Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs We Grow By

Dr Ibrahim Baltagi, Lebanese American University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 06 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Memorization as a Feature, Not a Bug

Jing Huang (Stanford University).

ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding bivalency: Mechanisms of poising at developmental gene promoters

Philipp Voigt, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

15 years of the CHERI Research Project: Reflections, Current Work, and Next Directions

Professor Robert N. M. Watson - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The death of consumerism and how we build a more sustainable future

Professor Mark Miodownik.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Molecular and cellular scale symmetry breaking in planar polarity (or why the hairs all point the same way on the wing of a fly)

David Strutt, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

In person@Hodgkin Huxley room PDN and online.

Monday 02 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Throat-Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place

Dr Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 30 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Genomes

Patrick Cai, University of Manchester.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

CANCELLED - Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation

Host - Aylwyn Scally

Dr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

Santiago Zelenay, CRUK Manchester Institute .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

What is HoTT?

Professor Steve Awodey - Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Building molecules that mimic biological function

Professor Jonathan Clayden.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 18:00-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Competence, Pain and the Geometry of Intelligence: Three Perspectives on Learning and Representation

Prof Milica Gasic (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf).

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 12:00-13:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Margot Smit: Arrested Development: temporal regulation of cell identity during plant embryogenesis; Susan Wopat: The zebrafish gastrula is shaped by stationary and germ layer–specific tissue flows

Margot Smit, Susan Wopat.

Online.

Monday 26 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song?

Professor Hans Slabbekoorn, Leiden University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

How personalised is your immune system?

Host - Lin Wang

Professor Aleksandra Walczak from Laboratoire de physique, l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

G12 Large Lecture Theatre in Department of Plant Sciences and Zoom.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical models for missing data not at random: identification, inference, and imputation"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/y-ukrQxwTLGSoGtSGiGUkA

Ilya Shpitser, Johns Hopkins School University .

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

Please note this seminar is on a Friday

Andrea Sottoriva, Human Technopole.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Expanding the kinome​

Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D.​ - UT Southwestern Medical Center​.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 08 December 2025, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Building and Understanding Human-scale Language Models

Aaron Mueller (Boston University).

ONLINE ONLY. Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/sbr-mvua-fcc.

Friday 05 December 2025, 15:00-16:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Modelling self-organisation: Beyond Turing

Jeremy Green.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 05 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

Fishing for targets: chemical proteomics strategies for anti-parasitic drug target deconvolution

Host: Julian Rayner

Professor Susan Wyllie, University of Dundee.

Lecture Theater, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Resource estimation and optimization to accelerate progress towards quantum advantage

Dr Prakash Murali - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Imaging the virosphere: protein architecture for virus assembly and host cell entry

Professor Peter Rosenthal.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 18:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Hard numbers—physicochemical models of a mitotic signalling organelle​

Kevin A. Janes, Ph.D.​ Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia​.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Patterns and form:Lessons from plants.

Neha Bathia.

in person at Level 2 meeting room, Gurdon Institute and online.

Monday 01 December 2025, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Heads or tails? Decoding the regulatory logic of body plan patterning

Vicki Metzis, Imperial College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A computational model of language production

Yuan Gao (University of Cambridge).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn..

Friday 28 November 2025, 12:00-13:00

Parasitology Seminars

The sex lives of malaria parasites

Host: Ross Waller

Dr Arthur Talman, MIVEGEC, Université de Montpellier.

Marjory Stephenson Seminar Room, Hopkins Building, Dept of Biochemistry..

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Physical Inductive Biases for World Models

Dr Ayush Tewari - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's a Wonderful Life: the bizarre animals that live in the worlds coldest ocean and their extreme adaptations

Professor Lloyd Peck.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Meng Zhu-Maternal oxygen levels regulate the timing of limb development in amniote species; Alex Plum-Morphogen patterning in dynamic tissues

Meng Zhu; Alex Plum.

Online.

Monday 24 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

With great power... My journey in Responsible AI

Christos Christodoulopoulos.

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn..

Friday 21 November 2025, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Small RNAs in Epigenetic Inheritance: a lesson from worms

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

Dr Germano Cecere from Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

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

Targeting the interplay between oncogenic RAS signaling and tumour immune evasion in lung cancer

Professor Julian Downward, Francis Crick Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

AI for Math: The Future of Collaborative Discovery

Professor Mateja Jamnik - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 November 2025, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From deep time biogeomorphology to geo-evolutionary feedbacks

Professor Neil Davies.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Luca Guglielmi-Modelling Neuronal Morphogenesis Across Species: a Purkinje Cell’s Journey to Utmost Complexity; Susannah McLaren-Spatially organised cell behaviours in morphogenesis and symbiosis

Luca Guglielmi; Susie McLaren .

in person @PDN (Brayn Matthews in Physiology Building) and online.

Monday 17 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nonsense Mediated Decay in Early Embryonic Development

Claire Senner, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 14 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Extrapolating model performance across training horizons

Kris Cao (Cohere).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn.

Friday 14 November 2025, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

From research lab to newsroom: deploying secure whistleblower technology in practice

Dr Daniel Hugenroth and Professor Alastair Beresford - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding life - from genomes to organisms - using AI

Professor Ewan Birney.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 19:00-20:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Robust and conjugate Gaussian processes"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here:https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/oURXKjAISECZrOvFPRw0Mw

François-Xavier Briol, University College London.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis

Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie.

Online.

Monday 10 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Uncovering how the genome directs development

Julie Ahringer.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Molecular bases of Shigella virulence and host immune response

Host – Kate Baker

Professor Benoit Marteyn from Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Strasbourg.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

21-cm Cosmology: First Stars and Beyond

Professor Anastasia Fialkov.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Predictive resampling for scalable Bayes"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/gELlOqxOT3imWtS8MRVYRw

Edwin Fong, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 10:00-11:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Modelling collective cell movement in early development

Philip Maini, University of Oxford.

Online.

Monday 03 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A novel RASopathy caused by hyperactive Wnt signalling

Dr. Ian Mcgough, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 31 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Dr Greg Lavender - Former CTO of Intel and VMware Trustee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 29 October 2025, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

C-H Amination for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry: Reaction Development and Validation of Nitrene Intermediacy

Professor Sukbok Chang.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Min Ya-The Moment Symmetry Breaks: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of CYCLOIDEA Expression During Early Floral Development; Baptiste Tesson-Complementary Mechanical Identities from Iterative BMP Signaling Ensure Robust Morphogenesis.

Min Ya; Baptiste Tesson.

Online.

Monday 27 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

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

Spatial mapping of breast cancer tumour microenvironment in Black British and White British women

**Please note this seminar is on a Friday at 14:00-15:00**

Professor Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke, Centre for Tumour Microenvironment, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 24 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regeneration at your fingertips

Mekayla Storer (University of Cambridge).

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluation with LLMs - Theoretical and Practical insights

Eyal Kolman (Microsoft).

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn.

Friday 24 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

Wheeler Lecture 2025: Efficiency, Resilience, and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Moshe Vardi - Rice University.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 15:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Machine learning force fields shows extreme generalisation

Professor Gabor Csanyi.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Building and extending the body axis: the role of tissue Interfaces

Pierre-François Lenne, IBDM and Turing Center for Living Systems, Aix Marseille Univ. & CNRS, Marseille, France .

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 20 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins using neural networks

Nicholas Polizzi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 October 2025, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Making and breaking tokenizers

Sander Land (Writer) .

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn .

Friday 17 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

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

Unique Biology and Clinical Impact in Invasive Lobular Carcinoma

Steffi Oesterreich, University of Pittsburgh.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Anne Grapin-Botton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

Online.

Monday 13 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

NLIP 2025 Social: Meet New PhD Students

Speaker to be confirmed.

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 10 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Simplifying Synthesis with Radical Cross-Coupling

Professor Phil S. Baran.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 09 October 2025, 15:00-16:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Effective Health Technologies Faster? Value-Based, Response Adaptive Learning in Clinical Trials"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/IMAzE11MRtyNkOGZpkv4GA

Professor Stephen Chick, INSEAD.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 30 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cells, Tissues & Organs: assembling the Human Cell Atlas

Professor Sarah Teichmann - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 September 2025, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Upgrading survival models with CARE"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/M66a6T77T9-0PCylnJfB7g

William Underwood, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 23 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Upgrading survival models with CARE"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/M66a6T77T9-0PCylnJfB7g

William Underwood, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 23 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

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

Next generation medicine: towards eliminating the invisible in ovarian cancer

Professor Ahmed Ahmed, University of Oxford.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Multi-modal modeling in precision medicine: from data imputation to synthetic data​

Dr. Olivier Gevaert​ -​ Associate Professor, Depts of Medicine & Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University​ ​.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Predictive Polygenic Scores: Considerations and an Example"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/2-jzYw6UQ0uzKp5LpplBhg

Allison Meisner, Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Thursday 11 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

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

Seminar cancelled - Spatial mapping of breast cancer tumour microenvironment in Black British and White British women

**Seminar cancelled**

Professor Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke, Centre for Tumour Microenvironment, 2 Barts Cancer Institute, a Cancer Research UK of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBA

Vicky Metzis.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin remodelling and cell fate plasticity during neuronal maturation

Tony Southall.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

LLMs, Implicit Bayesian inference and compositional Generalization

Szilvia Ujvary (University of Cambridge).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 20 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

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

Hope in Hard Places: Bridging the Cancer Care Gap in Resource Limited Settings: Lessons and Innovations from the Uganda Cancer Institute

Dr Nixon Niyonzima, Uganda Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechano-hydraulic control of mammalian folliculogenesis

Chai Jou (Joe) Chen (MBI Singapore) (co-hosted with TLM) .

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 16 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

MultiBLiMP: A Multilingual Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs

Jaap Jumelet (University of Groningen).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 13 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

Parasitology Seminars

Covert cnidarians: cryptic lives of the endoparasitic Myxozoa

Host: Juliana Naldoni

Prof Beth Okamura, Natural History Museum.

Lecture Theater, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Ana Patricia Ramos-Forming an Eye: from cell behaviour to tissue shape changes; Kumud Saini-Temperature Regulation of Cell Cycle and Growth Dynamics in Arabidopsis

Kumud Saini, Robinson Lab, Sainsbury Laboratory & Ana Patricia Ramos, IGC, Portugal .

Online.

Monday 09 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

When is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 350 Languages

Catherine Arnett and Tyler Chang (EleutherAI and UC San Diego).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 06 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Maik Bischoff-Plexin/Semaphorin Antagonism Orchestrates Collective Cell Migration and Organ Sculpting by Regulating Epithelial-Mesenchymal Balance; Harry McNamara-Decoding and controlling self-organization in stem cell models of embryonic development

Maik Christian Bischoff, UNC, Mark Peifer lab; Harry McNamara, Yale University.

Online.

Monday 02 June 2025, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Unveiling the Secret Sauce: A Causal Look at Data Memorisation and Tokenisation in Language Models

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 30 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hard and soft equivariance priors via Steerable CNNs

Dr Gabriele Cesa - Qualcomm AI Research, Amsterdam.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Scaling life: How Single Cells Orchestrate Tissue-Level Coordination

TUESDAY online seminar (details will be sent via email to subscription list)

Prisca Liberali, FMI.

Online (Tuesday!).

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch Signal

Sarah Bray.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 23 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Robust Alignment of Large Language Models

Dr. Sangwoong Yoon (UCL).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 23 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Recreating the Physical Natural World from Images

Dr Elliott Wu - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "AI for the Human Cell Atlas"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/jy1cAVg4SeiEB-grYmQV8Q

Professor Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute & Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

For both titles please look in the abstract session below.

Please sign in at the Gurdon reception upon entry and the seminar will take place in the tea room.

Katie Goodwin-MRC LMB; Miguel Ángel Ortiz Salazar-MRC LMB.

In person at Gurdon Institute and Online.

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Motility and matrix remodelling coupling drive early avian morphogenesis

Lakshmi Balasubramaniam.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 16 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Political Bias in Large Language Models

Paul Röttger (Bocconi University).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 16 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Parasitology Seminars

What can human population genetics teach us about malaria?

Host: Katerina Artavanis-Tsakonas

Dr Bridget Penman, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theater, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Type-driven Development with Idris 2

Dr Edwin Brady - School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Regression Tree Approach to Missing Data"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81415700586?pwd=7rhWD5jDWlkAq1nuMUPDJGDkhQsMCM.1

Professor Wei-Yin Loh, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Collective cell behaviors in mammalian intestinal morphogenesis

Kaelyn Sumigray, Department of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine.

Online.

Monday 12 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Research Progress in Mechanistic Interpretability

Arthur Conmy (Google DeepMind).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 09 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The TPTP World - Infrastructure for Automated Reasoning

Dr Geoff Sutcliffe - Department of Computer Science, University of Miami, USA.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coordination of Protrusions in Migrating Immune Cells

Michael Sixt.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 02 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Asymmetry in Supposedly Equivalent Facts: Pre-training Bias in Large Language Models

Zifeng Ding (University of Cambridge).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 02 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Parasitology Seminars

Adding Biology to Barcodes: Tackling the Hidden Diversity of the Marine Alveolates

Host: Ross Waller

Dr Corey Holt, University of Bath.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Investigating complex dependence structures using Bayesian mixture modelling"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/7PLSTFN7QM6iUvdzQaegEw

Dr Michail Papathomas, University of St Andrews.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 15:15-16:15

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Common atoms mixture models in some biostatistical inference problems"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/4uUskN5ZQjaJzckpMbxQ1Q

Prof Peter Mueller, University of Texas.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Echoes of the Embryo: A stem cell model of human gastrulation and post-gastrulation lineage emergence

Jitesh Neupane.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 25 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

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

Homologous recombination deficiency in cancer: prevalence, diagnosis and novel targeting approaches

Simon Powell, MSKCC.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Nonparanormal Approach to Marginal Inference"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click on the link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xwbSLwLITemQeb8b-jk-Fg

Susanne Dandl, University of Zurich.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

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

Understanding and intercepting somatic clonal evolution in blood

George Vassiliou, CSCI Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

Structure-function studies of essential mitochondrial complexes of apicomplexan parasites

Host: Julian Rayner

Professor Lilach Sheiner, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

From active surfaces to evo-devo-mechanobiology

Guillaume Salbreux, University of Geneva, Switzerland .

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Which Faculty Diversity Programs Work? Evidence from 600 U.S. Colleges and Universities

Professor Frank Dobbin - Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:05-14:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

Prof Maria Ubiali.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cu2ldnhQhKdTBNWL6Mo1A

Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cu2ldnhQhKdTBNWL6Mo1A

Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape

Olga Zamaraeva (University of A Coruña).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language meets Control Theory

Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Black Holes & spin-offs

Prof Katherine Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Fengzhu Xiong.

in person at LMB and Online.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation

Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Diversity in NLP: What, Why and a Way Forward

Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 07 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology

Host - Aylwyn Scally

Professor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University.

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Generative modelling for de novo design of therapeutics

Dr Joe Watson - Co-founder, Xaira Therapeutics and Dr Emile Mathieu.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:05-15:55

Parasitology Seminars

Do microbiomes of parasitic nematodes contribute to disease pathogenesis?

Host: Maria Duque-Correa

Professor Mark Taylor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Prof Thanh Nguyen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Deciphering how complex organ form emerges in development

Timothy Saunders.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human intestinal epithelial organoids – translational tools to investigate epigenetic regulation in health, development and disease

Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

The miraculous metamorphosis of malaria parasites: how the malaria parasite adapts to the host erythrocyte (and the host itself)

Host: Ross Waller

Dr Christiaan van Ooij, Keele University.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Digital Money and Decentralised Finance

Professor Frank Stajano and Dr Ferdinando Samaria - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

Dr Josh Smalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Developmental patterning of head-like inflorescences in Asteraceae

Paula Elomaa,University of Helsinki .

Online.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations

Mohammad Lotfollahi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swedish NLP

Felix Morger (University of Gothenburg).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09..

Friday 21 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning

Dr Ilan Price - Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Strengthening control over stress: novel brain mechanisms and opportunities for intervention

Prof Jeffrey W. Dalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Juan Alonso-Serra -Hydraulic patterns in plant development; Ana Patricia Ramos-Forming an Eye: from cell behaviour to tissue shape changes.

Juan Alonso-Serra,University of Helsinki; Ana Patricia Ramos, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal .

Online.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Metrized Deep Learning: Fast & Scalable Training

Jeremy Bernstein (MIT).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University .

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Parasitology Seminars

Understanding Eimeria population, genetic and antigenic diversity to improve control against coccidiosis

Host: Catherine Merrick

Professor Damer Blake, Royal Veterinary College.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hardware Datapath: For Machine Learning and Beyond

Professor George A. Constantinides - Professor of Digital Computation, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific

Prof Sonya Clegg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

Alice Corbella, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

Alice Corbella, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Akantsha Jain-Unveiling the choreography of human brain development;Yamini Ravichandran-Topology changes of the regenerating Hydra define actin nematic defects as mechanical organizers of morphogenesis

Akantsha Jain,Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland; Yamini Ravichandran,University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Online.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Warnings Unheeded: 25 Years of Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension

John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

LLMs as supersloppers and other metaphors

Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

Room SS03 .

Friday 07 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour

Host - Erik Clark

Dr Justin Crocker from EMBL Heidelberg .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

EU AI Act: A firsthand perspective

Dr Gabriele Mazzini - Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab. Architect & lead author of the EU AI Act.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nucleic-Acid based therapeutics: how to use mechanistic information to ensure "safe-by-design"

Prof Anne Willis.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Efficient Sequential Experimentation: Bridging Model-Based Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GS1_Dn3SQXydSuW9p3oNnQ

Alberto Caron, The Alan Turing Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Fundamental principles during the egg-to-embryo transition

Andrea Pauli, IMP (Institute of Molecular Pathology), Vienna, Austria.

Online.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home

Maya Youssef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 31 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Preference Alignment, with Reference Mismatch, and without Reference Models

James Thorne (KAIST).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 31 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?

Host - Kate Baker

Dr John Lees from EMBL – EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Green Algorithms, Green DiSC and GREENER principles: making computational science more environmentally sustainable

Dr Loïc Lannelongue - Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys

Prof Brian Cantor.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Morphogenetic control of cellular differentiation during gastrulation

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

in person at Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, PDN and online.

Monday 27 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

Professor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Investigating the role of sugar metabolism in controlling fate specification during gastrulation

Chaitanya Dingare - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Analysing Memorisation in Classification and Translation through Localisation and Cartography

Verna Dankers (University of Edinburgh) .

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 24 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare

Host - Cahir O'Kane

Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, Vice Principal for Health, Queen Mary University of London and Director of the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

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

Telomere to mitochondria signaling prevents age-associated cancer initiation

Jan Karlseder, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free online seminar using Zoom Webinar. Register using this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AbR8yEMdQKGtBfxJbbEeNQ

Ida Scheel, University of Oslo.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Parasitology Seminars

Notes on the evolutionary ecology of Plasmodium parasites from Madagascar

Hosts: Sara Chelaghma and Ross Waller

Dr Benjamin Rice, Princeton University.

Marjory Stephenson Seminar Room, Hopkins Building, Dept of Biochemistry..

Monday 16 December 2024, 15:00-16:00

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

Understanding Mechanisms of Microenvironment-Mediated Therapy Resistance

Professor Michael Hemann, Koch Institute for Integrative Research at MIT.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How to Fold Every Protein: (Mission Accomplished?)

Stephen D Fried, John Hopkins University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question

Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

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

Origins and consequences of gene dosage mutations in cancer

Professor Sam Aparicio, University of British Columbia.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

With a Little Help from My Friends: New Ways of Seeing Electrochemistry

Prof Patrick Unwin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Personalized Decision-Making for Infectious Disease Control: Causal Inference and Complex Dependence"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcuCpqT8oGtciL4QahuHDVi2_-NRp9enh

Ivana Malenica, Harvard University.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta 

Norah Fogarty - King's College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 29 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization

Benjamin Minixhofer (Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 29 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI

Host - Michael Boemo

Dr Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool from DeepMind, London .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The first AGI will be Federated

Professor Nic Lane - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Order, Disorder, Flexibility, Function

Prof Andrew Goodwin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Modelling Self-Organisation

Jeremy Green-King’s College London, London, United Kingdom.

Online.

Monday 25 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein Evolution in Sequence Landscapes - From Data to Models and Back

Professor Martin Weigt, Institute of Biology, Paris.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 November 2024, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanical pre-patterning as a general mechanism in early morphogenesis

Fengzhu Xiong - Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 22 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Scansion-based Lyric Generation

Yiwen Chen (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 22 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neandertal-human interactions

Host – Alex Cagan

Dr Mateja Hajdinjak from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

CANCELLED.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Sensing human activities: from the lab to the home of the elderly

Professor Claudio Bettini - Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Viruses: Elegance in Their Simplicity, or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein?

Dr Alexander Borodavka.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "IV-learner: learning conditional average treatment effects using instrumental variables"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0od-CorDouHdEyadWd2HkaL_HUObpPwuoJ

Karla Diaz Ordaz, University College London .

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Chemo-mechanical signal in embryo development

Roberto Mayor.

In person at Physiology Lecture Theather, and online.

Monday 18 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Understanding actomyosin contractility and force propagation within the zebrafish neural tube: an optogenetic approach

Clare Buckley - University of Manchester.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 15 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Linguistics in the Age of Large Language Models.

Janet B. Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford.

SS03 and Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 15 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

**Seminar cancelled** to be rescheduled in 2025

Andrea Sottoriva, ICR and Human Technopole, Milan.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Programmed DNA elimination in insects

Host – John Welch

Dr Laura Ross from Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

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

Endogenous Formaldehyde as a driver for clonal haematopoiesis and in pervasive DNA base adduction

Professor KJ Patel, Director of the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit and MRC WIMM at the University of Oxford.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Computing for Climate Science and Programming for the Planet

Dr Dominic Orchard - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Co-director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS).

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine

Dr George Malliaras.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Bioengineering neural organoid morphogenesis

Adrian Ranga.

Online.

Monday 11 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

London EvoDevo meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

Queen Mary University of London (Math Building Lecture Theatre).

Friday 08 November 2024, 13:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

10 Slides on Human Feedback

Max Bartolo (Cohere).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 08 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about it

Host – Frank Jiggins

Professor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Lean Learning: Applying Lean and Agile Techniques to Software Engineering Education

Dr Robert Chatley - Director, Software Engineering Practice and Director, DoC EdTech Lab, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The rise of life on land: new insights from exceptionally preserved fossils

Dr Sandy Hetherington.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Multi-state modelling to estimate infectious disease burden"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf-6gpjkvHNaHjyzJDmLJi7vIrRb-STIQ

Peter Kirwan, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Noah Mitchell - Mapping the Mechanics and Dynamics of Gut Morphogenesis; Stefan Harmansa - Shaping Growing Tissues by Basement Membrane Mechanics

Noah Mitchell - University of Chicago & Stefan Harmansa-Living Systems Institute - University of Exeter United Kingdom.

Online.

Monday 04 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptive Tokenization and Memory in Foundation Models

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Edinburgh).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 01 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle

Prof Tina Potter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Duy-Chi Trinh-How do flowers close themselves: the story from Arabidopsis; Liyuan Sui-Cell tilting: A novel mechanism driving three-dimensional epithelial morphogenesis

Duy-Chi Trinh-ENS de Lyon, France; University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam & Liyuan Sui-Postdoc from Christian Dahmann’s Lab School of Science, Technische Universität Dresden.

Online.

Monday 28 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Language Modelling with Phonemes

Zebulon Youra Goriely (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 25 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial evolution in the lung

Host – Kate Baker

Dr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

Wheeler Lecture 2024: Supercharging the Human Mind With AI

Professor Yvonne Rogers - Professor of Interaction Design, Director of UCL Interaction Centre, Deputy Head of the Computer Science Department UCL.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 15:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lessons for human TB and its treatment from the tiny transparent zebrafish larva

Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkf-ysqDgqG9W5MbRoGxq5re7R9XadbBBd

Ida Scheel, University of Oslo.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Developmental Constraint Underlying the Evolution of Morphological Diversity

Madelaine Bartlett, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

in person at Genetics, Part II teaching room and online.

Monday 21 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Ageing and age-associated mutations in human haematopoietic stem cells

Elisa Laurenti - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Truth conditions at scale, and beyond

Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 18 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

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

Senescent secretome shenanigans: Differential therapeutic benefit for breast cancer dictated by distinct extracellular vesicle-mediated inflammatory response

Dr Karen Crasta, Principal Investigator at the National University of Singapore, Centre for Healthy Longevity and Department of Physiology. .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Non-apical mitoses contribute to cell delamination during mouse gastrulation

Isabelle Migeotte IRIBHM - Jacques E. Dumont Institut Interdisciplinaire en biologie humaine et moléculaire - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BE .

online TUESDAY.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Bayesian latent multi-state modelling for longitudinal health trajectories"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcuutqTkoG9R7enI9iOHBr61dOjW5BTKl

Yu Luo, Kings College London.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Our archaeal origins

Dr Buzz Baum.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Fate versus free will; how does the environment shape early tumour survival?

Maria Alcolea - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLIP 2024 Social: Meet New PhD Students

Suchir Salhan (University of Cambridge), Matthieu Moulec (University of Cambridge), Paul Siewart (University of Cambridge).

SS03 and on Zoom, link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 11 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

What can butterfly hybrid zones tell us about the genomic architecture of species barriers?

Host – Richard Durbin

Dr Konrad Lohse from Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh.

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein genetic architecture is simple, and epistasis can facilitate the evolution of new functions

Assistant Professor Brian Metzger, Purdue University .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

**Seminar cancelled**

Dr Mohammed Lotfollahi, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 30 September 2024, 12:00-13:00

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

Identifying therapeutic opportunities in the metabolic crosstalk between the tumour and the host

Professor Karen Vousden, The Francis Crick Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 September 2024, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Bayesian nonparametric spectral analysis of multivariate time series"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdOmpqzMuHNHNuAnIvofAmb7HOCQIQwzW

Renate Meyer, University of Aukland.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 27 August 2024, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Digital Cancer Twins: From Mechanistic Insights to Therapeutic Applications

Professor Jasmin Fisher, UCL Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 01 July 2024, 12:30-13:30

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

The Biology of Drug Resistance in Lung Cancer

Please note change of time

Katerina Politi, Yale School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Bayesian framework for incorporating exposure uncertainty into health analyses with application to air pollution and stillbirth"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/22b7f255-8f6c-4dce-9c83-36281a3261bf@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990

Joshua Warren, Yale School of Public Health.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The tradeoff governing efficient language model architectures

Sabri Eyuboglu, Stanford University.

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

Shape shifters - gametocytes and microtubules in the malaria parasite!

Prof. Dr. Tim Gilberger - Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine - Germany.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 12 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functions

Eva Deinum.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 10 June 2024, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Large Language Models as Model Systems for Language

Carina Kauf, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88532356932?pwd=IVo8GI7wBssnObu7in3aNXBjwufHnJ.1.

Friday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Wolfram Pönisch-Deciphering the role of noise in cell shape changes during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition; Constance Le Gloanec-Protect and provide: the dual role of the cauline leaf.

Constance Le Gloanec and Wolfram Pönisch.

Online.

Monday 03 June 2024, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

SS03, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 31 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multiscale mechanical linkage elongates tissues in development

Shinuo Weng, Johns Hopkins University.

online TUESDAY.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Open-Endedness and General Intelligence

Tim Rocktäschel, University College London .

FW26, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 24 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Topological Properties of the Protein Universe"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/93edb3b5-eb5d-4d19-b30b-1526233e3c17@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990

Christian Madsen, University of Melbourne.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Making predictions under intervention to avoid causal blind spots in treatment decisions"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7045e477-b689-46bc-9ec3-fe1ed827a158@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990

Prof Niels Peek, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

You are not encoded - a biological theory of form

Alan Rodrigues, Rockefeller University.

Online.

Monday 20 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The intersection of Interpretability and Fairness

Giuseppe Attanasio, Milan NLP.

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 17 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

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

Title to be confirmed

**Seminar cancelled** to be rescheduled in the autumn

KJ Patel, MRC WIMM, Oxford.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Iterative active learning for the rapid discovery of best-in-class multispecific antibody therapeutics

Dr Leonard Wossnig - CTO at LabGenius and Honorary Research Fellow in Computer Science at UCL.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 15:05-15:55

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanisms and mechanics of morphogenesis

Katja Röper, University of Cambridge.

In person at Bryan Matthews Room, PDN and online.

Monday 13 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language Models

Dominik Stammbach, ETH Zurich.

Room FW11 at CL or William Gates Building or on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Multi-tissue tectonics enable self-assembly of the vertebrate body axis

Benjamin Steventon, Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS

Host - Cahir O'Kane

Professor Marc Freeman from The Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA.

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

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

Modelling and Targeting the Tumour Microenvironment of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

Please note this seminar is on a Friday

Professor Frances Balkwill OBE, FMedSci, Centre for Tumour Microenvironment, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 03 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

An ancient regulatory network sets the position of the forebrain in chordates

Elia Benito-Gutierrez, Department of Zoology/Genentech.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 03 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale

Host – Richard Durbin

Professor Ben Lehner from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Exploring novel (bio)molecular spaces by design – a dialogue between representation and generation

Professor Bruno Correia - Laboratory of Protein Design and Immunoengineering, EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 15:05-15:55

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Playing with Patterns via VisualPDE

Andrew Krause, Durham University.

Online.

Monday 29 April 2024, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Programmed evolution: Using asexual gene drives to sculpt tumor populations and combat genetic diversity

Justin Pritchard, Penn State College of Engineering.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 April 2024, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Susannah McLaren, Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

SS03, William Gates Building. .

Friday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas

Host - Frank Jiggins

Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Host manipulation by the parasite _Cryptosporidium_

Dr Amandine Guérin - Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

E. coli and the Game of Clones

Host – Kate Baker

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

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

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

Anna Obenauf, IMP Vienna.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

Dr Omer Bayraktar.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Babraham Seminar

Babraham Distinguished Seminar - Lipid switches in cell physiology: From nutrient signals to disease

The talk will be 45 minutes followed by networking tea, coffee & cake.

Prof Volker Haucke; Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP).

Petersfield Lecture Theatre, Babraham Research Campus.

Thursday 28 March 2024, 13:00-14:30

Parasitology Seminars

Cutting back malaria: CRISPR-based approaches for antimalarial target discovery

Professor Marcus Lee - Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Screening Approaches for the Identification of Covalent Peptide Inhibitors

Scott Lovell, University of Bath.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 March 2024, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Misinformation: Will it get better or worse and what can we do about it?

Mevan Babakar, Google .

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 15 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami

Prof Sheena Radford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Bayesian behavioural-change epidemic models: is your population alarmed?”

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vceqsqDwtHNLalYuBk7GmojclSXN5wIcE

Rob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Private Data Analysis over Large Populations

Professor Graham Cormode - Research Scientist, Facebook and professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 15:05-15:55

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclceGorT0qE9YE3YCcRSFhCPPH_6ZNFPgh

Dimitris Rizopoulos, Professor of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanisms underlying colour pattern variation within and between species of cichlid fishes

Emilia Santos, Department of Zoology.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 11 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

Ms Tania Branigan.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Controlling the cell cycle

Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers

Alexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig .

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 08 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mathematical modelling to develop insights into cancer evolution

Dr Weini Huang.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Uncertainty Quantification in the Digital Medicine Era"

This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsduitrTotGNZxFmtFPPAx6Jh2LZfCYbV3

Marcos Matabuena, Harvard University .

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Distribution Shifts in Human-Centered Representation Learning

Dr Ali Etemad - Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Canada. Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 15:05-15:55

Parasitology Seminars

Expanding BioID: the nuclear pore complex of trypanosomes

Dr Susanne Kramer - Universität Wüerzburg - Germany..

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Holly Lovegrove: Mitosis in Motion: Cell division during collective cell migration; Leo Otsuki: Puzzling out tissue regeneration.

Holly Lovegrove, University of Manchester and Leo Otsuki, Elly Tanaka lab, IMP, Vienna .

Online.

Monday 04 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint

Neil Anthwal, Kings College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

LLMs: Everything’s Different and Nothing Has Changed

Emma Strubell, CMU.

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

Host - Erik Clark

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

A Data-Free, Universal Prior Distribution for Syntactic Structures

Dr Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histones

Dr Maria Christophorou.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

CRISPy Chickens-screening fate transitions from caudal epiblast to neural tube-Ashley Libby; Coupling mitochondrial energy metabolism to branching morphogenesis in the developing avian lung-Bezia Lemma.

Ashley Libby, Briscoe lab,The Francis Crick Institute; and Bezia Lemma, Nelson lab, Princeton University.

Online.

Monday 26 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell size - A new hallmark of aging?

Jette Lengefeld, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 26 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

Professor Frances Spalding.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural Models

Pasquale Minervi, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 23 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mapping DNA replication stress in cancer cells and parasites with long-read sequencing and AI

Dr Michael Boemo.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Making Large Language Models Safe: A Case Study of Llama2

Pushkar Mishra - Lead AI Research Engineer, Meta and Computer Science Part 1B Supervisor, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 15:05-15:55

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Statistical modelling for state-of-the-art gene editing experiments"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdOmqqzsuE9HyOT32ptW3DZiTCmkZT-3X#/registration

Magdalena Strauss, European Bioinformatics Institute .

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugs

Sir Gregory Winter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 19 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Insights into the mechanism of hind limb initiation in Xenopus laevis

John Young, Department of Biology, Simmons University.

Online.

Monday 19 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages

Priyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind.

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 16 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Modelling Blood Cell Development across Molecular and Tissue Scales

Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

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

Deciphering Developmental Disorders

Matthew Hurles, Sanger Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Graph Neural Networks for skillful weather forecasting

Dr Ferran Alet - Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 15:05-15:55

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYocuCvpjotHNQoiEBwivER-WSnaKd-IlFw

Ida Scheel, University of Oslo.

Online Seminar.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-Making

Dr Danielle Shore .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Temporal patterning during development and tumorigenesis

This seminar will be host at PDN and we will be streaming it on zoom as well, for details please check our email or website.

Cedric Maurange, IBDM, Marseille,France.

In person at PDN and online.

Monday 12 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Erik Clark, Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language Generators

Clara Meister, ETH Zurich.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 09 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Horizonal gene transfer in transmissible cancers

Prof. Elizabeth Murchison.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Steve Russell

Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The Compilation Game: Unifying AI, Hardware Design, Quantum, Climate Modelling, and Verification

Dr Tobias Grosser - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:05-15:55

Parasitology Seminars

What is still so fascinating about the trypanosome coat?

Prof Markus Engstler - Universität Wüerzburg - Germany.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections

Professor Sir Tom Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Echinoderm embryos to model epithelial morphogenesis: from cell biology to evo-devo

Vanessa Barone, Hopkins Marine Station, Biology Department, Stanford University.

Online.

Monday 05 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editing

Dr Francisco J Sanchez-Rivera, Koch Institute at MIT.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBA

Hansong Ma, University of Birmingham.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLP

Lisa Beinborn, VU Amsterdam.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09..

Friday 02 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic Inheritance

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Reassessing red blood cell invasion in malaria parasites

Please note 16:00 start time for this seminar

Dr Robert Moon - LSHTM.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Semiparametric posterior corrections"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-quqjkiHtRsIwSM3Sec0QFfHrtRftXa

Andrew Yiu, University of Oxford.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

[CANCELLED] Birds of a Feather: the Deep History of Dinosaur Skin

Prof Paul Barrett.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

*CANCELLED*: Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functions

Sorry due to some unforeseen circumstances, this talk is cancelled and will be reschedulled in next term hopefully.

EE (Eva) Deinum, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 29 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths

Tiago Pimentel.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division

Host - Ben Steventon

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Quantum computing via the lens of additive combinatorics

Dr Tom Gur - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 15:05-15:55

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Causal machine learning for biomarker subgroup discovery in randomised trials".

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf-qppzwsEtEisA_2ZCkA3KoJ3d53uW1P

Paul Newcombe, GlaxoSmithKline.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Of Odour Plumes and Synchrotrons: Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

Andreas Schaefer.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 22 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

From microscopy images to mechanical models of tissues and back

Hervé Turlier, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, College de France.

Online.

Monday 22 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

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

Mapping stromal heterogeneity and immunosuppression in breast cancer

Please note change of time to 11.30-12.30

Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Hyper-Localization and Predictive Modeling of Rapid Lung Function Decline in Cystic Fibrosis"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOyurDkjHdO0RzdaqWctUrYMks1YPvY1

Rhonda Szczesniak and Emrah Gecili, both from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Parasitology Seminars

Investigating host-parasite interactions in malaria to improve diagnostics and treatments

Prof Aubrey Cunnington - Imperial College London.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Zach Baker

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Unravelling the mechanisms and decision-making logic of biological systems"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtdOisrTosGNIMVJIXmGuq2X_so_tpo7s6

Giorgos Minas, St Andrew's University.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

New models to study human embryo implantation and early development

Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

A brief introduction to causal inference

Dr Apinan Hasthanasombat - Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 15:05-15:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

Sir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multicellular and extracellular matrix dynamics underlying skin morphogenesis.

Dr. Hironobu Fujiwara, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Kobe, Japan.

Online.

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Exploring cell heterogeneity in health and disease using single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics

Erwin Schoof, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBC

Dr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficiency by Construction

Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

Host - Ben Steventon

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Cross-lingual transfer learning with multilingual masked language models

Professor Mamoru Komachi - Research Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 15:05-15:55

Parasitology Seminars

CANCELLED: Unravelling the whipworm niche at the host intestinal epithelia

Unfortunately, this seminar had to be cancelled. There will be a new date for it soon.

Dr Maria Duque-Correa - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute - UoC.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning

Dr Brendan Swain.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A new frequentist implementation of the Daniels and Hughes bivariate meta-analysis model for surrogate outcomes"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcuuurzIuGtEUj6y8h6vKpM1Krt5hj60L

Dan Jackson, AstraZeneca.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Short Cuts

Prof Ian Fleming.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

How Cell and Tissue Geometry Influences Morphogenesis

Dr. Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie .

Online.

Monday 20 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

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

Seminar Cancelled

Seminar Cancelled - to be rescheduled in 2024

Karen Vousden.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of organs and cell types.

Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

Wheeler Lecture 2023: Beyond functional programming: a taste of Verse

Professor Simon Peyton Jones - Honorary Distinguished Fellow of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Harnessing Extra Randomness: Replicability, Flexibility and Causality"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofuihqzgvHNyG24AgAAytgHlr1nmpetpx

Richard Guo, Stas Lab, University of Cambridge.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology

Dr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Turning biological morphology into numbers

Dr. Virginie Uhlmann, EMBL.

Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium+online.

Monday 13 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Circuit basis of learning and decision-making

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing

Nafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Coherence Attacks and Defenses in 2.5D Integrated Systems

Professor Paul Gratz - Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University. Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 15:05-15:55

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Drosophila axis extension is robust to an orthogonal pull by invaginating mesoderm-Dr. Claire Lye; Decoding cell fates in the shoot apical meristem through single-nuclei transcriptomics-Dr. Sebastian Moreno.

Dr. Sebastian Moreno, Sainsbury Laboratory and Dr. Claire Lye, PDN.

Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium+online.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries

Dr Tamar Makin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

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

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

Please note this seminar is on a Monday

Richard Cutler PhD, Kronos Bio, Inc..

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Avoiding AI's "Moore's Law": Why we are building a ladder to the moon

Sara Hooker (Cohere For AI).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Pathfinding for 10k agents

Dr Keisuke Okumura - Visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 15:05-15:55

Parasitology Seminars

Genome editing of red cell precursors and Plasmodium falciparum to study host-parasite interactions in malaria

Prof Alex Rowe (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Babraham Seminar

Degron peptides: Cancer mutation hotspots and tools for synthetic biology

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Andrew Wood; University of Edinburgh.

Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 13:30-14:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Coordinated alternative splicing in development, featuring Transformer2b and ciliary tissues.-Dr. Charlotte Softley.

Dr. Holliday Lovegrove, Univ of Manchester & Dr. Charlotte Softley, University Clinic Freiburg.

Online.

Monday 30 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

Dr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Gleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

An invitation to univalent foundations of mathematics

Dr Jon Sterling - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 15:05-15:55

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Dynamic survival analysis: modelling the hazard function via ordinary differential equations"

This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlce-spjIqHdQ4PYgBuSHSUSDRmLBAJQ5n

Dr F. Javier Rubio, University College London.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration

Prof David Rubinsztein.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mitotic rewiring on evolutionary timescales

Dr. Gautam Dey, EMBL.

Online.

Monday 23 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Fernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

CRUK CI.

Monday 23 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable Tasks

Leshem Choshen (IBM AI research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09#success.

Friday 20 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Erik Clark

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Custom low-cost "robotics" and AI: Plant-parasitic nematode phenotyping, at scale

Dr Sebastian Eves-van den Akker. Department of Plant Sciences - University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Babraham Seminar

Cold temperature delays aging and proteostasis collapse

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Prof David Vilchez Guerrero; CECAD, University Hospital of Cologne.

Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 13:30-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.

Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Dr. Natasha Shylo-Morphological changes and two Nodal paralogs drive left-right asymmetry in the squamate veiled chameleon; Dr. Nicole Edwards-Discovering the developmental basis of trachea-esophageal birth defects: evidence for endosomeopathies.

Dr. Natasha Shylo, Stowers Institute for Medical Research & Dr. Nicole Edwards, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Online.

Monday 16 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Babraham Seminar

Organismal Proteostasis: Collapse in Aging and Rejuvenation Approaches

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Prof Rick Morimoto; Northwestern University .

Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Monday 16 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cells

Prof. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Bad Information with AI

David Corney (Full Fact).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 13 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

How can we make trustworthy AI?

Professor Mateja Jamnik - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 15:05-15:55

Babraham Seminar

Evading ageing: Mitochondrial and proteostatic adaptations in oocytes

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Elvan Böke; Centre for Genomic Regulation.

Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 13:30-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery

Prof Adam Nelson.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Role of mechano-gated ion channels in epithelial tissue morphogenesis

Prof. Jorg Grosshans, Philipps University Marburg, Germany.

Online.

Monday 09 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?

Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

Computer Laboratory, room SS03.

Friday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation

Host - John Welch

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Parasitology Seminars

The Burden of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Nigeria, Control Efforts and the Need for Research Collaboration

Professor Olaoluwa Pheabian Akinwale - Nigerian Institute of Medical Research.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Some advances and applications of robust gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdOypqTwrH9LeiEEIL8dXxO_IpOC8lVMS

Sam Livingstone, University College London.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 03 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

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

How cilia signal

Please note this seminar is on a Monday

Jeremy Reiter, UCSF.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

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

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

Please note this seminar is on a Monday

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

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies

Host - Erik Clark

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Babraham Seminar

Regrow with the flow: Mechanosensation in the regenerating zebrafish spinal cord

This seminar will take place in the Queen Edith Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Samuel Crossman; The Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University .

, Babraham Research Campus.

Monday 11 September 2023, 13:30-14:30

Babraham Seminar

Culturing Change: A Journey to Māori Equity in Biomedical Research

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Georgia Carson; Malaghan Institute of Medical Research.

King's Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Tuesday 15 August 2023, 13:30-14:30

Babraham Seminar

Science publishing and publishing in Science

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Stella Hurtley; Science Magazine .

King's Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 13:30-14:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPases

Pau Castel, NYU School of Medicine.

CRUK CI.

Tuesday 04 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Babraham Seminar

Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPases

This seminar will take place in the Queen Edith's Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Pau Castel; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine.

Queen Edith's Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Monday 03 July 2023, 14:30-15:30

Babraham Seminar

Epigenome Function: from molecular mechanisms to intergenerational inheritance

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Jamie Hackett; EMBL.

King's Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Tuesday 27 June 2023, 13:30-14:30

Babraham Seminar

Liquid–liquid phase separation in autophagy

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Hong Zhang; Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

King's Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Babraham Seminar

Activation-induced proteome re-modelling in B cells and the role of mTORC1

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Andy Howden; University of Dundee.

Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 13:30-14:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Connecting spaces and scales in embryos

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Jesse Veenvliet.

Online.

Monday 19 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Issues and Language Models

James Thorne (KAIST).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 16 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

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

Title to be confirmed

**Seminar cancelled** to be rescheduled in 2024

Nikolaus Rajewsky.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level

Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Babraham Seminar

Establishing a structure-function relationship between biomolecular condensates and protein degradation

This seminar will take place in the Queen Edith Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Janet Kumita; Dept of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge .

Queen Edith's Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 13:30-14:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cued or cueless? Mechanisms that shape mesoderm and enable cell ingression

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Sevan Hopyan .

Online.

Monday 12 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Friday 09 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Babraham Seminar

LGBTQ+ in Academia: Challenges and Prospects

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Prof Ewan St John Smith; Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

King's Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Friday 09 June 2023, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Richard Durbin

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

Online.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19'

This will be an online seminar. To register to attend, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocO6qrTsiH9V3mlmvd_EOYT1sTBOKOmUZ

Dr Lampros Bouranis, Athens University of Economics and Business.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Opening doors and boosting energy: cellular programs that enable macrophage tissue infiltration.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Daria Siekhaus, ISTA, Vienna Austria.

MRC LMB + online (hybrid).

Monday 05 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular mechanisms of oocyte specification in female germline cysts

Dr. Dmitry Nashchekin, Gurdon Institute .

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP

Dustin Wright (University of Copenhagen).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 02 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Privacy in mobility measurements

Professor Jörg Ott - Technische Universität München.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 15:05-15:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

Online.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Prof. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering

Zhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Bayes in the age of intelligent machines

Professor Tom Griffiths - Princeton University.

Online.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 15:05-15:55

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Modelling the response to vaccine in non-human primates to define SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection'

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-usqDovGdf1TbAtYgsGCRJmoz0Hmbfi

Mélanie Prague, Inria, University of Bordeaux.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Are plant cells balloons? A biomechanical perspective on plant cell growth.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Yuchen Long .

Online.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

OpenFold: Lessons learned and insights gained from rebuilding and retraining AlphaFold2.

On Zoom Only

Mohammed AlQuarishi, Columbia University.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94647233365?pwd=SGlubDdCL2ZSTWJvNHNjV0NiWHM5dz09.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in Amharic

Seid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

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

Seminar cancelled

**Seminar cancelled** to be rescheduled in 2024

Polly Fordyce, Stanford University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Three proteins walk into a "var"…

Dr Jessica Bryant (Institut Pasteur, Paris) .

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

Dr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium

multiple.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 09:45-17:15

Babraham Seminar

Selection Events in Germinal Centres

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Oliver Bannard; The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 13:30-14:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

You shall not pass! How ectoderm patterning modulates lateral mesendoderm migration in the early zebrafish gastrula.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Stefania Tavano, ISTA Vienna, Austria .

Online.

Monday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

STOMATA DIVISION ORIENTATION: INTERPLAY BETWEEN GEOMETRY, GROWTH, AND MECHANICAL STRESS

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Leo Serra The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, United Kingdom .

Online.

Monday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models

Vered Shwartz (University of British Columbia).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Speaker to be confirmed.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks

Host - Henrik Salje

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Babraham Seminar

Accounting for Carbon Emissions - Flows, scopes and data

This seminar will take place in the Petersfield Lecture Theatre please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Katarina McCartney; University of Cambridge .

Petersfield Lecture Theatre, Babraham Research Campus.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Parasitology Seminars

The role of small non-coding RNAs in Strongyloides parasitism

Dr Vicky Hunt (University of Bath).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Learning the topology of complex systems from their dynamics

Professor Ginestra Bianconi - Queen Mary University of London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:05-15:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development

Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Babraham Seminar

Is Resolution the End of Inflammation? Nope! There is more, lots more….

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Professor Derek Gilroy; University College London .

Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Babraham Seminar

How do autophagosomes form and grow?

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Alex van Vliet; MRC LMB.

Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decision making without genes?

Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

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

Small Cell Lung Cancer from biology to biomarkers

Caroline Dive, CRUK Manchester Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Parasitology Seminars

The deafening silence of Plasmodium falciparum asymptomatic infections

Dr Antoine Claessens (Université Montpellier, France).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

From the GUI to ChatGPT: a historical sketch of HCI research agendas and their applicability today

Professor Richard Harper - Lancaster University.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 15:05-15:55

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference

Joe Stacey (Imperial College London).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Friday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Cahir O'Kane

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Genome-wide functional profiling and its application to decoding mitotic regulation in trypanosomes

Dr Bill Wickstead (University on Nottingham) .

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Babraham Seminar

Genetic features controlling the specific expression of developmental genes

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Alvaro Rada-Iglesias; Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria.

Kings Hedges Room .

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:30-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

Dr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen).

Online.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Patterning and folding of intestinal villi by active mesenchymal dewetting

Tyler Huycke (UCSF).

Online.

Monday 24 April 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Modelling active morphogenesis of patterned epithelia

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Diana Khoromskaia (Crick Institute, London).

Online.

Monday 24 April 2023, 14:30-15:30

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

Stressing out our immune system in chronic infection and cancer

Susan Kaech.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Experiments with Incomplete Covariate and Outcome Data'

Prof Fan Li, Duke University .

Online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMoc-yoqj4uHNMIXU5Js9MmiIW6mBtvGGFA.

Tuesday 18 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Babraham Seminar

The Tock Tick of Senescence

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Prof Cleo Bishop; Barts and The London Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.

Kings Hedges Room .

Tuesday 18 April 2023, 13:30-14:30

Parasitology Seminars

CANCELLED Early infection response of the first-trimester placenta at single cell resolution

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

Dr Roser Vento-Tormo (Wellcome Sanger Institute).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Babraham Seminar

Regulation of DNA repair by monoubiquitin signals

This webinar will take place in the Queen Edith Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Professor Helen Walden; University of Glasgow.

Queen Edith's Room; Babraham Research Campus.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

Jason Sheltzer, Yale School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

A DNA methylation atlas of normal human cell types

Tommy Kaplan, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Babraham Seminar

Maintaining diversity while maximising affinity - IL-21 and the balancing act of B cell selection

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Isaak Quast; Monash University .

Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Babraham Seminar

AMPK phosphorylation of FNIP1 dictates the kinetics of lysosome and mitochondrial biogenesis

This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access

Dr Nazma Malik; Salk Institute .

Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus.

Friday 17 March 2023, 13:30-14:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

TALK CANCELLED: Explicit Weakening (A Functional Pearl)

Professor Philip Wadler - Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 15:05-15:55

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Finding Target-Disease-Drug evidences from Literature and supporting curators. Please note: the details of this talk have changed

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Matthew Jeffryes and Santosh Tirunagari, EMBL-EBI.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we age

Prof. Melinda Duer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Connecting spaces and scales in embryos

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Jesse Veenvliet .

Online.

Monday 13 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Form and function during early heart development

Richard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages

Asmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 10 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Parasitology Seminars

SchistoTrack: A community-based, prospective cohort in rural Uganda to examine causes of periportal fibrosis associated with hepatic schistosomiasis

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

Dr Goylette Chami.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

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

Genetics Seminar

Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Katherine Lawler, Research Associate Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish

Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Methods for Bayesian optimal design of experiments, with application in biological science’

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrd-uoqjMiGN3f68WQc7zJQ7LmM4sZa2rx

Prof Dave Woods, University of Southampton.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Life and death of cells a mystery solved through biomechanics

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) .

Online.

Monday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanics and patterning combine to orient cell divisions in a planar polarised epithelium

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Guy Blanchard, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Monday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiation

Walid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not Enough

Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 03 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome

Host - Erik Clark

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

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Epigenetic memoirs of a parasite

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details.

Dr Richard Bartfai (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands) .

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

Dr Ilia Shumailov - Christ Church, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 15:05-15:55

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational Biology in Drug Discovery

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Philippe Sanseau, GSK Senior Fellow, Head In Silico Target Biology, Computational Biology, Genomic Sciences.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

Dr Marie Manceau (College De France).

Online.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutions

Prof. Alison Smith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

On the specification of leaf dorsiventrality

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

Agata Burian (University of Silesia in Katowice) .

Online.

Monday 27 February 2023, 14:30-15:30