Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

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Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Saturday 15 June 2013, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

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Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Friday 14 June 2013, 13:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila

Christen Mirth, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors

Melinda Modrell, University of Cambridge, UK.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration

Ildiko Somorjai, University of St Andrews, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: stories from electric fish, scorpions and mice

Harold Zakon, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)

Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

Tim Sparks.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium

Note: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridge’s newest local nature reserve

Guy Belcher.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

Andrew Balmford.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental, genetic, and adaptive bases of morphological evolution: the case of water-walking insects

Abderrahman Khila, Lyon, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental plasticity and life history evolution in amphibians

Ivan Gomez-Mestre, Seville, Spain.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum as a model to study the ancestral mechanisms of bilaterian metazoan development

Note unusual day and time

Hiroki Oda, Osaka, Japan.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridgeshire's herpetofauna and its conservation

Paul Furnborough.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

Steffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Travels with research: baboons to earthquakes

Hilary Conlan.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Diseases of ash and other trees round the world

Note: This talk will be held in room MEL001 in the Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

Oliver Rackham.

Mellish Clark Building (MEL 001), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Hydra, a model for deciphering the principles of stem cells and regeneration

Brigitte Galliot, Geneva, Switzerland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Integrative evolutionary biology: a need for interdisciplinary studies of development, ecology and population genetics

Ralf J. Sommer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of body axes in Eumetazoa: what can we learn from Cnidaria?

Grigory Genikhovich, University of Vienna, Austria.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

Siegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The National Ecosystem Assessment and its follow-on phase

Lucy Simpson.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Giving wildlife an edge on the Middle Level waterways

Cliff Carson, Environment Officer, Middle Level Commissioners.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Control of segmentation clock period and segment number in the zebrafish

Christian Schroeter, University of Cambridge, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Dung pats, flies and farmers

Olwen Williams.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exotic mammals in the Antarctic region

Bob Headland.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What is a fungal foray?

Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).

Hélène Davies.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Friday 19 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using maps and GPS

Jean Sinclair.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Conserving the small things that run the world

Ed Turner.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Roman Arbury and Sylvia Plath

Sarah-Jane Harknett.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

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Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Saturday 16 June 2012, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

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Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Friday 15 June 2012, 13:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution

note unusual location

Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany..

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

The Roman and Anglo-Saxon Foundations of Girton Revealed

Imogen Gunn.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System

note unusual location

Johannes Jaeger, CRG Barcelona.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Sutton Hoo: A Personal Perspective

Peter Rooley.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci

note unusual location

Matthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fitting pieces and further puzzles - What 'nobody' can tell about the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis

Georg Brenneis, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate

note unusual time

Seb Shimeld, University of Oxford, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address, and Annual General Meeting

Note earlier time.

Inigo Everson.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 April 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

East Anglian orchard biodiversity

Paul Read.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Note earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).

Ken McNamara.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Thursday 22 March 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Myxomycetes: A life of slime

John Holden.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

Diethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Understanding landscapes: the challenge of East Anglia

Peter Friend.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genome evolution as seen from each of its genes: what "phylomes" can tell us about newly-sequenced species

Toni Gabaldon, CRG, Barcelona.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Morphological and molecular evolution of the arthropod nervous system: new insights from studies on the waterflea Daphnia magna

Angelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary, University of London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A living cemetery: the flora & fauna of Mill Road Cemetery

Keri Russell and Simon Ward.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

Mandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Come and get me! How plants attract their pollinators.

Clive Nuttman.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Keeping the skies alive with Swifts

Dick Newell.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Drosophila segmentation paradigm: A product of molecular co-option and the blind clock breaker?

Andrew Peel, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

50 years of conservation

Vince Lea, Louise Bacon, and Merlin Fox.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The gap junction protein Innexin7 is required for cellularization of the Tribolium blastoderm

Maurijn van der Zee, University of Leiden.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

Stefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mammals and milk

Hayley Frend, Department of Pathology.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Axial homologies re-examined: a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa

Heather Marlow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A botanist on Mull

Lynne Farrell, Botanical Recorder for Mid-Ebudes.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila

Alistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The star-crossed stone

Ken McNamara, Sedgwick Museum.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

Evelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mapping the land use of Britain: 80 years of innovation

Ruth Swetnam, Department of Zoology.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

Gregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

(note unusual location)

Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cacti in Chile and in cultivation

Clarke Brunt, British Cactus & Succulent Society.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Managing the River Cam: balancing the needs of river users and the environment

Philippa Noon, Cam Conservancy.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Portholme Meadow, Brampton: history and natural history intertwined

Pat Doody, ecologist.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

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Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Saturday 18 June 2011, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

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Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Friday 17 June 2011, 13:00-18:00

Art Cell Gallery Exhibtions

'April is the Cruellest Month...'

Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury, Stefanie Reichelt, Jim Haseloff, Fernan Federici and Andrea Baczynski.

ArtCell Gallery @ Caner Research UK.

Saturday 09 April 2011, 12:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Weather, climate and ozone; an Antarctic perspective

Jonathan Shanklin.

Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Stromatolites

Ken McNamara.

Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploration and exploitation of the Arctic: hunters and trappers, whalers and sealers

Bob Headland.

Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CPERC, who we are, what we do and why it's important for local biodiversity

John Cornell.

Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Studying the behaviour of Alpine Ibex

Catharina Karlsson.

Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Madagascan vegetation: an introduction to its richness

Peter Grubb.

Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Hayley Wood story up to date

Oliver Rackham.

Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lake Victoria, the people and their fisheries

Inigo Everson.

Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Fitzwilliam Museum

Work in Progress: Nick Turvey

Nick Turvey.

The Fitzwilliam Museum.

Saturday 10 July 2010, 13:15-13:45

Kettle's Yard Talks

Stations of the Temporal

Professor Andree Grau, Roehampton University.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 2, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RW.

Thursday 01 July 2010, 18:00-19:30

Kettle's Yard Talks

Drawing, Embodiment and the Absent Body

Professor Deanna Petherbridge, Arnolfini Professor of Drawing at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 2, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RW.

Tuesday 29 June 2010, 18:00-19:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Agnes Martin

Michael Harrison, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 24 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 17 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Symposium: Agnes Martin between the lines

Professor Briony Fer, University College London; Professor Jonathan Katz, State University of New York.

Woodleigh Room, Lucy Cavendish College, CB3 0BU.

Monday 14 June 2010, 14:00-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon

Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Saturday 05 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Agnes Martin

Michael Harrison, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

Rausing Lecture

From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren

Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Myles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Elisabeth Vellacott

Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 13:10-13:40

Fitzwilliam Museum

Objects of History: with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum

Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum.

The Fitzwilliam Museum.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 18:00-20:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Henry Moore

Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Meet the Curator

Elizabeth Fisher, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Barbara Hepworth

Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

The Digital Image in Printmaking

Paul Coldwell.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 15 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Italo Valenti

Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 08 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Tim Head: Raw Material

Elizabeth Fisher, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 25 March 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Tim Head and Sotiris Kyriacou in Conversation

Tim Head, Slade School of Fine Art.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Saturday 20 March 2010, 17:15-18:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

When is a structure a musical instrument? Adventures in tuned percussion

Jim Woodhouse (Department of Engineering).

Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 17 March 2010, 18:00-19:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Winifred Nicholson

Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 13:10-13:40

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

O the noise, noise, Noise, NOISE!

Christopher Hicks (CEDAR Audio Ltd).

Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 18:00-19:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 4

Lutz Becker - Kettle's Yard Curatorial Fellow.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.

Sebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Alfred Wallis

Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

The Machine and Art

Booking required: £7/£5 concession 01223 748100 www.kettlesyard.co.uk

Jasia Reichardt.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 18:30-20:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Machine and Art

Jaisia Reichardt, freelance.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 18:30-20:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Connecting Composers: All About Darmstadt

Booking required: £6/£4 concession 01223 748100 www.kettlesyard.co.uk

Round table discussion chaired by Dr Martin Iddon, University of Leeds.

Cripps Court, Magdalene College Chesterton Road.

Saturday 20 February 2010, 14:30-16:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 3

Michael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Graphic Design Print and Modernism

booking required: £7/£5 concession 01223 748100 www.kettlesyard.co.uk

Richard Hollis.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 18:30-20:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ben Nicholson's prints and textiles

Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Vita Futurista

Booking required: £7/£5 concession 01223 748100 www.kettlesyard.co.uk

Lutz Becker - Kettle's Yard Curatorial Fellow.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 18:30-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

Barry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 2

Lutz Becker - Kettle's Yard Curatorial Fellow.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's Drawings

Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Talking about Drawing

Booking required: £7/£5 concession 01223 748100 www.kettlesyard.co.uk

Nicholas Wadley, Bob White and Lutz Becker.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 18:30-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of determinism: an evolutionary history of mechanisms underlying insect wing patterning

Robert Ray, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 1

Michael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

David Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri

Lizzie Fisher, exhibitions curator Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

Dorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Roger Hilton exhibition tour

Michael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fingers, fins and faces: the role of fossils in documenting the assembly of modern bodyplans

Matt Friedman, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Roger Hilton’s Night Letters

£8, booking required 01223 748100

Timothy Bond, editor of the new edition of Roger Hilton’s Night Letters.

Kettle's Yard.

Monday 23 November 2009, 18:30-19:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Curator's Tour - Helena Almeida Exhibition

Filipa Oliveira, curator.

Kettle's Yard.

Sunday 15 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon

Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systematics, homology and speciation in time and space.

Julie Hawkins, University of Reading.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Performance, self and memory in relation to Helena Almeida’s work

Elena Cologni, artist.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Naum Gabo

Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Helena Almeida: Writing the Body

(a Festival of Ideas event)

Dr Alyce Mahon, author and art historian.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

Artyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Introduction to Kettle's Yard

Michael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Helena Almeida and recent Portuguese photography

Paulo Catrica, photographer.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 08 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Curator’s Talk - Helena Almeida Exhibition

Filipa Oliveira, curator.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 03 October 2009, 17:15-18:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Light on Things

Dr Miles Clapham.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 17 September 2009, 18:00-00:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Exhibition Talk

Michael Harrison.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 23 July 2009, 17:15-00:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Sebastiano Barassi, Curator.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 09 July 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Exhibition Tour

Elizabeth Fisher, Curator of Exhibitions.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 02 July 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

David Jones

Sebastiano Barassi, Curator.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 25 June 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Alfred Wallis

Sebastiano Barassi, Curator.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Winifred Nicholson

Sebastiano Barassi, Curator.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Exhibition Tour

Elizabeth Fisher, Curator of Exhibitions.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Christopher Wood

Sebastiano Barassi.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

David Ward

Michael Harrison.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 26 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Poets and the House: Four Readings

Ian Patterson.

Kettle's Yard.

Wednesday 25 March 2009, 13:15-13:45

Kettle's Yard Talks

Two Pianos on Two Floors

Orlando Gough and David Ward.

Kettle's Yard.

Sunday 22 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

David Ward in Conversation with Professor Colin Renfrew

David Ward and Colin Renfrew.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 21 March 2009, 17:15-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

ReCollection: Kettle's Yard Oral History Project

Sarah Campbell and Robert Wilkinson.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Poets and the House: Four Readings

Melanie Challenger.

Kettle's Yard.

Wednesday 18 March 2009, 13:15-13:45

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

'A function of the time': the Cavendish Society and its Postprandial Proceedings

Jeff Hughes (University of Manchester).

Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 17:30-19:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Arp's Sculptural Concretions

Eric Robertson.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Poets and the House: Four Readings

Leo Mellor.

Kettle's Yard.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 13:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

Rahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Curator's Tour of The Roundhouse of International Spirits

Sebastiano Barassi.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Poets and the House: Four Readings

J.H. Prynne.

Kettle's Yard.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 13:15-13:45

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ben and Winifred Nicolson in Winter

Michael Harrison.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

Carsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Julius Bissier

Sebastiano Barassi.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Italo Valenti

Sebastiano Barassi.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Ben Nicholson the European

Peter Khoroche.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 07 February 2009, 15:00-16:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update

Please note change of venue

Various speakers.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Friday 06 February 2009, 14:00-17:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Hans Richter

Sebastiano Barassi.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ben Nicholson and William Scott

Michael Harrison.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Curator's Tour of The Roundhouse of International Spirits

Sebastiano Barassi.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Investigating stem cell differentiation and positional signaling in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

Aziz Aboobaker, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Using Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) to study the evolution of flower development

Sinead Drea, University of Leicester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mexican blind cavefish as a model system for micro evolutionary research

Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, University College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Conserved regulatory networks in vertebrate development

Greg Elgar, University of London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

Angela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900

Torben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 17:30-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

Gáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

Jeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 03 July 2008, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 13:10-13:40

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Case Studies III from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Various speakers.

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

Thursday 12 June 2008, 11:00-16:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Sarah Campbell, Education Officer, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)

Note changed location and time!!!

Urs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A..

Austin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Beyond Measure: Dr Miguel de Beistegui

Dr Miguel de Beistegui, Philosopher, University of Warwick.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 31 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Sebastiano Barassi, Curator, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The genetic loci underlying phenotypic evolution in animals and plants: from single case studies to general principles

Note changed location!

Vigrinie Orgogozo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

Austin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Beyond Measure: Mr Tariq Ahmad

Tariq AHMAD, Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeon, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 24 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Barry Phipps, Exhibition Curator, Churchill College.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms: the role of non-coding RNAs in Hox gene regulation

Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Beyond Measure: Eric Parry, Architect

Eric Parry, Architect.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 17 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Amanda Rigler, Administrator, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in the tropics

Catherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability

Please note location and time!

Alexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Beyond Measure: Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett, glass blower & scientific instrument maker.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 10 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Steve Laurie, Collections Assistant, Mineralogy and Petrology, Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Cambridge.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

Andreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Beyond Measure, Alan McRobie

Alan McRobie, Engineering.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 03 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Sarah Campbell, Education Officer, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 13:10-13:40

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

An ingenious gadget from a Greek musical theorist's workshop

Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham).

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

Thursday 01 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

Adam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Beyond Measure: Graham Dolan

Graham Dolan, Astronomer Greenwich Observatory.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 26 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Dr Phil Gaskell, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Richard Deacon, In the Garden

Richard Deacon, sculptor.

Kettle's Yard.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 18:30-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

Jessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Beyond Measure: Dr Frank King

Dr Frank King, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 19 April 2008, 14:00-15:30

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Sebastiano Barassi, Curator, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 17 April 2008, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Beyond Measure: Dr Daina Taimina

Dr Daina Taimina, Cornell University, USA.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 12 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Lizzie Fisher, Exhibitions Curator, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 10 April 2008, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

Sebastiano Barassi, Curator, Kettle's Yard.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 03 April 2008, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Design at Ogle

Tom Karen.

Kettle's Yard.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 18:00-19:30

Fitzwilliam Museum

A Beautiful Line

Allan McRobie, Reader in Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department.

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room.

Sunday 16 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artists in Momentary Momentum

Sarah Wood, independent curator.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 13:10-13:40

Fitzwilliam Museum

Art in Context: Two portraits by Bartel Beham

David Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, The Fitzwilliam Museum.

The Fitzwilliam Museum.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

Gerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Eric Gill, Inscription

Sebastiano Barassi.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 13:10-13:40

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Why is the violin so hard to play?

Jim Woodhouse (Department of Engineering).

Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 17:30-19:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Lapis Lazuli

Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 19:00-20:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artist Animators

Sarah Evans.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ecdysozoan phylogeny and the origins of crustacean complexity: new data from the Cambrian fossil record

Tom Harvey, Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon, Views of Venice

Sebastiano Barassi.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

Jordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Saturday Workshops with John Greening

John Greening.

Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 16 February 2008, 14:30-17:00

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

EarthTalk

Dr Sally Gibson and Dr Lyall Anderson, Department of Earth Sciences.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Saturday 16 February 2008, 13:30-14:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artist Animators

Emily Russell and Kristian de la Riva.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Recapitulating ancestral mammalian incisor dentitions through disruption of NF-kB and Wnt signalling in the mouse

Jim Blackburn, Dept of Craniofacial Development, Kings College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

Sebastiano Barassi.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Ways of Seeing

Speaker to be confirmed.

Kettle's Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 10:00-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Transgenic and transgenomic strategies for studying the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution: prospects and pitfalls

David Baum, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Cinema and the Art of Animation

Trish Sheil, Cambridgeshire Film Consortium.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Christopher Wood's Self Portrait

Sebastiano Barassi.

Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The centipede tree: an evolutionary framework for segmentation studies

Greg Edgecombe, Natural History Museum, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

Andreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Great Divide: Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition

Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Colours in Gemstones

Mrs Gill Mallet.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

Guillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

The Sedgwick in the Galapagos

Dr David Norman, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

Benoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

Tom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungi and Woodland History

Professor Oliver Rackham.

David Building, Anglia-Ruskin University.

Friday 12 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

Marcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

Anjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

Please note unusual time!

Alistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders

Please note location and time!

Wim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 26 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra

Please note location and time!

Alexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 19 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Museum of Zoology

Tropical epiphytes: In pursuit of forest hitch-hikers

Howard Griffiths, Professor of Plant Ecology,.

Museum of Zoology, Downing Street.

Thursday 05 July 2007, 18:00-19:00

Museum of Zoology

Learning about tropical forests: a hands on approach

Dr. Rosie Trevelyan.

Museum of Zoology, Downing Street.

Tuesday 26 June 2007, 18:00-19:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Postcolonial Trauma: the aesthetic prescriptions of Gordon Bennett's art

Professor Ian McLean, University of Western Australia.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Wednesday 20 June 2007, 18:00-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

Please note different location!

Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Austin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms

Please note different location!

Peter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Austin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene Networks and Natural Selection

Andreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gilding the Lily: The Evolution and Development of Specialized Petal Cell Types

Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Sex Determination in Musca domestica, a Prime Example of Evolutionary Plasticity in Development

Daniel Bopp, Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Paint Your Own Rock Art

Speaker to be confirmed.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Saturday 17 March 2007, 14:00-16:30

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Fathoming Finds and Observing Objects

Speaker to be confirmed.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Saturday 17 March 2007, 14:00-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

Aleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Embryos and Ancestors

Phil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Dinosaurs from Mongolia

Dr Altangerel Perle, National University of Mongolia, Ulaan Bataar.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Monday 26 February 2007, 11:00-11:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

Pauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Evolution in the giant marine reptiles of the Mesozoic

Dr Leslie Noe, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 20 February 2007, 19:00-20:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Thomas Young: the last man who knew everything

Andrew Robinson.

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

Monday 19 February 2007, 17:30-19:00

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

EarthTalk

Dr Alex Piotrovski, Hilary Ketchum, Dr John Hillier.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Saturday 17 February 2007, 13:30-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neanderthal Genomics

Please note different location and time!

Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Activities during February half term

Speaker to be confirmed.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 14:00-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Amphioxus Model in Evo-Devo/Neofunctionalization of Retinoic Acid Receptors in Vertebrates

Hector Escrivà, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Tweaking the Hinge and Caps: Testing a Model of the Organization of the Gnathostome Skull

Michael Depew, King's College, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Death , destruction and evolution of sea-shells

Dr Liz Harper, Dept.of Earth Sciences, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 23 January 2007, 19:00-20:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Preservation of Burgess-Shale-type fossils: implications for early animal evolution

Dr Nick Butterfield, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 21 November 2006, 19:00-20:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

Joel N. Shurkin (Stanford University).

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

Tuesday 14 November 2006, 17:30-19:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

The Cambrian explosion: as mysterious as ever?

Professor Simon Conway Morris, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 31 October 2006, 19:00-20:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Why study the Burgess Shale? Memories from the 1966-7 expeditions

Professor Harry Whittington (former Woodwardian Professor), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 17 October 2006, 19:00-20:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Lonesome George: The life and loves of a conservation icon

Henry Nicholls.

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

Monday 25 September 2006, 17:30-19:00