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16 upcoming talks and 2542 talks in the archive.

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution of multisensory integration in plants

UserProf. Miguel A. Blázquez - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV).

House47 Bateman Street .

ClockWednesday 27 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What and Where I Record

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UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

UserJiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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UserRosemary Fricker.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

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UserPeter Pilbeam.

HouseMeeting Room (Second Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Dr Angela Hay - Creating an Explosion

UserDr Angela Hay.

House47 Baterman Street .

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity

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

House Webinar (via Teams).

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

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UserOlwen Williams.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservation

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UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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UserMorgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

UserProfessor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

UserProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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UserMorag Hunter.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Health of the Cam

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UserStephen Tomkins.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

UserProfessor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and Adventure

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UserPaul Krusic.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Biodiverse City

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UserGuy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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UserLiam Saddington.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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UserWill Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

People Power for Nature

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UserPete Exley, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 19 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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UserMark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Climatic drivers of steric height in the Southern Ocean

UserJennifer Cocks, Alessandro Silvano, Alice Marzocchi, Alberto Naveira Garabato.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1; https://ukri.zoom.us/j/91734606755.

ClockThursday 21 September 2023, 11:30-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

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

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 15 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cool as a caterpillar

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UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

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UserKevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 23 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

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UserTatiana Bebchuk.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

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UserJonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

UserProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

UserDr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development

UserProfessor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

HouseCANCELLED.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

UserProfessor Philip Jones, University College London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

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UserJoshua Pike.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

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

UserProfessor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity.

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

UserProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

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UserBrett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisis

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UserMike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

HouseVia Zoom, and in-person: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil microbiomes and one Health

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

HouseOnline only.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean Warming and Accelerating Southern Ocean Zonal Flow

UserJia-Rui Shi (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute).

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

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

UserProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

UserProfessor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

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UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

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UserBethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

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UserContributing Authors.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observing the Southern Ocean carbon cycle with autonomous floats

UserChanning Prend, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of Washington.

Househttps://ukri.zoom.us/j/91769463955; BAS seminar room 1.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Active Matter and Transport in Living Cells

UserMichael Shelley (Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

ClockMonday 31 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

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UserHarriet Allen, President CNHS.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding genome regulation during seed germination

UserMathew G. Lewsey (Centre for AgriBioscience at La Trobe University).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

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UserGeorgie Bray, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

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UserMonica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

UserStefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography).

ClockThursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Historical and contemporary perspectives of the nutrition transition

UserDr Cornelia Guell, University of Exeter.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

UserDarius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

HouseOnline.

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

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

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

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

UserGuy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

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

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Marine biogeochemistry along the Northern Antarctic Peninsula

UserThiago Monteiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande/University of Edinburgh.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockMonday 25 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

UserUlf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

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UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

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UserMartin Davies.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

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

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

UserProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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UserRebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

UserProfessor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

UserProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lower Wood

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UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Who Cares About Hornworts?

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

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

UserDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Peatbogs

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A stylish story of carpel evolution.

UserCristina Ferrandiz, Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong

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

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

UserMr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and Jackals

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserArik Kershenbaum.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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

HouseOnline.

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

Neighbourhood Disadvantage, Everyday Urban Mobility, and Well-Being

UserProfessor Robert J Sampson, Harvard University.

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Fenland Flora

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

UserDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

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UserAnn Miles.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis

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

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

UserMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDaniel Field.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

UserDr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar.

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

UserProfessor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

** Audience Choice **

The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

UserProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserEllie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

UserDr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The launch of the online NatHistFest

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserCNHS Members.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

UserDr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserApril Bagwill.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserGwenda Kyd, Author.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

UserProfessor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDr Steve Boreham.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

UserDr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants

UserDr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The 4th dimension of transcriptional networks: TIME

UserProfessor Gloria Coruzzi, Center for Genomics & Systems Biology (New York University).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

UserDr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

HouseOnline.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The impact of sea-ice drift and ocean circulation on dispersal of toothfish eggs and juveniles in the Ross Gyre and Amundsen Sea

Please contact the organizer for meeting link

UserErik Behrens, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 20 October 2021, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees for Streets

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSimeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

UserProfessor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mechanism and Models of Stomata/Mesophyll Form and Function

UserProfessor Andrew Fleming, Chair of Plant Science, University of Sheffield.

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

ClockMonday 23 August 2021, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Turbulent convection in Antarctic Subglacial Lakes

User Louis-Alexandre Couston (Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 02 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

UserChris Lambing, Henderson group.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

UserProf Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Integrating diverse data sets to improve causal inference

UserProfessor Judith Green, University of Exeter..

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

UserKumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

HouseOnline.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adding a piece to the leaf epidermis puzzle: towards a better understanding of cell shape acquisition

UserStéphanie Robert - Umea Plant Science Centre - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Selective autophagy mediated cellular quality control in plants

UserYasin Dagdas - GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockWednesday 31 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

From a pragmatic weight management intervention to bariatric surgery

UserDr Helen Parretti, University of East Anglia..

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

UserMr Marc Quinn, Artist.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Postponed - Protecting the Environment

Postponed for now. Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

UserProfessor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

UserKrishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

UserMs Rose George, Journalist.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum

Now at 3pm

UserJohn Ferguson, Kromdijk group.

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

UserProfessor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil fungi for us

NOTE TIME CHANGE

UserMaarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia.

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

UserProfessor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences

UserDr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning.

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

UserProfessor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

UserDr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses

UserDr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group.

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

UserDr Claire Roddie, UCL.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions

UserFrank C. Schroeder, Cornell University.

HouseOnline.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolutionary dynamics of innovation

UserEnrico Colizzi (Origins Centre and Mathematical Institute Leiden University) .

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockFriday 15 January 2021, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

An AUV underneath the ‘Doomsday glacier’: Revealing pathways and modification of warm water flowing beneath Thwaites ice shelf, West Antarctica

The talk will be on Zoom, please contact the organiser for further details.

UserAnna Wåhlin, University of Gothenburg.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Fourth Perspective: Evolution and Organismal Agency

UserJohannes Jaeger (D'Alembert Research Chair 2020/21, Institut d'Études Avancées (IEA) Paris; Associate Faculty, Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockMonday 14 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Fine-scale ocean processes in the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserMadi Rosevear, University of Tasmania.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 10:00-11:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres

UserMatthew Naish, Henderson Group.

HouseOnline.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

SubZero: Floe-Resolving Sea Ice Model

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserGeorgy Manucharyan, University of Washington.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

UserAbdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud .

HouseOnline.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The impact of lee waves on the Southern Ocean circulation and its response to winds

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserLuwei Yang, University of California, Los Angeles.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

UserCarlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

HouseOnline.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Seasonal prediction and predictability of regional Antarctic sea ice

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserMitch Bushuk, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Melting and mixing at the submarine termini of tidewater glaciers

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserRebecca Jackson, Rutgers University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observing Iceberg Melt in a Greenland Fjord

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserMargaret Lindeman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 23 September 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

UserDr Laura Howe, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol.

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 15 September 2020, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Arctic Freshwater Storage and Export in CMIP6 Models

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserHannah Zanowski, University of Colorador Boulder.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 09 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ikaaġvik Sikukun: Bridging the Scientific and Indigenous Communities to Study Sea Ice Change in Arctic Alaska

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserChristopher J. Zappa, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 15 July 2020, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Influences of Melt Water from Sea Ice/Ice Shelf in Polar Oceans

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserKofan Lu, JAMSTEC.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 08 July 2020, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

ROSETTA-Ice: a new framework for understanding the Ross Ice Shelf

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserKirsty Tinto, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockThursday 02 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Gestational Diabetes: a nutritional disorder?

UserDr Claire Meek, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, UK..

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 22 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar - The Greek National Survey on Health and Nutrition (the HYDRIA Project)

UserDr Elissavet Valanou, European Food Risk Assessment (EU-FORA) Fellow, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens..

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Weddell Polynya: when will it come back?

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserCasimir de Lavergne, LOCEAN, Sorbonne University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2020, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis

UserDr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group.

HouseOnline.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ice streams: fantastic beasts and how to model them

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserElisa Mantelli, Princeton University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 03 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis

UserJoiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Movement behaviours and cognitive development in early childhood: Evidence, insights and interventions from South Africa

UserDr Catherine Draper, MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Systems approaches to obesity: The lived experience of young people

UserDr Wendy Wills, Professor of Food and Public Health, Director of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice

UserAn-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group.

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The Challenges of Meta-analysing Metabolomics Data; Experiences from the Consortium Of METabolomics Studies (COMETS).

UserDr Rachel Kelly, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA..

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 23 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Movement behaviours and parenting in the first two years of life

UserDr Alessandra Prioreschi, Associate Director of the SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand..

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 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

UserProfessor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 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

UserDr Anna Goodman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, London..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

UserPaul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Healthy Cities from the Bottom Up: A Human-centred Approach to Urban and Transport Planning

UserDr Andy Hong, Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

UserDr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

UserProfessor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Applications of geospatial data and methods in environmental epidemiology

UserS.M. Labib, Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University of Manchester..

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

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing

UserProfessor Dan Voytas (Minnesota State University). This seminar is organised on behalf of the Plant Sciences Department..

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 09:00-10:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

UserDr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

UserDr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages

UserNicholas 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.

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

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

UserDr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

Recent insights into drug resistant Shigella: a major contributor to the global diarrhoeal disease burden

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserStephen Baker, Professor of molecular microbiology, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease .

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A 60 Year International History of Antarctic Subglacial Lake Exploration

Send an email to the organizer if you're not from BAS but want to come in.

UserMartin Siegert, Imperial College.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Aurora Conference Room.

ClockMonday 09 December 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

UserMembers' Event.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Big data and small talk: why we need both

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProf. Nick Steel, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 29 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Post Doc invited speaker

UserJim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

User .

House(no venue).

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

UserJames Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Random movement of mesoscale eddies in the global ocean

Send an email to the organizer if you're not from BAS but want to come in.

UserXiaoming Zhai, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockTuesday 12 November 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

UserProfessor 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.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

UserDuncan Mackay.

HouseMeet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge..

ClockSaturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Overview of Road Safety Globally

UserDr 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..

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 18 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Effect of ocean variability on the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 20th and 21st centuries

** Please email ahead if visiting from outside of BAS **

UserDonald Slater (Scripps, UC San Diego).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockFriday 06 September 2019, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Symposium on CRISPR/CAS editing in crops

UserProfessor Kan Wang (Iowa State University), Prof Wendy Harwood (John Innes), Dr Emma Wallington (NIAB).

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 19 August 2019, 13:00-16:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Reprogramming plant cells for endosymbiotic infection

UserFernanda de Carvalho-Niebel (The Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, INRA-CNRS, Toulouse).

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function

UserCaroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A rule based approach to Development

UserKim Sneppen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen).

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 24 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Getting Under Europa’s Skin

Anyone external to BAS wishing to attend please contact the seminar organiser.

UserDr. Britney Schmidt (Georgia Tech).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockMonday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

UserCambridge Concert Orchestra.

HouseWesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

ClockSaturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

If walls could talk: the evolution and adaptations of plant and algal cell walls

UserDr Zoë Popper, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Environment, Marine and Energy, NUI Galway.

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Two talks on Ice-Ocean interaction in East Antarctica

UserTakeshi Tamura (National Institute of Polar Research) and Daisuke Hirano (Institute of Low Temperature Science).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserKevin Hand.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

UserProfessor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

UserProfessor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

UserPaul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

UserDr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

UserGreg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

UserProfessor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Longitudinal growth modeling: a tool for genetic discovery

UserDr Diana Cousminer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia.

HouseSeminar room 2, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, CB2 0SP.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 13:30-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

UserMs Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Venom

UserLeah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

UserProfessor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

UserProfessor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The biogeochemical fingerprint of melting ice

**If external to BAS, please notify organiser in advance**

UserKate Hendry, University of Bristol.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

UserAnastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sea Ice-Ocean Feedbacks in the Antarctic Shelf Seas

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserRebecca Frew, University of Reading.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockFriday 30 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Apologies, due to flight cancellation this talk will be rescheduled

UserJim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

International comparative analysis of housing and Land Use Planning

UserDr Sónia Alves, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cellular Trajectories in Root Regeneration

UserProfessor Kenneth D. Birnbaum, New York University.

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Northern Antarctic Peninsula: a marine climate hotspot of rapid changes on ecosystems and ocean dynamics

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserProf. Dr. Rodrigo Kerr, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande .

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Spatial differences in the returns to education: sorting, agglomeration and pressures of demand

UserDr Vassilis Monastiriotis, London School of Economics and Political Science..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Negative Value Property

UserProfessor Bruce Huber, Notre Dame Law School, USA..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Re-thinking controls on the East Australian Current's eddy shedding and mean poleward extent

*If external to BAS, please notify seminar organiser in advance and arrive 5-10 minutes before start time to ensure access to building*

UserChristopher Bull.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sea level rise and the implications for coastal flooding

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserIvan Haigh, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Symposium on Machines

UserSee event homepage for list of speakers.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 09:45-17:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The macroeconomic consequences of stranded fossil fuel assets

UserDr Jean-Francois Mercure, Radboud University, Netherlands..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Linking Glacial-Interglacial States to Multiple Equilibria of Climate

**If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building**

UserDavid Ferreira, University of Reading.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserSam Buckton.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Urbanization and Land Use Policy in China

UserProfessor Yuzhe Wu, Zhejiang University, China.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserChris Preston.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The Long Run Demand for Energy Services and Energy Transitions

UserDr Roger Fouquet, London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Simulating Southern Ocean, sea ice, and ice shelf interactions: model intercomparison and future projections

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserKaitlin Naughten (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Seismic Imaging of Eddy‐Dominated Warm‐Water Transport Across the Bellingshausen Sea

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserKathy Gunn, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding the Evolution of Seed Plant Reproductive Adaptations Through a Fern

UserDr Andrew Plackett (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 02 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Rates and Mechanisms of turbulent mixing in the west Antarctic.

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserRyan Scott, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockFriday 28 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Balancing acts in the control of plant cell reprogramming

UserDr Momoko Ikeuchi (RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 25 September 2018, 15:15-16:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mechanics and dynamics of cell to cell adhesion in plants

UserDr Stéphane Verger (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 24 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Wintertime Fjord-Shelf Interaction and Ice Sheet Melting in Southeast Greenland

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserNeil Fraser, SAMS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockWednesday 19 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Uncoupling the processes of development

UserDr Sarah Robinson (University of Bern) .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 14 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Moving-mesh finite element modeling of ocean circulation near ice shelf grounding lines

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserBen Yeager, Imperial College London.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockWednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Antarctic sea-ice control on glacial and modern deep-ocean circulation and carbon storage

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserAlice Marzocchi, NOC.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 27 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Winton Discussions

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

UserProfessor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans PhD Student talks

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserDavid Bett and Rachael Sanders, BAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockMonday 18 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Winton Discussions

Hidden problems in the global wind industry

UserDr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Dynamics of heat transfer and exchanges across the Antarctic Slope Front

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserAndrew Stewart, UCLA.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Processes controlling the flux of Circumpolar Deep Water onto Antarctic Shelves.

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserAndy Hogg, Australian National University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockMonday 11 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics

Third "Enid MacRobbie Women in Science" lecture

UserAnne Osbourne, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Pathways of boundary mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current revealed by a tracer release experiment.

External Visitors - Please contact organiser in advance to gain access

UserMarie-Jose Messias, University of Exeter.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The power of parenting support

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Leiden University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Oceanography to fish population genetics: multidisciplinary studies with numerical models

**If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building**

UserEmma Young, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Is Primary Care Research important, and can it be led by primary care?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Richard Hobbs, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford .

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 04 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Rapid laundering of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserProf. Alberto Naveira Garabato (NOC, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockFriday 27 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

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

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

HouseCoslett (COS207), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The ice-covered Ross Gyre: variability and drivers

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserTiago Dotto, National Oceanography Centre.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

(Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape

Special Seminar

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

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

GSI / Environmental Law seminar - Richard Buxton Law

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

HouseHelmore (HEL113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

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

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

CANCELLED: The Impact of New Technology on Transport Planning

UserPaul Campion, Transport Systems Catapult..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, mothers, and fathers

UserAssociate Professor Kaberi Dasgupta, McGill University and Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

UserProfessor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

CANCELLED: The Loxbridge Triangle: Integrating the East-West Arch into the London Mega-region

UserProfessor Michael Neuman, Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment, University of Westminster..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution and Engineering of Plant-Microbe Symbioses

UserJean-Michel Ané (University of Wisconsin - Madison).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

UserDr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

CANCELLED: The rise and fall of the Shopping Mall: dialogues on the relationship of commerce and city

UserFernando Garrefa, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and Design of the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

UserMs Kavita Puri, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

UserYadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Prices of peers: identifying endogenous price effects between real assets

UserDr Nikodem Szumilo, The London School of Economics and Political Science..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence?

UserProfessor Paul Cairney, Department of History and Politics, University of Stirling..

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

UserProfessor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Planning for sustainable urbanisation in China: a community perspective

UserProfessor Cecilia Wong, Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

UserMr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Bank credit rating changes, capital structure adjustments and lending

UserProfessor Claudia Girardone, Essex Business School, University of Essex.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – The Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub

UserDuncan Catchpole, founding committee member of Cambridge Sustainable Food.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

UserProfessor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Can tax reforms reduce inequality?

UserAhmad Seyf, Department of Management and Human Resources at Regent’s University, London..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

UserProfessor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Fire, tractors and health in the Amazon: a cost-benefit analysis of fire policy

UserThiago Morello, Federal University of ABC, São Paulo, Brazil..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

UserMr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Decadal oceanic variability drives ice sheet retreat in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAdrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 307.

ClockTuesday 09 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

UserLouise Bacon.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Changes in the Export of Weddell Sea Deep Water

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserPovl Abrahamsen (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

CSER Public Lectures

Meat, Monkeys, and Mosquitoes: A One Health Perspective on Emerging Diseases

Sign up via eventbrite: https://goo.gl/EHY9jy

UserDr Laura H. Kahn, Princeton University.

HouseWinstanley L.T., Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 17:15-18:45

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Surface roughness: a key to understanding Arctic sea ice from micro to macro scales

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJack Landy, University of Bristol.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Evidence is Not Enough: Towards a democratically legitimate role for evidence in health policymaking

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDr Katherine Smith, Reader - Global Public Health Unit Social Policy, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Challenges in Understanding Decadal Trends and Variability of Oceanic Dissolved Oxygen: Perspectives from MPI-ESM's Large Ensemble Simulations

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserYohei Takano, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The Great Recession, unemployment and pensions: the case of Spanish regions

UserPatricia Peinado, University of the Basque Country.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Culture and Climate Change: experiments in collaboration and engagement

UserProfessor Joe Smith, Department of Geography, The Open University and Dr. Renata Tyszczuk, University of Sheffield, School of Architecture.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Brexit does not mean Brexit

UserDr Yiannis Kitromilides, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Glaciers, icebergs and silicon: Preliminary findings from ICY-LAB research expeditions to SW Greenland

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserKate Hendry, University of Bristol.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Markets caught in the headlights

UserDr Dominik Rehse, Advisor to the Board at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Links between Southern Ocean dynamics and Antarctic ice melt

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLaura Herraiz Borreguero, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing the global land resource

UserPete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Cross-Border Real Estate Investment

UserMcKay Price, Perella Department of Finance at Lehigh University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Anthropogenic carbon estimates in the oceanic carbon cycle

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserTobia Tudino, University of Exeter.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 307.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Of elephants and men

UserCaitlin Black and Derek Murphy.

HouseCastlereagh room - St John's College.

ClockMonday 30 October 2017, 19:00-20:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

A Digital Architecture for Adaptive Cities

UserDr Ian Lewis, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sustainability of livestock production: water, welfare and woodland

UserProfessor Don Broom, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Variability of the Antarctic slope current system in the northwestern Weddell Sea

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserMarina Azaneu, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Lifestyle Dynamics Index: Worldwide Results and household economic implications

UserDr Raúl Sanchis, ICEI (Complutense University of Madrid).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Built environment and violent crime: An environmental audit approach using Google Street View

UserProfessor Antonio Páez, School of Geography and Earth Sciences McMaster University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Genetics and genomics: focus on value

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Martina Cornel, Clinical Genetics & Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam .

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 06 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The response of ice sheets to climate variability

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserKate Snow, University of Edinburgh.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 307.

ClockMonday 02 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Thermodynamic balance at ice-ocean interface in theory, models and maybe real life

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAlena Malyarenko, NIWA, New Zealand.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockThursday 28 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Measuring pH variability using an experimental sensor on an underwater glider

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserMichael Hemming, University of East Anglia/LOCEAN, UPMC, Paris.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockTuesday 26 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ice-ocean interaction at the Totten Glacier

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAlessandro Silvano, University of Tasmania.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 19 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The bottom-intensification of mixing causes large, almost cancelling, abyssal upwelling and downwelling

If external to BAS, please email Dr Andrew Meijers (andmei@bas.ac.uk) in advance to gain access to the building

UserTrevor McDougall, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Conference Theatre.

ClockMonday 03 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Histone variants are essential for transmission of epigenetic information

UserDr Frederic Berger, The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cellular Dynamics and Signaling Molecules in Pollen Tube Guidance

UserDr Tetsuya Higashiyama, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University Japan.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

PublicHealth@Cambridge

Text mining for public health reviews (The Robot Analyst)

UserSophia Ananiadou, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manchester.

HouseSeminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockFriday 23 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

PublicHealth@Cambridge

2017 PublicHealth@Cambridge Network Showcase

UserPeter Jones; Emma Howarth ; Elizabeth Foyster ; Juliet Foster ; Tim Dalgleish ; Sriya Iyer Sriya Iyer ; Hannah Jongsma ; Maria Ttofi; Andres Roman-Urrestarazu 1;Carol Brayne ;Jane Fleming .

HouseMurray Edwards College (New Hall), Huntingdon Road CB3 0DF.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Examining mechanisms for submesoscale eddy generation using observations in the North Atlantic

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr Christian Buckingham (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Defining “Good” in “Good Energy Policy”: Insights from Theologies and Religions

UserDr Jonathan Chaplin (Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics).

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2017, 12:30-14:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Upscaling Building Semantics to Address Urban Sustainability and Resilience Scenarios

UserProfessor Yacine Rezgui, Director BRE Institute in Sustainable Engineering, Cardiff University School of Engineering .

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 02 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Seasonal changes in Circumpolar Deep Water in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, using seal-borne tags

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserHelen Mallet, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Evaluation of US energy programme on clean energy startups

UserDr Laura Diaz Anadon (POLIS, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2017, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

ECCO version 4: an ocean data analysis and parameter estimation framework

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserGael Forget, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockMonday 22 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the analysis

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Paul Burton, Professor of Data Science for Health, Newcastle University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CambPlants Industrial Talks

This is a CPPS sponsored seminar

UserDr Vitor Verdelo Viera, A4F and Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observations of turbulent dissipation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserYvonne Firing, NOC, Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

The role of law in energy transitions: lessons from community renewables

UserDr Annalisa Savaresi (Law School, University of Stirling).

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2017, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

UserDr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Southern Ocean in climate models

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserErik Behrens National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

The Postdocs of Cambridge (PdOC) Society

Observations from the Edge of Beauty ~ an Arts-Science Collaboration

UserClive Wilkins (Artist-in-Residence) and Professor Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseTheatre, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 20 April 2017, 18:00-19:00

The obesity epidemic: Discussing the global health crisis

Plant Based Diets, Obesity, and Health Beneftis

UserDr. Catherine Christie, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, United States.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 20 April 2017, 11:15-11:45

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Making your work ODA-able: refocussing science for official development assistance

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLucy Bricheno, NOC, Liverpool.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 12 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Food marketing regulation and childhood obesity prevention

UserProfessor Amandine Garde, Law & Non-Communicable Diseases, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool..

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

ClockWednesday 22 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Regional financialisation and convergence

UserDr Peter Phelps, University of Leeds.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Is the NHS financially sustainable?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserJohn Appleby, Director of Research and Chief Economist, The Nuffield Trust & Visiting professor City University and Imperial College, London.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sources and sinks of bioactive trace metals across the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAmber Annett, Rutgers University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Change and necessity: forest resilience and conservation for the 21st century

UserJonathan Spencer, Head of Planning & Environment Forest Enterprise Forestry Commission.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

UserProfessor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Understanding consumer demand in the wildlife trade

UserAmy Hinsley, Oxford Martin School University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

UserProfessor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems

UserDavid Aldridge, Department of Zoology University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Small RNAs as morphogen-like signals in plant development

UserProfessor Marja Timmermans (University of Tuebingen).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Sex, eggs and videotape: techniques in threatened bird conservation

UserDebbie Pain Director of Conservation, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT).

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ice ice baby, under pressure: Ice-ocean interactions in and around ice shelves

If you are external to BAS and would like to attend, please let us know beforehand so that we can schedule this with reception.

UserJim Jordan (British Antarctic Survey, Imperial College London).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

UserRoz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Lessons from plants that don’t stay put: Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias

UserChristian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité Université de Lausanne.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Monetary Sovereignty, Currency Hierarchy and Economic Policy Autonomy

UserProfessor Daniela Magalhães Prates, University of Campinas.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

UserProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Climate Change and Nature Conservation

UserBrian Eversham, CEO, BCN Wildlife Trust.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The housing market? What does the future hold?

UserDavid Cowans, Places for People.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

UserProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

UNESCO biosphere reserves: concept, challenges and opportunities

UserProfessor Martin Price, Perth College Chair of the UK MAB Committee Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development Director, Centre for Mountain Studies.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Modelling cardiovascular and metabolic disease using transgenic zebrafish

UserDr Marcel den Hoed, Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University..

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 14 December 2016, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Submesoscale instabilities at ocean fronts

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserChristian Buckingham (ex-Univ. Soton, soon to be BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 07 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Italian Policy of Food Safety: Modern Challenges

UserDr Giuseppe Ruocco, Vice-Minister, Health Ministry of Italy.

HouseLittle Hall auditorium, Sidgwick Site.

ClockFriday 02 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Describing the HIV cascade of care using routine clinic and surveillance databases: methodological challenges

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserCaroline Sabin, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Why Germany Chooses Organic Agriculture

UserProfessor Sandra Schwindenhammer, Humbold-Universitat zu Berlin and Dr Ksenia Gerasimova, University of Cambridge.

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The role of materials science in sustainable development

UserDr Rob Wallach (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees, hedges and woodland management

UserSimon Damant, Forester at the National Trust Wimpole Hall estate.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering Meiosis and Recombination to Unlock Genetic Diversity

CambPlants Industrial Talk

UserGiacomo Bastianelli, Meiogenix and Ian Henderson.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The uneven impact of welfare reform on Britain's older industrial regions

UserProfessor Christina Beatty, Sheffield Hallam University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Big Cats and the City: building evidence against out-of-place beasts in India'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserNayanika Mathur, British Academy postdoctoral fellow and postdoctoral research fellow on the project 'Conspiracy and Democracy: History, Political Theory and Internet Research'.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The transient response of ice-shelf melting to ocean change

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserPaul Holland, BAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The great devolution debate

Please let us know if you plan to attend this event at gsi-info@anglia.ac.uk

UserPanel of experts from academia and local government.

HouseCoslett Building (COS 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 13:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

What causes wellness? The social determinants of health

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserSir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Strathclyde; former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Sustainability of Energy and Material Demand: Reducing the Demand for Steel

Meetings begin at 5.45pm with drinks; the talk follows at 6.00pm

UserDr. Andre Cabrera Serrenho, The Use Less Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Roger Needham Room.

ClockFriday 11 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Deciphering the role of cell wall signalling in plant development

UserSebastian Wolf, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Detection of climate and environmental change in the big data era

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Claudie Beaulieu, Univ. Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Is it too early to stand up? Has the epidemiological evidence for sitting and health changed?

UserDr Adrian Bauman, Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health and Director of the Prevention Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney, Australia.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Science Makers: drones for science

UserTom Swinfield - Conservation Scientist at RSPB, Nigel Butcher - Technical Development Officer at RSPB, David Coomes - Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge .

HouseMakespace Classroom, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX .

ClockSaturday 05 November 2016, 12:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Should we screen for diabetes and related cardiovascular risk?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Torsten Lauritzen, Department of Public Health, Institute of General Medical Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark..

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 04 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The influence of flowering behaviour on plant architecture in perennials

UserMaria Albani, Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Solar Energies

UserSee event homepage for list of speakers.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 09:30-17:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

What chances for sustainable UK agri-policies after Brexit?

UserProfessor Janet Dwyer, University of Gloucestershire.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Mirabilite and salinity dynamics in sea ice brines

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserBen Butler, James Hutton Institute.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Beyond the rainbow: understanding the multiscale mechanisms of petal patterning

UserEdwige Moyroud, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Pembroke College Talks

Can the UK cook its way to better health?

This talks is open to everyone. To register for a place at the lecture, please visit: https://cookscompany2016.eventbrite.co.uk

UserProfessor Martin White (MRC Epidemiology Unit, CEDAR).

HouseOld Library, Pembroke College.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Inner and outer wellbeing: A double perspective on the processing of thoughts and environment

UserDr Keri Wong and Dr Laurie Palmer (Dept. of Psychology).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Surviving the 21st Century

UserMartin Rees, Partha Dasgupta, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Bonnie Wintle, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.

HouseBabbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Wake effects in the ocean - from dolphins to CTDs via western boundary currents

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDave Munday, BAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

2016 Cambridge-Africa Day

Drinks reception with live music, from 17:00-18:45

UserA range of interesting and high profile presentations about collaborations between Cambridge and African researchers and students.

HouseEmmanuel College, Queen's Building Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 09:30-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Elucidating and re-wiring gene regulatory networks mediating plant defence

This talk is part of the Sainsbury Laboratory Seminar Series

UserProfessor Katherine Denby, University of York.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

When ice meets ocean: meltwater plumes from the murky depths

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Andrew Wells, AOPP, Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

A Capital Appetite: The Political Economy of UK Sugar Consumption

UserDr Ben Richardson, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick..

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

LAND LAW, MAPS AND MUDDY BOOTS IN A SPECIAL CORNER OF THE COURTS AND TRIBUNALS SYSTEM

UserJudge Elizabeth Cooke, Principal Judge Land Registration Division.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Mixing and phytoplankton dynamics in Antarctica's coastal seas

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserFilipa Carvalho, Rutgers.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 07 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Slugs and snails

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the local Wildlife Trust.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Controls on turbulent mixing on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr Alexander Brearley (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 27 July 2016, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The two-timescale response of Antarctic ocean and sea-ice cover to wind changes: a follow-up

Please note change of time and venue. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. David Ferreira, Univ. Reading.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 20 July 2016, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

CANCELLED Circadian clock function and organisation in Arabidopsis thaliana

UserPaloma Mas, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG-CSIC).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 24 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Momentum budget in the Arctic: Atmosphere - Ice - Ocean

f external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Michel Tsamados, (UCL).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 22 June 2016, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Head and neck cancer: insights into aetiology and prognosis from a clinical cohort

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Andy Ness, Director, Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

How unsteady winds can fuel phytoplankton blooms at fronts in the upper ocean

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Dan Whitt, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Supergenes, Sex and Sociality

UserLaurent Keller, University of Lausanne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Energy Catalyst

UserMichael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

MscS-Like Mechanosensitive Ion Channels as Modular Sensors and Reporters of Membrane Tension

UserElizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis (SLCU Sabbatical Visitor).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology

UserRalph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Plant Molecular Biology.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

New thoughts about authigenic carbonate

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Sasha Turchyn, Univ. Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Making an impact on the public’s health and wellbeing in England

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health England.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Perturbation Analysis of LEAFY in the Floral Transition Network of Arabidopsis thaliana

UserGitanjali Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) New Delhi India.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

UK Biobank: opportunities and challenges

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Catherine Sudlow, Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and UK Biobank’s Chief Scientist and Senior Epidemiologist.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 22 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy

UserGareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Dietary priorities for obesity - are all calories created equal?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR - note this talk is on a Thursday

UserDean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Global Equality

3D Printing in Disaster Zones: Help or Hindrance?

UserCentre for Global Equality, MakeSpace and Field Ready.

HouseMakespace Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, CB2 1RX.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 18:00-20:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Winter is coming. What happens to sea ice anomalies?

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Joakim Kjellsson (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mapping main and interacting QTLs within the arabidopsis multiparent RIL (AMPRIL) population

3CS: The Cambridge Centre for Crop Sciences Inaugural Seminar

UserDr Korbinian Schneeberger, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Tackling obesity with Big Data – Seminar 16/03/16 – methods & models

UserDr Michelle Morris, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (Organizer).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 09:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Seeing the wood as well as the trees: the importance of the ‘macro’ perspective for public health

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Richard Smith, Dean, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 11 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Nigeria: energy past to climate future

UserJohn Ward, Vivid Economics & Norbert Edomah, Global Sustainability Institute.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water to Changing Surface Buoyancy Fluxes.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Kate Snow.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

UserDr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Learn to use a microscope

Booking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.

User..

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 18:30-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

UserProfessor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Expression homeostasis during DNA replication

UserNaama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games for the Brain

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Birdsong - what's all the noise about?

UserTony Fulford, Ely Wildspace, and Dept. of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Symmetry Matters in Gynoecium Development

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserLars Ostergaard, Head of Crop Genetics, JIC.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

"Losing the New Great Game"

UserDr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

The quest for causal understanding of inequalities in health: holy grail or chimera?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Martin White, MRC Epidemiology Unit and the UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR); Director of the NIHR Public Health Research Programme.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Upper Ocean Dynamics: Waves, Eddies, Turbulence, Spectra, Modelling

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserProf. Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games in Sports

UserSir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Estimating the global burden of disease attributable to excess sodium within the GBD2010 study

UserDr John Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge..

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Managing tropical agriculture to minimise biodiversity loss

UserDavid Edwards, Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

UserProfessor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Science Policy and Expertise

UserRob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Remodeling root cells for AM symbiosis’

UserMaria Harrison, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

UserMrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Winton Discussions

Living Laboratory for Sustainability

UserEmily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Jennifer Badham & Dr Ruth Hunter

Read more at http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/event/seminar-18-january-2016-dr-jennifer-badham-dr-ruth-hunter/

UserDr Jennifer Badham and Dr Ruth Hunter.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockMonday 18 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

UserBaroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Air-sea exchange variability and its atmosphere/ocean model resolution-dependence in HadGEM3.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Pat Hyder, Met Office.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 11 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

Urban Climate Risks Under Global Warming

UserProf. Johnny Chan, Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, City University of Hong Kong.

HouseMR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 11 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

'What world will we leave for our grandchildren?'

This is a public lecture and is subject to capacity.

UserProf Robert Putnam (Harvard University) .

HouseCripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 17:30-19:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Professor Larry Frank

UserProfessor Larry Frank, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia.

HouseMRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

UserHelen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate and Society: Examples of the climate impact on civilizations

UserSebastian Breitenbacher (Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Back to the future? Climate clues from a past warm time interval

Please contact the organiser beforehand to arrange access with BAS reception

UserEmilie Capron.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The Pope and the planet: religion in climate change

UserIan Christie (Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Mixing at the fringes of a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserProf. Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia

This lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year

UserProfessor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Glacier Retreat and the Oceans: A view from Patagonia

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Carlos Moffat.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Collaboration Skills Initiative

Selling for researchers

Numbers are limited. Please indicate your interest by emailing the organiser, Jo Griffiths (jg393@cam.ac.uk)

UserMarcel Dissel.

HouseMoller Centre, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 10:00-16:00

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Corporate innovation and leadership - reflections from M&S Plan A

Registration is required (see below)

UserMike Barry, Director Plan A, M&S and Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Indian Business & Enterprise, Judge Business School.

HouseLecture Room 3, Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 18:15-19:30

Sustainability Leadership Laboratories

Innovation for Resilience and/or Social Development

There is a fee payable.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 08:45-21:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature

UserJamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Non-genetic inheritance of phenotype in mammals

UserAnne Ferguson-Smith (University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Role Models: research models to answer policy questions

UserMr. Davide Natalini (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, uk) James Woodcock, Centre for Diet and Activity Research.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The Global Health Security Agenda

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Mika Salminen, Director of the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland and Chair of the Global Health Security Agenda.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Talks related to sustainability and the environment

Taking a global view: How satellites provide a unique perspective on our changing planet

UserDr David Wilkinson and Dr Alan Belward from the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy.

House8 Mill Lane, Lecture Theatres.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias: lessons from plants that don’t stay put

UserChristian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

IfM Seminars

Open Innovation Forum Food & FMCG Pitching Event

UserPitching event .

HouseFood Matters Live, London.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 14:00-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Understanding the Paris Climate Summit (COP21)

Open to all, but space is limited so please register in advance

UserEmily Shuckburgh, Prof. John Pyle, Sir David King, Prof. Sir Richard Friend.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 14:00-18:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Unusual questions/ extraordinary answers

UserHands-on exhibition bringing new perspectives to sustainability.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 006), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff?

UserSandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Visiting African Fellows Research Showcase (in association with Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

UserFive researchers from Uganda and Ghana (see programme at http://africanshowcasenov11.eventbrite.co.uk).

HousePavillion Room, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 2EW.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 14:00-16:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Janis Baird & Dr Christina Vogel

UserDr Janis Baird and Dr Christina Vogel, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology, University of Southampton.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical modelling of a cereal killer: Modelling plant cell invasion by the rice blast fungus

Coupling Geometric PDEs with Physics for Cell Morphology, Motility and Pattern Formation

UserStyles, V (University of Sussex).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

UserProfessor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Public lecture: The fugitives - blackness as urban method

UserProfessor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

From bud set to bud break: molecular regulators of winter dormancy in trees

UserIsabel Marta Allona Alberich, Technical University of Madrid.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Variability of eddy-mean flow interactions in atmospheric storm tracks and an application to the ACC.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Maarten Ambaum, University of Reading.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Clim'art' therapy: where do climate change, the arts and psychotherapy meet?

UserPanel Discussion with artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Marina Velez and Zoe Svendsen led by Dr Renee Lertzman (Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 002), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 18:30-20:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Influence of Southern Ocean Winds on the North Atlantic Carbon Sink

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance for building access

UserBen Bronselaer, Univ. Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Prof Atul Singhal

UserProfessor Atul Singhal, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH).

HouseMRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Limits to growth - a new generation

UserIrma Allen and Roberto Pasqualino (Global Sustainability Institute).

HouseRoom 302, Helmore Building (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How our Botanic Gardens Work (and how they can work for you)

UserDr Sam Brockington, Cambridge University Botanic Garden Curator.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions

UserAnthony Martin, South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project, South Georgia Heritage Trust and University of Dundee.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Transport barriers, ocean adjustment and a new perspective on the surface Gulf Stream

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. Chris WIlson, NOC, Liverpool.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

UserProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The role of plate tectonics in controlling paleo climate and ocean circulation

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserProf. Dan Lunt, University of Bristol.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Academics, scientists and the future of medical publishing

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDomhnall MacAuley, University of Ulster; Consultant-Associate Editor, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and PLOS Medicine.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conflicts in conservation: hunting for solutions

UserSteve Redpath, Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Public Health talks

Public Health without Borders: The Role of Knowledge in an Interdependent World

This Lecture has now sold out - tickets will be issued to those who have already booked which will be requested at the door - PUBLIC HEALTH ANNUAL LECTURE

UserDr Julio Frenk, President-Elect, University of Miami; Dean, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

HouseMartin Cohen Lecture Theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

ClockThursday 08 October 2015, 18:00-19:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Air-sea interactions and the thermohaline circulation

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College, London.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

What governs the propagation speed of SST Anomalies?

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. Stephan Jeffress, Univ. Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 30 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Wave-turbulence interaction in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Andreas Klocker, University of Tasmania.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 23 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling Submesoscale Dynamics: A new parameterization for symmetric instability

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Scott Bachman, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 02 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Spatio-temporal organization of bacterial biofilms

UserDr Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Molecular control of cellular collectives

UserDr Hyun Youk (Delft University of Technology).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Henrik Jonsson (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 09:00-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cell-based patterning in developing tissues

UserProfessor Marta Ibanes (University of Barcelona).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 25 August 2015, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The emergence of positional information in ensembles of mouse ES cells

UserProfessor Alfonso Martinez Arias ( Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 24 August 2015, 15:30-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cell complexes: A general mathematical framework for modelling development in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions

UserProfessor Przemyslaw Prusinkiwicz (Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 24 August 2015, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Early results from the SMILES project - observations and models

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. John Taylor, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 29 July 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The dynamical influence of ocean eddy fluxes

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. James Maddison (School of Maths, Univ. Edinburgh).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 22 July 2015, 14:00-15:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly)

UserFlorian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 08 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School

Ignite 2015

UserVarious speakers and contributors.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School.

ClockSunday 05 July 2015, 09:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sensitivity of the Antarctic sea ice and trends in ocean models

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserJoakim Kjellsson, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 01 July 2015, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

“Standing up” for young children’s health: How sedentary are young children, what factors may influence sedentariness and what can be done to reduce it?

UserProf Tony Okely, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Educational Research Institute (IERI), University of Wollongong, Australia.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockMonday 29 June 2015, 10:30-11:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

“Leveraging Social Psychological Theory to Understand Engagement with Personalized Genomic Information”

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserWilliam Klein, Associate Director, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 26 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Modelling the bioenergetics and foraging behaviours of albatrosses

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserPhilipp Boersch-Supan and Leah Johnson, University of South Florida.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Global tidal dissipation estimates using a simple analytical tool

UserAdrien Lefauve, University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Connecting Biology to Mathematics by way of Symbolic Computing

UserProfessor Eric Mjolsness, Leverhulme visiting Professor.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 17 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Why fracking works and why not well enough

UserZdeněk P. Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Intense nutrient upwelling and PV mixing in oceanic anti-cyclones caused by submesoscale instabilities

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserLiam Brannigan, University of Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Sitting time and chronic disease prevention: strengthening the evidence base

Please note this is on Friday rather than Wednesday

UserDr Genevieve Healy, School of Public Health at The University of Queensland, Australia.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockFriday 05 June 2015, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Use of novel technologies to explore effective ways to improve population diets: policy-relevant research from New Zealand

https://diet.auckland.ac.nz/content/dr-helen-eyles

UserDr Helen Eyles, National Institute for Health Innovation, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Competition between Atlantic and Antarctic overturning and the glacial-interglacial CO2 problem

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserKevin Oliver, NOC Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge AWiSE

Energy for the future: Plugging the decline in energy supply, a gap too big?

UserIman Hill, Oil and gas sector; Jenny Nelson, Photovoltaics and Renewables; Clare Grey, Energy Storage; Sir Brian Heap, Smart Villages.

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall..

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 19:00-21:30

Winton Discussions

Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices

UserDr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH

African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability

Register online at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25667

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockFriday 15 May 2015, 09:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Novel Methods for Determining the Evolution of Turbulence in the Surface Boundary Layer

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserNatasha Lucas, University of Bangor.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Impact of melt ponds on Arctic summer sea ice in the HadGEM3 global coupled climate model

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. David Schroeder, University of Reading.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Visual Constructions of South Asia (2014-15)

Indian plague maps and the colonial urban

UserNicholas Evans, Postdoctoral Research Associate, CRASSH, University of Cambridge.

HouseS2 Seminar Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Rd..

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 16:00-18:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Genetics in drug discovery and development

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserJohn Whittaker, Professor and Vice President of Statistical Platforms and Technologies at GSK.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The first CCfCS student symposium

Registration by May 1st required

UserJenny Turton.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The cost of saving nature: how much and is it a price worth paying

UserDonal McCarthy, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

HouseAmgen Limited, Cambridge Science Park.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 19:15-21:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding plant root developmental plasticity using cell type-specific genomics

UserMiriam Gifford, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Food Futures in the World

Can GM crops help to feed the world?

Last talk of term!

UserProfessor Sir Brian Heap.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

ag806's list

Innovation Begins at Home

UserAndy Stanford-Clak, Master Inventor, Member IBM Academy of Technology, Fellow BCS, Honorary Professor University of East Anglia, Visiting Professor University of Newcastle.

HouseLecture Room 5, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

All Faculty of Education Seminars

Lunchtime Seminar with CAPREX fellows from Makerere University, Uganda

Tea and coffee will be provided. For catering reasons, it would be helpful to know if you plan to attend.

UserDr. Harriet Nabushawo and Dr. Henry S. Busulwa, CAPREx fellows from Makerere University, Uganda .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Donald McIntyre Building, Room GS5.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2015, 13:00-14:15

ELPEC Group Seminars

Lunchtime Seminar with CAPREX fellows from Makerere University, Uganda

UserDr Harriet Nabushawo and Dr Henry Busulwa, Makerere University, Uganda.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2015, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserJuheon Lee, 3rd yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 14:30-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserPatrick Dickinson, 3rd yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 14:00-14:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Paramutation in tomato

UserQuentin Gouil, 3rd yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 12:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserAlexander Blackwell, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 15:00-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Fifty shapes of maize

UserRozi Vofely, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 12:00-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Causes and effects of recent changes in Antarctic sea-ice transport

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAlexander Haumann, ETH Zurich.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2015, 11:00-12:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Remaking our future: a radically different approach

Lunch Provided

UserRob Shaw, Director of Sustainability & Climate Change, LDA Design.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 005 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Capacity Building for Tobacco Research and Control in Eastern Europe

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserKristie Foley, PhD, Professor and Director, Medical Humanities and Public Health, Davidson College, USA.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Patents in theory and in practice

UserDr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 16 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, .

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

euroscicon

The 2015 Obesity Summit

UserFor info on speakers see: www.lifescienceevents.com/events.

HouseCineworld: The O2, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 0DX.

ClockTuesday 14 April 2015, 09:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Water-column nutrient fluxes along the continental margin of the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLee Bryant, University of Bath.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 08 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Control of Arabidopsis Petal Growth

UserProfessor Vivian Irish, Yale University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 25 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A conceptual model of ocean heat uptake under climate change

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserProf. David Marshall, University of Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 25 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

How and why would you do data science in health?

UserDr Philippe Giabbanelli, Investigator Scientist, Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockMonday 16 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Valuing the economic benefits of complex interventions: when maximising health is not sufficient

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Katherine has an international reputation for the economics of genetic technologies and services

UserProfessor Katherine Payne, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 13 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

A remarkable set of contemplations

UserCraig Bennett - Friends of the Earth.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Subtropical icebergs, glacial lakes, and Heinrich Events: How did meltwater trigger past abrupt climate change?

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Alan Condron, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Food Futures in the World

Resource competition: Supporting a growing population whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions

UserDr Astley Hastings, Research Fellow, The School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Sustainability success: Leadership influence or serendipity?

UserProf Janet Haddock-Fraser, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences & Dr Peter Rands, Director of Sustainability Development Canterbury Christ Church University.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 109 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

UserDr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Assessing causality in perinatal and developmental epidemiology

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Debbie Lawlor is interested in how biological, social and environmental exposures from across life affect the risk of chronic diseases and how appropriate prevention of these diseases can be achieved

UserProfessor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol, MSc(Lond), MBChB, PhD(Bristol), MPH(Leeds), MRCGP, MFPHM Professor of Epidemiology.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing Innovation: an oxymoron?

CPPS Seminar

UserDavid Lawrence, Syngenta.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Food Futures in the World

Food Wastage and Global Food Security

UserDr Tim Fox, Head of Energy and Environment, Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Transition Cambridge

The Social Cost of Carbon

UserProf. Michael Grubb, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources.

HouseFriends Meeting House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

UserDr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Climate Change and Sustainability in Multiple Dimensions

Ditch the 2 degree warming goal

User Professor Charles Kennel and Professor Susan Owens.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the Polar oceans

UserLt Cdr Dr John Ash, Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseEmmanuel College (Gardner Room).

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 17:30-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Life after death: social evolution in a grave

UserProf Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

UserMichael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Manufacturing Research Forum

Designing user behaviour: a new direction for Sustainable Design

UserTracy Bhamra (Design School, Loughborough University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 10:00-10:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Can genomics impact forestry?

UserRichard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Food Futures in the World

Feeding the world without costing the earth

UserProfessor Andrew Balmford, Professor of Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling cross-shelf heat transport along the West Antarctic Peninsula

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserJennifer A. Graham, Old Dominion University (VA, USA) and University of East Anglia (UK).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

UserProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

What counts as evidence? Some reflections on what counts as 'good enough' evidence in public health

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Mark's main research interests are in evidence-based policymaking, systematic reviews, and the evaluation of the health effects of social policies

UserMark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Population Genetics of Greenlanders Evolution and Genetic Adaptation to Climate

UserDr. Matteo Fumagalli (University College of London Genetics Institute, Division of Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Aesthetics as Intrinsic to Sustainable Design: Architectural Education Projects From Around the World

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMarga Jann, RIBA, AIA, DPUC, Chartered Architect, Member Lucy Cavendish College & Wolfson College (FMR Visiting Fellow LCC), Visiting Researcher Sociology Dept .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health

UserProfessor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

UserProfessor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Rebuilding Britain

UserDr Hugh Ellis, Town and Country Planning Association.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Industrial sustainability - a key manufacturing paradigm

UserDr Dai Morgan, EPSRC Centre for Industrial Sustainabilty, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Impact of Glacio-Mediated Sea Level Changes on the Tides in the Past and Future

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserSophie-Berenice Wilmes, Bangor University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

UserProfessor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Seasonal flowering in annual and perennial plants

UserProfessor George Coupland (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 26 January 2015, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

UserDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Winton Discussions

An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms

UserDr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Sustainable Intensification: An Oxymoron?

UserChair: Professor Howard Griffiths, University of Cambridge.

HouseCurtis Auditorium, Clare College, University of Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2015, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reprogramming Animal Development

UserProfessor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Multi-parameter observations from coastal waters to the deepest trenches: challenges studying the carbon system with optode technology

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr Anders Tengberg, Aanderaa/Xylem (Bergen, Norway) and University of Gothenburg (Sweden).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 10:30-11:30

Fluids Group Seminar (CUED)

Renewable power generation: geothermal and solar thermal systems

UserDr Kamel Hooman, The University of Queensland .

HouseLR3B, Inglis Building, CUED..

ClockFriday 09 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Novel Group-dynamics Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion Across the Lifespan

Please note this talk is on Thursday, not the usual Wednesday

UserDr Mark Beauchamp, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockThursday 18 December 2014, 12:30-13:30

Equality & Diversity Events

University Staff Carol Service

UserChristmas Carols .

HouseGreat St Mary’s Church.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2014, 15:30-16:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH DAY

UserVarious.

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 11 December 2014, 09:00-18:00

Centre for Global Equality

Cambridge International Development Conference 2014:

Buy your tickets now to avoid disappointment: http://www.camidc.org.uk/tickets.html

UserFinal programme to be confirmed. See the website and social media for updates: http://www.camidc.org.uk/.

HouseThe Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

ClockSaturday 06 December 2014, 09:00-18:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Enlightened Aging: How the Baby Boom Generation can change tomorrow's Long Old Age

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: In this seminar, Dr Larson will draw on his work on Aging and dementia/brain function.

UserProf. Eric B Larson MD, MPH, MACP Vice President for Research, Group Health Executive Director and Senior Investigator Group Health Research Institute Professor of Medicine and Health Services University of Washington Seattle.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 05 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Vorticity Balance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserDr. Yvonne Firing, National Oceaongraphy Centre Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 14:00-15:00

CEB Career Talks

"Water for life: From source to tap"

If you wish to attend this free talk you need to register your name on the registration form on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events/talks

User Alice Elder, Chartered Process Engineer at Mott MacDonald.

HouseDept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Pembroke St, New Museums Site, Shell Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Tracking marine turtles for conservation

UserProfessor Brendan Godley, University of Exeter.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Investigating changes to phytoplankton patterns in the Southern Ocean using the evaluative satellite product Zeu, validated by instrumented southern elephant seals.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLauren Biermann, University of St Andrews.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Revisiting the use of families in complex genetic disease studies

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Heather J. Cordell, Professor of Statistical Genetics, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Climate Ethics and Justice for Africa in the Post-2020 Climate Regime (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)

Wine will be served from 17:45.......

UserDr Chuks Okereke, University of Reading, UK.

HouseWine Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Landscape scale conservation - a bird's eye view

UserDr Juliet Vickery, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The age of climate resilience

UserDr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 220 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 16:30-18:15

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The age of climate resilience”

UserDr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald.

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 16:30-18:15

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Novel Group-dynamics Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion Across the Lifespan

Please note this talk is on Thursday, not the usual Wednesday

UserDr Mark Beauchamp, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Science from a sheet of paper

UserDr Tadashi Tokieda, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A microscale view of mixing and overturning across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserProf. Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

By invitation

UserFumiya Iida (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 12:00-14:00

Dr S T Lee Public Policy Lectures

Energy, Climate Change and Sustainability: a necessity as the mother of many inventions

Registration opens at 5pm

UserProfessor Steven Chu, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University.

HouseRobinson College Auditorium, Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AN.

ClockMonday 10 November 2014, 17:30-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Ad-ab boundaries: Organisers of plant development

UserDr Marcus Heisler, European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Dynamics of stem cell signalling pathways in plant meristems

UserProfessor Rüdiger Simon, Heinrich-Heine University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 10:00-10:45

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Computing for the Future of the Planet

UserProf. Andy Hopper (Computer Laboratory).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 18:15-19:15

Public Health talks

REDUCING CVD GLOBALLY — FROM RESEARCH TO ACTION

This is the Inaugural Annual Cambridge Public Health Lecture - registration is essential

UserDr SALIM YUSUF MD (Bangalore), DPhil (Oxford), MRCP McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.

HouseMartin Cohen Lecture Theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Global Equality

Knowledge Exchange: 'Nutrition Interventions and Community Development'

Please register to attend: https://octknowledgeexchange.eventbrite.co.uk

UserNatalie Roschnik, Save the Children International.

HouseThe Humanitarian Centre, 3rd floor, Emmanuel United Reformed Church, 72 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RR.

ClockFriday 31 October 2014, 13:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics in seasonal timing

Enid MacRobbie Woman in Science Lecture

UserCaroline Dean, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Planetary Boundaries 2.0: the latest advancements on defining a safe operating space for humanity on Earth

UserJohan Rockström Professor in Environmental Sciences Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Overturning ideas: Using the mean state of the ocean to understand its role in transient climate change

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserJan Zika, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Global Equality

Knowledge Exchange: Impact and Evaluation in International Development

Please register to attend: https://octknowledgeexchangeiande.eventbrite.co.uk

UserEleanor Harrison, GlobalGiving UK.

HouseThe Humanitarian Centre, 3rd floor, Emmanuel United Reformed Church, 72 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RR.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2014, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungal Foray

Admission free for CNHS members & Friends of CUBG. Garden entrance fee for others.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 13:30-16:30

Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2014

Hustle, misfits and jugaad: alternative economic models from around the world

UserJaideep Prabhu, Tatiana Thieme, Alexa Clay, Kyra Maya Phillips .

HouseLaw, Faculty of, LG19, 10 West Road, CB3 9DZ .

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 11:00-12:30

sa345's list

Shell Lecture 2014 Deploying gas technology for a sustainable energy future

UserAndy Brown, Upstream International Director, Shell.

HouseMcGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 17:30-19:30

sa345's list

Ecomachines: Designing the Cars of the Future

UserIndustry leaders debate the future of the car with special guest Richard Noble, land speed record breaker.

HouseSt Catharine's College.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 18:00-19:30

BSS Formal Seminars

What is Biological Adaptation and How Can it be Measured?

UserDr Joel Peck, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

What does experiential knowledge contribute to public health evidence to reduce health inequalities?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Jennie Popay, Sociology and Public Health, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 17 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Self organising developmental systems and evolution

UserDr Tom Bennett, Sainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The Teenagers in Leisure Time (TiLT) study – A cluster analysis of adolescent screen time and sport participation

Please note this talk is on Tuesday, not the usual Wednesday

UserHelen Brown, Lecturer, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

'From individuals to populations to communities: Climate change impacts on birds'

UserDr James Pearce-Higgins, Director of Science, British Trust for Ornithology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Genomics and Ageing Well

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor David Melzer, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A regime diagram for ocean geostrophic turbulence

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAndreas Klocker, UTAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 09 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Antarctic Bottom Water in CMIP5 models: characteristics, formation, evolution

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserCéline Heuzé, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Governing European public health nutrition policies – the role of harmonisation

UserProf Monique Raats, Director: Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre, University of Surrey. .

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 08 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

You can’t stop progress

Sustainable Lunch Provided. Free to attend.

UserRupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia.

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 06 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Horizon 2020 Opportunities in Big Data

UserRenata Schaeffer, European Policy Manager, Research Operations Office.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 2, 8 Mill Lane .

ClockThursday 02 October 2014, 14:00-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant cell biology: endocytosis and cell signalling

UserDr Clara Sanchez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 01 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Using simple process models to examine Arctic Ocean dynamics under a changing climate

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserPeter Davis, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2014, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Prospects for Primary Prevention: obesity prevention interventions across pregnancy and early life

Note Thursday, not Wednesday

UserDr Karen Campbell, Associate Professor, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockThursday 25 September 2014, 12:30-13:30

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserCharles Collis (Dyson/CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 15 September 2014, 13:00-15:00

Culture of Scientific Research

Discussion Event: The Culture of Scientific Research

Calling all researchers – what’s it like being you?

UserSpeakers listed below.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Theatres Room 1, University of Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 September 2014, 11:30-13:00

dc385's list

Be The Change Cambridge

UserVicky Ford MEP, Cllr Lewis Herbert & Cllr Carina O'Reilly, Dr Julian Huppert MP Guest of honour, The Mayor of Cambridge Cllr Gerri Bird.

HouseThe Lord Ashcroft International Business School Anglia Ruskin University East Road<br /> CB1 1PT Cambridge United Kingdom.

ClockSaturday 13 September 2014, 09:30-17:00

Centre for Global Equality

What humanitarian financing models may look like in 20 years' time

Please register via Eventbrite to attend: http://bit.ly/1quLez4

UserInter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Team on Humanitarian Financing.

HouseThe Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, Wollaston Rd, Cambridge, CB1 2EW.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2014, 19:00-22:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sensitivity of Dense Shelf Water formation to ice shelf melting -- a modelling study

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserEva Cougnon, University of Tasmania.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 28 August 2014, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Rapid sea-level rise in the Antarctic Shelf Sea in response to increased glacial discharge

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserCraig Rye, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2014, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Diagnosing diapycnal mixing in Drake Passage using numerical models and results from the DIMES experiment

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserNeill Mackay, National Oceanography Centre Liverpool.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 06 August 2014, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Planar and outer membrane polarity in the Arabidopsis root epidermis

UserMarkus Grebe, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 30 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Becoming bilingual in transport & health to put research into practice

UserLucy Saunders, Consultant in Public Health, Greater London Authority and Transport for London.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 30 July 2014, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The imprint of Southern Ocean overturning on seasonal water mass variability in Drake Passage and the Southern Ocean

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserGwyn Evans, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 30 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetic control of cellular reprogramming in Arabidopsis

UserKeiko Sugimoto, Cell Function Research Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 16 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Southern Ocean phytoplankton: mapping iron stressed communities from space and strong responses to volcanic ash supply

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserDr. Tom Browning, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 16 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserCharles Collis (Dyson/CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 14 July 2014, 13:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Water pathways in the Southern Ocean from Lagrangian particles

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserDr. Erik van Sebille, University of New South Wales.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockThursday 10 July 2014, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Global Equality

CANCELLED - A conversation with the World Bank: innovative, inclusive financing for impact

Cancelled - apologies for any inconvenience caused

UserRanda Akeel & Simon Bell, World Bank.

HouseCancelled - apologies for any inconvenience caused.

ClockWednesday 09 July 2014, 17:30-20:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetic regulation by trxG and PcG in Arabidopsis

UserProfessor Zinmay Renee Sung, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 09 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

License to kill: The acquisition of cell death competency during plant development

UserMoritz K. Nowack, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 02 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

The amazing recent years in Solar Cells.
 What’s next?

UserProfessor David Cahen, The Rowland and Sylvia Schaefer Chair in Energy Research, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 30 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

CRASSH

People and Plants: Material and Immaterial Transactions

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockThursday 26 June 2014, 09:00-18:00

Winton Discussions

Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different?

UserProfessor David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Feasibility of Wind & Solar Energy Systems for Large Geographic Domains

UserDr Christopher Clack, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 23 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

IPCC Climate Change 2014: Key Findings on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in Asia and the Role of the Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=290&subid=7 note unusual venue

UserProf. Joy Pereira, Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Global Equality

Humanitarian Centre Garden Party 2014

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=11615270587

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseThe Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall; .

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 16:00-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Engineering crops for resistance to disease and tolerance of environmental stress

UserPamela C. Ronald, The Genome Center, University of California, Davis.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Global Equality

Humanitarian Centre Annual Lecture 2014

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=11658939201

UserJohn Wroe, CEO of Street Child United and Co-Founder of the Street Child World Cup.

HouseCripp's Court, Magdelene College .

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 19:00-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Two puzzles posed by the Zapiola anticyclone

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAntoine Venaille (CNRS, Laboratoire de physique, ENS-Lyon).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wolfson College Science Society

I spy with my MRI....

UserDr Mick Mantle, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 18:15-19:15

Global Food Futures

Climate Change & Food Security Marketplace

UserDame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards College; Sir Jonathan Porritt, Founder of Forum for the Future.

HouseBuckingham House, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 09:00-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Bathymetric controls on deep water flow and modification on the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, as measured by ocean gliders

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserHugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 11 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserDavid MacKay (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 09 June 2014, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Global Food Security - Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives

Attendance is free but registration is necessary

UserChair: Professor Chris Gilligan, Global Food Security Strategic Initiative.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 06 June 2014, 09:30-13:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Microtubule array patterning in the axially growing hypocotyl cell

UserSidney Shaw, Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Global Burden of Disease: from Global to Local

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Adrian is Public Health England's Director of Population Health Science

UserProfessor Adrian Davis.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 30 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

The Comfort Controversy

UserProfessor Fergus Nicol, Professor Michael Humphreys.

HouseCRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 12:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Working internationally and locally; rolling out the Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control Strategy, one step at a time

UserKeith Sumption, Executive Secretary, European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EUFMD) Animal Health Service, Food-and-Agriculture Organization of the United Nations .

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 16:15-17:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

RNA: self vs non-self

UserEric Miska, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

The Chineseness of Chinese Literature: SYMPOSIUM

UserDavid Der-wei Wang (Edward Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature at Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Senica).

HouseRamsden Room, St Catherine's College.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 14:00-18:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Food Environments: defining, measuring and developing interventions

UserDr Amelia Lake, Lecturer in Knowledge Exchange in Public Health at the Centre for Public Policy & Health, University of Durham .

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Atmospheric & Oceanic Applications of Eulerian and Lagrangian Transport Modelling

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJoakim Kjellsson (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Global Food Futures

ICT4Agriculture in developing countries: Innovation and "the last mile"

UserCliff Schmidt, founder of Literacy Bridge; Laura Crow, author of Connected Agriculture; Harsha Liyange, founder of Sarvodaya-Fusion; Benny Dembitzer, founder of Grassroots Africa .

HousePavilion Room, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Wollaston Rd, Cambridge CB1 2EW.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 18:00-20:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Sailing to the Sinophone World: On Modern Chinese Literary Cartography

UserDavid Der-wei Wang (Edward Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature at Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Senica).

HouseMill Lane, Lecture Room 1.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Mesoscale variability in the Weddell Sea:  gliders, drifters and models

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAndrew Thompson (Caltech).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Transformational Role of Plants in Meeting the Zero Hunger Challenge

This event is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from https://zero-hunger.eventbrite.co.uk

UserProfessor M S Swaminathan.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockSaturday 17 May 2014, 14:00-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Food Security, Biotechnology and Genetic Modification-A Mature Conversation

This event is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from http://food-security.eventbrite.co.uk

UserProfessor Ottoline Leyser (Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory) Professor Andy Stirling (Professor of Science and Technology Policy, University of Sussex) Doctor Emmanuel Okogbenin (Director of Technical Operations, African Agricultural Technology Founda.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

The Lyrical in Epic Time: On Modern Chinese Literary Thought

UserDavid Der-wei Wang (Edward Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature at Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Senica).

HouseMill Lane, Lecture Room 1.

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution and development of early land plant rooting systems

UserProf Liam Dolan, Sherardian Professor of Botany, University of Oxford.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

From Mara Poet to Nobel Laureate: On Modern Chinese Literary Culture

UserDavid Der-wei Wang (Professor in Chinese Literature at Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Senica).

HouseMill Lane, Lecture Room 1.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

Winton Discussions

Current Issues in Energy Policy

UserDr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 12 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Sustainable Agriculture Development Seminar

This event is led by the Tropical Agriculture Association

UserDr Willem Stoop (University of Wageningen) and Dr Amir Kassam (FAO and Reading University) .

HouseHughes College, Pavilion Room, Cambridge CB1 2EW.

ClockMonday 12 May 2014, 14:00-18:30

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

Starts an hour erlier than usual (12:00 rather than 13:00)

UserDr Fumiya Iida (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 12 May 2014, 12:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Where are we heading with cancer diagnosis research?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Prof Rubin's principal research interest is the management of gastrointestinal problems in primary care and at the interface with secondary care, particularly for cancer and inflammatory bowel disease

UserProfessor Greg Rubin, GP and Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at Durham University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Seeing the invisible - UV-B perception and signalling in plants

UserRoman Ulm, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Conceptual models of ocean heat and carbon uptake

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLaure Zanna (University of Oxford).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Paving bicycling’s path to redemption in the future of active travel

Note this seminar is on a Friday, not the usual Wednesday.

UserProfessor Kevin Krizek, Environmental Design and Transport, University of Colorado.

HouseMRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms, IMS Level 3, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockFriday 02 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

On the origins of mycorrhizal symbioses

UserMartin Bidartondo, Division of Biology, Imperial College London & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

The Art of Fugue

UserAngela Hewitt.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2014, 20:00-21:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Symposium on The Art of Fugue

UserAngela Hewitt.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall.

ClockMonday 28 April 2014, 17:00-18:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Masterclass with Angela Hewitt

UserAngela Hewitt.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall.

ClockFriday 25 April 2014, 14:00-17:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Interpreting Bach on the Piano

UserAngela Hewitt.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 17:00-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

ABC Transporters involved in phytohormone transport

UserEnrico Martinoia, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

To grow or not to grow - auxin-dependent differential growth regulation

UserJürgen Kleine-Vehn, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 16 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Upper water variability in the subpolar North Atlantic

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserClare Johnson (The Scottish Association for Marine Science).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 16 April 2014, 11:00-12:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserCharles Collis (Dyson/CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 14 April 2014, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address and AGM

Please note earlier than usual start time.

UserJonathan Shanklin, President, Cambridge Natural History Society.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 19:00-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Talking with the neighbours: Understanding spatial accommodation in plant development

User Joop E.M. Vermeer, Department of Plant Molecular Biology (DBMV), University of Lausanne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 09 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Fronts and frontogenesis: a generalised model

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserCallum Shakespeare (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 02 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Winton Discussions

The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application?

UserDr. Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding and engineering salinity tolerance in crop plants

UserMark Tester, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Wheat breeding for sustainable productivity, an oxymoron waiting to happen?

This is a CPPS seminar - note the time change

UserRichard Summers (RAGT).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The impact of taste variety in infancy

UserDr Lucy Cooke, Senior Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research, Centre University College London.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A close up on two aspects of LSW formation

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserRenske Gelderloos (University of Oxford).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2014, 11:00-12:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserDr Ioannis Brilakis (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 17 March 2014, 13:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Scaling up capacity for Primary Health Care in Africa

Prof Maeseneer is a Belgian family physician engaged in work to tackle global health inequalities by strengthening primary care systems

UserProfessor Jan De Maeseneer, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Feminism, Religion, and Women’s Rights

UserMona Siddiqui, Razia Iqbal, Haifa Zangana, Elif Shafak, Ash Amin.

HouseKeynes Room, King's College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 14:00-17:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

The future of biodiversity in tropical landscapes

Come along for this very special lunchtime talk to find out about the future of biodiversity! Feel free to bring your own lunch, but light refreshments will be also provided.

UserEd Turner, Department of Zoology.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

From the Feminine to Feminism: Women in Islamic Thought and Literature

UserProfessor Mona Siddiqui, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Toward the prediction of Arctic sea ice under global warming : Stochastic dynamical system approach

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserWoosok Moon (University of Cambridge).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 11:00-12:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Mary in Christian-Muslim Relations

UserProfessor Mona Siddiqui, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Can you Text a Divorce? Negotiating Women’s Rights in Law and Society

UserProfessor Mona Siddiqui (University of Edinburgh).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockMonday 10 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

UserDr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

The Political Economy of Public Health: Explaining the Postcommunist Mortality Crisis

Larry King is a political economist whose work addresses the 'social determinants of the social determinants' of health

UserProfessor Lawrence King, Professor in Sociology and Political Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin Society

Quantum effects in biology and organic materials: photosynthesis, solar cells and nanomachines.

This talk is free and open to all, and will be followed by refreshments. No registration is necessary.

UserDr. Alex Chin, University of Cambridge.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 19:00-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sympatric speciation on islands

This is a Sporne seminar. Venue = Sainsbury Lab

UserVincent Savolainen (Imperial College, London).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Small, medium, large or supersize: Prices and Portions

UserDr Ingrid Steenhuis, Associate Professor Health Promotion, VU University Amsterdam.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Economic Collapse

UserProfessor Ian Morris, Stanford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Trapping CO2 using sponge-like materials

Slight refreshment will be provided.

UserPu Zhao, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Social inequalities in the 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study

Please note: This CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Diet Seminar is held on a Thursday, not the usual Wednesday.

UserDr Aluisio Barros, International Center for Equity in Health, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil.

HouseMRC Epidemiology Unit Seminar Room, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Science.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Hybrid corn and endangered maize: historical perspectives on the conservation of plant genetic resources

UserDr Helen Curry; Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Human Plague

UserProfessor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Mapping Methane in the Arctic

UserDr Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulation of early receptor kinase-mediated innate immune signalling

Graduate-invited lecture

UserCyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The Politics of Thinking Big in Conservation

UserProfessor Bill Adams; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Enhanced turbulent mixing driven by wind shear alignment in the ocean

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserTom Rippeth (Bangor University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

UserProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A brief history of fungi on plants

UserAli Ashby, Cambridge University Dept. of Plant Sciences.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Global Food Futures

Hasn’t the time come for some brave new thinking on food management?

Please visit https://newthinkingonfoodmanagement.eventbrite.co.uk to register.

UserDr Andrew MacMillan, former Director of Field Operations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms (Room 4), University of Cambridge, 1 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB21.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Producing Eden: Can wildlife thrive beyond national parks in India?

Joint seminar, hosted with the Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS)

UserDr Paul Robbins; Department of Geography International Fellow & University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Small-scale thermodynamic and dynamic studies using autonomous drifting ice buoys and satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserPhil Hwang (The Scottish Association for Marine Science).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserAylmer Johnson (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 11:00-13:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Nature of Plagues

UserProfessor Angela McLean, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

THE CHANGING NATURE OF EUROPEAN WAR, 1815-1914

UserProfesor Margaret MacMillan and others: see details.

HouseAlison Richard Building, West Road, Ground Floor.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 14:00-18:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Doing Business in Africa (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)

Wine will be served from 17:45pm.....

UserLanre Akinola, Editor of 'This Is Africa' (a Financial Times Ltd publication that gives a global perspective on the policy and business environment across the African continent, as well as Africa's strategic relationships with other world regions).

HouseWine Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

PLANNING WAR BEFORE 1914

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLaw Faculty, Room LG19.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cassandra's Climate

UserMichael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 13:10-14:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series – 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Townscape, Anti-Scrape and Surrealism

UserJohn MacArthur, Professor, Research Centre for Architecture, Theory, Criticism and History, University of Queensland.

HouseLecture Room 1, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 13:15-14:15

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

THINKING ABOUT WAR BEFORE 1914

UserProfessor Margaret MacMillan, University of Oxford.

HouseLaw Faculty, Room LG19.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND WAR

UserProfessor Margaret MacMillan, University of Oxford.

HouseLaw Faculty, Room LG19.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Silicon Plagues

UserMikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Bioinspired materials and devices

UserDr Elisa Mele, The Italian institute of Technology .

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

**EVENT POSTPONED** Cambridge's Future: Green Jobs, Green Growth

UserDr Julian Huppert, Member of Parliament for Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

The relevance of botanic garden greenhouses in the modern era

UserAlexander Summers, Botanic Garden.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Friend or foe? Making sense of social research and biodiversity conservation

UserDr Chris Sandbrook; UNEP-WCMC & Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

How the environment shapes health-behaviours

UserDr Carlijn Kamphuis, Postdoctoral Researcher, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Netherlands.

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

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & History

UserProfessor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A View from Nine Wells

UserSteve Boreham, Cambridge University Dept. of Geography.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How biotrophic fungi manipulate their hosts: new functions of effectors

UserRegina Kahmann (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

euroscicon

Exploiting bacteriophages for bioscience, biotechnology and medicine

UserProfessor George Salmond, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseCineworld: The O2, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 0DX.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 09:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Community Energy Initiatives and Energy Behaviours

UserSarah Inge Parker, DPHil candidate, The Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseCRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 12:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Community Energy Initiatives and Energy Behaviours

UserSarah Inge Parker, DPHil candidate, The Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseCRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 12:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Medicine

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bacterial Genomes and Metagenomes: from point mutations to public health

Mark Pallen is a medically qualified bacteriologist with research interests that span genomics and bioinformatics and a spectrum of basic and applied research. He holds an undergraduate degree from Cambridge and a PhD from Imperial.

UserProfessor Mark Pallen, Professor of Microbial Genomics and Head of the Division of Microbiology and Infection.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sea ice and the ocean mixed layer over the Antarctic continental shelf

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAlek Petty (University College London).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 15 January 2014, 11:00-12:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable automation

UserDavid MacKay (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 13 January 2014, 13:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Dietary patterns and health: a cardiovascular disease perspective (title TBC)

Please note: This CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Diet Seminar is held on a Thursday, not the usual Wednesday.

UserDr Janas Harrington, Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockThursday 09 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The next generation of UK Earth System Models: The UKESM project

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserColin Jones (UK Met Office).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 18 December 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

A Better Start: ‘what works’ to improve nutrition in 0-3 year olds

UserProfessor Carolyn Summerbell, Durham University.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2.

ClockWednesday 18 December 2013, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The (moral) dilemmas of (conservation) research(ers?)

UserDr Bhaskar Vira; Director, Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) and Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDavid Ferreira (University of Reading).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant - microbe interactions: when evolution joins the party

UserPierre-Marc Delaux, University of Wisconsin, Madison; USA.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 03 December 2013, 11:00-12:30

Winton Discussions

Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow

UserProf Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

euroscicon

Applications for Synthetic Biology in Industrial Biotechnology

UserProfessor Robert Edwards , Chief Scientist, The Food and Environment Research Agency.

HouseCineworld: The O2, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 0DX.

ClockFriday 29 November 2013, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Fat fish are a forest product

UserDr Andrew Tanentzap (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Mysterious goings-on around Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

UserAlek Petty, Earth Sciences Department, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, UCL.

HouseBuckingham Room, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Understanding global patterns of mesoscale eddy properties and diffusivities

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAndreas Klocker (Australian National University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable automation

Meeting by invitation

UserCharles Collis (Dyson / CUED).

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, Meeting Room 1.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 13:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Minimum Seeking for Unstable Unmodeled Systems

UserProfessor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The trials and tribulations of school based cluster randomised controlled trials to improve dietary quality in children

Please note: This CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Diet Seminar is held on a Friday, not the usual Wednesday.

UserDr Charlotte Evans, Lecturer in Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Leeds.

HouseIPH large seminar room.

ClockFriday 22 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings

UserPaul Brakefield, Director of Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation of UK seabirds: a big issue or a done deal?

UserProf. Sarah Wanless, Seabird Ecologist, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Using underwater robots to observe the rapidly melting Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

UserLouise Biddle, University of East Anglia.

HouseBuckingham Room, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Understanding changing BMI distributions in England, their causes and long term consequences

UserProfessor Klim McPherson, Visiting Professor in Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams and their management

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Vigorous ice shelf-ocean interactions: zooming in on the Pine Island case

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserPierre Dutrieux (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollution and wildlife – practical problems for nature conservation in England

UserAlastair Burn, Principal Specialist in environmental impacts for Natural England.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Strategies of microorganisms to conquer plant tissues

UserSebastian Schornack (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

On time delivery - the challenge of intracellular transport logistics

UserAnja Geitmann, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montreal.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Plant Immune System and Root Microbiome

UserProf. Jeff L. Dangl.John N. Couch Professor.HHMI and Dept. of Biology.Carolina Center for Genome Sciences.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Warm Homes Mill Road

UserVarious speakers throughout the afternoon.

HouseRoss Street Community Centre.

ClockSaturday 02 November 2013, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making: Frontiers in Research and Policy

** Note:one-off THURSDAY seminar - no Wednesday session this week ** Joint seminar with CRASSH - Humanitas.

UserProf. Gretchen Daily, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Addressing the wheat yield plateau

CPPS seminar to be held at 4pm, with tea-room networking afterwards.

UserTina Barsby (National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Going beyond public health nutrition: healthy and environmentally sustainable food choices

UserDr Jennie Macdiarmid, Senior Research Fellow, Public Health Nutrition Research group, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen.

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

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Testing eddy compensation and eddy saturation in the Southern Ocean

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDan Jones (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Predicting wildlife dynamics in a changing environment

UserDr Ben Collen, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, UCL.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Air-Sea fluxes and the Atlantic Overturning Circulation

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJeremy P. Grist (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Energy and the industrial revolution: opening Pandora's box

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Sir Tony Wrigley, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 17:45-19:15

Department of Chemistry

Graphene Growth & Applications

BP Lectures 2013

UserProfessor James M. Tour, Rice University, Texas.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

The Postdocs of Cambridge (PdOC) Society

Sustainable Energy - from academia to Whitehall

UserProf David MacKay ( Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change).

HouseAuditorium, Robinson College.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Light and hormonal control of plant development: Application of the knowledge gained in Arabidopsis to crops.

UserSalomé Prat Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hardwick Wood, past and present

UserVince Lea, voluntary warden for Hardwick Wood.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The genotype-phenotype map in Arabidopsis

This event will be held in the Sainsbury Laboratory

UserMagnus Nordborg (The Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Lessons from the Dodo: restoring species and ecosystems on Mauritius

UserProf. Carl Jones, Scientific Director of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, and International Conservation Fellow at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Toward an understanding of the barriers to and facilitators of dietary change

UserPetra J Rydén Ph. D., RD, lecturer Department of Food and Nutrition Umea University.

HouseATC 6B Seminar Room, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Tropical Atlantic Ocean Impacts on Antarctic Peninsula Area Climate

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDavid M. Holland (New York University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Saving Asia's vultures

UserKevin Hand, wildlife tour leader for ACE Cultural Tours.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Global Food Futures

Launch of the Global Food Futures Year

UserDr Camilla Toulmin, Director of the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge, Bateman Street.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2013, 18:00-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials Discovery

UserFor full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 30 September 2013, 09:00-18:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Symposium on Materials Discovery

UserFor full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockMonday 30 September 2013, 09:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

Modeling Land-Ice Retreat, Ice-Ocean Interactions and Sea-Level Rise in the Community Earth System Model

If you are coming from outside BAS please let the organiser know in advance to gain access to the building

UserWilliam Lipscomb, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Xylar Asay-Davis, New York University, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 25 September 2013, 15:30-16:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

An Epidemiologist’s View of Obesity Prevention Research

UserJune Stevens, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, AICR/WCRF Chaired Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill .

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

ClockWednesday 25 September 2013, 12:30-13:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Genetic control of vascular development in plants

UserProf Ykä Helariutta, Research Director, University of Helsinki .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 12 September 2013, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserEric Mijolsness, University of California Irvine.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 30 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Material properties and higher-order structure of the cell nucleus define new stem cell phenotypes

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserKevin Chalut, university of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 30 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The mechanics of growth in walled cell

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserKC Huang, Stanford University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 30 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Multiscale Cell Based Modelling of Tissues

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop.

UserJames Osborne, University of Oxford .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modelling multicellular mechanics in root growth

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserOliver Jensen, University of Manchester.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modeling the mechanics of cellular expansion

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop.

UserRosemary Dyson, University of Birmingham.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserJan Trass, ENS-Lyon/Christophe Godin INRIA.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Why are they fractal? The interplay between geometry and physics in the development of plant form

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserPrzemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, University of Calgary.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The groovy side of biomechanics

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserOlivier Hamant, ENS-Lyon.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Biomechanical analysis of stalk failure in maize

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserDouglas Cook, NYU Abu Dhabi.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 27 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modeling plant cells in 3D

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserRichard Smith, Max Planck Institute Cologne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 27 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The mechanical identity of stem cells in Arabidopsis

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserArezki Boudaoud, ENS-Lyon.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 27 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cytokinin signaling in shoot and root of Arabidopsis thaliana

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserChristian Fleck, Wageningen UR.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 26 August 2013, 15:30-16:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Vleaf plataform for modelling the molecular and mechanistic basis of organ growth regulation

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserGerrit Beemster, University of Antwerp.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 26 August 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The rewardsand pitfalls of computational modelling

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserGraeme Mitchison, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 23 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adding a dimension to embryogenesis: the role of auxin in cell division

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserPierre Barbier de Reuille, University of Bern.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 23 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Auxin signalling and transport in leaf venation

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserEnrico Scarpella University of Alberta.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 23 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant reprogramming using DNA binding domains with custom sequence specificity

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserSebastian Schornack (University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 22 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Programming languages for synthetic biological systems

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserAndrew Phillips, Microsoft Research .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 22 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modeling stem cell population dynamics in the C. elegans germline

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserHillel Kugler, Microsoft Research.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 22 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

An update model of the Arabidopsis circadian clock

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserCarl Troein, Lund University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Using large dataset analysis to reveal temperature and light dependent changes in clock network topology

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserAnthony Hall, University of Liverpool .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Reduced models of circadian clock networks

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserOzgur Akman, University of Exeter.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment: computational mdeling on the stochastic nature of cell fate decisions

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserJose Teles, University College London.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 20 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Compressible components reveal network architectures

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserSebastian Ahnert (University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 20 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Specificity and cross-talk in the cytokinin perception network

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserVijay Chickarmane, California Institute of Technology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 20 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserDavid Rand, University of Warkick.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 19 August 2013, 14:00-14:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding plant development - a computational morphodynamics approach

UserHenrik Jönsson, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics Lund University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 01 August 2013, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

OPDA perception and signalling - a novel plant regulatory network

UserDr Andrea Chini, Department of Plant Molecular Genetics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 17 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

es597's list

Myths and realities of food consumption and cuisine in Ancient Greece

UserAnastasia Christophilopoulou.

HouseFitzwilliam Museum.

ClockWednesday 17 July 2013, 13:15-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Linking Pathogen Virulence, the Microbiota and Disease

UserProfessor Gabriel Nunez, Department of Pathology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

ClockThursday 11 July 2013, 12:00-13:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Structural variability in plant genomes. The case of Cucurbits.

UserProfessor Pere Puigdomènech. Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics. CSIC-IRTA-UAB_UB. Barcelona. Spain.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 10 July 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The undernourished child with an overweight mother: a statistical artifact or an emerging public health concern?

UserDr Colleen Doak, Department of Health Sciences, Section of Infectious Disease, VU University Amsterdam.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockFriday 05 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Lifestyle and cancer prevention – the elephant in the room

UserProfessor Annie S Anderson, Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research, Centre for Research into Cancer Prevention and Screening, University of Dundee..

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

ClockWednesday 03 July 2013, 12:30-13:30

Winton Discussions

Creating Impact from Research

UserDr Andrea Cantone and Dr Gillian Davis, Cambridge Enterprise.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 17 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The BioSHaRE project

UserProfessor Ronald Stolk, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Gronigen.

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

ClockMonday 17 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Bioimaging across scale: from cells to embryos

UserDr. Lars Hufnagel, European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Transient responses of the Southern Ocean to climate change

Note unusual day! If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserAndy Hogg (Australian National University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Lawlor's work is focused on the life course and genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and diabetes

UserProfessor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The SnRK1 signaling pathway – connecting environmental stress and plant growth

UserDr Elena Baena González, Plant Stress Signaling, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Immunology

How plants deal with microbes – spot the similarities to animal systems!

Sebastian Scornack, Sainsbury Laboratory, hosted by Patrick Maxwell, Regius professor of Physic

UserSebastian Schornack, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseCIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research), Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7.

ClockFriday 31 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Tipping Points in Social, Economic and Biological Systems

UserDr Philip Garnett, Tipping Points Project, Department of Anthropology, Durham University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination

UserMike Brown, Head of National Bee Unit, The Food and Environmental Research Agency, DEFRA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

ajb295's list

“Energy, water, food and the nine billion."

Booking Required contact organiser

UserLord Oxburgh.

HouseRobinson College Auditorium.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 18:00-19:15

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

“Teaching Sustainability to Chemical Engineering students”

Students, visitors, academics and alumni are invited to attend this talk. Register your name on www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

UserProfessor Ryszard Pohorecki Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT).

HouseDept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hydrodynamic description of the actin cortex

Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Complex Fluids and Active Media in Evolving Domains

UserKruse, K (Universitt des Saarlandes).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Intracellular Protein Transport in Plants

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Michael Sauer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 16:30-17:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Unravelling the calcium machinery responsible for the nucleoplasmic calcium oscillation in legume symbioses

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Myriam Charpentier, John Innes Centre.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 15:50-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Morphogenetic mechanisms underlying germinal and somatic fate acquisition in maize anthers

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserTim Kelliher, Stanford University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 14:50-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Endodermal cell responses and size control regulate lateral root formation

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Joop Vermeer, University of Lausanne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 14:10-14:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Stochasticity and regulation in plant tissue growth

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Karen Alim, Harvard University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 13:30-14:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mechanical regulation of morphogenesis at the shoot apex

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Naomi Nakayama, ENS, Lyon.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 11:50-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Applying system metabolism to improve synthetic metabolism

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Arren Bar-Even, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 11:10-11:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Rewiring cell fate decisions to uncover MAPK specificity in the stomatal lineage

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Diego Wengier, Stanford University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 10:10-10:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Lucy Colwell, Harvard University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 09:30-10:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Shifting protein-protein interactions in the evolution of the grasses: when, how, and why?

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Madelaine Bartlett, Brigham Young University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 16:50-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Genome-wide association study of drought tolerance in A.thaliana

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Artur Korte, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 16:10-16:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The blossoms and the roots of developmental evolution in genotype-phenotype maps

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Ulises Rosas, New York University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 15:30-16:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adaptation and its genetic basis in plants

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Marco Todesco, University of British Columbia.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 14:30-15:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Uncovering the genomic landscape of speciation through population-level resequencing of two Aquilegia species

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Daniele Filiault, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 13:50-14:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The “Endless Forms”: Genetics, Development, and Evolution of Flower Colour and Shape

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Yaowu Yuan, University of Connecticut.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 13:10-13:50

Winton Discussions

Biological photovoltaic systems

UserProf Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Innovating Technologies for the Poorest 2 Billion

UserProfessor Ashok Gadgil Division Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean heat uptake, the stratification of the Southern Ocean, and the ACC

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserTill Kuhlbrodt (University of Reading).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The geography of obesity: A tale of two cities

UserAdam Drewnowski is Professor of Epidemiology and the Director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the School of Public Health at University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Global Equality

How the Global Fund revolutionised the fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria: What worked, what didn’t, and what next? - Humanitarian Centre Annual Lecture

Please register by 30 April to attend: http://annuallecture2013.eventbrite.com

UserBernard Rivers, Founder of Aidspan.

HouseEmmanuel College, Queen’s Building.

ClockThursday 02 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Science, Media, Policy and Wildlife: The Badger/Bovine TB Controversy

UserDr Angela Cassidy, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College, London.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Weddell Gyre: Freshwater and carbon budgets and exports to the global ocean abyss

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserPete Brown (UEA & BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

CRIA

CRIA Book Review Panel: “Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power”, by Peter Newell

UserProf. P. Newell, University of Sussex (author); Prof. D. Crawford-Brown, University of Cambridge (reviewer); Prof. M. Grubb, University of Cambridge (chair)..

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockFriday 26 April 2013, 14:00-15:30

euroscicon

Towards 2020 the genetic influence on obesity and associated disease

UserDr Branwen Hennig, MRC International Nutrition Group at the London School for Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK and MRC Keneba, The Gambia.

HouseThe Royal College of Pathologists, London, UK .

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 09:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Life on the edge: transcription factors that regulate organ boundaries in Arabidopsis

UserPatricia Springer, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 43rd Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

URBAN RESILIENCE - addressing risk and uncertainty in rapidly growing cities in the developing world

UserTony Lloyd Jones, Architect-planner, Development Practitioner, Reader and Course Director of Westminster’s International Planning and Sustainable Development Masters programme, Director of Research and Consultancy at the Max Lock Centre.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 13:15-14:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance

Note unusual time

UserProf Jerzy Paszkowski, Laboratory of Plant Genetics, University of Geneva.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 16 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Seminars in Ageing Research

'Ageing and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease’ (NAFLD): an epigenetic liaison’.

UserManlio Vinciguerra, The Institute of Hepatology, Birkbeck University of London.

HouseThe Sir Brian Heap Room, Babraham Institute.

ClockTuesday 16 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

A video-plankton and microstructure profiler for the exploration of in situ connections between zooplankton and turbulence

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserTetjana Ross (Dalhousie University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 16 April 2013, 10:30-11:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The plant circadian clock in the lab and the field

UserDr Seth Davis, Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 10 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Public debate in Global Food Security: The Right To Food

UserAntoine de Saint-Affrique, Professor Tim Lang, Harsh Mander.

HouseKings Place, London.

ClockMonday 08 April 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)

Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserTim Sparks.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Microbial pathogen effectors modulate plant development and plant-insect interactions

UserDr Saskia A. Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Beyond symmetry and asymmetry: Complexity and the stability of ecological networks

UserDr Anje-Margriet Neutel, Biosphere Complexity Analyst, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 27 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium

Note: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

British Antarctic Survey

Occam's razor and modelling ecological complexity

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJon Pitchford (York University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Winton Discussions

Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads!

UserDr Chris Forman, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Lent Symposium: Time scales in Climate Science.

UserProf. David Beerling, Dr. Pierre Dutrieux, Dr. Dan Lunt.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockFriday 15 March 2013, 14:20-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Cambridge College Retrofit and Energy Efficiency

UserPeter Armitage, PhD Student, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Re-wilding: putting natural processes back on track

**Last talk in Series!**

UserFrans Vera, Director, The Foundation of Natural Processes, The Netherlands.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Cambridge Science Festival

UserFestival Assistant.

HouseCity Centre.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 09:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Can yeast and a Robot Scientist help us design therapies for diseases like cancers and malaria?

UserProf Steve Oliver, Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

UserProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plastic Fantastic

UserSinead Collins, Edinburgh University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

UserProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy Retrofit

UserDr Anna Mavrogianni and Dr Rokia Raslan.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 13:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

What can plants tell us about the evolution of sex chromosomes?

Note Venue

UserDeborah Charlesworth, Edinburgh University.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Making Poverty History – what role for biodiversity conservation?

UserDr Dilys Roe, International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

POSTPONED: Energy and Life

UserProf. Sir John Ernest Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit & Nobel Prize Laureate.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Engineers Without Borders Panel Talks

What is the most pressing problem facing the developing world today and what are the solutions?

MAP TO VENUE: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5kbaDSqD2fMRFJkQWI5QnV5SnM/edit?usp=sharing

UserMs Kat Harrison, Social Impact & Research Manager of Solar Aid; Mr Brian Sims, Independent Consultant; Mr Stephen Gerrard, PhD student .

HouseCastlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Winton Discussions

Sustainability and Architecture

UserProf Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

UserDr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Linkages between plants, soil microbes, and the carbon cycle

CPPS seminar

UserRichard Bardgett, Lancaster Environment Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

UserProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Diseases of ash and other trees round the world

Note: This talk will be held in room MEL001 in the Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserOliver Rackham.

HouseMellish Clark Building (MEL 001), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Metabolomics- an update

UserAlisdair Fernie, Max-Planck-Institute, Golm.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Thinker-doers: Adding value in a climate crisis

UserGracen Johnson, MPhil Student, Land Economy Faculty.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

UserRobert J Sawyer, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Turning over phytate: enzymic and structural perspectives

Note Venue

UserCharles Brearley, UEA.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Smallholder farming and the future of food

Part of series of public debates organised by the University of Cambridge Strategic Initiative in Global Food Security: Feeding Seven Billion

UserSam Dryden, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Dr Marion Guillou, INRA; Professor Judi Wakhungu, African Centre for Technology Studies .

HouseKings Place, London.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

UserMs Bridget Kendall, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The geometric basis of morphogenesis

UserPrzemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Molecular biology and sustainable agriculture

**First for Lent Term**

UserProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

UserProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts Picturehouse

UserDr Ed King, British Antartic Survey glaciologist.

HouseArts Picturehouse Cinema, 38-39 St. Andrews Street.

ClockSaturday 15 December 2012, 15:00-17:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

All-atom Monte Carlo approach to protein dynamics and interactions

UserSteffan Wallin, Assistant Professor Computational Biology and Biological Physics, Lund University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockThursday 13 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A novel regulator of shoot stem cell proliferation in Arabidopsis

UserDr Christoph Schuster, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockThursday 13 December 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

**last for Michaelmas Term**

UserProf. Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor & Australian Laureate, JCU, Australia.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Regulation of cellulose synthesis - the cytoskeleton, trafficking and beyond

UserDr Staffan Persson, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Air-Sea Interaction in the Southern Ocean: New Results from the SOFS Air-Sea Flux Mooring

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserSimon Josey (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2012, 14:00-15:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Computational Building Performance Analysis

UserSam Wilkinson, PhD Candidate, University College London.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

'Prosuming' Conservation: interrogating the value of conservation in the web 2.0 age

UserProf. Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: ‘Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms’

User Emma Cross, PhD Student, Dept. of Earth Science, British Antarctic Survey..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Inferring Currents from Streamers

UserTimothy Grant, BAS/Schlumberger Gould Research.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Feeding Seven Billion - Biotechnology, Intellectual Property and Twenty First Century Crops

Note venue and time

UserChair: Professor Christopher Gilligan, University of Cambridge; Speakers: Dr Derek Byerlee, Professor Ian Crute and Professor Jack Kloppenburg.

HouseKings Place, London.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Computing and Autism: How a real-world challenge drives a computing research agenda

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserGregory Abowd, Georgia Tech.

HouseLarge lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chemical and Physical Signals Interact to Create Pattern in Plant Development

NOTE VENUE CHANGE

UserElliot Meyerowitz, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge University.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The state of the world's birds: how science underpins conservation and advocacy.

UserDr Stuart Butchart, Global Research and Indicators Co-ordinator, BirdLife International.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Characterising receptor complexes and endosomal proteomes during plant defence responses

UserDr Alex Jones,The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: ‘Carbon Foot-Printing’

UserJon Coello, PhD Student, Dept. of Engineering & the Environment, University of Southampton..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

RAPID-MOC 26N: a Heat budget for the North Atlantic and eddy impacts on the Florida Current

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserEleanor Frajka-Williams (University of Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

New approaches to understanding marine climate-carbon cycle feedbacks

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Tilla Roy, LSCE/IPSL, Paris.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Global Sustainability Institute lunchtime seminars

Art and the environment

Lunch will be provided

UserDave Pritchard, CIWEM Arts and Environment Network Steering Group.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Giving wildlife an edge on the Middle Level waterways

UserCliff Carson, Environment Officer, Middle Level Commissioners.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott Cato

UserMolly Scott Cato, professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, Green Party spokesperson on economics and a Director of Transition Stroud..

HouseSt. Philip’s Church Centre, 185 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AN.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-22:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Sustainability Measures in Universities: Cambridge as a Case Study

UserDavid Green, Superintendent of Engineering Workshops, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Shifting baselines and habitat restoration: Setting appropriate goals

UserDr Line zu Ermgassen, visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Winton Discussions

Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money?

UserDr Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

A comedy of the commons: Toward sustainable use of the Louisiana public oyster grounds

UserThomas M. Soniat, Department of Biological Sciences and Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Integrated Circuits in Plants

UserProf Ben J.G. Scheres, Plant Systems Biology Group, Wageningen University & Research Centre.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Smarter ways to monitor wildlife

UserProf Kate Jones, Joint UCL and ZSL Chair, Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Zoology, ZSL.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Foster Talks

Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plants

UserDr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetic reprogramming during sexual reproduction in plants

UserFred Berger, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sequencing/genotyping the wheat genome

Note Venue

UserKeith Edwards, Bristol University.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Saving the Tasmanian devil from a transmissible cancer

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison, Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge & Research Fellow in Cancer Genetics & Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

UserProfessor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

What is a fungal foray?

Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).

UserHélène Davies.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE 2012 Symposium Summary

UserAaron Gillich (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Tropical forests in the Anthropocene: what does this mean for conservation?

UserDr Simon Lewis, Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

How might we make space for nature in landscapes of the future?

** First talk of term **

UserDr Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Connecting sugar-sensing with Arabidopsis meristem activation

Tea and coffee will be served proceeding the seminar, starting at 15:30

UserProfessor Xuelin Wu, University of Southern California, LA.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Inaugural Symposium on Energy Efficiency

UserFor a list of confirmed speakers, visit event website: http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/energyefficiency.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockMonday 01 October 2012, 09:00-18:30

Winton Discussions

Climate finance: barriers and opportunities

UserDr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute lunchtime seminars

Water meter debate: vital for adapting to climate change or doomed to failure?

Lunch will be provided

UserAndy Brown (Anglian Water) and Dr James Jenkins (University of Hertfordshire).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserRay Goldstein, DAMTP, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 31 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJim Haseloff, Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 31 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserAlistair Middleton, Heidelberg.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 30 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserEric Mjolsness, UCI.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 30 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserRichard Smith, Bern.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 29 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserChristophe Godin, INRIA and Jan Traas, ENS-Lyon.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 29 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserOlivier Hamant, ENS-Lyon.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 28 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserPetros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 28 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJames Locke, SLCU, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockMonday 27 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserPhil Wigge, SLCU, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockMonday 27 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserPrzemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 24 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserEnrico Scarpella, U Alberta.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 24 August 2012, 09:00-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserMalcolm Bennett, Nottingham.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 23 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserRichard Morris, JIC.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 22 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJulio Saez-Rodriguez, EBI.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 22 August 2012, 09:00-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserVijay Chickarmane, Caltech.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 21 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 21 August 2012, 09:00-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Towards a quantitative mechanical model of plant cells and tissues

UserRichard Smith, University of Bern Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 26 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Functions for some evolutionarily conserved transcription regulators in rice inflorescence and flower development

UserDr. Usha Vijayraghavan, Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockThursday 12 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Links between ice loss, stratification and ocean heat content in the Rothera time series (RaTS)

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserHugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 04 July 2012, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Southern Ocean overturning under past and future climate change

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserAdele Morrison (Australian National University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The impact of heritable DNA methylation

UserSandra Cortijo, Université Paris Sud 11, V. Colot lab.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockMonday 18 June 2012, 14:30-15:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Behaviour and Energy Use

UserIrina Shaorshadze, Margaret Thorley, Dr Rosie Robison, Aaron Gillich.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 12:00-14:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The role of temperature and HOS1 in seed dormancy control

UserSarah Kendall, University of Exeter, Penfield lab.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 14:30-15:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

PlanEAT: Dinner and a Movie

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoss Street Community Centre.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 18:30-21:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Environments and human health

UserSally Macintyre, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Sensing the Historic Environment – Its Nature and Relevance

UserProf. DEAN HAWKES, Dr. HENRIK SCHOENEFELDT, Prof. COLIN PORTEOUS,.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 31 May 2012, 12:00-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Fat taxes, nutrient profiling and trends in the incidence of coronary heart disease

UserDr Mike Rayner, Director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Group, Depatment of Public Health, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Scratching the surface: Evolutionary developmental genetics of the land plant cuticle

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Sam Brockington, University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 14:50-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The footprint of mating system shift and colonization on the genome of a young species

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Daniel Koenig, Max Planck Institute.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 14:10-14:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adaptation to the environment in Arabidopsis thaliana

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Angela Hancock, University of Vienna.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 13:30-14:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Quantifying leaf morphology: perspectives on development, environmental regulation, and natural variation in leaf shape and size

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please seehttp://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Daniel Chitwood, University of California, Davis.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 12:00-12:40

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Hormonal networks in plant development: Fundamentally simple?

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Tom Bennett, University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 11:20-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The East Greenland Boundary Current System South of Denmark Strait

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserAlex Brearley (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Smoke and mirrors: The curious connection between post-fire germination and shoot branching regulation

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr David Nelson, University of Georgia.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 10:20-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A novel carotenoid-derived molecule functions in periodic root branching

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Jaimie van Norman, Duke University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 09:40-10:20

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Can we make Arabidopsis into Striga?

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Yuichiro Tsuchiya, University of Toronto.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 09:00-09:40

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Positional information by differential endocytosis splits auxin response to drive Arabidopsis root meristem growth

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Emanuele Scacchi, University of Lausanne.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 16:30-17:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant pathogen effectors as probes to elucidate plant processes

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Sebastian Schorack, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 15:50-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

DNA methylation dynamics during sexual reproduction in Arabidopsis thaliana

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Pauline Jullien, ETH Zürich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 14:50-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Finding love: Intercellular communication during plant reproduction

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Sharon Kessler, University of Zurich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 14:10-14:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

How cell walls mechanically control growth

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Siobhan Braybrook, University of Bern.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 13:30-14:10

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

What makes us happy?

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, The Well-being Institute.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 18:30-21:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Special GreenBRIDGE Seminar - Key-requirements for Evaluating Smart and Sustainable Development in Cities and Communities

UserDr Patrizia Lombardi - Politecnico di Torino, DIST – Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Arabidopsis immune system and root microbiome

UserProfessor Jeff Dangl, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 12:15-13:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Building Energy Performance for Refurbishment – Baselines, Monitoring and Benchmarks

UserKerry Sykes from the University of Cambridge, George Bartley from Building Sustainability.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 12:00-14:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant pathogen effectors as probes to elucidate plant processes

UserDr Sebastian Schornack, Sainsbury laboratory, John Innes Centre Norwich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Energy Efficient Lighting

UserWinton Community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Qualitative Analysis of Patterns Induced by Active Transport and Auxin

UserDr Etienne Farcot, CIRAD / UMR AGAP, Virtual Plants, Montpellier.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Biofuels

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 16 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Note earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).

UserKen McNamara.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 March 2012, 19:00-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Climate models and uncertainty

UserErica Thompson (Imperial College London) and Emma Boland (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoslett 408 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 19 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unraveling a Transcriptional Network Involved in Maize Domestication

This is a Kenneth Sporne Lecture

UserJohn Doebley, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Story of Stuff - The Next Chapter

UserBev Sedley, Trustee CCF.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

UserProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

REDD: a good idea, impossible to implement?

Last in Series for 2012!

UserArild Angelsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

UserProfessor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Society Presents: Energy Consumption in the UK Non-Domestic Building Stock

UserDr James Keirstead, Research Fellow, Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., Imperial College London.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 11:45-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making peace with the Earth

UserDr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

RNA Biology of Plant Embryos

UserDr Michael Nodine, Whitehead Institute, MIT.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Advanced Recycling

UserMark Buckton, Cambridge City Council.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular tools for the macroalgae

UserJohn Bothwell, Queen's University Belfast.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?

UserJonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Winton Discussions

Tea time conversation

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Society Presents a Special Event: Post Durban Panel Discussion

UserSpeakers include: Prof. Doug Crawford-Brown, Jazmin Burgess, Dr Alison Cooke.

HouseBuckingham House, Murray Edwards College.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:00-19:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular Pharming gets a green thumbs up

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserJulian Ma, St. George’s, University of London.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Society Presents: Promoting Sustainability Through Knowledge Exchange

UserNicholas Ridley, Managing Director of NC Real Estate Consulting Ltd and Ex-President of British Council for Offices.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 11:45-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Design of Light Perception Networks: Learning from Nature

UserDr Christian Fleck, University of Freiburg.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Hydrogen fuel cells

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Science and Technology in Parliament

UserDr Stephen Allen, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

HouseHelmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Economics of Happiness

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockSunday 19 February 2012, 02:30-04:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

UserDr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change

UserDr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Wombats, Weapons & Water: the making of international conservation treaties.

UserCatherine MacKenzie, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

UserDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Hybrid networks in tomato

UserVera Pancaldi, Gene Silencing.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 13:00-13:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Cambridge University Environmental Consulting Society: Green League Table Decomposed

UserDr Ben Russell, Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics (CCM).

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 11:45-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The power of markets to protect nature

UserIan Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

How high should Climate Change taxes be?

UserChris Hope, Cambridge Judge Business School.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

UserProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

UserDr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Applying Sustainability in Universities

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

iTrade Wildlife: detecting rare online behaviour

First in Lent Term's Series

UserDavid Roberts, DICE, University of Kent.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

I don't believe in Climate Change

UserDr David Viner, Red Kite Enterprise and Environment.

HouseHelmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

UserProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

From cell-specific genome expression to specific cell fate determination

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

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 05 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Biodiversity offsets and the journey to No Net Loss.

Last talk of term

UserKerry ten Kate, BBOP Forest Trends.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy Consumption in the UK Non-Domestic Building Stock

Unfortunately, this talk has had to be postponed until later in the academic year

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A botanist on Mull

UserLynne Farrell, Botanical Recorder for Mid-Ebudes.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mapping Africa's natural capital: progress, problems, potential

UserRuth Swetnam, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Carbon Markets and Eastern Europe

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 12:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Clone to Clinic- oilseed based bio-pharmaceutical production

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserMaurice Maloney, IACR Rothamstead.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Water mass transformations and air-sea exchange in the Barents Sea

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserMarius Årthun (BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockFriday 21 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Similarity measures, similarity searches, and network inferences on genome-wide datasets

UserDr Arcady Mushegian, Director of Bioinformatics Center, Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution of gene content in cellular organisms, viruses and in the Last Universal Common Ancestor

UserDr Arcady Mushegian, Director of Bioinformatics Center, Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Summer School Proceeedings

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 12:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Variability of Circumpolar Deep Water transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserKaren M. Assmann (BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Stochastic signal encoding strategies in cells

UserJames Locke, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

"Transparency Creates Values: Corporate Environmental and Social Disclosure in China"

Open to all. No registration required. Refreshments will be provided.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department LR6.

ClockSaturday 08 October 2011, 14:00-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Real-time PCR Training Course

Registration required - email: Rowan.Gibson@lifetech.com

UserChris Maddren - LifeTech Field Application Scientist.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2011, 09:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Building a wall: Genetics of exine formation in Arabidopsis pollen

UserDr Anna Dobrista, University of Chicago, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 03 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

PINs and Knots: Auxin-transport mediated patterning in the grasses

UserDevin O’Connor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

3D and 4D Image Visualization & Analysis - Workshop with IMARIS

Contact Dr. Delisa Gracia (delisa.garcia@bitplane.com ) to book a place.

UserDr Delisa Gracia, Bitplane.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 August 2011, 10:00-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Chemical and Genetic Dissection of ABA Signaling

UserDr Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockFriday 19 August 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Imaging Structure and Function in Biological Systems

UserDr James A.J. Fitzpatrick, Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 August 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Specification of New Cell Populations in Arabidopsis Root

UserDr Miguel Moreno-Risueno - Duke University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 15 August 2011, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Dense water cascading off the continental shelf - overview and recent modelling results

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserFred Wobus (Plymouth University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 10 August 2011, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Anisotropic eddy transport in models and observations

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserIgor Kamenkovich (RSMAS, University of Miami).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 27 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ice edge to island blooms: carbon cycling in the Southern Ocean

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserElizabeth Jones (NIOZ).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 20 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Drawing causal inferences in epidemiological studies of early life influences

UserAndy Ness, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 08 July 2011, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Qualitative Methods for Technical Topics II: issues workshop

Talk postponed until Michaelmas 2011

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 16 June 2011, 12:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Qualitative Methods for Technical Topics I: a survey of local practice

Part II is postponed until Michaelmas 2011

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 02 June 2011, 12:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Experiential Learning, Ecological Literacy and Sustainable Design Training

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 12:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?

UserDr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Why We Resist The Truth

UserClive Hamilton, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra.

HouseMichaelhouse, St. Michael’s Church, Trinity Street, Camb CB2 1SU.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 19:30-21:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Future of Plant Science

UserHeads of 5 Plant Research Institutes in East Anglia.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 14:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant Organs Regeneration: Measuring Self-Organisation

UserDr Giovanni Sena, New York University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 18 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)

Mobile Technologies for Education: The experience in the developing world

To find out more and to RSVP, please visit: http://m-education.eventbrite.com/

UserPanel Discussion (see below).

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS4.

ClockWednesday 30 March 2011, 18:30-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Polyploidy and epigenetics

UserProf. Jeffrey Chen, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Decarbonising the transport system

UserProfessor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic variation across generations: mechanisms and consequences of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

UserProf. Vincent Colot, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire des Organismes Photosynthétiques, ENS, France.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks

UserProfesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Continental Shelf and Slope Variability in the Southeast Weddell Sea

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser

UserCedric Chavanne (University of East Anglia).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

UserProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Shaping the plant endomembrane system

UserProf. Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time

UserDr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

UserProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserMark Cobain, Platform Director, Nutrition and Health, Unilever Discover.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Why study early land plants?

UserProf. Dianne Edwards, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Cardiff.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

How to Enhance Value to Historic Context Through Contemporary Interventions

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 12:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities

UserProfessor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The timing of cell divisions underlies developmental patterning in Arabidopsis

UserDr Adrienne Roeder, California Institute of Technology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

UserProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Is there a limit to tomato yield?

Cambridge Partnership in Plant Sciences Seminar

UserProf. Daniel Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Zero Carbon Britain 2030

UserGodfrey Boyle (Professor of Renewable Energy and director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University. Visiting professor at The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) University in New Dehli,India) and Alex Randall (Media Officer.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 19:30-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

UserDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Implementation of System-Wide Reduced Carbon Emissions Solutions

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 12:00-14:00

Centre for Global Equality

Humanitarian Centre Annual Lecture

UserMasood ul-Mulk, CEO, Sarhad Rural Support Programme.

HouseEmmanuel College, Queen’s Building.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 19:00-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

UserProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)

UserProfessor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

UserJose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid).

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Environmental physiology

Blackman Lecture

UserProf. Bill Davies, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Carbon Capture from Solid Fuels

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 12:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Energy Security and UK Energy Policy

UserProfessor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Truth

UserProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Thermosensory mechanisms in plants

UserDr Phillip Wigge, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The impact of economic crisis on mental well-being and happiness

UserDora Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, psychologist / a former Director of The Public Health Institute of Iceland.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 03 December 2010, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular control of flowering-time and vernalization

UserProf. Caroline Dean, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Child gambling and problem gambling

UserDavid Forrest, Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Gambling, University of Salford.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development

This is a Cambridge Partnership in Plant Sciences Seminar

UserDr Lars Ostergaard, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

The key stakeholders' response to climate change

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 12:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Towards a sustainable hydrogen economy

UserJohn Andrews - Associate Professor RMIT University.

HouseLT6, Engineering Department.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Structure and function of photosystem-I

UserProf. John Golbeck, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, USA.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant membrane transport

UserProf. Dale Sanders, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy consumption from dwellings : do we understand it?

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 12:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Could Vaginal Lubricants Lead to Safer Sex in Africa?

UserRobert Pool* and the Microbicide Development Programme Team, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, University of Barcelona.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Design principles in energy and carbon metabolism

UserDr Ron Milo, Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From plant-pathogen interactions to plant-microbe communities

UserProf. Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Conservation + Sustainability: Can Conservation and Retrofits Work Together?

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 12:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: UK Long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental

UserProf. Kathy Willis, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

UK Molecular plant-microbe-insect interactions

UserDr Saskia Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Social scientific methods for understanding climate change policy

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 12:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Turbulence profiling beneath sea ice in McMurdo Sound with particular attention to topographic and cryographic effects

UserCraig Stevens (National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 08 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April)

This talk has been re-scheduled for 12th May, (postponed from 21st April)

UserProfessor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory

UserProfessor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Taking Stock: Methods for Built Environment Research

Pecha Kucha evening will be on the 29th April and include complimentary wine and cheese for all participants of the conference

UserNick Baker, Alan Blackwell, Paul Chamberlain, Robert Evans, Wybo Houkes, Michael Pollitt.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 30 April 2010, 09:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Sustainable Development: Answers from Different Actors, such as State, NGOs and Business

Open to all. No registration required. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served during the seminar

UserKsenia Gerasimova.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 15 April 2010, 12:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy Efficient Cities

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 18 March 2010, 12:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The Energy Efficient Cities Initiative

UserSteven Barret, Ruchi Choudary and Ying Jin - University of Cambridge.

HouseLT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

UserProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

Southern Ocean thermocline ventilation

UserJean-Baptiste Sallee , CSIRO in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

UserProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserGraham Moore, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cities of the Future

UserPaul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc..

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Chemical Looping Combustion: One Technology for the Clean Utilisation of Coal

UserDr John S Dennis - Reader in Chemical Reaction Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

UserProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Humanities

UserProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

UserProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Scenarios for strategic planning in the built environment

Tea, Coffee and Biscuits will be served throughout the presentation

UserJeff Vickers.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 12:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty

UserProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Primary prevention of Hepatitis C

UserDr Matthew Hickman, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Arabidopsis natural variation: QTL, genes and 'omics'

UserMaarten Koorneef, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne..

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Roadmap to 2050

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Science and the Media

UserDr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

How Are Health Inequalities Doing in Scotland? Are We Sure We Know?

UserProfessor John Frank, Director of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Estimating ocean circulation and mixing: A contourwise view

UserJan Zika, Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels (LEGI), Grenoble, France.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 11 December 2009, 11:00-12:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV) for Europe: Economics, Technical and Social Issues

UserDavid Faiman - Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), Ben Gurion National Solar Energy Centre.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

How fast do ice shelves melt?

UserNicholls, Keith W , British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Systems analysis of lateral root development: an emerging story…

UserMalcolm Bennet, Center for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Cambridge University Eco-Racing: Solar Cars

UserMartin McBrien - Cambridge University Eco Racing Founder.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The Golestan Cohort Study

UserProf. Reza Malekzadeh, Digestive Disease Research Centre, University of Tehran.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Signalling pathways that establish symbiotic interactions in plants

UserGiles Oldroyd, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Getting under the skin: How do plants generate and maintain an effective epidermis?

UserGwyneth Ingram, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

An interdisciplinary approach for decarbonising the built environment

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/388/programme-2009-10.htm

UserTina Fawcett (Environmental Change Institute Oxford).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 12:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

What domestication missed: exploiting wild emmer to improve wheat

This is a CPPS seminar (http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/)

UserCristobal Uauy, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Between a rock and a hard place - resistance evolution and genetic incompatibility in plants.

UserKirsten Bomblies, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Heritage and Sustainable Development

UserTatiana Vakhitova (Centre for Sustainable Development).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 12:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Healthy and unhealthy prisons.

UserColonel Clive Fairweather, Former Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

On formation of multiple zonal jets in the ocean

UserPavel Berloff , Imperial College.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cradle to Cradle Design

UserBill McDonough William McDonough and Partners.

House Cambridge Unuiversity Engineerintg Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2009, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

A Green New Deal: Climate Change Mitigation as an Economic Stimulus

This talk is part of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) seminar series. Please bring your lunch.

UserDr Alex Bowen, Principal Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

HouseLand Economy Laundress Lane seminar room 1.

ClockFriday 05 June 2009, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

The Effect of Energy Prices on Operation and Investment in OECD Countries: Evidence from the Vintage Capital Model

This talk is part of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) seminar series

UserDr Karsten Neuhoff & Dr Jevgenijs Steinbuks. Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLand Economy Laundress Lane seminar room 1.

ClockFriday 29 May 2009, 14:30-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Birth weight and the risk of cardiovascular disease

UserProf. Gordon Smith, Department of Obsetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

On the rebound: could energy efficiency improvements backfire?

UserHugh Parnell - Cambridge Energy Forum (CEF), Dr Terry Barker - 4CMR, Dr Philip Sargent - CEF, Steven Sorrell - University of Sussex, Blake Alcott, Prof Roger Kemp - Lancaster University, Dr Tim Foxon - University of Leeds, Tina Dallman - UK govmt DEFRA.

HousePitt Building, Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 13:30-17:10

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

William MCDonough (CANCELLED)

UserWilliam McDonough Author of "Cradle to Cradle".

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 00:00-00:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Beyond GDP Growth: measuring real progress in a developing country

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserPavan Sukhdev, Chair of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets Centre, Mumbai.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 17:15-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The Arctic on the Edge: Policy Issues in Canada's Back Yard

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserDr Peter Harrison, Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 17:15-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Innovating to sustainability

UserProfessor Charles Ainger, MWH Ltd and Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

THE POPULATION FACTOR- HOW DOES IT RELATE TO CLIMATE CHANGE?

UserProfessor Malcolm Potts, Bixby Professor, Community Health and Human Development, Berkeley, University of California.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Boundaries of Darwinism

UserProfessor John Dupre, University of Exeter.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants

UserProfessor George Coupland - MPI for Plant Breeding, Cologne.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economy

UserNigel Brandon, Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy - Imperial College.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport

UserDr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 15:30-16:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

RESPONDING TO CHANGES IN NATURE

UserChris Smith (Lord Smith of Finsbury), Chairman of the Environment Agency; former MP and Cabinet Minister; former President Cambridge Union Society.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Is Human Evolution Over?

UserProfessor Steve Jones, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Intracellular metabolite transport in C3 and C4 plants

UserProfessor Andreas Weber - University of Düsseldorf.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Wildlife and Environment

Alternatives to Fossil Fuels

David MacKay is a wonderful speaker: lively, funny, wonderfully clear and easy to follow. Do not think that you cannot understand the problem, or that talks by professors of physics are not for you. Professors are not what they used to be!

UserDavid MacKay, Professor in the Department of Physics, CU.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 19:30-21:45

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

CAN WE ADAPT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN TIME?

UserProfessor Michael Kelly, Prince Philip Professor, Cambridge; Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Communities and Local Government, London.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

UserProfessor Craig Moritz, University of California.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

Recent shelf-slope studies in the Arctic Ocean: observations and modeling

UserVladimir Ivanov (Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Oban).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

UserAndreas Schäfer, Lecturer in Architecture - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

CREATING NEW AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

UserProfessor Peter Guthrie, Professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development, Cambridge; Fellow, St Edmund’s College.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin and Human Society

UserProfessor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Darwin in his time - and in ours

Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Sir Robert May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:15-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Water, health and sustainable development

UserDr Jamie Bartram, Co-ordinator of Water, Sanitation and Health at the World Health Organisation.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

SMARTLIFE: GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE

UserDavid Arkell, Director, SmartLIFE and Head of Innovation & Partnerships, Cambridgeshire County Council.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin in the Literary World

UserProfessor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

INTEGRATING ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION SOLUTIONS

UserProfessor Julian Hunt (Lord Hunt of Chesterton), Professor of Climate Modelling, University College, London.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The European potential to produce Bio-energy: Miscanthus potential for current and future climates

This is a CPPS seminar http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/

UserMr Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy use in the University of Cambridge

UserPaul Hasley, University Energy Manager - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Global Darwin

UserProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

ADAPTATION IN POOR COUNTRIES

UserDr Flavio Comim, Senior Economist, United Nations Development Programme, Brazil and CSC/VHI, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin's Intellectual Development

UserProfessor Janet Browne, Harvard University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Can Climate Engineering be a Sensible Plan B?

Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserDr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

RETHINKING PERSONAL MOBILITY: POLICY, TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS THINKING

UserDr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy and Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Making of the Fittest

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: NECESSITIES AND PRIORITIES

UserProfessor Martin Parry, Chair, IPCC's Task Group on Scenarios for Climate Impact Assessment.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 13 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

Animal-borne sensors and the Global Ocean Observing System

Open to non-BAS; please contact Robert Bingham (rgbi (at) bas.ac.uk) if you would like to attend.

UserLars Boehme (University of St. Andrews).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 09 December 2008, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Characterisation of zooplankton vertical migration in two high Arctic fjords using moored ADCPs

Open to non-BAS; please contact Robert Bingham (rgbi (at) bas.ac.uk) if you would like to attend.

UserMags Wallace (University of St Andrews).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2008, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Physical aspects of evolutionary transitions to multicellularity

UserProfessor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy efficiency opportunities from heat pumps

UserAlex White - Senior Lecturer in Thermofluids, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

Spin-up of Southern Hemisphere subpolar gyres in a warming climate

UserZhaomin Wang, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Getting to the root of developmental networks

This is a Blackman Lecture

UserProfessor Philip Benfey, Duke University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Britain’s building stock: a carbon challenge

UserMichael Kelly - Professor of Technology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

So you want to be an environmental consultant?

UserDr Melissa Barrett (Arthur D. Little) and Dr Nick Betson (RPM).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The New Food Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible?

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserTim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:15-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

New Horizons of the Domestication of Crop Plants

This is a CPPS seminar

UserProfessor Wayne Powell, IBERS Aberystwyth.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy plans that add up

UserDavid MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

Regional modelling of ocean processes in the Bellingshausen Sea

Open to non-BAS; please contact Robert Bingham (rgbi (at) bas.ac.uk) if you would like to attend.

UserPaul Holland, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 11:00-12:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Carbon aspects of the cycles of metals

UserThomas Graedel - Professor of Industrial Ecology, Yale University.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

Numerical simulation of the Filchner overflow

Open to non-BAS; please contact Robert Bingham (rgbi (at) bas.ac.uk) if you would like to attend.

UserAlexander Wilchinsky, University College London.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 11:00-12:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

What to do with the CO2 we can’t eliminate?

UserMr. Derek McLeish (Carbon Sciences Inc).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 14:15-15:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Future of Electric Vehicles & Fuel Cells

UserMr Richard Blundell (Think UK) and Mr Michael Evans (CMR Fuel Cells).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 12:30-13:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Possibilities – Changing How We Approach Design

UserMr. Ross Lovegrove (Lovegrove Studios).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 11:45-12:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Public Policy

UserSpeaker TBC (AEA Technology).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 10:30-11:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Education of Climate Change at Cambridge & Beyond

UserProfessor David Mackay (Cambridge University).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 09:45-10:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Behaviour Change and the Role of NGOs

UserMr Duncan McLaren (Friends of the Earth Scotland) and Mr Gavin Starks (AMEE).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 09:00-09:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Solar Power: Incentives for Scaling Up

UserPanel (chair: Prof. Peter Guthrie).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 15:00-15:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Large Scale Deployment of Solar Energy, Working with Policy and Investment

UserProf. Doenitz (MAN/ Solar Millennium), Dr. Joachim Reiss (Q-Cells) and Dr. Harry Zervos (IDTechEx).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Energy Efficient Cities - An Integrated Approach to Achieving Low Carbon

UserProf. Ann Dowling (University of Cambridge) And Clare Shuttleworth (White Young Green).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 11:00-11:45

British Antarctic Survey

The effect of tides on dense water formation in Arctic shelf seas

UserClare Postlethwaite (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 11:00-12:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Venture Capital, Risk and the Business of Global Climate Change - A Global View

UserMr. Bernie Bulkin (Vantage Point Venture Capital) and Prof. Michael Manielli (ZYen, London Accords).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 09:45-10:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Policies for an Environmentally Sustainable Economy

UserMr. Roman Webber (Deliotte) and Paul Ekins (Green Fiscal Commission).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 09:00-09:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Nuclear Power – What else?

UserDr Fabian Roques (CERA).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 15:15-16:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Overview of Alternative Technology Expansion & Its funding

UserFilipe Santos (Martifer Solar) and Sarah Forrest (Goldman Sachs).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 13:15-14:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air

UserProf David Mackay (Cambridge University).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 11:30-12:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Economics of A Zero Carbon Society

UserDr Terry Barker (Tyndall Centre, 4CMR).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 10:45-11:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Global Context of Energy Crisis

UserProf Robert Watson (DEFRA).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 09:30-10:15

British Antarctic Survey

Sailors in the southern oceans: logbooks and climatic research

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserDennis Wheeler, University of Sunderland.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 17 September 2008, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Early phase clinical trials in Cambridge

UserDuncan Jodrell, Cambridge Research Institute and Department of Oncology.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 16 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey

The risk of an abrupt climate change: probabilities from a deterministic model using emulators

UserPeter Challenor (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 06 August 2008, 10:30-11:30

British Antarctic Survey

Monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserProf. Bill Johns, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockFriday 27 June 2008, 14:30-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Observing mean Ekman currents in Drake Passage

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserYueng-Djern Lenn (Bangor University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Policies for Reducing Personal Carbon

Registration Required:

UserDr Terry Barker, 4CMR, and others.

HousePitt Building, Trumpington Street.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 13:45-18:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

International environmental governance

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 17:15-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics

UserProfessor Robert Watson (Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 18:00-19:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Nick Owens, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 17:15-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

Glacial Cycles and Carbon Dioxide: A conceptual model

Open to non-BAS; please contact Emily Shuckburgh (emsh@bas.ac.uk or 221544) if you would like to attend.

UserAndy Hogg (The Australian National University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 22 April 2008, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Transient simulations of the Little Ice Age and beyond with a global reduced complexity model

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserProf Lawrence Mysak (McGill University, Canada).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 02 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

To grow or not to grow

UserProfessor Nicholas Harberd, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Lighting for the 21st Century

UserColin Humphreys - Professor of Material Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology

UserProfessor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Creating a healthy environment: challenges facing China

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserSian Griffiths, Professor of Public Health, Chinese University, Hong Kong.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cosmological Serendipity

UserSimon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Can we live on renewables?

UserDavid MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Induced epigenetic variation and its impact on Arabidopsis phenotype

UserDr Brande B H Wulff, Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas Cuidad Politecnica de la Innovacion Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 10:00-11:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Insect Pest Control: overcoming the problems?

UserProfessor Lin Field, Head of Insect Molecular Biology, Rothamsted Research.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity as a Force in Physics

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Building plant bodies from hair

UserProfessor Liam Dolan, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

The role of eddies in the Southern Ocean temperature response to the Southern Annular Mode

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserJames Screen (BAS/UEA).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity in Political Life

UserOliver Letwin, Member of Parliament.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The Economics of Climate Change: Governments, Companies and Households

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserAdair Turner, Former Director-General of the CBI.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 17:15-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

High efficiency, low emissions: Power generation on the road to thermotopia

UserJohn Young - Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life

UserSimon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

HIV and the Naked Ape

UserProfessor Robin Weiss, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Directions to 2050

UserDavid Hone - Group Climate Change Adviser, Royal Dutch Shell.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Stratigraphy of Serendipity

UserProfessor Susan Alcock, Brown University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Travelling 1st class on the Titanic?

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserBarbara Young, Chief Executive, Environment Agency.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 17:15-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Improving wheat for processing and nutrition

This CPPS Seminar is followed by drinks in the tea room

UserProfessor Peter Shewry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Unstructured meshes and adaptivity for 3D multi-scale ocean modelling

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserMatthew Piggott, Imperial College London.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2008, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

High resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere modelling

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserDave Stevens, UEA.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 08 January 2008, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Functional genomics of salinity tolerance in plants

UserProf Mark Tester, University of Adelaide, Australia.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 17 December 2007, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Mechanisms of ocean heat uptake in coupled climate models

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserHelene Banks, Hadley Centre.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Drinking in the last chance saloon: what hope for 2° C?

UserDr Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester & Dr Terry Barker, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 1.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 13:45-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic asymmetry in plant gametes

UserDr Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, HRI Warwick.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Material, Energy and Climate Change

UserErnst Worrell, Lead-author of the Fourth IPCC Assessment Report.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Carbon Detox

UserGeorge Marshall, COIN (Climate Outreach Information Network).

HouseDebating Chamber, Union Society.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2007, 18:45-20:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

‘The weather within’; 9 Bio-climatic designs

UserAlan Short, Professor of Architecture - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Science of the Skies - what the government needs to know in the fight against climate change

UserDr Victoria Pope, Head of Climate Change for Government at the MET Office Hadley Centre.

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Sequestration of carbon from conventional fossil fuel power plants

UserAndy Woods, BP Professor - BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Panel Discussion on the UK Climate Bill

UserDr Terry Barker, Dr David Frame, Tim Helweg-Larsen.

HouseLG18, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockTuesday 23 October 2007, 14:45-16:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Community assembly and phylogenies in tropical forest trees

UserDr Jérôme Chave, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Climate change and the polar ice sheets

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserAndy Shepherd, University of Edinburgh.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungi and Woodland History

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham.

HouseDavid Building, Anglia-Ruskin University.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Happiness, Global Catastrophe, and the National Assembly for Wales

UserGareth Clubb, Senior Research Officer, National Assembly of Wales.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Probabilistic weather forecasting: scientific research and commercial application

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserEmily Shuckburgh, BAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Agrofuels and the risk of ecosystem collapse

UserDeepak Rughani, BioFuelWatch.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 19:00-20:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Engineering for a Low Carbon Future: challenges and opportunities

UserJulian Allwood, Senior Lecturer - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

The Atlantic; strong but subservient in the meridional overturning circulation

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserAgatha de Boer, UEA.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2007, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Physical controls on the location and initiation of a regular phytoplankton bloom north of the Crozet Plateau

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserHugh Venables, BAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockTuesday 02 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Diapycnal mixing in Drake Passage

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserAndy Thompson, UEA.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockTuesday 11 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Dissolved Oxygen and Argon in some areas of the Southern Ocean, a proxy for the estimation of Marine Productivity

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserKarel Castro-Morales, UEA.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockTuesday 21 August 2007, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Ocean mixing and the Meridional Overturning Circulation: the Southern Ocean crossroads

Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.

UserDr Alberto Naveira Garabato (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockWednesday 27 June 2007, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Sustainable Energy - Without the BS

Open to non-BAS; please contact Ryan Woodard (rywo@bas.ac.uk or 221383) if you would like to attend.

UserDavid MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

Conservation Science Talks

CCF Seminar: The Global Oil Depletion Debate

UserSteven M. Gorelick, Cyrus F. Tolman Professor, Stanford University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 17:00-18:00

Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

Environmentally informed material choice: strategies, tools, data and difficulties

THE NINTH KELLY LECTURE

UserProfessor Mike Ashby CBE, FRS, FREng., Engineering Department, Cambridge University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2007, 17:30-18:30

Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

Novel Nanostructured Hydride Composites: Hydrogen Storage Materials for Zero-Emission Car

UserProfessor Dr Rüdiger Bormann, Institute for Materials Research, GKSS Research Centre, 21502 Geesthacht,, Germany.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2007, 14:35-15:05

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of packaging in society

UserDick Searle, Chief Executive of the Packaging Federation.

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Made in the shade: light signals, phytochromes and plant development

Re-scheduled from 8 February 2007

UserProfessor Garry Whitelam, University of Leicester.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Development

UserProfessor Sir David King (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 18:00-19:30

Stephen Stretton's list

An Environmental Case for Nuclear Energy? Talk and kick-off meeting

UserStephen Stretton: Cambridge Zero Carbon Society & Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy.

HouseBowett Room, Queens College.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 19:30-20:45

Soc Doc Soc

'Garbage Warrior' sneak-preview screening with director and producer for Q&A

FREE members, £2 non-members

UserOllie Hodge and Rachel Wexler.

HouseRobinson College, Umney Theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS

UserPeter Crane, University of Chicago.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Nuclear power in the light of climate change

UserKeith Barnham (Imperial College London), Dave Elliott (Open University), Steve Kidd (World Nuclear Association), Bill Nuttal(Cambridge University Judge Business School).

HouseLaw Faculty LG17.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:45-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

One Planet Living

UserPooran Desai OBE (Technical Director and co-founder of Bioregional).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF

UserPhilippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Are treelines responding to climate change?

UserProfessor Emeritus Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE MIND

UserRaymond Tallis, Manchester University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Carbon Calculation and your personal footprint

UserRosemary Randall and Andy Brown, Cambridge Carbon Footprint.

HouseQueen's College, Bowett's Room.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

UserLionel Bently, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

About the importance of molybdenum for life

UserDr Florian Bittner, Technische Universität Braunschweig.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY

UserMarcus du Sautoy, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY OF MEANING

UserAdrian Poole, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

VISUALISING IDENTITY

UserLudmilla Jordanova, King's College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

fpk1's list

Global Earth Science and Sustainability

C. P. Snow Lecture

UserProfessor Charles Kennel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego).

HouseTheatre, Christ’s College.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

MUSICAL IDENTITY

UserChristopher Hogwood.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Nanotechnology and precautionary risk management

NOTE: Rescheduled from Tuesday 5th.

UserProfessor Roland Clift (Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey).

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2006, 17:00-18:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Hurricane Katrina - A Study of Geosystems in Crisis

5.00pm *LR0*

UserProfessor Tom O’Rourke (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University).

HouseEngineering Department - LR0.

ClockThursday 30 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Zero Carbon City Dongtan

UserDr Neil Kirkpatrick, Associate Director, Arup.

HouseChemical Engineering Department LT1.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Rubbish

UserClaire Barlow, Production Process Group.

HouseSeminar Room B, Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockFriday 24 November 2006, 10:00-10:40

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Hormonal control of shoot branching

UserProfessor Ottoline Leyser, University of York.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Well Dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the UK

UserJulian M.Allwood, Søren E Laursen, Cecilia M de Rodriguez, Nancy M P Bocken (IfM, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Small RNA-directed pathways in plants

UserProfessor Jim Carrington, Oregon State University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Population structure and evolution of virulence in plant viruses

UserProfessor Fernando García-Arenal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Metal cofactor assembly in chloroplasts

UserDr Marinus Pilon, Colorado State University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Emissions trading, energy efficiency, and the law of unintended consequences

UserMichael Grubb, Director of the Carbon Trust, and professor of economics in Cambridge and Imperial College.

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockMonday 08 May 2006, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE

UserDiana Liverman, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING LONGER

UserCynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE

UserAndrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS

UserJames Jackson, Cambridge University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING DISEASE

UserRichard Feachem, Global Fund.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES

UserPeter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF CULTURE

UserEdith Hall, Durham University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES

UserPaul Kennedy, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Offtopic Lunch

Sustainable computer workstations

UserSeb Wills, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseRoom 911, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2005, 12:30-13:30

Offtopic Lunch

Sustainable Energy

UserDavid MacKay, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2005, 12:30-13:30

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