Transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

Elizabeth Murchison, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge Veterinary School.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

The behavioural ecology of bacteria in infection

Dr. Ashleigh S. Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Raising the whale: defining zoology at Cambridge

Prof Jim Secord, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Spatial homogeneity of seagrass faunal biodiversity

Pr. Richard S K Barnes, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

‘Of mice and men -­ and birds, too: how to pack lots of neurons in tiny brains, and why that should matter

Pr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

"Transforming an 800 year old University to make it even better"

Professor Jeremy Sanders, Pro-Vice Chancellor of The University of Cambridge.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Collective Sensing and Decision-Making in Animal Groups: From Fish Schools to Primate Societies

Iain Couzin.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Learning circuits and cue integration in navigating ants

Barbara Webb.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Looking back: some conclusions from my career in Science

Pr. Martin Raff - MRC LMCB, UCL.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud

Dr. Nick Hopwood - Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Seabirds and Conservation: One Life, Many Islands

Dr Michael Brooke.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Imaging Brawny Mice and Hypercarnivorous Canids: Applications of CT and MRI for Soft & Hard Tissues

Dr Nathan Jeffrey, University of Liverpool.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Monday 16 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Going for Gold

Professor Tom Welton, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Friday 16 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Gender, Science and Myths of Merit

Marlene Zuk (University of Minnesota).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

Rebecca Stott (University of East Anglia, Norwich).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Tales from Television: bringing the natural world to your living room

George McGavin (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Studies on the evolutionary and functional morphology of mammalian ear ossicles

Prof Dr Wolfgang Maier (Chair of Systematic Zoology (emeritus) University of Tübingen).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

The end of taxonomy as we know it?

Alfred Vogler (University of East Anglia).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Fifty Years of Computers, statistics and the Tree of Life

Anthony Edwards (University of Cambridge).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Museums and Science

Ian Owens (Natural History Museum, London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Life, death and resurrection in the Early Carboniferous

Jenny Clack (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty

Andrew Balmford (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Open Access: common good or uncommon danger?

Stephen Curry (Imperial Collge London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history

Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 13 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history.

Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Monday 10 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

Ephrin and netrin synergy in spinal motor neuron axon guidance

Dr. Artur Kania, Neural Circuit Development research unit Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

From VB Wigglesworth to H-factors. Lessons from my first 50 years of research

Peter A. Lawrence, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Microtubule assemblers

Rob Cross, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology,Warwick Medical School .

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

From Mammoth to Microscope: Life History and Dental Development in Mammals

Dr Wendy Dirks, University of Newcastle.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 04 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Be careful what you wish for: the issues and politics of generating a potentially human-to-human transmissible bird flu virus

Professor Derek Smith. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 26 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

'Bacterial community diversity of the American alligator gastrointestinal tract'

Sarah Keenan - Louisiana State University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 19 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cows under the radar: The genetics of tuberculosis susceptibility in Britain

Bill Amos - Department of Zoology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 05 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Using C. elegans as a model for neurodegenerative diseases

Chris Li, City College of New York, USA.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

The secret lives of the translesion polymerases

Dr Julian Sale, LMB, Cambridge.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Coordinating developmental timing with tissue growth

Dr Alisson Gontijo, Instituto de Neurociencias, CSIC-UMH Unidad de Neurobiología del Desarrollo, Alicante.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

The genetics underlying emergence and diversification of a wing decoration in fruitflies

Dr Nicolas Gompel, IBDML, Marseille, France.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Neurochemical control of aggression - insights from crickets

Professor Paul Stevenson, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Controlling recombination: from worms to human disease

Professor Simon Boulton, CRUK Clare Hall Laboratories, UK..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Without a leg to stand on: locomotion in the earliest "land" animals

Dr Stephanie Pierce, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and The Royal Veterinary College, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

The physics of bird coloration

Professor Doekele Stavenga, University of Groningen, NL..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

All things bright and beautiful; structural colour in biological systems

Dr Pete Vukusic, Department of Physics, University of Exeter.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Potentials and Challenges of Developing Ecosystem-Based Co-management: A Case Study From the Swedish West Coast

Dr Andrea Morf, University of Gothenburg, and the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Strategies to ensure robustness in genome replication

Prof. Julian Blow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical inference in the fossil record: estimating the divergence time of primates

Professor Simon Tavaré, Department of Oncology University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Organogenesis during planarian regeneration

Dr Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Regulating the actin cytoskeleton during Drosophila oogenesis

Dr Margot Quinlan, UCLA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

The role of mitochondrial DNA in neuronal development and neurodegeneration

Dr Joseph Bateman, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

From fly embryos to single molecule studies: elucidating molecular mechanisms of cytoplasmic mRNA transport

Dr Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Local coordination of cell polarity through cell-cell interactions

Professor David Strutt - MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

The molecular and neuronal control of nutrient decisions in Drosophila

Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution

Aurora Ruiz Herrera, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Nano-scale pathfinders: how kinesins move along the microtubule

Zeynep Oekten, Institute for Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Developmental function and possible role in morphological evolution of the vertebrate Cdx genes

Stephen Gaunt, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Physiomimetics: generating functional membranes for buildings (lessons from the ventilation systems of African fungus-growing termites)

Rupert Soar, Wolfson School of Engineering at Loughborough University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

INFORMAL SEMINAR: Development and maturation of the respiratory system in Drosophila

Maura Strigini, Heraklion, Crete.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

NO TEA TALK (Peter Lawrence Symposium)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 00:00-00:00

Looking for novel regulators of cell morphogenesis using microscopy-based functional genomics approaches

Rafael Carazo Salas, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Genetic basis of group dynamics in Drosophila

Joel Levine, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Luminal sensing and neuromodulation in the gut: different roles for PYY and NPY

Helen Cox, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Projecto PalNiassa: New fossils from Mozambique

Rui Castanhinha, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Museu da Lourinhã, Portugal.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Monday 03 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Regulation and developmental role of the hypoxia response machinery in Drosophila

Pablo Wappner, Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 30 September 2011, 11:00-12:00

Electrolyte and water transport by the Drosophila midgut

Subrata Tripathi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 07 July 2011, 16:00-17:00

Microfossils for macroevolution: planktonic foraminifera, the Court Jester and the Red Queen

Prof. Andy Purvis, Imperial College, London.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 16 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Trying to make sense of all that nonsense (-mediated mRNA decay)

Oliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, Switzerland.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

The development and modulation of amphibian motor control systems

Keith Sillar, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Genetics and physiology of growth in Drosophila

Pierre Leopold, Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, University of Nice, France.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Friends at the ends: a dynamic protein network controls the fate of microtubule tips

Anna Akhmanova, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling in Drosophila epithelia

Isabel Guerrero, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

From mice to molecules: the genetic basis of adaptation

Hopi Hoekstra, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Transient population dynamics: implications for life history, evolution and conservation

Stuart Townley, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

foraging: from nature to molecule

Marla Sokolowski, University of Toronto, Canada.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Neural and mechanical mechanisms of multifunctionality

Hillel Chiel, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

The origin and evolution of vision

Dan Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Epithelial repair in Drosophila

Antonio Jacinto, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

The Drosophila intestinal epithelium as an immune barrier: from steady-state to pathology

Bruno Lemaitre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

The evolution of transcriptional regulation

Duncan Odom, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

mRNA localisation at the neuromuscular junction

Alejandra Gardiol, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cell competition through growth factor signalling

Eugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Mammalian phylogenomics and evolution: where are we and what is next?

Frederic Delsuc, CNRS, Universite Montpellier II, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Continuous surprises: Live-Cell Imaging reveals that SMG6 and UPF1 inhibit release of nonsense mRNA from the transcription site

Oliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Molecular neuroendocrinology: how the brain builds its peptidergic sprinkler systems.

Paul Taghert, Washington University, St Louis.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 12:00-13:00

Control of sexual differentiation and behavior by the doublesex gene in Drosophila melanogaster

Stephen Goodwin, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

DNA combing and massive sequencing of replication intermediates suggest a domino model for replication origin activation in the human genome

Olivier Hyrien, Department of Biology, ENS Paris.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Why pain gets worse - the molecular basis of sensitization

Peter McNaughton, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

The evolution and function of jaws: a study in taxonomic, morphological and functional variation

Emily Rayfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seeing in the dark: Vision and visual behaviour in nocturnal insects

Eric Warrant, Department of Cell and Organism, University of Lund.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Is life impossible? Information, sex and the origin of complex organisms

Joel Peck, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina revealed by two-photon laser scanning and serial block-face scanning electron microscopy

Kevin Briggman (Denk lab), Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Potassium channel and Calcium signalling in Drosophila learning

James Hodge, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 07 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Homeostatic growth in the Drosophila intestine

Bruce Edgar, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 16 September 2010, 16:00-17:00

Opening a window on primate and afrotherian evolution: new early Tertiary mammals from Algeria and Tunisia

Rodolphe Tabuce, Université Montpellier 2.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

p38 SAPK signaling protects the Drosophila larval hindgut against chronic stress

Hugo Stocker, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Specification of muscle identity in Drosophila

Laurence Dubois, Centre de Biologie du Développement, Toulouse.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Termites as ecosystem engineers. Water, soils and architecture in _Macrotermes_ mounds in Namibia

J. Scott Turner, Syracuse University USA.

Museum demonstration room, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

From genes to shape: notions from the study of the Drosophila tracheal system

Jordi Casanova, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

The Allure of the Centipede

Michael Akam, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

How and why desert ants learn habitual routes

Matthew Collett, University of Exeter.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

CANCELLED

Olivier Hyrien, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 00:00-00:00

Evolutionary genetics of mito-nuclear cooperation, fitness and disease in Drosophila

David Rand, Brown University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Neural mechanisms of sky compass orientation in the desert locust (NOTE LATE START 17:00)

Uwe Homberg, University of Marburg, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Social cognition: lessons from corvids and children

see also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_MnwNyX0Ds

Nicky Clayton, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Fifty Years of Wild Chimpanzee Tool Use: Where Do We Stand?

Bill McGrew, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

The Cognitive Architecture of a Mini Brain: Lessons from Honeybees

Martin Giurfa, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Taking shape; how Drosophila renal tubules find their way

Helen Skaer, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Multi-legged running in the real world: how do cockroaches, dogs, and horses handle different surfaces?

Andrew Spence, Royal Veterinary College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

The developmental origins of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome

Susan Ozanne, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Mycobacterial disease in Drosophila: old signals, new biology

Marc Dionne, Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology of Inflammation, King's College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

The evolutionary biomechanics of dinosaur locomotion

John Hutchinson, Royal Veterinary College, Univ London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Actin, pseudopods, and chemotaxis - cell biological and computational modelling approaches to cellular navigation

Robert Insall, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Does morality need religion? A selectionist approach

Robert Hinde, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Smart foot sweat: two phasic foot pad secretion prevents slipping

Chris Clemente, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Comparative analysis of the evolutionary development of brain size in mammals

Isabella Capellini, University of Durham.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Life in rotten places: how O2 and CO2 sensing alter foraging in a worm

Mario DeBono, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics, development, and evolution of avian structural colors

Richard Prum, Yale University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

The Evolution of Creationism

(NOTE TUES NOT THURS) see also http://ncseweb.org/about

Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education USA.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Conflict and cooperation in social birds

Andy Radford, University of Bristol.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Phylodynamics of HIV-1 infection and escape from neutralizing antibodies

Simon Frost, Dept Veterinary Medicine, Univ Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 08 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plasticity of sex pheromone detection in male moths: modulation of behaviour and central nervous processing

Sylvia Anton, Centre de Recherches de Versailles.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Synchronization of the Drosophila circadian clock by daily light and temperature fluctuations

Ralf Stanewsky, Queen Mary College, University of London.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Ecomorphological diversification and origins of major clades in early mammal evolution

Zhe-Xi Luo, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Studies of wound healing and inflammation in flies

Paul Martin, University of Bristol.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

The Evolution of Human Languages

Mark Pagel, University of Reading.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Role of the human origin recognition complex ORC in DNA replication

Aloys Schepers, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Integrative and systems approaches to osmoregulation in insects (and people)

Julian Dow, University of Glasgow.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

How can lead poisoning of California Condors be prevented?

Rhys Green, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Mechanism of microtubule plus-end tracking by EB1 and CLIP-170 elucidated by in vitro reconstitution

Thomas Surrey, EMBL Heidelberg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Dendrite development - insights from insects

Darren Williams, Kings College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Control of microtubule length by depolymerizing kinesins

Joe Howard, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Olfactory specialist D. sechellia avoids costly appetitive learning

Teun Dekker, SLU Alnarp, Sweden.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Exploring the hair follicle as an unconventional, but highly instructive tool for neuroendocrine research

Ralf Paus, Uni-Luebeck, University of Manchester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

CANCELLED due to inclement weather

Andy Radford, Univ Bristol.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

The mammalian middle ear: development, evolution and hearing defects

Abigail Tucker, Kings College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Some evolutionary and neurophysiological aspects of hearing in bush crickets

Andreas Stumpner, Uni-Goettingen.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Sex ratios and rarity in birds: an unhappy balance?

Paul Donald, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Hominoid ancestral population sizes and human-chimpanzee speciation

Ziheng Yang, UCL.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Causes and consequences of avian personality differences

Kees van Oers, Netherlands Institute of Ecology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Macroecology of the oceans

Simon Jennings, CEFAS Lowestoft.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

West Indian mammal extinctions: how much do we know?

Sam Turvey, Institute of Zoology London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Segregation of cell fate in C. elegans embryos

Carrie Cowan, IMP Vienna.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Evolution of the central nervous system in animals: a cell type comparative approach

Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Diversification of the Toxicofera reptile venom system

Brian Fry, University of Melbourne.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Alien movements across space and time: non-randomness in bird introductions

Tim Blackburn, Institute of Zoology London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Insulin-like peptide signaling in renal tubules of Drosophila is under control of stress-induced release of tachykinin-related peptide

Dick Nassel, University of Stockholm.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evo-Devo and 'Typological Thinking': An Exculpation

Tim Lewens, University of Cambridge.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Fossils and phylogeny: a waste of time?

Matthew Wills, University of Bath.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

What comes next in biological microscopy?

Brad Amos, MRC Molecular Biology Cambridge.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Molecular Architecture of the novel RNA binding protein Rrp47 and its role in Exosome-Mediated RNA Processing and Surveillance

Please note room change

Phil Mitchell, University of Sheffield.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Sexual dimorphism, life history, and social structure in early hominin species

Charlie Lockwood, University College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Timing the end of neural proliferation in Drosophila

Alex Gould, National Institute for Medical Research London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Emerging complexities in the recovery of Canadian lakes from acidification: the influence of climate change, metal toxicity and Ca decline

Norman Yan, York University Toronto.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Monday 28 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Genetic control of tissue growth and form in Drosophila

Barry Thompson, Cancer Research UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

Ecosystem decay in Amazonian forest fragments

Bill Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 20 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Macrophage migration and chemotaxis in Drosophila embryos

Will Wood, University of Bath.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

mRNA quality control: How do cells recognize and degrade aberrant mRNAs?

Elisa Izaurralde, Max Planck Inst Developmental Biology, Tuebingen.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

The Mammoth's Tale: Evolution and Extinction in the Ice Age

Adrian Lister, Natural History Museum London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Patterning the fish inner ear: development and evolution

Tanya Whitfield, University of Sheffield.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

How do insects generate fast and powerful movements?

Malcolm Burrows, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

The early evolutionary history of amniote vertebrates: new insights, new fossils.

Johannes Müller, Humboldt University Berlin.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

4D-microscopy & some results: fate, migrations, form in C. elegans & some other curious animals

Ralf Schnabel, University of Braunschweig.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Heliconius colour patterns: from gene expression to speciation ecology

Chris Jiggins, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

CANCELLED

Tim Blackburn, Institute of Zoology London/Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Testing hypotheses about sexual selection and species recognition in Australian Bowerbirds using principles from sensory ecology

John Endler, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 17:00-18:00

Phylogeography reveals South Africa's hidden vertebrate diversity

Paulette Bloomer, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Spatial Neutral Theory, biodiversity, and coexistence

Stephen Cornell, University of Leeds.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Predicting dental macroevolution from development: what happened to microevolution?

Jukka Jernvall, University of Helsinki.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Development and evolution of the brain: insights from insects

Heinrich Reichert, University of Basel.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 12:00-13:00

Baboon Metaphysics

Note unusual day

Dorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 06 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Tinkering with toxicity: How basic research on drug transporters can translate to policy changes on environmental pollution

David Epel, Stanford University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

The race to prevent the extinction of South Asian vultures

Rhys Green, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Jak/Stat regulates dpp transcription in support cells to maintain Drosophila ovarian niche

Acaimo Gonzalez-Reyes, Universidad de Sevilla.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

The evolution of life history strategies: individuals, populations, species

Oliver Krueger, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 11 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Impact of genetic factors on extinction risk and implications for conservation management in New Zealand.

Note unusual day

Ian Jamieson, University of Otago, NZ.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 02 October 2007, 17:00-18:00