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UCCRI is an Interdisciplinary Research Centre, with a network of over 150 researchers from all 6 Schools of the University of Cambridge. The Institute supports multidisciplinary research on biodiversity conservation and the social context within which humans engage with nature. It works from a base in the David Attenborough Building, which is designed to enhance collaboration and the sharing of perspectives across organisational and disciplinary boundaries.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution of multisensory integration in plants

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

House47 Bateman Street .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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

UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Flow and transport in the human placenta: a story with a twist

UserIgor Chernyavsky, University of Manchester.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What and Where I Record

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UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

UserJiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Transport, aggregation and wetting of assemblies of soft fibres

UserCamille Duprat, LadHyX, École Polytechnique.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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

UserRosemary Fricker.

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing of drops

UserDetlef Lohse, University of Twente.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

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

UserPeter Pilbeam.

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

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Dr Angela Hay - Creating an Explosion

UserDr Angela Hay.

House47 Baterman Street .

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity

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

House Webinar (via Teams).

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89826306833?pwd=cnNHSG9OWHRjVngzMGVMc2F0NnA4dz09

UserProf Andy Chan, Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Slippery flows in nature and industry

UserKatarzyna Kowal, University of Glasgow.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

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

UserOlwen Williams.

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

UserPostdoc talks, DAMTP.

HouseMR2.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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

UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Lahars and Huaycos: modelling erosive flash floods

UserAndrew Hogg, University of Bristol.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 09 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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

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

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

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

British Antarctic Survey

Fracture of warm ice

If you are external to BAS and wish to attend this talk please email the organiser in advance.

UserProfessor Jukka Tuhkuri, Aalto University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

From internal waves to turbulence in a stably stratified fluid

UserCostanza Rodda, Imperial College.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 05 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

UserProfessor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent-laminar patterns

UserLaurette Tuckerman, ESPCI Paris.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

majb4's list

What can we learn from simulations of the dust intensification over Greenland during the last ice-age?

UserPeter Hopcroft, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK..

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Negative effective viscosity in strongly stratified turbulence

UserQi Zhou, University of Calgary.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

UserProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Hydrogen – the second best option – taking a whole system view

To join this seminar in-person or online, please register for details by emailing njw44@cam.ac.uk.

UserJon Saltmarsh, Energy Systems Catapult.

HouseChemistry Dept, Todd Hamied room and Zoom.

ClockMonday 11 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Solution discovery in fluid dynamics using neural networks

UserChing-Yau Lai, Stanford University.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 01 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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UserMorag Hunter.

Housevia zoom .

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Visualising fluid mechanics phenomena via quasi-bases

UserCatherine Drysdale, University of Birmingham.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Health of the Cam

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

UserStephen Tomkins.

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

UserProfessor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

ENSO teleconnections to the Southern Hemisphere and impacts on weather systems

UserZoe Gillett, University of New South Wales/DAMTP.

HouseMR5, CMS.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

APS-DFD - no seminar

UserNone.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 17 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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UserPaul Krusic.

Housevia zoom .

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Culinary fluid mechanics

UserMaciej Lisicki, University of Warsaw.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 10 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Biodiverse City

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

UserGuy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Boundary Upwelling of Antarctic Bottom Water by Topographic Turbulence

UserLois Baker, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMR5, CMS.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Chaos in confinement: how to make shear-thinning fluids flow thicken

UserSujit Datta, Princeton University .

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 03 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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

UserLiam Saddington.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Reactive melt transport in the mantle

UserLucy Tweed (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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

UserWill Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Comparison of methods to estimate aerosol effective radiative forcings in climate models

Note unusual time and location

UserMark Zelinka; PCMDI | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

HouseU202 Meeting room, Department of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Stuck in the mud? Channelling, clogging and burrowing in plastic fluids

UserDuncan R Hewitt, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 20 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

People Power for Nature

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

UserPete Exley, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Layering Processes in Double Diffusive Convection

UserPaul Pruzina, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 16 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

It’s sink or skim: when solid bodies meet liquid layers

UserRyan Palmer, University of Bristol.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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

UserMark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Spreading of yield-stress fluids

UserJean-François Joanny, Curie Institute.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Climatic drivers of steric height in the Southern Ocean

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

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Frictional fluid dynamics and viscously stable pattern formation

UserBjornar Sandnes, Swansea University.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 16 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Physics-aware data-driven approaches for time prediction

UserLuca Magri, Imperial College London.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 09 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid dynamics of disease transmission: bubbles, droplets, and microorganisms (GK Batchelor Lecture)

UserLydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 26 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Changing reference frame: insights from unsteady fragmentation

UserLydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseMR5.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd year PhD student talks - speakers listed below

UserDAMTP PhD students.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 19 May 2023, 15:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Active matter in inhomogeneous environments

UserGwynn Elfring, University of British Columbia.

HouseMR2 (also broadcast as JFM webinar).

ClockFriday 05 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

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

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

New perspectives on ocean interior turbulent mixing

UserAli Mashayek, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 28 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cool as a caterpillar

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

UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

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

UserKevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

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

UserTatiana Bebchuk.

Housevia zoom .

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Freshwater salinization: From Ecology & Evolution to Real-World Solutions

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserDr Rick Relyea, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Computing (generalised) Lagrangian mean without tracking particles

UserHossein Kafiabad, Durham University.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 13 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

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

UserJonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

Housevia zoom .

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Birds on a tree: Progress and challenges of whole-genome phylogenomics

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserJosefin Stiller, University of Copenhagen.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

AMOC – scratch the ‘surface’ and get to the ‘bottom’

UserShenjie Zhou, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 06 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

UserProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

UserDr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Hydrodynamic Black Holes

UserSilke Weinfurtner, U. Nottingham.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development

UserProfessor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

HouseCANCELLED.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Heterogenous Chemistry and The Possibility for Life in the Clouds of Venus

UserPaul Rimmer, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Viscoplastic model of mountain building

UserElvinas Ribinskas, DAMTP.

HouseMR5, CMS.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

UserProfessor Philip Jones, University College London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

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

UserJoshua Pike.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

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

UserProfessor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity.

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of a sexually selected syndrome in Mediterranean wall lizards

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserDr Nathalie Feiner, Lund University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

UserProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

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

UserBrett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Housevia zoom .

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Is it the weather or the neighbours? The role of the physical and biotic environment in determining biodiversity distributions.

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserRegan Early, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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

UserMike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil microbiomes and one Health

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

HouseOnline only.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chlorine activation and enhanced ozone depletion induced by wildfire aerosol

UserProf. Susan Solomon (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Housezoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88479554336.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean Warming and Accelerating Southern Ocean Zonal Flow

UserJia-Rui Shi (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute).

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Heads and shoulders: progress on the origin of the modern vertebrate body plan

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserDr Martin D Brazeau, Imperial College London.

HouseMain Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Filling in the Map: Understanding Arctic Ocean mixing rates, mechanisms and space-time geography from ocean observations

UserStephanie Waterman, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

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

UserProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mexican Waves: The Adaptive Value of Collective Behaviour

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserJens Krause, IGB Berlin.

HouseMain Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

UserProfessor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Olfactory cues in a changing world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserJorg Hardege, University of Hull.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

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

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The hidden depths of avian genomes

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserAlex Suh, UEA.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

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

UserBethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Experimental insights on the coupling between oceanic internal tides and lee waves

UserYvan Dossmann, Université de Lorraine, Nancy.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The precessing vortex core instability in swirled jets

UserSantosh Hemchandra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

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

UserContributing Authors.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution and assembly of a complex weapon system

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserChristine W Miller, University of Florida.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observing the Southern Ocean carbon cycle with autonomous floats

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

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial Communities in an Ever-Changing World

Hybrid talk - email for a zoom link

UserAlex Dumbrell, University of Essex.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Towards machine learning in operational weather forecasting

UserMatthew Chantry, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

HouseMR5, CMS.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Active Matter and Transport in Living Cells

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

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

UserHarriet Allen, President CNHS.

Housevia zoom .

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding genome regulation during seed germination

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

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

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Optimizing scalar transport using branching flows

UserAnuj Kumar, University of California Santa Cruz.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

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

UserGeorgie Bray, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The dynamics of predators in a novel world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserRobert Fletcher, University of Florida.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

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

UserMonica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Environment-neuroendocrine interactions regulating larval settlement in the marine worm Platynereis

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserElizabeth Williams, University of Exeter.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

UserStefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric ozone and stratosphere-troposphere exchange in the Last Glacial Maximum

UserQiang Fu (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington and Leverhulme Visiting Professor in DAMPT, Cambridge University).

HouseTodd-Hamied room, Chemistry Department (and on zoom).

ClockMonday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Historical and contemporary perspectives of the nutrition transition

UserDr Cornelia Guell, University of Exeter.

HouseOnline.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Multiscale vortex structure in the regime of incipient hurricanes

UserRupert Klein, Mathematik and Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin .

HouseSeminar Room 2 Isaac Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 06 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd year PhD student talks

UserJames Cummins, Tom Daggitt, William Oxley, Alistair Hales, Jenny Dingwall, Matt Davison, Elvinas Ribinskas, James Mason, Joseph Webber.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 27 May 2022, 14:45-17:01

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

AI for Polar Route and Mission Planning

UserMaria Fox, Artificial Intelligence Lab, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseMR 4, CMS.

ClockMonday 23 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

UserDarius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

HouseOnline.

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

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

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

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

UserGuy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

HouseOnline.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Response of terrestrial aridity to global warming

UserQiang Fu, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington.

HouseMR 4, CMS.

ClockMonday 09 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Some like it hot, but not icebergs

UserClaudia Cenedese, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 06 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

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

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Marine biogeochemistry along the Northern Antarctic Peninsula

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

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Interaction between Planetary Wave and Gravity Waves in the Middle Atmosphere

UserProfessor Hye-Yeong Chun, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockThursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Early Careers Symposium

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDAMTP, Mathematics.

ClockThursday 07 April 2022, 13:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

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

UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Machine learning workshop

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

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

UserMartin Davies.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

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

HouseOnline.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

An ancient DNA perspective on the Ice Age megafauna

UserPete Heintzman (The Arctic University of Norway).

HouseZoom.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

The impact of realistic topographic representation on the parameterisation of lee wave energy flux

UserLois Baker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

UserProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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

UserRebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

UserProfessor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

HouseOnline.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking oceanic sharks’ ups and downs in a changing world

UserDavid Sims (Marine Biological Association).

HouseZoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

UserProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Unsteadiness of Shock Wave / Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions

UserNoel Clemens, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lower Wood

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

UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Who Cares About Hornworts?

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

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

UserDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

UserC. Kamal, E. Kruger, F. Paolo Conto, J. Chui - DAMTP.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Peatbogs

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

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

Housevia zoom .

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A stylish story of carpel evolution.

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

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

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong

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

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Differentiation, Communication, and Collective Behavior in Ant Societies

UserDaniel Kronauer (The Rockefeller University).

HouseZoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

UserMr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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

UserArik Kershenbaum.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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

HouseOnline.

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

Neighbourhood Disadvantage, Everyday Urban Mobility, and Well-Being

UserProfessor Robert J Sampson, Harvard University.

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Liquid Brains: searching the cognition space

UserRicard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

HouseZoom.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Fenland Flora

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

UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

UserDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

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

UserAnn Miles.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis

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

HouseOnline.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Using experimental evolution to tackle questions in speciation research

UserIsobel Eyres (University of Sheffield).

HouseZoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

UserMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Engineering interfacial flows and instabilities in solidifying liquids

UserPierre-Thomas Brun, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 04 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

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

UserDaniel Field.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

UserDr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar.

HouseOnline.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Impacts and mitigation of anthropogenic noise

UserSophie Nedelec (University of Exeter).

HouseZoom.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Harnessing Computing for Societal Challenges – the Importance of Multiphase Flows

UserDamir Juric, Churchill College & CNRS LISN Paris.

HouseMR5, CMS.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

UserProfessor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

UserL. Fung, M. Couchman, J. Peterson, Z. Guo - DAMTP.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

** Audience Choice **

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

UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

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

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Reconstructing CO2 change on 100 to 100 million year timescales

This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)

UserJames Rae, University of St. Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

UserProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Disentangling polar biogeochemistry through (silicon) isotope geochemistry

This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)

UserKate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 January 2022, 15:00-16:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Prediction of drag for rough wall boundary layer flows

UserKaren Flack, US Naval Academy.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 03 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

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

UserEllie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

UserDr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Waves and flows on a coral reef beach and in the adjoining lagoon

UserStephen Monismith, Stanford University.

HouseMR5, CMS.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Reflections on the Geodynamo

UserPeter Davidson, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 26 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The launch of the online NatHistFest

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

UserCNHS Members.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

UserDr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

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

UserApril Bagwill.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

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

UserGwenda Kyd, Author.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

UserProfessor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

HouseOnline.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Y haplotype diversity and male phenotypes

UserJudith Mank, University of British Columbia.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

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

UserDr Steve Boreham.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

UserDr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fluid-mechanical models of ice-sheet sliding and dynamics

UserIan Hewitt, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants

UserDr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The 4th dimension of transcriptional networks: TIME

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

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

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

A full-tensor approach for parameterising oceanic eddy tracer transport

UserMichael Haigh, Imperial College London.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Are confluent cell layers extensile or contractile?

UserJulia Yeomans, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

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

UserDr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

UserDr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

HouseOnline.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

Please contact the organizer for meeting link

UserErik Behrens, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Aurora Conference Room.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees for Streets

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

UserSimeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

UserProfessor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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

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

Housevia zoom .

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Topological Origin of Certain Fluid and Plasma Waves

UserBrad Marston, Brown University, USA.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 01 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mechanism and Models of Stomata/Mesophyll Form and Function

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

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

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Concluding remarks and some open problems

UserKeith Moffatt, Cambridge University, UK.

HouseGKB100 Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series via Zoom.

ClockFriday 18 June 2021, 16:30-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing a rivulet

UserAxel Huerre, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Université de Paris.

HouseGKB100 Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series via Zoom.

ClockFriday 11 June 2021, 16:30-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Turbulent convection in Antarctic Subglacial Lakes

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

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

UserChris Lambing, Henderson group.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

UserProf Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Integrating diverse data sets to improve causal inference

UserProfessor Judith Green, University of Exeter..

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

UserKumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

HouseOnline.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Early Careers Event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 13 April 2021, 11:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Selective autophagy mediated cellular quality control in plants

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

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

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

From a pragmatic weight management intervention to bariatric surgery

UserDr Helen Parretti, University of East Anglia..

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS event on Climate, economics and policy

UserHector Pollitt (Cambridge Econometrics).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:30

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

What ground deformation can tell us about sub-surface systems

UserAdam Butler, BPI and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Housezoom webinar - email jrt51@cam.ac.uk or jn271@cam.ac.uk for link.

ClockMonday 15 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

UserMr Marc Quinn, Artist.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Postponed - Protecting the Environment

Postponed for now. Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserAndrew Hein - University of California.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

UserProfessor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

UserKrishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

HouseOnline.

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

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