Gurdon Institute list

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Does dose matter? Controlling X chromosome activity in early primate development

User Claire Rougeulle, Université Paris Cité.

Monday 29 April 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Genomic imprinting and epigenetic inheritance: Impact on mammalian evolution and development

User Azim Surani, Gurdon Institute.

Monday 29 April 2024, 17:30-19:00

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Differential tissue deformability underlies fluid pressure driven shape divergence of the embryonic brain and spinal cord

User Susannah McLaren, Gurdon Institute.

Friday 26 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Eating and Walking - how cells manage their energy budget during migration and invasion

User Laura Machesky, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas

Host - Frank Jiggins

User Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

User Dr Daniel Munoz Espin, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 09:30-10:30

E. coli and the Game of Clones

Host – Kate Baker

User Professor Jukka Corander from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and University of Oslo.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 18 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Towards Rational Combination Therapies: Understanding tumor evolution during therapy response and resistance

User Anna Obenauf, IMP Vienna.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 18 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

The role of radiation in cancer care: a spotlight on cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck

User Dr Gill Barnett; Dept of Oncology and Strangeways Research Laboratory; Dr Christopher Jones, Dept of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals .

House Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre , School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 18 April 2024, 09:30-10:30

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A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

User Dr Omer Bayraktar.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

User Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Understanding the cancer genome base-by-base

User Dr David Adams, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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

Thursday 11 April 2024, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clonal haematopoiesis, early detection and pre-leukemia to leukemia development

User Prof Elisa Laurenti, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. .

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

Thursday 21 March 2024, 09:30-10:30

House The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Our first choices: decoding cellular signals during developmental transitions

User Silvia Santos, Francis Crick Institute.

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast

User Miguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

User Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 14 March 2024, 09:30-10:30

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Controlling the cell cycle

User Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute.

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Fluorogenetic interrogation of epigenetic pathways

User Dr Iva Tchasovnikarova, Gurdon Institute and Department of Biochemistry. .

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

Thursday 07 March 2024, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Chromosome dynamics during the cell cycle

User Daniel Gerlich, IMBA, University of Vienna.

Monday 04 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Mutate Everything: globally mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins

User Ben Lehner, Sanger Institute.

Monday 04 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Linking histone H1 to Polycomb repression

User Iva Tchasovnikarova (University of Cambridge).

Monday 04 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

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The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint

User Neil Anthwal, Kings College London.

Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Nutritional programming by maternal over-nutrition: a developing obesity crisis.

User Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Title to be confirmed

User Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Shelby Blythe from Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

User Professor Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 09:30-10:30

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The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

User Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

User Prof Antonis Antoniou, Department of Public Health and Primary Care. .

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

Thursday 22 February 2024, 09:30-10:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep

User Dr Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo, RIKEN BDR.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Deciphering Developmental Disorders

User Matthew Hurles, Sanger Institute.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

"Meet the Expert": How to survive and thrive as an entrepreneur

Booking required, lunch provided, note later time

User Dr Jason Mellad, Co-Founder and CEO of Startcodon. .

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

Thursday 15 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

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Drosophila AP patterning: networks, dynamics, evolution, and robustness

User Erik Clark, Department of Genetics.

Friday 09 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity

Host - Steve Russell

User Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge .

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

The secrets of human centromeres: from their epigenetic determination to the maintenance of their stability

User Daniele Fachinetti, Institut Curie.

Monday 05 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Uncovering how the genome directs development

User Julie Ahringer, Gurdon Institute.

Monday 05 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

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TBA

User Hansong Ma, University of Birmingham.

Friday 02 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Epigenetic Inheritance

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

User Dr Nicola Iovino from Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Redefining metastasis: what we know and where we are going

User Dr Eric Rahrmann, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. .

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

Thursday 01 February 2024, 09:30-10:30

The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division

Host - Ben Steventon

User Dr Helen Matthews from School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Steroid hormone regulation of cancer immunity

User Dr Bidesh Mahata, Department of Pathology.

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

Thursday 25 January 2024, 09:30-10:30

Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA .

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Our archael ancestry: cell division from arhaea to eukaryotes

User Buzz Baum, MRC-LMB.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy

User Prof Rahul Roychoudhuri, Department of Pathology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Hh signalling and the anti-tumour immune response: biology and new treatment opportunities

User Dr Maike de La Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

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

Thursday 11 January 2024, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Mapping stromal heterogeneity and immunosuppression in breast cancer

Please note change of time to 11.30-12.30

User Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 14 December 2023, 11:30-12:30

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

User Prof Christian Frezza CECAD Research Center, University Hospital Cologne.

Thursday 14 December 2023, 09:30-10:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Human lung organoid models of lung development and disease

also hybrid, check this space for upcoming Zoom link!

User Emma Rawlins, The Gurdon Institute/PDN, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Hypoxia, HIFs and cancer

User Prof Margaret Ashcroft, Department of Medicine .

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

Thursday 07 December 2023, 09:30-10:30

An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineages

Host - Zach Baker

User Professor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences .

Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

New models to study human embryo implantation and early development

User Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute.

Friday 01 December 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

User Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

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

Thursday 30 November 2023, 09:30-10:30

House Wellcome Trust /CRUK Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB21QN.

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Coordination of cell states and tissue architecture by mechanical forces

User Sara Wickström, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster.

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

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TBC

User Dr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London.

Friday 24 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Dissecting neuronal circuits underlying visual cognition: from macaques to marmosets

User Keita Tamura, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

DNA repair: translating mechanistic insights towards new cancer therapies.

User Prof Steve Jackson, CRUK Cambridge Institute .

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

Thursday 23 November 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminar Cancelled

Seminar Cancelled - to be rescheduled in 2024

User Karen Vousden.

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

The evolution of organs and cell types.

Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli

User Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Precision oncology: a philosophical perspective

User Dr Benjamin Chin-Yee, Haematologist (Western University, Canada); MA in History and Philosophy of Science..

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

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

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

The genetics of epigenetics: understanding H3K9me in C. elegans muscle development

User Susan Gasser, Fondation ISREC.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

KRAB zinc finger proteins expand the domestication potential of mobile elements

User Michael Imbeault.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

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Circuit basis of learning and decision-making

User Dr. Marta Zlatic, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 10 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Going out on a limb to study mechanisms controlling organ size and proportions

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86076415954?pwd=XTPUrPn3tx4Z1T0ant39Y7HyaVBPtO.1

User Alberto Rosell-Diez, PDN University of Cambridge.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Dr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

The mutations that drive cancer

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 09 November 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

First in human evaluation of CDK9 inhibition with KB-0742 in solid tumors

Please note this seminar is on a Monday

User Richard Cutler PhD, Kronos Bio, Inc..

Monday 06 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological mechanical stress

User Dr. Elena Scarpa, Department of Phhysiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Friday 03 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 2: cell biology

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 02 November 2023, 09:30-10:30

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The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

User Dr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Friday 27 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 1: genes and genetic instability

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

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

Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Yolanda Schaerli from Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Tumour pathology, structure and nomenclature

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Regulation of mRNA translation and decay

User David Bartel, Whitehead Institute.

Monday 16 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Coevolution of transposable elements and small RNA defence mechanisms in mammals

User Eric Miska, Department of Biochemistry.

Monday 16 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

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Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cells

User Prof. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University.

Friday 13 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation

Host - John Welch

User Professor Michael Whitlock from Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

How cilia signal

Please note this seminar is on a Monday

User Jeremy Reiter, UCSF.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Monday 02 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Updates and opportunities offered by whole genome sequencing on the Cambridge Biomedical Research Campus

Please note this seminar is on a Monday

User Serena Nik-Zainal, Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge.

Monday 18 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott from the Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Curing cancer with AI – hype or hope?

User Prof Richard Gilbertson, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Director of CRUK Cambridge Centre.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 27 July 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies

User Dr Amos Burke Clinical Consultant, Dept of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology & Palliative Care.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 20 July 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic Cancer - The clinical challenge; Why the microenvironment matters during progression and treatment

User Dr Giulia Biffi and Dr Bristi Basu; CRUK Cambridge Institute / Oncology Dept and Cambridge University Hospitals.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 13 July 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early stage cancer clinical trials

User Dr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospital, Dept of Oncology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 06 July 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in paediatric tumours

User Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 29 June 2023, 09:30-10:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Synthetic ex utero embryogenesis: from naive pluripotent stem cells to human and mouse bona fide embryo-models

User Professor Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

Tuesday 27 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: an introduction

User Dr James Jones; Cambridge University Hopitals NHSFT.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 22 June 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

**Seminar cancelled** to be rescheduled in 2024

User Nikolaus Rajewsky.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 15 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Nutrition and cancer prevention

User Prof Martin Wiseman, World Cancer Research Fund International and Visiting Professor in Human Nutrition Southampton University .

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 09:30-10:30

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Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B

User Dr. Courtney Hanna, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosience.

Friday 09 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians

Host - Richard Durbin

User Dr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Biological and Clinical features of high grade serous ovarian cancer

User Prof James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Cambridge University Hospitals NHSFT.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 09:30-10:30

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Molecular mechanisms of oocyte specification in female germline cysts

User Dr. Dmitry Nashchekin, Gurdon Institute .

Friday 02 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer resistance in the naked mole-rat: tales of transformation and more!

User Prof Ewan St John Smith, Dept of Pharmacology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 09:30-10:30

Human brain chimeroids as avatars to study inter-individual variation in brain development and disease

To receive the link please email communications@gurdon.cam.ac.uk

User Dr Paola Arlotta, Harvard, USA.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Progenitor niches in the developing pancreas: regulation of cell fate and beyond

User Prof. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London.

Friday 26 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the oncologist

User Dr Raj Jena Dept of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals; Mr Adel Helmy, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

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Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids

User Dr. Laura Pellegrini, Kings College London/ MRC LMB.

Friday 19 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminar cancelled

**Seminar cancelled** to be rescheduled in 2024

User Polly Fordyce, Stanford University.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 18 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Single cell RNA seq. and application in cancer research

User Dr. Walid Khaled and Dr Sara Pensa (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute).

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

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Sticky proteins and moving genomes: a single-molecule perspective of pluripotent cell differentiation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 12 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks

Host - Henrik Salje

User Professor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Virology Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Understanding Myc Transcription

User Dr Catherine Wilson; Dept of Pharmacology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer

User Dr James Jones; Cambridge University Hopitals NHSFT.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

Kidney cancer

User Dr James Jones; Cambridge University Hospitals NHSFT.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Decision making without genes?

User Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL.

Friday 05 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Small Cell Lung Cancer from biology to biomarkers

User Caroline Dive, CRUK Manchester Institute.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 04 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Shedding light on tumour physiology

User Dr Mariam-Eleni Oraiopoulou; research associate VISION Lab CRUK Cambridge Institute .

Thursday 04 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer

Host - Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Serena Nik-Zainal from Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Toolkit in Cancer Research: in vitro modelling and spatial phenotyping

User Dr John Lizhe Zhuang; Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 09:30-10:30

House Gurdon Institute Tearoom.

Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signaling dynamics in the epithelium

User Professor Olivier Pertz, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Stressing out our immune system in chronic infection and cancer

User Susan Kaech.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 20 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Machine learning: applications to cancer

User Dr Mireia Crispin, Department of Oncology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 20 April 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signalling dynamics in the epithelium

User Professor Maddy Parsons, King’s College, London.

House Gurdon Institute.

Tuesday 04 April 2023, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence in Cancer

User Dr Michael Boemo, Dept of Pathology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 09:30-10:30

House Gurdon Institute Tearoom.

Being a Good Neighbour: Cell Cycle, Metabolism and Cell Fate in the Drosophila Testis.

User Dr Marc Amoyel, UCL.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

A DNA methylation atlas of normal human cell types

User Tommy Kaplan, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

The two hit hypothesis and other simple theories of cancer

User Dr Jamie Blundell, Early Cancer Institute.

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

Thursday 23 March 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Immune Regulation in Inflammation and Cancer

User Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Form and function during early heart development

User Richard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 10 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Dr Trevor Lawley from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

How do cells acquire drug resistance mutations?

User Dr Jon Houseley, Babraham Institute.

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

Thursday 09 March 2023, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

KRAB zinc finger proteins and the species-specificity of human biology, for better and for worse

User Didier Trono, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Monday 06 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

The evolution of mammalian X-inactivation

User James Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

Monday 06 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiation

User Walid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 03 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome

Host - Erik Clark

User Dr Mounia Lagha from Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France .

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Hh signalling and the anti-tumour immune response: biology and new treatment opportunities

User Dr Maike de La Roche, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 09:30-10:30

Physics of morphogenesis

To join online, please email events@gurdon.cam.ac.uk

User Professor Stephan Grill, Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

House Online.

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

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Encoding and decoding morphogen gradients

User Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London.

Friday 24 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Membrane shapes and dynamics driven by curved active proteins

Hosted by Milka Sarris and Ewa Paluch

User Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute Israel.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Mechanism of neural differentiation

Host – Lara Busby

User Professor Kate Storey from School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Tumor genomes shed light into somatic mutational processes and cancer vulnerabilities

User Nuria Lopez-Bigas.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Experimental cancer genetics

User Dr David Adams, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

New tricks for Rac and Rho, even after 30 years

User Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara, US.

Friday 17 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

TALK CANCELLED

User Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Cancer Institute.

House Cancelled - apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Chromosome-end protection in pre-implantation development

User Jérôme Déjardin, Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier.

Monday 06 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Inheritance of H3-H4 and H2A-H2B modifications / variants across DNA replication and mitosis

User Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen.

Monday 06 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

User Professor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injury

User Katie Long, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London.

Friday 27 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution

Host - Hansong Ma

User Professor Heidi McBride from McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal, Quebec .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

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

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Taking it up a Notch, building the body plan

User Professor Kim Dale, University of Dundee.

House In Person.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial development

User Marcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

In vivo functional screens for modelling cancer initiation and progression

User Dr Eric Rahrmann, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 09:30-10:30

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

The role of transcription factors in cancer.

User Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 12 January 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

User Dr Daniel Muñoz-Espin; Department of Oncology / Early Cancer Institute.

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

Thursday 15 December 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023**

User Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 08 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

DNA repair: translating mechanistic insights towards new cancer therapies.

User Prof Steve Jackson; The Gurdon Institute .

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Epigenetic resetting during human germline development

User Wolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute.

Friday 02 December 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

User Prof Christian Frezza, CECAD Research Center, University Hospital Cologne.

House Online via Zoom.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Mechanisms of Chromatin Remodeling Machines: Different or the Same?

User Geeta Narlikar, UCSF.

Monday 28 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Mechanisms of zygotic genome activation and spatial chromatin organization in totipotent mouse embryos

User Kikue Tachibana, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Monday 28 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans

Host – Ritwick Sawarkar

User Dr Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

User Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

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

Thursday 24 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

You get a methylation, and you get a methylation, everybody gets a methylation

Host: GIPA, Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association

User Dr Pedro J Batista, NIH, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MC, USA.

House Virtual.

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

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Fit for this world - cellular properties are set during critical periods of development

User Matthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology.

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2

Host – Henrik Salje

User Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

This seminar has been cancelled - we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you

**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023**

User Louis Chesler, ICR.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Simulating medicine: testing- speculations about medical science and clinical practice

User Prof Jacob Stagenga, Department of History and Philosophy of Science: .

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

Thursday 17 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective

Host – Bianca De Sanctis

User Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

The mutations that drive cancer

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 10 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis

User Maja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany.

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Core ideas in cancer research 2: cell biology

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 03 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Genome evolution and the control of transposons during germline development in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Fluorogenetic interrogation of chromatin position effects

User Iva Tchasovnikarova, Gurdon Institute.

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

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Embryonic and adult neural stem cells- what underlies their difference

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova and Sumru Bayin

User Dr Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan.

House Virtual.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 09:00-10:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species

User Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute.

Friday 28 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 1: genes and genetic instability

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 27 October 2022, 09:30-10:30

Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Dr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Tumour pathology, structure and nomenclature

User Dr. Paul Edwards (University of Cambridge).

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applications

User Yan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks

Host - Lin Wang

User Professor David Liu, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probing the rate limitation of a cancer driver mutation

User Hans-Reimer Rodewald, DKFZ.

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

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Adherens junctions, mechanotransduction and intra-epithelial communication

User Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Friday 07 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?

Host - Frank Jiggins

User Professor Michael Turelli, from Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, CA .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

This seminar has been cancelled - we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you

**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023**

User Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 15 September 2022, 13:00-14:00

Lung Cancer. Part 1. Patient pathway and Intervention; Part 2: Futurescape

User Professor Robert Rintoul (Papworth Hospital and Dr Frank McCaughan (Dept of Biochemistry).

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 21 July 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Mitochondria and Cancer - lessons learned dissecting cellular and molecular interactions

**Please note this seminar will take place at 12 noon**

User Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

User Dr Daniel Muñoz-Espin; Department of Oncology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 14 July 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic Cancer: Challenges, Models and Therapeutic Opportunities

User Dr Giulia Biffi; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 07 July 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: The most lethal urological malignancy

User Prof Grant Stewart, Dept of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cell differentiation and tumour initiation - two sides of the coin

User Dr Walid Khaled Dept of Pharmacology/ Cambridge Stem Cell Institute .

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 23 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Professor Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 16 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

CANCELLED The impact of environmental factors on cancer

User Dr Elisabete Silva, Brunel University London.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level

User Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 June 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability

Host - Cahir O’Kane

User Professor Michael Coleman from Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Hh signalling and the anti-tumour immune response: biology and new treatment opportunities

User Dr Maike de La Roche, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Gurdon Institute Tea Room AND on Zoom.

Decoding transcriptional regulation

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova & Julie Ahringer

User Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 11:30-12:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Simone Reber, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Understanding Myc Transcription

User Dr Cathy Wilson, Department of Pharmacology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

Hosted: Ben Simons

User Wolf Reik, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

House To be confirmed.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancer

User Roberta Azzarelli Wellcome, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor William Sullivan, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cell Plasticity and Lineage Commitment in Liver Tumorigenesis

**Please note this seminar will take place in person only**

User Lars Zender, University Hospital Tuebingen.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Cancer resistance in the naked mole-rat, a tale of transformation

User Prof Ewan St John Smith; Dept of Pathology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Dynamic buffering of extracellular chemokine to enable robust adaptation during directed tissue migration

User Mie Wong, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London.

Friday 13 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell division

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Fernando Monje Casas, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), Seville.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 12 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

User Dr Suzannne Turner, Dept of Pathology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 09:30-10:30

Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Hematopoietic Malignancies

Hosted by: Andrea Brand & John Gurdon

User Prof Robert G Roeder, The Rockefeller University, New York.

Monday 09 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Cells in gels: identification of Plakoglobin as an evolutionary conserved mechanosensitive regulator of naïve pluripotency

User Timo Kohler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

The long road of building a nervous system - smooth travels and accidents on the journey to get the shape and size.

User Elisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona.

House On Zoom.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes

Host - Carol Edwards

User Professor Jason Wolf, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

The promise of proton therapy in paediatric tumours

User Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain

User Sumru Bayin, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 29 April 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

**Please note this seminar has been cancelled and rescheduled to 16 March 2023**

User Fatima Metcha-Grigoriou, Institut Curie.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 28 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

The role of transcription factors in cancer

User Dr Jason Carroll; CRUK Cambridge Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 09:30-10:30

Global Views of Mammalian Development

User Jay Shendure, University of Washington.

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Daniel St Johnston & Andrea Brand

User Anne-Kathrin Classen, University of Freiburg, Germany.

House Live Zoom Seminar.

Tuesday 12 April 2022, 11:30-12:30

Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant function

User Manohar Bance, University of Cambridge.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 07 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Biological and Clinical features of high grade serous ovarian cancer

User Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 07 April 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Deciphering the regulation and regulatory function of oncogenic transcription factors using time-resolved functional genetics

**Please note this seminar will take place on a Friday**

User Johannes Zuber, IMP, Vienna BioCentre.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Friday 01 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

In vivo functional screens for modelling cancer initiation and progression

User Dr Eric Rahrmann, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 31 March 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Physiology Lecture theatre (and on Zoom) .

Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

User Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

User Prof Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

House Lecture Theatre 2, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantation

User Ivan Bedzhov, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany.

Friday 18 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Development of interneurons in visual cortex

User Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 17 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

**This seminar has been postponed and will be rescheduled early next year**

User Karen Vousden, The Crick Institute.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

User Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer Dept of Haematology, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Mechanisms of organismal stress resistance in C. elegans

User Rebecca Taylor, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish

User Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

User Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Paediatric malignancies - an overview

User Dr Amos Burk Clinical Consultant, Dept of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology & Palliative Care.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian development

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

Friday 04 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

User Dr Susumu Hirabayashi, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Breast Cancer- demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway

User Dr Richard Baird, Dept of Oncology, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Dynamics of starvation-induced and selective autophagy in mammalian cells

User Nicholas Ktistakis, Babraham Institute.

Friday 25 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity

User Marcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality

Hosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang

User Professor Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities

User Dr Namshik Han, Head of Computational Biology, Milner Therapeutics Institute.

House Online via zoom.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: David Fernandez-Antoran & Emma Rawlins

User Maria Pilar Alcolea, Wellcome-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

House To be confirmed.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 12:15-13:15

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

In vivo exploration of biomolecular condensates in early Drosophila development

User Tim Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The challenges in therapeutic targeting of the RAF-MEK-ERK signalling pathway

User Dr Simon Cook FRSB, Senior Group Leader, Babraham Institute.

House Online via zoom.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Signalling dynamics of neutrophil migration at sites of tissue damage

User Milka Sarris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

House Biffen Theater and Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting

User Kevin Chalut, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 04 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools

User Wendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.

Host: Elves Duarte

User Dr Johannes Köster, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:30-14:30

Investigating the evolution and development of body plans and body parts in arthropods

Host - Steve Russell

User Professor Alistair McGregor, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

User Magdalena Götz, Director, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Center, Munich.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 11:00-12:00

CANCELLED: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

User Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

User Dr Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology .

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Viral Oncology

User Professor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 13 January 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientist’s guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

User Dr Raj Jena, Dept of Oncology & Mr Adel Helmy, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience (CUH NHS Foundation Trust).

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 06 January 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Decoding and Recoding the Opposing Roles of Interferon and Pattern Recognition Receptor Signaling in Cancer Immunotherapy

Please join via: https://zoom.us/j/92761420222?pwd=N3lHdmhIQk4zWExQeWJkN3QxV1Mvdz09 Meeting ID: 927 6142 0222 Passcode: 237565

User Andy J. Minn, MD, PhD, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

House Zoom.

Thursday 16 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological imaging: 1: Introduction and non-radionuclide techniques; 2: Radionuclide techniques

User Prof Ferdia Gallagher, Department of Radiology (Cambridge University) & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, (Cambridge University Hospitals).

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 16 December 2021, 09:30-10:30

Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 09 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

User Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 09 December 2021, 09:30-10:30

Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology.

House TBC.

Monday 06 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex

User Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 02 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Care and Cure:an Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

User Professor Jacob Stegenga, Department of History and Philosophy of Science:.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 09:30-10:30

Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situ

User Prof. Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 25 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

DNA repair: translating mechanistic insights towards new cancer therapies.

User Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute .

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 09:30-10:30

Engineering epithelial organoid development

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

User Matthias Lütolf, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Asymmetric nuclear division in neural stem cells generates sibling nuclei that differ in size, envelope composition, and chromatin organization

User Chantal Roubinet, Postdoctoral Fellow Buzz Baum Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis

User Fiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells

Host: Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Seminar cancelled

**Seminar Cancelled - to be rescheduled in 2022**

User Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Systematic anti-cancer therapy

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Gary Doherty, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Towards a cellular and molecular understanding of mammalian anterior patterning

User Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford.

Friday 12 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Signalling pathways regulating cell fate allocation in the early mouse embryo

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Julie Ahringer

User Elizabeth Robertson, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Zooming into the sarcomere: from single molecules to molecular forces

User Frank Schnorrer, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille.

Friday 05 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Mechanisms of Aging

User Anne Brunet, Stanford University.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

The mutations that drive cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Wnt gradients: how they form and their role in tissue morphogenesis

User Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Metabolic rewiring drives invasion and metastasis in mammary carcinoma

**Please register in advance for this seminar. Thank you. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/190513820967**

User Jim Norman, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

A finger on the pulse of regeneration

User Mekayla Storer, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines

User David Sheppard, Bristol University.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Bacterial condensates under stress

Host: Rosana Collepardo

User Professor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Tumour structure and nomenclature

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids

User Dr Emma Rawlins (University of Cambridge).

Friday 15 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Priming the Immune System to Provoke Checkpoints: The Path to Maintaining the Immunotherapy Momentum

***Please note this seminar will take place online at 3pm***

User Elizabeth M Jaffee, John Hopkins.

House Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99810093344?pwd=ZjR1YThpVktSRmtmUEhYRWpOcVVKdz09 Meeting ID: 998 1009 3344 Passcode: 384753.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair

Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

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

Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism.

Host: John Welch

User Professor Tatiana Giraud, Departement Genetique et Ecologie Evolutives, Université Paris-Saclay.

Thursday 07 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

Symmetry breaking in gastruloids development

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Jenny Gallop

User Prisca Liberali, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Tuesday 05 October 2021, 11:00-12:00

Cell Polarity and Organoids: New Pathways and Models for Translational Research and Cancer Immunology

Due to Covid capacity restrictions in our lecture theatre this seminar will be for those based at the CRUK CI only. Please contact kate.davenport@cruk.cam.ac.uk if you would like to view a recording. Thank you.

User Senthil Muthuswamy, Harvard Medical School.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 16 September 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cancelled

**Seminar Cancelled - to be rescheduled in 2022**

User Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Viral Oncology

User Professor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

House Online by Zoom - as below.

Thursday 22 July 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

From another lens: An anthropological perspective on cancer and care in the UK.

User Dr Ignacia Arteaga Dept of Social Anthropology .

House Online by Zoom - as below.

Thursday 15 July 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

In vivo functional screens for modelling cancer initiation and progression

User Dr Eric Rahrmann, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

House Online by Zoom - as below.

Thursday 01 July 2021, 09:30-10:30

Dicer dependent tRNA derived small RNAs promote nascent RNA silencing

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

User Monika Gullerova, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tuesday 29 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

It takes a village: targeting the non-cancerous neighbours to fight pancreatic cancer

User Dr Giulia Biffi; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

House Online by Zoom.

Thursday 24 June 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Cancelled

***Please note due to travel restrictions this seminar has been rescheduled to 2022***

User Marcia Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 17 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

User Mr Raaj Praseedom, Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 09:30-10:30

Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska

User Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Monday 14 June 2021, 11:00-12:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Genetic and developmental basis of morphological variation in cichlid fishes

User Emília Santos, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Understanding Myc transcription

User Dr Cathy Wilson, Department of Pharmacology.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 09:30-10:30

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Using Fruit Flies to Understand Tissue Regeneration

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

User Rachel Smith-Bolton, Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois, USA.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

CANCELLED: Replication control during the cell cycle and development

User Philip Zegerman, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 04 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and clinical features of high grade serous ovarian cancer

User Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function

User Snezhana Oliferenko, The Francis Crick Institute.

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure

Host – Richard Durbin

User Dr Karen Miga from Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

The promise of proton therapy in paediatric tumours

User Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

Homeoboxes build the nervous system

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer

User Oliver Hobert, Columbia University, USA.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

From Signals to Chromatin: Germ layer specification in mouse

User Sebastian Arnold, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.

Friday 21 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Quality control of proteins orphaned in the cytosol

User Ramanujan S Hegde, MRC LMB.

House https://zoom.us/j/96287903585?pwd=TTdwcEg4VkU0ZjQyTUVka2dDendjUT09 Meeting ID: 962 8790 3585 Passcode: 571491.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

User Dr Suzanne Turner, Dept of Pathology, Cambridge University.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Human hypothalamic neurons for studying obesity and its relevance to neurodegeneration

User Florian Merkle, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease

Host: Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 13 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

NB this lecture will not be recorded.

User Prof Grant Stewart, Dept of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

New roles for Golgi-derived PI(4)P-containing vesicles in mitochondrial division

User Julien Prudent, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Friday 07 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separation

Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara

User Professor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

Human time vs. mouse time with recapitulated systems.

User Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Artificial intelligence for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities.

User Dr Namshik Han, Head of Computational Biology, Milner Therapeutics Institute.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

Regulation of stem cell fate by niche-derived factors and forces.

User Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Human Immunity – one cell at a time

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:30-14:30

The role of transcription factors in cancer

User Dr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 09:30-10:30

Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer

User Howard Chang, Stanford University Medical Center, USA.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Monday 26 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

User Professor Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

House Live event cancelled.

Thursday 22 April 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lung Cancer. Part 1. Patient pathway and Intervention; Part 2: Futurescape

User Dr Robert Rintoul, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Frank McCaughan, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Dept of Biochemistry.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 15 April 2021, 09:30-10:30

Breast Cancer – demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway

User Dr Richard Baird, Dept of Oncology, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 25 March 2021, 09:30-10:30

Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representations

User Andre Fenton, New York University.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Regulation of Protein Degradation in Cancer and Effect on Tumor Immunity

User X. Shirley Liu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University .

House https://zoom.us/j/91298323844?pwd=cUxLVjdkMm5sbDlkd3RuNFZQUzJnUT09 Meeting ID: 912 9832 3844 Passcode: 362047.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies: an overview

User Dr Amos Burk Clinical Consultant, Dept of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Gut induced vascular plasticity drives stem cell adaptation during intestinal regeneration

User Julia Cordero, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Friday 12 March 2021, 13:15-13:55

PP2A-B55 inhibitors Arpp19 and ENSA define the cell cycle program by controlling the temporal pattern of protein phosphorylation

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

User Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Early detection and treatment of lethal prostate cancer.

User Dr Charlie Massie, Dept of Oncology and Dr Harveer Dev, Clinical Lecturer Early Detection Programme.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Continued development: the plasticity of adult organs

User Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London.

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:15-13:55

How cells integrate chemical and mechanical cues during cell migration in vivo

User Roberto Mayor, UCL.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

User Dr Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Venue to be confirmed.

This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later this year.

Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

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

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Understanding the structure-function relationships in asymmetric stem cell division

User Mayu Inaba, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut.

Friday 26 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Functional evolution of Hox proteins: Regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation

User Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for medical research.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Mechanisms and consequences of pancreatic cancer stromal evolution

User Mara Sherman, Oregon Health & Science University.

House On Zoom please join at https://zoom.us/j/94247154940?pwd=dk1SNmVTSnlGZlJCbVNFSUNGMm0wdz09 Meeting ID: 942 4715 4940 Passcode: 143320.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: i. Introduction & Non-radionuclide techniques ii. Radionuclide techniques

User Prof Ferdia Gallagher, Dept of Radiology, & Dr Luigi Aloj, Dept of Nuclear Medicine, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Antagonistic effects of ionising radiation in cell competition

User David Fernandez-Antoran, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Patricia Wittkopp, Biological Science Building, University of Michigan.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

The challenges in therapeutic targeting of the RAF-MEK-ERK signalling pathway

User Dr Simon Cook FRSB, Senior Group Leader, Babraham Institute.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Fluorogenetic Interrogation of Chromatin Position Effects

User Iva Tchasovnikarova, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 12 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Elly Tanaka, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

The AKT inhibitor capivasertib (AZD5363): from discovery to clinical proof concept

User Dr Barry Davies, Director, Clinical Translation Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Mechanisms of membrane protein biogenesis

User Ramanujan S. Hegde, MRC Labortory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Will the Real Preeclampsia Patient Please Stand Up?

User Brian Cox, University of Toronto.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges

Host: John Welch

User Dr Sally Otto, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Clinical treatment and cancer stem cell biology in malignant glioma

User Dr Harry Bulstrode, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 09:30-10:30

Lineage tracing through somatic mutations in human development

User Flora Vaccarino, Yale University.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids

Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Robert Johnston, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Molecular Imaging for the Improved Visualization and Treatment of Cancer

User Jason Lewis, MSKCC.

House On Zoom please join at https://zoom.us/j/98710548470?pwd=TVZoNExQc2ZNNE9VV0o0M2JFR1pLdz09 Meeting ID: 987 1054 8470 Passcode: 631155.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientist’s guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

User Dr Raj Jena, Dept of Oncology & Mr Adel Helmy, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 21 January 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Immunotherapy

User Dr Christine Parkinson, Dept of Oncology, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 14 January 2021, 09:30-10:30

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

User Dr Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 07 January 2021, 09:30-10:30

Systemic anti-cancer therapy

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Gary Doherty, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 17 December 2020, 10:00-11:00

Exploring the role of the tumour microenvironment: what do the other cells do?

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Jacqui Shields, MRC Cancer Unit.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 10 December 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Enhancers get ERKed around by chromatin remodellers during lineage commitment

User Brian Hendrich, MRC Stem Cell Institute, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

TBC

User Kevin Chalut, Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Simon Myers, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:30-14:30

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Re-generating the principles of appendage regeneration in the single-cell era

User Can Aztekin, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

The remote control of gene expression: enhancer function in development and disease

User Wendy Bickmore, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

House Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/94186177151?pwd=ZHBhVVI2WUUweElydmlmYWZiN1FuQT09 Meeting ID: 941 8617 7151 Passcode: 426410.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 09:30-10:30

Mechanistic basis of epigenetic switching and memory

Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins

User Martin Howard, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

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

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Chromatin remodelling determines cell-type specific Notch activity in the developing mouse brain

User Jelle van den Ameele, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Friday 13 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

Woofing it Down: Lessons on the neurobiology of appetite from man’s best friend

User Eleanor Raffan, PDN, Cambridge.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit .

Thursday 12 November 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Epithelial-mesenchymal cell plasticity during normal development and cancer progression

User Kyra Campbell, Dept. of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

House Online (meet.google.com/exf-zbdn-gmq).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Imaging and reconstructing mouse development at the cellular level using light-sheet microscopy

User Kate McDole, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 30 October 2020, 13:15-13:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 09:30-10:30

The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.

Host: Marco Geymonat

User Professor Angelika Amon, MIT, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Tumour structure and nomenclature

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 22 October 2020, 09:30-10:30

Targeting the Tumour Microenvironment

User Clare Isacke, The Institute of Cancer Research.

House On Zoom please join at: https://zoom.us/j/92682831418?pwd=cTd1Zk5Sejg4UHNiMTd1dHJQYmxqZz09 Meeting ID: 926 8283 1418 Passcode: 588776.

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

Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Timothy Saunders, Mechanobiology, Institute, National University of Singapore.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 09:00-10:00

The Anne McLaren Lecture: How CST protects telomeres and double-strand breaks

Hosted by: Steve Jackson & Hansong Ma

User Titia de Lange, Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

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

Therapeutic Opportunities in Glycoscience

***Please note the change of time to 17.30-18.30 - many apologies for the inconvenience this might cause, zoom registrations will update automatically***

User Carolyn Bertozzi, Stanford University.

House To register please sign up via zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEufuGgqDorGNKIbAXM0oNMYhpy2Sdl_bQM .

Thursday 17 September 2020, 17:30-18:30

Firing up the genome

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

User Nadine Vastenhouw, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Monday 27 July 2020, 10:30-11:30

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Mr Raaj Praseedom, Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team.

House Online - "meet.google.com/epi-proa-bxu":URL.

Thursday 16 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Viral Oncology

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

House Online - "meet.google.com/tyd-okcn-wmr":URL.

Thursday 09 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The biology and fundamental management of colorectal cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Mr Simon Buczacki, Dept Haematology (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 02 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Model-based explanation of cellular response

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

User Fabian Theis, Director, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

This seminar has been cancelled

This seminar is rescheduled to take place on 17 June 2021

User Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 25 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Lung Cancer: Part 1. Patient pathway and intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Robert Rintoul -Clinical Consultant, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Dr Frank McCaughan-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow / Honorary Consultant,Department of Biochemistry School of Clinical Medicine .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 25 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader, Department of Oncology..

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 18 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

The promise of proton therapy in Paediatric tumours

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 11 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

The clinical and biological basis of prostate cancer - from diagnosis to personalised therapy

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of Life

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Namshik Han, Head of Computational Biology, Milner Therapeutics Institute.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

User Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

This seminar has been cancelled

We will reschedule for later in the year.

User Ramanujan S Hegde.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Paediatric Malignancies

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Amos Burke, Clinical Consultant - Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

User Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Treatment of kidney cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Mr Grant Stewart, Cambridge University Hospitals.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

User Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

User Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 30 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

This seminar has been cancelled

User Jim Norman, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 23 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 23 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Thursday 09 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

CANCELLED - “Cancer genomics: from chromatin structure to new therapeutic targets”

Host: Sakari Vanharanta

User Professor Elisa Oricchio (EPFL, Zurich).

Tuesday 07 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Fengzhu Xiong

User Andy McMahon, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, USA.

Friday 03 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

House Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Richard Baird, Department of Oncology.

House Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

3D Genomics in development and disease

User Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

User Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

User Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris .

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

User Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

User Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Bringing Rcd4 into the limelight - A forgotten member of the Drosophila centriolar inventory

User Pallavi Panda, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 17:30-19:30

The Elongator complex controls symmetry breaking of the central spindle and thereby polarized trafficking of cell fate determinants during asymmetric cell division

User Vicente Jose Planelles Herrero – Derivery group – MRC LMB.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 17:30-19:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

User Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

This talk has been cancelled

User Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The challenges in therapeutic targeting of the RAF-MEK-ERK signalling pathway

User Dr Simon Cook, Babraham Institute.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The mechanical regulation of brain development

User Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The AKT inhibitor Capivasertib (AZD5363): From Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Barry Davies - Director, Clinical and Translational Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

User Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

User Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Michael Imbeault

User Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Single cell whole genome sequencing approaches to model evolution in cancer

** Please note this seminar is on a Tuesday **

User Sohrab Shah, MSKCC.

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

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Robustness and scaling in early development: the “distal pinning” mechanism

Hosted by: Ben Simons

User Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

User Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Cell competition during development and disease

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

User Eduardo Moreno, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Stem Cells: It’s All About the Neighborhood

Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins

User Elaine Fuchs, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

User Steve Harridge, King's College London.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

User Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:15-17:15

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding

User Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunotherapy

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Christine Parkinson, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 16 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Systemic anticancer therapy

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Gary Doherty (University of Cambridge).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 09 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Exploring the role of the tumour microenvironment: what do other cells do?

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Jacqui Shields - MRC Cancer Unit.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps

User Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

‘Cell Plasticity in Colon Carcinogenesis’

Host: Grad Student Society -

User Professor Dr Florian Greten, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frakfurt.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

CANCELLED: Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis

User Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London .

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Mechanistic insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery and DNA repair

Hosted by: Philip Zegerman

User Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo

User Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation

User Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

Host: Richard Durbin

User Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA .

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Cancer and ageing: Rival demons?

User Judith Campisi, Buck Institute for Research on Ageing and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer- NB 9am start time

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 09:00-10:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dendritic Cell Migration at Various Scales

User Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Friday 15 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Activin signaling and the regulation of Drosophila metabolism, body size and appendage scaling

User Michael O'Connor, University of Minnesota.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

User Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Genetics of Axonal Mitochondrial Biology

User Gaynor Smith, Cardiff University.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Intracellular trafficking of mitochondria and neuronal ageing

User Alessio Vagnoni, IoPPN, King's College London.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

"CAPs in the niche" A new in vivo labelling system reveals parenchymal cells in the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features

User Luigi Ombrato The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The amazing world of the GnRH neuron

User Allan Herbison, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

User Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Forcing tumor initiation and progression

User Valerie M Weaver, University of California, San Francisco.

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

Epigenetic memory over geological timescales

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

User Hiten Madhani, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 31 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Human Regulator of TElomere Length Helicase 1 (RTEL1) couples nuclear envelope stability and functions to genome replication

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Steve Jackson

User Arturo Londoño-Vallejo, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epigenetic remodelling enables adult liver regeneration and organoid formation

User Luigi Aloia The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanical scaling in blood platelets

User François Nédélec Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing

User Robin Franklin, WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time?

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York .

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Effect of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia genes on presynaptic calcium handling

User Megan Oliva, Dept of Genetics.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 17:30-19:30

Using whole-brain connectomics to reveal circuit principles relevant to olfaction and instinctual behaviours

User Alex Bates, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology .

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 17:30-19:30

Transcriptional dependencies in cancer

***Please note this seminar is on a Friday***

User Christopher Vakoc, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Friday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain

Host: Michael Imbeault

User Professor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden .

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

User Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

‘Activation of transcription factor Nrf2 as a strategy to restore the cellular redox and protein homeostasis’

Host: Christian Frezza (CF366@hutchison-mrc.cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Albena Dinkova-Kostova,Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre, Division of Cellular Medicine, University of Dundee .

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

TET-family dioxygenases, immune responses and cancer

User Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

Thursday 26 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

‘Treatment of cancer by inhibition of mtDNA gene expression’

Host: Christian Frezza - (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar)

User Nils-Göran Larsson, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm .

Tuesday 03 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

User Dr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 25 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Raaj Praseedom - Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team..

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Raaj Praseedom.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

‘Combining omics data and biological knowledge to understand and treat cancer’

Host: Christian Frezza

User Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine & EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

‘Combining omics data and biological knowledge to understand and treat cancer’

Host: Christian Frezza

User Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy Frankfurt.

Monday 01 July 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them. A basic research perspective

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Marc de la Roche, Lecturer - Department of Biochemistry.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Thursday 27 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Perturbation biology: data-driven executable models of cellular processes and the design of combination therapy

User Chris Sander, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 20 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

The childhood cancer genome

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Sam Behjati - Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and WTSI.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

The emergent behaviour of the nuclear array in syncytial embryos

User Jörg Großhans (Universität Göttingen) .

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 17:30-19:30

How to strangle a fly

User Yohanns Bellaïche (CNRS, Paris).

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 17:30-19:30

House Clinical School - Seminar room 10.

‘Why Standard Naming and Pixel-based Contouring/Voluming are important to research in the radiation Oncology area’

Host: Dr Richard Benson (richard.benson@addenbrookes.nhs.uk)

User Prof Andrew Miller, Radiation Oncologist, Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, Wollongong, NSW Australia / Adjunct Professor of Informatics, School of Informatics, University of Wollongong .

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

‘Next-Generation Biopsies in Gastrointestinal Cancers’

Host: Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald (cf208@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk)

User Dr Nicola Valeri, Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Trust.

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Timing of the first lineage segregation in the early mouse embryo

User Meng Zhu, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Study of pioneer factor concentration, chromatin binding kinetics & cell-to-cell variability during genomeawakening

User Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Spatio-temporal dynamics of cell fate specification and differentiation in the zebrafish embryo

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Philip Zegerman

User Philip W Ingham, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore - Imperial College London.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Linking physical gut remodelling to stem cell divisions in Drosophila

User Golnar Kolahgar, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Regulating needs: Exploring the role of insulin-like growth factor-2 in materno-fetal resource allocation and its importance for development, physiology and disease

User Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Transposable elements as catalysts of cellular innovation

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Hansong Ma

User Cédric Feschotte, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Stem cell dynamics define clone fixation and spread in human colonic epithelium

User Doug Winton, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Friday 10 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects

Host: Berta Verd

User Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend

User Dr Grant Stewart, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

‘New protagonists of the tumour microenvironment’

Host: Sujath Abbas - sa837@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk (Grad Student Society)

User Dr Ilaria Malanchi, Tumour-Host Interaction Lab,Francis Crick Institute, London .

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cyclin B1 and the spindle assembly check point: A 15 year odyssey

User Jonathon Pines, The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London.

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

User Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh .

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

The Anne McLaren Lecture: The blastocyst and its stem cells; from mouse to human relevance

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

User Janet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Cellular Conversations that Control Cancer

***Please note this seminar is on a Friday***

User Thea D Tlsty, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0511.

Friday 26 April 2019, 13:00-14:00