Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Taking it up a Notch, building the body plan

Professor Kim Dale, University of Dundee.

In Person.

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

AI in Medical Imaging Research Seminar

Short cuts make long delays: Machine Learning for COVID-19 and Medical Imaging

Dr. Ian Selby, Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge.

School of Clinical Medicine, Room 19, 4th floor.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

In vivo functional screens for modelling cancer initiation and progression

Dr Eric Rahrmann, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Engineering a bacteria for lung therapy

Prof. Luis Serrano.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99349389275?pwd=ZHI3em1DQTA0VTlVLzkvUTN6ZGkxdz09.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer.

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics

Dan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine.

CRUK CI.

Monday 09 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

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

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated

Cynthia Rudin, Duke University.

Zoom.

Monday 12 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Title to be confirmed

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

Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Structural basis of how the BIRC6/SMAC complex regulates apoptosis and autophagy

Tim Clausen, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP).

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: translating mechanistic insights towards new cancer therapies.

Prof Steve Jackson; The Gurdon Institute .

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

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

Online via Zoom.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Mechanism and regulation P element transposition in Drosophila

Donald Rio, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94108711681?pwd=cXN4VGlQVHBZYkpMUVJ0SXV3emtaUT09.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer

Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre.

Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

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

Host: GIPA, Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association

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

Virtual.

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

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

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

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

Louis Chesler, ICR.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

New Frontiers in PKA Signaling

Susan Taylor, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99725572898?pwd=NG82MzVpQmczczAvdkZzN2lJNkt1UT09.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Crick Lecture 2022: Neurobiology of Social and Sickness Behaviors

Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91021060396?pwd=c1o1TWVTSTNHTWM1dW5lcm54cURKQT09.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 2: cell biology

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

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

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova and Sumru Bayin

Dr Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Virtual.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 1: genes and genetic instability

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

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

AI in Medical Imaging Research Seminar

AI in Medical Imaging Research Seminar – Nikita Sushentsev – "Time-series Radiomics: top or flop? - A new framework for longitudinal medical image analysis"

Nikita Sushentsev, Gates Scholar and PhD student at the Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge.

Berridge room on L5 at the Department of Radiology, Addenbrooke's hospital.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 10:00-11:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TALK POSTPONED

Francesca Buffa.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar Series - November 2022

Camilla Fairbairn, bit.bio.

Hybrid event - in person at the Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre and online (Zoom).

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour pathology, structure and nomenclature

Dr. Paul Edwards (University of Cambridge).

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar Series - October 2022

Ian Roberts, Healx.

Hybrid event - in person at the Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre and online (Zoom).

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Cryo-ET reveals sarcomere structures at molecular resolution

Prof. Dr. Stefan Raunser, Director, Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96648790745?pwd=Tkx6OVpoY01ieTRMTFMzZ0QvWWR2UT09.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

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

Probing the rate limitation of a cancer driver mutation

Hans-Reimer Rodewald, DKFZ.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Regulation of mRNA translation and decay

David Bartel, Professor of Biology, MIT, HHMI, and Whitehead Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99553714360?pwd=bVRGN3o1a0dsazJIMnVIemlRbjltZz09.

Tuesday 27 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

AI in Medical Imaging Research Seminar

AI in Medical Imaging Research Seminar – Cathal McCague – "Stop rolling the DSC! - A new framework for assessing the clinical utility of segmentation algorithms"

Cathal McCague, Department of Radiology.

Berridge room on L5 at the Department of Radiology, Addenbrooke's hospital.

Tuesday 27 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

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

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

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

Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Encoding tissue morphogenesis with genetics, mechanics and geometry

Professor Thomas Lecuit, Group leader at IBDM and Turing Center for living systems, Marseille. Professor at Collège de France, Paris.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91594582633?pwd=UlBaTk1uTHJ4bW9JbFMwSEZxRE0zdz09.

Thursday 08 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein Lecture 2022 - Project Lightspeed – The discovery of the first Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine

Özlem Türeci, M.D., Professor Personalized Cancer Immunotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Co-founder, CMO BioNTech, Germany.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09.

Tuesday 26 July 2022, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein Lecture 2022 - mRNA Cancer Vaccines

Ugur Sahin, M.D., Professor Translational Oncology & Immunology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Co-founder, CEO BioNTech, Germany.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09.

Tuesday 26 July 2022, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

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

Mitochondria and Cancer - lessons learned dissecting cellular and molecular interactions

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

Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

Dr Daniel Muñoz-Espin; Department of Oncology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Combining multi-omics and biological knowledge to extract disease mechanisms

Please contact Ciara for further details

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine and Group Leader at the EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU).

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 11 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Early Cancer Institute Seminar Series

CANCELLED: Dr Andrew Erickson: The spatial landscape of clonal somatic mutations in benign and malignant tissue

Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/362960002137

Dr Andrew Erickson, University of Helsinki, Research Program in Systems Oncology (ONCOSYS) AND University of Oxford.

Clifford Albutt Lecture Theatre, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Friday 08 July 2022, 13:30-14:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic Cancer: Challenges, Models and Therapeutic Opportunities

Dr Giulia Biffi; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: The most lethal urological malignancy

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cell differentiation and tumour initiation - two sides of the coin

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deciphering Shared Intratumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity of Human Tumors

Valentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

CANCELLED The impact of environmental factors on cancer

Dr Elisabete Silva, Brunel University London.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Maike de La Roche, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Decoding transcriptional regulation

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova & Julie Ahringer

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

Gurdon Institute Tea Room AND on Zoom.

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

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar Series - May 2022

Alex Taylor, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID).

Hybrid event - in person at the Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre and online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar - Using connectomes to accelerate studies of the neuronal control of behavior in Drosophila

Gerald M. Rubin, Senior Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, LMB Fellow.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91661708050?pwd=WS9Ua0czQm9FaC9qaWk3S2VQMjE5dz09.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Understanding Myc Transcription

Dr Cathy Wilson, Department of Pharmacology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted: Ben Simons

Wolf Reik, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

To be confirmed.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Genomic Evolution of Cancer

David Wedge, University of Manchester.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Aaron Klug Memorial Symposium

Various - see Further Information.

Registration via https://www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/sites/klug/.

Friday 20 May 2022, 09:00-17:00

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

Cell Plasticity and Lineage Commitment in Liver Tumorigenesis

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

Lars Zender, University Hospital Tuebingen.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Prof Ewan St John Smith; Dept of Pathology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Kendrew Lecture 2022: Chemogenetic and optogenetic technologies for probing molecular and cellular networks

Alice Ting - Professor of Genetics, of Biology and, by courtesy, of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator .

Zoom link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99780084619?pwd=V3RmYTdTbmlBLzFLd1NOR0hHcjFIZz09.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Dr Suzannne Turner, Dept of Pathology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Hematopoietic Malignancies

Hosted by: Andrea Brand & John Gurdon

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

Webinar.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in paediatric tumours

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

Fatima Metcha-Grigoriou, Institut Curie.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar Series - April 2022

Sabine Bahn, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Online.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Dr Jason Carroll; CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Drug response and tolerance in normal and cancer cells

Klaas Mulder, Molecular Developmental Biology, Radboud University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Engineering Organoid Development

Professor Matthias Lutolf, Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering, Basel, Switzerland and Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, EPFL, Switzerland.

Zoom link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97051627883?pwd=cUh3ZDZkT3I2bHdxVXo0TytZSEJkdz09.

Tuesday 19 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Daniel St Johnston & Andrea Brand

Anne-Kathrin Classen, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Live Zoom Seminar.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical features of high grade serous ovarian cancer

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

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

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

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

Johannes Zuber, IMP, Vienna BioCentre.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

In vivo functional screens for modelling cancer initiation and progression

Dr Eric Rahrmann, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Max Perutz Lecture 2022: Therapeutic Opportunities in Glycoscience

Carolyn Bertozzi, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry, Baker Family Director, Stanford ChEM-H, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Stanford University.

Zoom: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92288963882?pwd=MEFqUURaRmJ1dkpTNkl1dzhDcHE2QT09.

Tuesday 29 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Causality, Perturbations, Gene Regulation, and Drug Repurposing

Caroline Uhler, Co-Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Zoom.

Monday 28 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

Prof Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

Lecture Theatre 2, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

Karen Vousden, The Crick Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies - an overview

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast Cancer- demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Accelerating drug discovery with the power of microscopy & AI

Anne E Carpenter, PhD, Senior Director of the Imaging Platform, Institute Scientist, Broad Institute .

https://zoom.us/j/94056313546?pwd=N1dYVFR1b0FwNmk0eGlxeDd1OVY1QT09 .

Monday 28 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Online via zoom.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: David Fernandez-Antoran & Emma Rawlins

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

To be confirmed.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Online via zoom.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Genomic and digital pathology approaches to elucidate cancer dormancy

Hybrid seminar, please join at: https://zoom.us/j/97592722368?pwd=eXg4bHN3SEJKMm5hRXpCZUtncnVBdz09

Maria Secrier, UCL Genetics Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

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

Webinar.

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

Early Cancer Institute Events

CRUK Cambridge Centre Early Detection Programme Seventh Annual Symposium

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cruk-cambridge-centre-early-detection-programme-seventh-annual-symposium-tickets-204450445787

Speaker to be confirmed.

CRUK Cambridge Institute lecture theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE.

Monday 24 January 2022, 12:00-17:30

Early Cancer Institute Events

CRUK Cambridge Centre Early Detection Programme Seventh Annual Symposium

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cruk-cambridge-centre-early-detection-programme-seventh-annual-symposium-tickets-204450445787

Prof Owen Sansom, CRUK Beatson Institute and Prof Chris Yau, University of Manchester.

CRUK Cambridge Institute lecture theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE.

Monday 24 January 2022, 12:00-17:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Viral Oncology

Professor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

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

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

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

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

Zoom.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

ICM Seminar Series #1 Whole Genome Sequencing in Oncology

Please register here to attend this talk https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/integrated-cancer-medicine-seminar-series-tickets-208452395727

Dr Paul Roepman, Hartwig Foundation and Dr Karen Pinilla, CRUK Cambridge Centre.

Online - register here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/integrated-cancer-medicine-seminar-series-tickets-208452395727.

Tuesday 14 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Care and Cure:an Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein Lecture 2021: Organoids to model human diseases

Hans Clevers, Professor in Molecular Genetics, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Zoom: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96610458150?pwd=RmI5RUZZU0JRNzBBNlh3NnFWQWpjZz09.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 11:00-12:00

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar Series - November 2021

Omer Bayraktar, The Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Online.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: translating mechanistic insights towards new cancer therapies.

Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute .

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Engineering epithelial organoid development

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

Matthias Lütolf, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Webinar.

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

Early Cancer Institute Seminar Series

Early Detection Seminar: The PUR (Prostate Urine Risk) biomarker for prostate cancer detection and prognosis

Dr Dr Jeremy Clark, Senior Research Associate, Norwich School of Medicine.

CRUK Cambridge Institute lecture theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

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

Seminar cancelled

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

Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systematic anti-cancer therapy

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

Dr Gary Doherty, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

MAGNATM, a novel single molecule platform to analyze genetic variation and epigenetic modifications on native RNA and DNA molecules

Dr Jimmy Ouellet, Depixus SAS.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 10:00-11:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Crick Lecture 2021: Human Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Vaccination

Michel C. Nussenzweig, Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

Zoom: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98167346283?pwd=UStva0JBNFpiNTE4czlSS283WGJlQT09.

Monday 15 November 2021, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

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

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Julie Ahringer

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

Webinar.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Interplay between tissue tension and tumor immunity

Valerie Weaver, Director of the Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration and Professor in the Department of Surgery, UCSF, USA.

Zoom: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92866604568?pwd=TlljTHk5VGEzd2YzM3JHQkxOaWdRUT09.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

Metabolic rewiring drives invasion and metastasis in mammary carcinoma

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

Jim Norman, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Early Cancer Institute Events

Early Detection International Webinar: Early detection of cancer by the immune system, Prof Olivera Finn, Pitt Med

Professor Olivera Finn, University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Professor of Immunology and Surgery.

Virtual (Zoom) register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/153473203483.

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

Milner Seminar Series

Harnessing the power of genetics and genomics to drive drug discovery

Joanna Betts, GlaxoSmithKline.

Online.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Biomolecular condensates and their implications for physiology and disease

Tony Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/92425532683?pwd=bXhPUkh0dm8xRlVmUkthREQwUnc4UT09.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 11:00-12:00

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

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

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

Elizabeth M Jaffee, John Hopkins.

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Kendrew Lecture (part 2): Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

John Jumper, Research scientist and AlphaFold lead.

YouTube link to watch the talk: https://youtu.be/6hlgADbBvZs.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Kendrew Lecture (part 1): Using AI to accelerate scientific discovery

Demis Hassabis, Founder & CEO DeepMind, AlphaFold project lead.

YouTube link to watch the talk: https://youtu.be/6hlgADbBvZs.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Symmetry breaking in gastruloids development

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Jenny Gallop

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

Webinar.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Artificial intelligence for prediction of genetic alterations directly from histology images

Please email tania.smith@cruk.cam.ac.uk to request the Zoom registration link

Prof Jakob Kather is a physician/scientist and assistant professor at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) with additional affiliations at the NCT Heidelberg (Germany) and the University of Leeds (UK). .

ZOOM (live).

Monday 04 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar Series - September 2021

Adrian Liston, Babraham Institute.

Online.

Thursday 23 September 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

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

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

Senthil Muthuswamy, Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

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

Cancelled

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

Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Using stem cell technology to combat age-related neurodegenerative diseases

Sally Temple PhD, Scientific Director, Neural Stem Cell Institute, USA.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/99447632193?pwd=QU9vbXliNXcvcXZqVFFBbHVpd2tSUT09.

Tuesday 27 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Viral Oncology

Professor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

Online by Zoom - as below.

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

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar Series - January 2022

Ziad Mallat, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Wednesday 21 July 2021, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Ignacia Arteaga Dept of Social Anthropology .

Online by Zoom - as below.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: The biomass distribution on Earth

Ron Milo, Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/93763520674?pwd=WTlDZThITTFUaEpKL2xMZ1YzZWVkZz09.

Tuesday 06 July 2021, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

In vivo functional screens for modelling cancer initiation and progression

Dr Eric Rahrmann, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Online by Zoom - as below.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Membrane Mechanics: cryo-EM insights and challenges

Adam Frost, Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF, USA.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/97224999053?pwd=aitsUFFSQ3dKVlM0MUFVWC83S0E0UT09.

Tuesday 29 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Dicer dependent tRNA derived small RNAs promote nascent RNA silencing

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

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

Webinar.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Giulia Biffi; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Online by Zoom.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Mechanisms of centriole assembly

Pierre Gönczy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/91953336333?pwd=ZnV2R1dNSW1FdVhmK1J6UmcvdnNOdz09.

Tuesday 22 June 2021, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Mechanisms of centriole assembly

Pierre Gönczy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/91953336333?pwd=ZnV2R1dNSW1FdVhmK1J6UmcvdnNOdz09.

Tuesday 22 June 2021, 11:00-12:00

Early Cancer Institute Seminar Series

Early Detection International Webinar: Case study: Pathway to adoption of the Qiagen Digene HPV test

To receive the Zoom link, register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/153469313849

Professor Attila Lorincz.

This talk will happen virtually via Zoom.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

Cancelled

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

Marcia Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

Online - Google Meet.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska

Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Webinar.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Understanding Myc transcription

Dr Cathy Wilson, Department of Pharmacology.

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

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

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

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

Webinar.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and clinical features of high grade serous ovarian cancer

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar Series: PROTEINi-based perturbation screening for new target discovery

Benedict Cross, Phoremost.

Online.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in paediatric tumours

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Systemic regulation of brain aging and function

Tony Wyss-Coray, D. H. Chen Professor II, Stanford University, USA.

Webinar - Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91691820397?pwd=aUNFUFFib1V5S2V4RUswRmlhN0pRQT09.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Homeoboxes build the nervous system

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer

Oliver Hobert, Columbia University, USA.

Webinar.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering model-based systems to monitor and steer subclonal dynamics

Dr Noemi Andor, Moffitt Cancer Center.

ZOOM (live).

Monday 24 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

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

Quality control of proteins orphaned in the cytosol

Ramanujan S Hegde, MRC LMB.

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Dr Suzanne Turner, Dept of Pathology, Cambridge University.

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

NB this lecture will not be recorded.

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Milner Seminar Series

Targeting the gut for the treatment of metabolic diseases

Fiona Gribble, Wellcome MRC Institute of Metabolic Science.

Online.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Dr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz Lecture 2021: The coming of age of de novo protein design

Professor David Baker, Director of the Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, USA .

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/92141784758?pwd=MC9UVVBLaUdkTkg4dDdJb2RRaGhmUT09.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer

Howard Chang, Stanford University Medical Center, USA.

Webinar.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

Professor Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

Live event cancelled.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Molecular views into cellular functions by in-cell cryo-electron tomography

Dr Julia Mahamid, Group Leader, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/97074945822?pwd=NWZvc3VEVWJxWmREVXJhaisxTkJ5dz09.

Tuesday 20 April 2021, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Determining the age of Barrett’s esophagus using stochastic multiscale modeling and epigenetic clocks

Dr Kathleen Curtius from UCSD in San Diego .

ZOOM (live).

Monday 19 April 2021, 17:00-18:15

Early Cancer Institute Seminar Series

Early Detection International Webinar: Looking beyond scopes, scans and smears - the future of cancer screening

To receive the Zoom link, register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-detection-international-webinar-dr-sana-raoof-grail-bio-tickets-130442171045

Dr Sana Raoof, MGH Cancer Center and Grail Bio.

This talk will happen virtually via Zoom.

Thursday 15 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Early Cancer Institute Seminar Series

Early Detection International Webinar: Strategies to exploit the biology of exosomes for diagnosis and treatment of cancer

Register here to receive Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-detection-international-webinar-dr-raghu-kalluri-md-anderson-tickets-130428887313

Dr Raghu Kalluri, MD Anderson Cancer Centre.

This talk will happen virtually via Zoom.

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

Milner Seminar Series

Targeting mitochondrial metabolism to treat ischaemia-reprfusion injury

Mike Murphy, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge.

Online.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast Cancer – demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

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

Regulation of Protein Degradation in Cancer and Effect on Tumor Immunity

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

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies: an overview

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Functions of Ribosome-Associated Chaperones in Health and Disease

Prof. Dr. Elke Deuerling, Chair of Molecular Microbiology, University of Konstanz, Germany.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/97041423092?pwd=dDFuelNtb0o2cTdWL1BabFBhbldFQT09 .

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early detection and treatment of lethal prostate cancer.

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Rules of engagement: molecular arms races between host and viral genomes

Dr. Harmit Singh Malik, Professor, Division of Basic Sciences & HHMI Investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/92208122335?pwd=UGJIN3k3TnJYNWloNFBhVDlOaldZUT09.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

Mechanisms and consequences of pancreatic cancer stromal evolution

Mara Sherman, Oregon Health & Science University.

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

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

Milner Seminar Series

Building a Collaborative Network to target Neurodegeneration using Fragment Based Drug Design

Elena di Daniel, Astex Therapeutics.

Online.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Visualizing Spatial Single-Cell Data with Vitessce

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 5th February to receive a ZOOM registration link

Prof Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard Medical School .

ZOOM (live).

Monday 08 February 2021, 15:00-16:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clinical treatment and cancer stem cell biology in malignant glioma

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

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

Molecular Imaging for the Improved Visualization and Treatment of Cancer

Jason Lewis, MSKCC.

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunotherapy

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

Online - Google Meet.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

Dr Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Online - Google Meet.

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

Milner Seminar Series

Developing New Mouse Models of Mutant Histone-Driven Paediatric Gliomas

Manav Pathania, Dept Oncology and CRUK Cambridge Centre.

Online.

Thursday 17 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic anti-cancer therapy

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

Dr Gary Doherty, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Online (see Google Meet link below).

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deep learning in medical imaging - successes, pitfalls and challenges

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 11th December to receive a ZOOM registration link

Prof Lena Maier-Hein from DKFZ in Heidelberg .

ZOOM (live).

Monday 14 December 2020, 15:00-16:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Dr Jacqui Shields, MRC Cancer Unit.

Online (see Google Meet link below).

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Translation defects and neurological disease

Susan L Ackerman, PhD. Professor, Cellular and Molecular Biology Steven W. Kuffler Chair of Biology University of California San Diego USA/HHMI.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/95280655660?pwd=RzhzSlQvWXFVS1dVdURPUUxocElkQT09 Passcode: 628922.

Tuesday 08 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

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

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Online (see Google Meet link below).

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

Milner Seminar Series

Precision Microbiome Science Enables Best in Class Therapeutics

Mike Romanos, Microbiotica.

Online.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture: The emerging world of microbial rhodopsins in photobiology

Keiichi Inoue, Associate Professor, The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo.

Webinar - register at https://nanoscience.oxinst.com/campaigns/sir-martin-wood-prize-lecture.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

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

Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Online (see Google Meet link below).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

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

Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Online (see Google Meet link below).

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Mechanistic basis of epigenetic switching and memory

Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins

Martin Howard, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

Webinar.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit .

Online (see Google Meet link below).

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Computational analysis of cancer genomes

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 6th November to receive a ZOOM registration link

Prof Nuria Lopez-Bigas from Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona .

ZOOM (live).

Monday 09 November 2020, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

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

Early Cancer Institute Seminar Series

Virtual breakfast meeting: Population screening for renal cancer - genius or madness?

To receive the Zoom link, register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/population-screening-for-renal-cancer-genius-or-madness-tickets-122377152357

Prof Grant Stewart, Professor of Surgical Oncology and Honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon.

This talk will happen virtually via Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 08:30-09:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

The African killifish: a vertebrate model to understand aging and ‘suspended animation'

Anne Brunet, Michele and Timothy Barakett Professor of Genetics, Stanford University, USA.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

How is electrical signal generated?

Nieng Yan, Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, USA.

Webinar via Zoom.

Monday 02 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Online (see Google Meet link below).

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

Early Cancer Institute Seminar Series

Early Detection International Webinar: Antigen independent de novo prediction of cancer associated T cells

To receive the Zoom link, register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/antigen-independent-de-novo-prediction-of-cancer-associated-t-cells-tickets-124983510043

Dr Bo Li, UT Southwestern Medical Center.

This talk will happen virtually via Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 17:00-18:00

Milner Seminar Series

The Welcome Sanger Institute’s Scientific Plans 2021-2026

Mike Stratton, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Online.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Online - Google Meet.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Genetics Through the Lens of Mutational Signatures and the Two-Hit Hypothesis.

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 16th October to receive a ZOOM registration link

Dr Paz Polak from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

ZOOM (live).

Monday 19 October 2020, 16:30-17:30

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

Targeting the Tumour Microenvironment

Clare Isacke, The Institute of Cancer Research.

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

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

Hosted by: Steve Jackson & Hansong Ma

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

Webinar.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Characterizing and forecasting tumour evolution

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 25 September to receive a ZOOM registration link

Dr Robert Noble from City, University of London.

ZOOM (live).

Monday 28 September 2020, 10:30-11:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

RNP granules in health and disease (via Zoom)

Roy Parker, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Executive Director, BioFrontiers Institute, Distinguished Professor and Cech-Leinwand Endowed Chair of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.

Webinar via Zoom.

Tuesday 22 September 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Therapeutic Opportunities in Glycoscience

***Please note the change of time to 17.30-18.30 - many apologies for the inconvenience this might cause, zoom registrations will update automatically***

Carolyn Bertozzi, Stanford University.

To register please sign up via zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEufuGgqDorGNKIbAXM0oNMYhpy2Sdl_bQM .

Thursday 17 September 2020, 17:30-18:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Study virus assembly and host interactions in vitro and in cells by cryoEM and cryoET

Peijun Zhang, Professor of Structural Biology and Wellcome Trust Investigator, University of Oxford .

Webinar via Zoom - https://zoom.us/j/97493748184?pwd=Z1dZM2pxUk16QytPeU5NVWZ3bnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 974 9374 8184 Passcode: 404662.

Tuesday 08 September 2020, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Firing up the genome

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

Nadine Vastenhouw, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany.

Webinar.

Monday 27 July 2020, 10:30-11:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Understanding regulatory systems and mechanisms of genetic interactions: from yeast to pediatric cancer

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk to receive a ZOOM registration link

Dr Patrick Kemmeren from Princess Maxima Center in Utrecht, Netherlands .

ZOOM (live).

Monday 20 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

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

Online - "meet.google.com/epi-proa-bxu":URL.

Thursday 16 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Viral Oncology

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

Professor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

Online - "meet.google.com/tyd-okcn-wmr":URL.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The biology and fundamental management of colorectal cancer

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

Mr Simon Buczacki, Dept Haematology (University of Cambridge).

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 02 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Model-based explanation of cellular response

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

Fabian Theis, Director, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany.

Webinar.

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

**** This seminar has been cancelled ****

This seminar is rescheduled to take place on 17 June 2021

Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lung Cancer: Part 1. Patient pathway and intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

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

Dr Robert Rintoul -Clinical Consultant, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Dr Frank McCaughan-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow / Honorary Consultant,Department of Biochemistry School of Clinical Medicine .

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

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

Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader, Department of Oncology..

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Milner Seminar Series

TALK POSTPONED

Mark Kotter (bit bio).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical challenges posed by heterogeneous data from immunology and microbiology

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 12th June to receive a ZOOM registration link

Professor Susan Holmes from Stanford University .

ZOOM (live).

Monday 15 June 2020, 10:00-11:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in Paediatric tumours

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

Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Milner Seminar Series

ONLINE seminar: Mechanisms of estrogen receptor activity in breast cancer

Jason Carroll (CRUK Cambridge Institute).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Milner Seminar Series

TALK POSTPONED

Chris Torrance (Phoremost).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The clinical and biological basis of prostate cancer - from diagnosis to personalised therapy

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

Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

“Focus on the Individual; The importance of chromosome-specific biology in generating aneuploidy patterns in cancer”

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk to receive a ZOOM registration link

Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London .

ZOOM (live).

Monday 01 June 2020, 13:00-14:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

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

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

**** This seminar has been cancelled ****

We will reschedule for later in the year.

Ramanujan S Hegde.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Milner Seminar Series

ONLINE seminar: Myelin regeneration in the CNS: reversing the ravages of time

Robin Franklin (Wellcome MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric Malignancies

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

Dr Amos Burke, Clinical Consultant - Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Treatment of kidney cancer

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

Mr Grant Stewart, Cambridge University Hospitals.

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Milner Seminar Series

ONLINE seminar: Single-cell transcriptomics analysis of SARS-CoV-2 entry factors

Waradon Sungnak (Wellcome Sanger Institute).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

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

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CANCELLED

Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute in London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 04 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

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

Professor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

Online - Google Hangouts.

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

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

**** This seminar has been cancelled ****

Jim Norman, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

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

Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Milner Seminar Series

ONLINE seminar: Functional genomics approaches to guide cancer drug discovery

Mathew Garnett (Wellcome Sanger Institute).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 09:00-17:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

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

Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Online - Google Hangouts.

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

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - “Cancer genomics: from chromatin structure to new therapeutic targets”

Host: Sakari Vanharanta

Professor Elisa Oricchio (EPFL, Zurich).

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Fengzhu Xiong

Andy McMahon, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 03 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

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

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CANCELLED

Professor Valentina Boeva from Institute for Machine Learning in Zurich.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 30 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Milner Seminar Series

EVENT POSTPONED: Functional genomics approaches to guide cancer drug discovery

Mathew Garnett (Wellcome Sanger Institute).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Milner Seminar Series

EVENT POSTPONED: Exploiting the cell's quality control machinery for therapeutic benefit

Laura Itzhaki (PolyProx Therapeutics).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

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

Dr Richard Baird, Department of Oncology.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

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

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical challenges posed by heterogeneous data from immunology and microbiology- CANCELLED

Professor Susan Holmes from Stanford University .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 16 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

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

Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Visual Exploration of Longitudinal Oncology Data - CANCELLED

Professor Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard Medical School .

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Monday 09 March 2020, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

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

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Milner Seminar Series

Study of liver diseases using human pluripotent stem cells

Ludovic Vallier (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Milner Seminar Series

Liver fibrosis and epigenetics: potential for a BETter treatment

Pal Mander (GlaxoSmithKline).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

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

Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz LMB Seminar Series: How our chromosomes are replicated

John Diffley, Associate Research Director, the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Mitochondrial Behaviour

Jodi Nunnari, Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Univeristy of California, Davis.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches

Dr Evangelina Petsalaki from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Simon Cook, Babraham Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Image-based quantitative morphology with geometrical models

Dr Virginie Uhlmann from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The AKT inhibitor Capivasertib (AZD5363): From Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Barry Davies - Director, Clinical and Translational Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

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

Single cell whole genome sequencing approaches to model evolution in cancer

** Please note this seminar is on a Tuesday **

Sohrab Shah, MSKCC.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Robustness and scaling in early development: the “distal pinning” mechanism

Hosted by: Ben Simons

Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Milner Seminar Series

New approaches to target metabolite and oxygen sensing pathways

James Nathan (CITIID).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Milner Seminar Series

AI for identifying therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities

Namshik Han (Milner Therapeutics Institute).

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Cell competition during development and disease

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

Eduardo Moreno, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Stem Cells: It’s All About the Neighborhood

Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins

Elaine Fuchs, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein LMB Seminar Series: Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer

Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 27 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunotherapy

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

Dr Christine Parkinson, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic anticancer therapy

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

Dr Gary Doherty (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Dr Jacqui Shields - MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Host factors that shape influenza evolution.

Wendy Barclay.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 06 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Cell Plasticity in Colon Carcinogenesis’

Host: Grad Student Society -

Professor Dr Florian Greten, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frakfurt.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

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

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Mechanistic insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery and DNA repair

Hosted by: Philip Zegerman

Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Folding and assembly of newly synthesized proteins revealed by ribosome profiling

Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University and German Cancer Research Center.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Cancer and ageing: Rival demons?

Judith Campisi, Buck Institute for Research on Ageing and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer- NB 9am start time

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

Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 09:00-10:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Forcing tumor initiation and progression

Valerie M Weaver, University of California, San Francisco.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Epigenetic memory over geological timescales

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

Hiten Madhani, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Human Regulator of TElomere Length Helicase 1 (RTEL1) couples nuclear envelope stability and functions to genome replication

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Steve Jackson

Arturo Londoño-Vallejo, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Transcriptional dependencies in cancer

***Please note this seminar is on a Friday***

Christopher Vakoc, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Kendrew Lecture - How a ubiquitin-like protein brings ubiquitylation to life

Brenda Schulman, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Activation of transcription factor Nrf2 as a strategy to restore the cellular redox and protein homeostasis’

Host: Christian Frezza (CF366@hutchison-mrc.cam.ac.uk)

Professor Albena Dinkova-Kostova,Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre, Division of Cellular Medicine, University of Dundee .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

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

TET-family dioxygenases, immune responses and cancer

Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Organelle contact sites: a new layer in the organization of Eukaryotic cells

Benoit Kornmann, Associate professor – Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford University, and C.W. Maplethorpe Tutorial Fellow in Bio-chemistry – St-Hugh’s College, Oxford University.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 12 September 2019, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Treatment of cancer by inhibition of mtDNA gene expression’

Host: Christian Frezza - (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar)

Nils-Göran Larsson, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

Dr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Antibodies against Ebola and Lassa: A Global Collaboration

Erica Ollmann Saphire, Professor Department of Immunology and Microbiology California Campus.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 23 July 2019, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Francis Crick Lecture - Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life

Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A..

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

Dr Raaj Praseedom.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Combining omics data and biological knowledge to understand and treat cancer’

Host: Christian Frezza

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine & EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Combining omics data and biological knowledge to understand and treat cancer’

Host: Christian Frezza

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy Frankfurt.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Monday 01 July 2019, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

What next for your career in science?

Rebecca Aarons, Jenny Gallop, Emma Gleave.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 28 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them. A basic research perspective

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

Dr Marc de la Roche, Lecturer - Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Perturbation biology: data-driven executable models of cellular processes and the design of combination therapy

Chris Sander, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The childhood cancer genome

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

Dr Sam Behjati - Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and WTSI.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Structural and mechanistic studies of key components in DNA damage signalling and repair

Xiaodong Zhang.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Folding and assembly of newly synthesized proteins revealed by ribosome profiling

Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University and German Cancer Research Center.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 14 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Why Standard Naming and Pixel-based Contouring/Voluming are important to research in the radiation Oncology area’

Host: Dr Richard Benson (richard.benson@addenbrookes.nhs.uk)

Prof Andrew Miller, Radiation Oncologist, Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, Wollongong, NSW Australia / Adjunct Professor of Informatics, School of Informatics, University of Wollongong .

Clinical School - Seminar room 10.

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Next-Generation Biopsies in Gastrointestinal Cancers’

Host: Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald (cf208@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk)

Dr Nicola Valeri, Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Trust.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

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

Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Towards a mechanistic understanding of cellular processes by cryo-EM

Gaia Pigino, Research Group Leader at the MPI-CBG.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB PNAC Seminars

Black Spot, Black Death, Black Pearl: The Tales of Bacterial Effectors

Prof. Kim Orth, Chair in Biomedical Science, UT Southwestern Medical Center, .

Sanger Room, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 10:00-11:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - The 100,000 genomes project and beyond

Tim Hubbard, Professor of Bioinformatics & Head of Department, King’s College London.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Spatio-temporal dynamics of cell fate specification and differentiation in the zebrafish embryo

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Philip Zegerman

Philip W Ingham, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore - Imperial College London.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Nieng Yan, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Saturday 18 May 2019, 00:00-00:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Transposable elements as catalysts of cellular innovation

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Hansong Ma

Cédric Feschotte, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Modifications of RNA: their function and role in cancer

Tony Kouzarides, PhD FRS FMedSci, Professor of Cancer Biology, Cancer Research UK Gibb Fellow, Director of the Milner Therapeutics Institute, Member of the Department of Pathology.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

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

Dr Grant Stewart, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘New protagonists of the tumour microenvironment’

Host: Sujath Abbas - sa837@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk (Grad Student Society)

Dr Ilaria Malanchi, Tumour-Host Interaction Lab,Francis Crick Institute, London .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Synthesis and hydrolysis of the gram-positive cell wall: revisiting old models with new data

David Rudner, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 03 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: The blastocyst and its stem cells; from mouse to human relevance

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

Janet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - CryoEM of proton pumping macromolecular machines

John Rubinstein.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 29 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

Cellular Conversations that Control Cancer

***Please note this seminar is on a Friday***

Thea D Tlsty, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0511.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 26 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Fire and Water are Good Servants, But Bad Masters

Tak Mak, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Factors and Functions of ER Membrane Contact Sites

Gia Voeltz PhD, HHMI Investigator and Professor University of Colorado at Boulder.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Mammary epithelial cell fate and tumour initiation at the single cell resolution’

Host: Rebecca Fitzgerald

Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Pathogen restriction and host specificity: insights from the human pathogen Salmonella Typhi

Jorge Galan, PhD, DVM, Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology; Chair, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 05 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Gerry Rubin, Vice President, HHMI, and Executive Director, Janelia Research Campus.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 00:00-00:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Gerry Rubin, Vice President, HHMI, and Executive Director, Janelia Research Campus.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 00:00-00:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

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

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Julie Ahringer, PhD FMedSci, Director, Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Member of the Department of Genetics.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 00:00-00:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Julie Ahringer, PhD FMedSci, Director, Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Member of the Department of Genetics.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 00:00-00:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A systems biology approach to identify perturbed processes driving cancer

Professor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 25 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

A Deep Dive into the Genome of Hypoxic Tumours

Robert Bristow, Manchester Cancer Research Research Centre, University of Manchester.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, Diagnosis and Treatment Pathways in Haematological Malignancies

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

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - ANNA KARENINA AND THE GENETICS OF COMPLEX DISEASE: DE NOVO MUTATIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

Mary-Claire King, human geneticist professor, University of Washington.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

Lecture Cancelled.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Regulatory Genomics: From Basic Biology to Disease Mechanisms and Ageing

Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Animating Molecular Biology

Janet Iwasa, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Department, University of Utah.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 08 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series Milstein Lecture - Intracellular Membrane Contact Sites, Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegeneration

Pietro De Camilli Departments of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Kavli Institute for Neuroscince, Yale University School of Medicine.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Chemical regulation of functional RNAs

Special Seminar hosted by: Tony Kouzarides, Eric Miska & Cambridge RNA Club

Yunsun Nam, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Stem cells, regeneration and organoid cultures

Meritxell Huch, Wellcome Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Member of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Liquid biopsy biomarkers for early detection; general principles and specific examples

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

Dr Charlie Massie, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Multi-dimensional cancer-immune cell interaction during metastasis’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (SV358@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk)

Xiang Zhang, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.

Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

Epigenetic control of malignant melanoma

Emily Bernstein, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Learning Engines for Healthcare: Using Machine Learning to Transform Clinical Practice and Discovery

Prof Mihaela van der Schaar from Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

Louisa Bellis (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Genome Architecture Mapping: discovering 3D genome topology in rare cell types

Ana Pombo, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic Anticancer Therapy

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

Dr Bristi Basu, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

THIS SEMIAR IS NOW CANCELLED - 'Cell Plasticity in Colon Carcinogenesis'

Host: Graduate Student Society (Sujath Abbas)

Professor Florian Greten, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frankfurt.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The integrated approach to the diagnosis of haematological malignancies

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

Dr Mike Scott, Department of Haematology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 03 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell-of-origin of prostate cancer and clinical heterogeneity

Dr Esther Baena from CRUK Manchester Institute .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Executable Disease Networks: Reconstruction, Topology, Dynamics’

Host: Ben Hall

Anna Niarakis, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Solving a 3D jigsaw with 1000 pieces - Structure and assembly of the nuclear pore complex

Martin Beck.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 03 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz Lecture- How synapses work: Architecture and mechanism of neurotransmitter receptors and transporters

Eric Gouaux.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Towards in vivo structural biology: solving protein structures using deep mutagenesis

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer

Ben Lehner, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Carrie Partch.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Non invasive detection of tissue specific cell death via methylation patterns of circulating DNA

Prof Yuval Dor from The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 19 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

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

Bridging DNA methylation dynamics and electronic health records to understand the non-coding genome

Emily Hodges, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, USA.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Reconstructing Tissue Architecture by Single Cell Genomics

Sarah Teichmann.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Generating human kidney tissue from pluripotent stem cells

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons

Melissa Little, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Victoria, Australia.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 10:00-11:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Genome Evolution and Immune Escape

You must email Anna.Toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk prior to the talk if you are not based in CRUK CI and you wish to attend.

Dr Nicholas McGranahan from Francis Crick Institute in London.

Room 215, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Monday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of host cells in time and space

Max Gutierrez.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Towards cancer screening using circulating DNA

Y M Dennis Lo, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Light Sleep

Gero Miesenboeck.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Exploring the role of ion channels in cancer using executable modelling

Dr Benjamin Hall from MRC Cancer Unit in Cambridge .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

*** Cancelled***

This talk will be rescheduled in 2019. Apologies for any incovenience this has caused.

Ana Pombo, MDC Berlin.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

The role of the intestinal microbiome in allo HCT

This special seminar is being hosted by Dr Hilary Browne on behalf of Dr Trevor Lawley All welcome. Refreshments after. Please contact Sophie Palmer sap71@medschl.cam.ac.uk if you would like to meet Marcel following his seminar.

Marcel van den Brink, Head of the Division of Hematologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH.

Tuesday 25 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Transformation in trials and care to accelerate learning in medicine

Dr Esserman is Visiting Professor for the CRUK Cambridge Centre Breast Cancer Programme.

Dr Laura Esserman, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

CRUK Cambridge Institute lecture theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE.

Monday 24 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Gone fishing. Machine-learning guided discovery from public data.

Professor Casey Greene from the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Friday 21 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Evidence that sub-cellular oscillators may time and execute organelle biogenesis

Jordan Raff.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 20 September 2018, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dynamics of HIV Intra-Patient Drug Resistance Evolution through Space and Time

Dr Alison Feder from University of California, Berkeley, USA .

Room 215, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Thursday 13 September 2018, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Patient-past based precision medicine: multi-morbidities in a life-course perspective

Professor Soren Brunak from University of Copenhagen.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 10 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

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

Dr Matthew Murray, Department of Pathology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 26 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Research frontiers and new therapeutic strategies in pancreatic cancer

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

Dr Tobias Janowitz, Department of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 19 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

Mr Raaj Praseedom, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

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

Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Human Cancer

**Please note this talk is on a Tuesday**

Cigall Kadoch, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 10 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Role of H3K27me3-mediated genomic imprinting in development and somatic cell nuclear transfer reprogramming

Hosted by: Azim Surani

Yi Zhang, Dept Genetics & Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 July 2018, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

*PLEASE NOTE 09.00 START TIME. These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Robert Rintoul, CUH and Papworth NHS Foundation Trusts, and Dr Frank McCaughan, Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 09:00-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Kinetochore Structure

Steve Harrison.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Functional Genomics to Study Cancer

David Sabatini, Whitehead Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Colorectal cancer. Part 1. Presentation, Diagnosis and Intervention. Part 2. Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them - a basic research perspective

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

Mr Simon Buczacki, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Dr Marc de la Roche, Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

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

Dr Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Regulators of Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Function

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch

Helen Blau, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Nuclear Mechanopathology & Early Cancer Diagnostics’

Host: Ashok Venkitaraman ((Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar) Contact:pa-venkitaraman@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk

Professor GS Shivashankar, Deputy Director, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 15 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies: an overview

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

Dr Amos Burke, Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Regulatory principles in human development and evolution

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Emma Rawlins

Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Cellular Plasticity in Cancer: driving force and therapeutic target’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (SV358@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk) Hutchison/MRC Seminar

Professor Thomas Brabletz, Department of Experimental Medicine, University Erlangen-Nuernberg.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly

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

Dr Florian Markowetz, Group Leader, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Michael Hall.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Titia De Lange Rockefeller.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

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

Early Cancer Institute Events

Population based genetic testing strategy for cancer prevention

Refreshments provided. Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-population-based-genetic-testing-strategy-for-cancer-prevention-tickets-45055563403

Dr Ranjit Manchanda, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of Longon.

Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 21 May 2018, 17:30-19:00

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

Clonal evolution of cancer: lessons from the mouse

Allan Balmain, UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Family Cancer Centre.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Epigenetics: One Genome, Multiple Phenotypes

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides & Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

Danny Reinberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NYU Langone School of Medicine at Smilow Research Center, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Modified small RNA regulate chromosome dosage and segregation

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides

Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Accelerating the translation of mutational signatures'

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar) Contact:pa-venkitaraman@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk

Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Translational Science: using biomarkers to guide clinical development in oncology

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

Dr Andy Pierce, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Kendrew Lecture-Electron cryo-microscopy

Jacques Dubochet.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Epigenomic Signatures of Neuronal Diversity in the Mammalian Brain

Joseph R Ecker PhD, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway of haematological malignancies

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

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 09:30-10:30

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

RNA Genomics in Health and Disease

Robert B Darnell, MD PhD, The Rockefeller University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer - demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway

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

Dr Charlotte Coles, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 April 2018, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

On the function of PRDM15, a member of the PRDM family of transcriptional regulators, in development and lymphomagenesis

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch

Ernesto Guccione, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Hess Center for Science and Medicine, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 05 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The cellular phase of Alzheimer’s Disease

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

Bart De Strooper, Director UK Dementia Research Institute, Professor at UCL, University of Leuven and VIB.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 29 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Proton Beam Therapy: Current and Future Provision"

Host: Dr Gail Horan

Yen-Ching Chang, Consultant in Clinical Oncology, UCHL.

Cambridge Instute Lecture Theatre(CRUK) RobinsonWay Cambridge CB2 0RE.

Tuesday 20 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Smart light sheet microscopes for you and me

Hosted by: Alex Sossick & Emma Rawlins

Jan Huisken, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 20 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Lukas Kapitein.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Transcription Factor/Chromatin Interactions: Integrating Genomics and Live Cell Dynamics

Gordon Hager, National Cancer Institute Centre for Cancer Research, USA.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

TALK CANCELLED Targets for drug discovery: from target validation to the clinic

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

Dr Paul Smith, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Imaging techniques and novel tools for early detection and intervention

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

Dr Sarah Bohndiek and Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing: Biology, Technology and Ethics

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Steve Jackson

Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Instituting Molecular Precision in Localised Prostate Cancer - A Cure for All?’

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

Rob Bristow, University Professor of Cancer Studies, Director of MCRC.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to early detection and tumour development

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

Professor Paul Pharoah and Dr Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Oxidative Stress Defences in Cancer

Host: Prof Ashok Venkitaraman (Queries to: AC288@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk)

Professor Joan Brugge, Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professor of Cell Biology and Director of the Ludwig Centre at Harvard University.

Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 14:30-15:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Regulation of progenitor cells in adult lung and in lung cancer

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Azim Surani

Carla F. Kim, Boston Children's Hospital, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Immune evasion and metastasis in colorectal cancer

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons

Eduard Batlle, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona, Spain .

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

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

Mechanosensing and endosomal traffic – new vulnerabilities in breast cancer

Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku, Finland.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks by Quantitative Phosphoproteomics

Prof. Jesper V. Olsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Tuesday 16 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Imaging cancer invasion and pluripotency

Hosted by: Jenny Gallop & Steve Jackson

Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku, Finland.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 16 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Kendrew Lecture- Illuminating biology at the nanoscale and systems scale by imaging

Xiaowei Zhuang .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 15 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Dangerous Liaisons between platelets and cancer

Anil Sood, MD - University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Centre.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

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

Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Growth coordination in Drosophila

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Andrea Brand

Pierre Léopold, Institute of Biology Valrose (iBV), Nice, France.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 December 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Tracking metabolic reprogramming in cancers with PI3K/Akt activation’

Host: Christian Frezza

George Poulogiannis, Team Leader, Division of Cancer Biology, Institute of Cancer Research, London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 05 December 2017, 11:30-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Enhancers as regulatory hubs in mammalian embryogenesis and human congenital disease

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

Dr Alvaro Rada-Iglesias, CMMC - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Germany.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 04 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring

Christine Holt.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 04 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

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

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Exploring and Exploiting the Diversity of Secretory Routes in Mammalian Cells

Franck Perez.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Robustness and dynamics of natural direct reprogramming

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Julie Ahringer

Sophie Jarriault, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cell Biology (IGBMC), Illkirch, France .

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring the Evolutionary History of Cancers: Statistical Methods and Applications

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Thank you.

Dr Andrew Roth, Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford .

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 27 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

RNA Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Disease

Hosted by: Jenny Gallop & Rick Livesey

Ron Vale, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 27 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism - a hallmark of cancer

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

Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

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

Genomic Approaches to Cancer

Todd Golub, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Are RNA granules liquid organelles? Regulation of P granule dynamics by intrinsically-disordered proteins

Hosts: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska

Geraldine Seydoux, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Metastasis latency: new molecular insights

Host: Sakari Vanharanta

Roger Gomis, ICREA Research Professor, IRB Barcelona.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Genomic and cellular integration of bacterial endosymbionts into host cells

John McCutcheon.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 03 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Bioloy.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mutational heterogeneity in promoter regions in melanoma

All external guests should arrive to the room at least 5 minutes before the start of the talk.

A/Prof. Dr Erik Larsson Lekholm, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 30 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research

Please note that this event will be recorded. Guests should arrive to the Lecture Theatre at leat 5-10 minutes prior the talk, swich off their phones and minimise disruption and noise level to the minimum. Use of wi-fi is not allowed during the talk.

Dr Timothy Errington.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 23 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Biomolecular condensates and their implications for neurodegenerative disease

Tony Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Epigenetic regulation by histone acetylation

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides & Eric Miska

Asifa Akhtar, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series- Stories from the first year of the Central Oxford Structural Microscopy and Imaging Centre - closing in on bacterial protein secretion systems.

Susan Lea.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 02 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Protecting Immortality: Germ line Development in Drosophila

Hosts: Daniel St Johnston & Julie Ahringer

Ruth Lehmann, Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 11:30-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

To be confirmed

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

Prof. Tomas Marques Bonet.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 25 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

***PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED***

Liz Jaffee, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, USA.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series- How T cells control secretion to optimise target cell killing

Gillian Griffiths.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘The role of Mre11 in DNA double strand break repair - myth and facts’

Host: Ashok Venkitaraman

Professor Shunichi Takeda, Department of Radiation Genetics, Kyoto University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Monday 18 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Crick Lecture-The Surprising Chemistry of Non-enzymatic RNA Replication

Jack Szostack, Harvard, USA .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 07 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Integrated structural biology of gene transcription

Patrick Cramer, Max Planck Institute.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 16:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Liver Regeneration in the Damaged Liver

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch

Stuart J Forbes, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 25 August 2017, 10:45-11:45

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Coding and non-coding cancer mutations

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

Prof. Dr Núria López-Bigas, ICREA Research Professor, IRB Barcelona.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 14 August 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-RNA quality control and the nuclear RNA exosome

Chris Lima.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 14 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series- Title to follow

Andreas Matouschek, Northwestern University, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 03 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Satellite RNAs, Heterochromatin and Cancer: A Novel Mechanism of Induction of Breast Cancer by Loss of BRCA1?

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

Professor Inder Verma, Salk Institute, San Diego, USA .

Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

Monday 26 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-DNA Methylation: From stem cell differentiation to chromatin organisation

Margaret Goodell.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 11:15-12:15

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

****CANCELLED***Mammalian SWI/SNF (BAF) complex structure and function in human cancer

Please note that this seminar is cancelled because the speaker is unwell. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Cigall Kadoch, Ph.D, Dana- Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Exploring and exploiting aberrant self-fate programs in leukemia’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC talk)

Dr Johannes Zuber, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Analyses for Rule-Based Models of Cellular Signalling'

SPECIAL COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Host by: Dr Ben Hall

Dr Jean Yang, Assistant Professor,Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

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

MYC and Metabolic Vulnerabilities of Cancer

Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD, Professor and Director, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical Bioinformatics at Scale

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

Prof. Alexander Schliep.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 22 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

To be confirmed

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

Dr Paz Polak.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 15 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Charting the response to DNA damage

Dan Durocher, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 15 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to protein

Hosts: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch

Steven McKnight, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Mulitispectral imaging to uncover the organelle interactome

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, National Institute of Health, Maryland, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Switching Genes on and off in Erythropoiesis

Doug Higgs, University of Oxford.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Alterations of the Polycomb machinery in cancers’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC talk)

Raphaël Margueron, Curie Institute, Paris.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Max Perutz Lecture- Antisense transcription and epigenetic switching

Caroline Dean, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Multi-scale models of organogenesis: Limb bud development

Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Emma Rawlins

James Sharpe, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 25 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

Early Cancer Institute Events

Novel tools for lung cancer early diagnosis and therapy

To sign up go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/novel-tools-for-lung-cancer-early-diagnosis-and-therapy-tickets-33392843895

Dr Robert Rintoul: Consultant respiratory physician in thoracic oncology at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge and Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow in the University of Cambridge and Dr Daniel Muñoz-Espin: Group Leader, Early Detection Programme..

Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 24 April 2017, 17:00-18:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Building a bigger brain: genetic bases for the evolution of the human neocortex

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

Prof. Gregory A. Wray.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 24 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Embracing Complexity: A Fly-to-Bedside Approach to Cancer Therapies

Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Steve Jackson

Ross Cagan, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 10 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Functional variation in the human genome: lessons from the transcriptome

If you have a question about this talk or would like to attend this talk but you are from outside CRUK CI, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek. Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

Prof. Tuuli Lappalainen.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 03 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

RNA methylation in development and disease

Michaela Frye, Stem Cell Institute and Department of Genetics, Cambridge.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 24 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED*

Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors?

All external to CRUK CI people need to be booked at least 24 hours prior the talk. Please contact Kamila by email if you would like to come.

Dr Laurent Duret.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 13 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors?

All external to CRUK CI people need to be booked at least 24 hours prior the talk. Please contact Kamila by email if you would like to come.

Dr Laurent Duret.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 13 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Non-coding RNA - new roles for old players’

Host: Dr Carla Martins

Professor Anders Lund, Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Membrane proteins - the lipid connection

Carol Robinson, university of Oxford.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Sex differences in organ size and plasticity

Hosts: Phil Zegerman & Andrea Brand

Irene Miguel-Aliaga, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS).

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

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

Epigenomic pathways in cancer and in cancer immunotherapy

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME: 16:00

Shelley Berger, Epigenetics Institute, Departments of Cell and Developmental Biology, Genetics, Biology, University of Pennsylvania.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein Lecture- Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission

Thomas Südhof, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The interaction between tumor hypoxia and DNA methylation

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

Dr Bernard Thienpont, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The blind watch-breaker: evolution at regulatory sites in cancer

If you have a question about this talk or would like to attend this talk but you are from outside CRUK CI, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek. Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

Prof. Colin Semple.

CRUK CI Room 215A/B.

Monday 30 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Measuring and Modeling the Dynamics of Developmental Decisions in Single Cells

Hosts: Rick Livesey & Ben Simons

Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard University, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Comparative studies of intrinsically disordered proteins

Professor Jane Clarke, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 23 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

Overcoming Chromatin Barriers to Elicit Cell Fate Changes

Ken Zaret, Joseph Leidy Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Early Cancer Institute Events

Cambridge Cancer Centre Early Detection Programme Annual Symposium

To register for the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-early-detection-programme-annual-symposium-tickets-27166968133

Professor Mark Krasnow, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 January 2017, 14:30-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modeling cancer evolution from genomic data

Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

Beerenwinkel, Niko, Prof. Dr..

CRUK CI Room 215A/B.

Friday 13 January 2017, 16:15-17:15

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

What can we learn from Cancer Genomes?

*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TALK IS NOW VIA VIDEO/SKYPE - WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS HAS CAUSED*

Gad A. Getz, Ph.D, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Early Cancer Institute Events

Early Detection Infographics launch and festive drinks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 06 December 2016, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Impact of the Microbiome on cancer and its treatment

Host: Dr Pippa Corrie

Dr Trevor Lawley, Group Leader, Host-Microbiota Interactions Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Cell biological mechanisms regulating vertebrate neurogenesis

Hosts: Daniel St Johnston & Rick Livesey

Kate Storey, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee, Scotland.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

If you have a question about this talk or would like to attend this talk but you are from outside CRUK CI, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek. Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

Professor Christopher Yau.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 21 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

The Cancer Cell Map Initiative

Trey Ideker, UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Transposable elements and epigenome evolution

If you have a question about this talk or would like to attend this talk but you are from outside CRUK CI, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek. Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

Prof. Ting Wang.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Molecular Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Quality Control

Ulrich Hartl, max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 12:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Imaging Cancer Invasion and Therapy Failure

Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Tony Kouzarides

Erik Sahai, Crick Institute, London.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Cell polarity in lymphocytes

Hosts: Daniel St Johnston & Phil Zegerman

Gillian Griffiths, CIMR, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Mobile elements, polydactyl proteins and the making of human-specific transcriptional networks

Hosts: Eric Miska & Azim Surani

Didier Trono, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Early Cancer Institute Events

Is earlier necessarily better?

Register through Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Chair: Professor Sir Bruce Ponder.

McCrum Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Kendrew Lecture- Bacterial Quorum Sensing and its Control

Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University, USA .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 24 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution, genomics and mode of action of long noncoding RNAs in mammalian cells

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek from CRUK CI.

Dr. Igor Ulitsky.

CRUK CI Room 215A/B.

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

Cambridge Haematopoiesis Seminars

Structure vs. Function: A quantitative analysis of chromosome architecture

Luca Giorgetti - Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 14 October 2016, 14:30-15:30