Murray

Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 19:15-21:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood

Lochlann Jain (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Cancer Screening and Prevention: Lessons Learned

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Mette Kalager, University of Oslo.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Politics, policy and the absence of evidence: decision making about speed restrictions in Edinburgh and Belfast.

Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge..

Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title

Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Texture Analysis and Machine Learning for the Prediction of Cerebrovascular Events.

Elizabeth Le, Cambridge.

Patrick Sissons Seminar Room, Dept Medicine Level 5, Addenbrookes.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Transforming Healthcare through Prevention - Ageing Well on a national scale: achieving the balance between fitness and frailty

Register for free for this talk at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transforming-healthcare-through-prevention-ageing-well-on-national-scale-tickets-74871840691

Professor Martin Vernon, MA, FRCP : NHS England National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care, Chair of the NHS England Hospital to Home Programme Board.

Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 18:00-19:15

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

From first in man to advanced preclinical trials and then back: bridging the gap in cardiovascular translation

Professor Raimondo Ascione, University of Bristol.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Keith Day Road, Addenbrookes Hospital.

Monday 28 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?

William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 17:00-18:45

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“Humanitarian Action from a non-Western perspective within United Nations Multilateralism”

H.E. Ambassador Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Meraikhi, UN Secretary-General’s Humanitarian Envoy.

Audit Room (Old Lodge), King’s College.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Nutritional Psychiatry: recent advances in evidence for diet and nutrition for mental and brain health

Professor Felice N Jacka, Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University, Australia..

Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913

Michael Sappol (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Prodromal Dementia with Lewy Bodies

chair: Prof John O'Brien

Professor Alan Thomas, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Newcastle University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 10 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Clueless Voting

Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 19:15-21:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Ablative surgeries for psychiatric disorders: The Vancouver capsulotomy and new insights into the neuroanatomy of depression

chair: Prof John Suckling

Professor Trevor Hurwitz, Medical Director, BC Neuropsychiatry Programme, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 03 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

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Behaviour Change by Design Annual Lecture 2019: Why Don’t We Stick with Behaviour Change?

Wendy Wood, Provost Professor of Psychology and Business, University of Southern California.

Howard Theatre, Downing College.

Thursday 26 September 2019, 18:00-19:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Cognitive Remediation Therapy confers broad benefits to people with bipolar disorder

chair: Dr Muzaffer Kaser

Dr Becci Strawbridge, post-doctoral researcher at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Overview of Road Safety Globally

Dr Kavi Bhalla, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences of the Biological Sciences Division & Faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago..

Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Wednesday 18 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Ageing and dementia risk-related brain differences in the cognitively healthy: Evidence from multi-modal MRI

Dr Claudia Metzler-Baddeley, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cardiff University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Generating left ventricle cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells using mouse instructions

Dr Andreia Bernardo, Frances Crick Institute, London.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

Mental Health Without Well-being

Organised by the Applied Social Science Group at the Primary Care Unit

Anna Alexandrova Reader in Philosophy of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Univ of Cambridge.

Clinical School, Seminar Room 10.

Monday 08 July 2019, 14:45-15:45

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Understanding the parent-infant social connection through interpersonal neuroscience

Dr Victoria Leong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 July 2019, 12:30-13:30

THIS Institute

Perioperative Communication and Decision Making: A social science perspective

Professor Lee Fleisher, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania.

Small Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 02 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Responding to Revolution; Utilising new methods to explore the relationship between transport, health and urban design

Dr Jason Thompson, University of Melbourne, Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Hub..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

The gut microbiota in arterial thrombosis

Dr Christoph Reinhardt, Centre for Thrombosis & Haemostatis, Mainz, Germany.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The clinical effectiveness of sertraline in primary care and the role of depression severity and duration: The PANDA pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Dr Gemma Lewis, Research Associate in Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 20 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Vascular aging (tbc)

SEMINAR SERIES ON VASCULAR AGING HOSTED BY PHPC (PROF JOHN DANESH)

Professor Stephanie Debette, Professor of Epidemiology, Bordeaux University.

Thomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort’s Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN..

Thursday 20 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lonely young adults in modern Britain: findings from an epidemiological cohort study

Dr Timothy Matthews, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office

David Green (KCL), Doug Brown (Kingston University), Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Nicola Shelton (UCL).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:15-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Governance or government? How should researchers understand the policy process?

Professor Michael Kenny, Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 07 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Cardiac imaging: the hero and the villain in the story of regenerative medicine

Dr Daniel Stuckey, UCL.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Risk and resilience in adolescent mental health

Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Pathology, pragmatic trials and population health data science to prevent vascular ageing

SEMINAR SERIES ON VASCULAR AGING HOSTED BY PHPC (PROF JOHN DANESH)

Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Professor of Clinical Neurology, University of Edinburgh.

Thomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort’s Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN..

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Primary and Secondary Prevention of Dementia: can we PROTECT our Cognitive Health?

Professor Clive Ballard, Professor of Age-related Diseases, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911

Toke Aidt (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group) and Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Health Economics @ Cambridge

HE@Cam: Michael Laxy - Implementing lifestyle intervention to prevent diabetes in US Medicaid beneficiaries: cost-effectiveness, budgetary impact and health equity impact

Michael Laxy.

Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge.

Monday 20 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Narrative in neuroscience: evolutionary approach as a teaching tool

Dr Derek Tracy, Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London; Senior Lecturer, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland

Liam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast) and Peter Solar (Free University, Brussels).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture

Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture 2019 - The ‘HAVES’ and the ‘HAVE YACHTS’

Professor Roger Burrows, Professor of Cities at Newcastle University.

Faculty of Law, Room LG19, Sidgwick Site.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 17:30-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Surveillance, Detection and Response to Emerging International Health Emergencies: the Role of the World Health Organization

Dr Oliver Morgan, World Health Organisation .

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Multimodal Imaging of Carotid Atherosclerosis and the Neurovascular Interface in Cerebrovascular Disease

Nicholas Evans, Cambridge.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

History and Future of Psychiatry: Reflections on Kathleen Jones's "Asylums and after"

Professor George Ikkos, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The Algorithm is Going to Get You: Should We Fear the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice?

Matthew Bland, Institute of Criminology.

Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WG.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 19:15-21:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies”

Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Infant feeding and post-natal depression: quantitative and qualitative evidence on the role of maternal aspirations and the management of childbirth

Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Information theory in dose-finding trials"

Prof. Thomas Jaki, Lancaster University.

Small Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 08 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Multi-tasking for MR Image Enhancement:From Acceleration to Motion Correction

Angelica Aviles-Rivero, Cambridge.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Improving the physical health of people with severe mental illnesses

Professor David Osborn, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Bioengineering approach to atherosclerosis and aneurysm rupture and clinical implications

Professor Michael Sutcliffe & Zhongzhao Teng, Cambridge.

School of Clinical Medicine, Seminar Room 3.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The role of technology in improving the accessibility and quality of mental healthcare and accelerating research

Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Dr Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge..

Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Thursday 21 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

A Bayesian model‐free approach to combination therapy phase I trials using censored time‐to‐toxicity data

Graham Wheeler, Cancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre @ University College London.

Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Large Seminar Room (First Floor), Forvie Site, Robinson Way. CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 19:15-21:30

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'Poverty, unemployment and eviction in America'

Professor Matt Desmond.

Sinyi lecture theatre, Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School (http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/location.html).

Thursday 14 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body

Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Primary Care

‘Deciding when to visit the GP with cancer symptoms: the Goldilocks Zone differs in England, Denmark and Sweden’

Professor Sue Ziebland Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.

Thomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort’s Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN.

Monday 11 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Adapting to extrauterine life and beyond: AMPK coordinates breathing and oxygen supply

Professor Mark Evans, Edinburgh.

West Forvie Building, Seminar Room.

Monday 11 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

100 years since Nijinsky met Bleuler: What can we learn from individual cases in psychiatry?

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea .

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The Age of Entrepreneurship: whole-population analysis of trends in entrepreneurship 1851-1911 from the censuses

Bob Bennett, Harry Smith, Carry van Lieshout, Piero Montebruno (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:15-14:15

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Primary Care

Public Engagement Activities around Patients’ Experiences within Institutions (Roundtable)

Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network

Dr Elizabeth Fistein (Cambridge), Dr Jenny Crane (Wellcome Trust), Dr Janet Weston (LSHTM).

Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 04 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Making evidence credible for public health policy

Dr Kathryn Oliver, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine .

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tracking neuroinflammation in the brains of depressed patients

Dr Peter Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Optimal Feature Selection using model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning”

Dr Konstantina Pallas, Microsoft.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis

Nicole Janz, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Monday 25 February 2019, 19:15-21:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Sample size considerations for the design clinical trials – quantifying the target difference and the target no-difference”

Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Phenotyping iPS-CM's with light

Matthew Daniels, Oxford.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

'If only this could be my last': new ideas about reducing family size during the demographic transition

Alice Reid (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

Early Science and Medicine

Giants and national identity in early modern Europe

Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Primary Care

Patients, Expertise and New Markets (Roundtable)

Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network

Dr Marcin Smietana (Cambridge), Professor Wendy Kline (Purdue College of Liberal Arts), Dr Charlotte Faircloth (UCL).

Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 18 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Longitudinal growth modeling: a tool for genetic discovery

Dr Diana Cousminer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia.

Seminar room 2, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, CB2 0SP.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:30-14:30

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Human cardiac organoids for fundamental biology and drug discovery applications

Dr James Hudson.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Macrophages in many guises in atherosclerosis progression and regression

Prof Edward Fisher, New York University.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Language learning and use as cognitive reserve?

Dr Thomas Bak, Reader, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy museum on the move

Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Platelets: biogenesis, ballooning and biorepair

Professor Alastair Poole, University of Bristol.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Illness and Attitude: Characterizing Functional Disorders

Professor Richard Holton, Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine

Hannah Murphy (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Inflamed Depression

Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

From Fingertips to RAP: getting statistics into public health policy and practice

Sian Evans and Stephen Yeung (Public Health England).

Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB..

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:15-21:30

Primary Care

Prenatal Testing, Women and Risk: discussion with Dr Ilana Lowy on her new book

Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network

Dr Ilana Löwy, Research Director, CERMES-3 and visiting Professor, King's College London.

Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 04 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate change and water security in Africa

Professor Declan Conway, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 16:15-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Modelling human brain development and neural connectivity in cerebral organoids

Dr Madeline Lancaster, Principal Investigator, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 31 January 2019, 12:30-13:30