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Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

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

User Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Thursday 21 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward

User Edward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research.

House Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Machine Learning for the benefit of Engineering

Food provided

User Dr Stephan Waldert, Arm.

House FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Sample size considerations for the design clinical trials – quantifying the target difference and the target no-difference”

User Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield.

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Block Scaled Diagonal Dominance for Applications in Control Theory and Optimisation

User Aivar Sootla, University of Oxford.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

House LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Computational Behavior Analysis through Wearables and Machine Learning -- Pushing the Boundaries towards usable Digital Health.

User Thomas Ploetz (Georgia Tech).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social media

User Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

The molecular evolution of C4 photosynthesis

User Professor Julian Hibberd.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Optimal Feature Selection using model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning”

User Dr Konstantina Pallas, Microsoft.

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building, Seminar Room 2.

Single-molecule manipulation and imaging of DNA structure and DNA-protein interactions

User Graeme King — Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

User Professor Danny Dorling.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Computational Neuroscience

Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortex

User Gergő Orbán (HAS Wigner Research Centre for Physics).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Liquid biopsy biomarkers for early detection; general principles and specific examples

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

User Dr Charlie Massie, Early Detection Programme.

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

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Protein synthesis; Which RNAs? Which ribosomes?

User Dr Julie Aspden.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

Neural Code Comprehension: A Learnable Representation of Code Semantics

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

User Tal Ben-Nun, ETH Zurich.

House Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Epigenetic inheritance: mechanism and function of genomic imprinting

Host: Sam Lewis

User Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

A Framework for Data Collection and Management for IoT

User Maribel Fernandez (KCL).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Learning multi-domain dialogues

User Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Friday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Making evidence credible for public health policy

User Dr Kathryn Oliver, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine .

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

CMIH seminar series

Texture analysis and Machine Learning for the Prediction of Cardiovascular Events

User Elizabeth Le (University of Cambridge).

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

House The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project

User Professor Alison Murdoch.

Friday 01 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Deep Reinforcement Learning: from AlphaGo to AlphaStar

User Dr David Silver, DeepMind.

House Department of Engineering - LT2.

Monday 04 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Chemical regulation of functional RNAs

Special Seminar hosted by: Tony Kouzarides, Eric Miska & Cambridge RNA Club

User Yunsun Nam, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Description: Translocation, Translocation, Translocation: Solving the molecular mystery of mycolactone’s cellular target in Buruli ulcer disease

User Dr Rachel Simmonds.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

User Dr Anne Corcoran.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

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

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

User Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

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

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

User Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Friday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Regulatory Genomics: From Basic Biology to Disease Mechanisms and Ageing

User Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Kinetoplastid-specific aspects of protein translation initiation

User Dr Yaser Hashem.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

A variational approach to nonlinear and interacting diffusions

User Professor Pierre Del Moral.

House CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

User Professor Mike Cates.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Lecture Cancelled

User Lecture Cancelled.

Language Technology Lab Seminars

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

Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation

User Massimo Poesio ( University of Essex).

House Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

LinuxKit: new ways of using Linux

User Justin Cormack.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

User Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

Friday 15 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Debugging and Repairing P4 Programs

User Costin Raiciu (University Politehnica of Bucharest).

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Demographics, Diagnosis and Treatment Pathways in Haematological Malignancies

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

User Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Network Science and Telecommunications

User Piet Van Mieghem (TU Delft).

Thursday 21 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

House FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

The Case For In-Network Computing On Demand

User Noa Zilberman (Computer Lab).

Friday 22 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 25 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - Easter Vacation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

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

User Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

CUED Control Group Seminars

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

TBD

User Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies”

User Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University.

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

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

User Dr Charlotte Coles (University of Cambridge) Breast Cancer Programme and Hilary Stobart.

Thursday 18 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

The role of transcription factors in cancer

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

User Dr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Dr Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Jakob Bardram (DTU).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

User Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making

User Prof. Naomi Leonard, Princeton.

House Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

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

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

User Janet Rossant, University of Toronto, Canada.

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

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Coralia Cartis.

House CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serious Ovarian Cancer

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

User Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh .

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Zohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Friday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Emerging international threats: the role of the WHO and national governments

User Dr Oliver Morgan, World Health Organisation .

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

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

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

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Berta Verd

User Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?

User Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford.

House Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

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

User Professor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

Thursday 16 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Azim Surani

User Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University, NY, USA.

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

Title to be confirmed

User Karina Vold, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

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

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Philip Zegerman

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

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

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Frank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology.

House CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

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

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

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

User Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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

Clinical Treatment and Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Malignant Glioma

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

User Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

Friday 07 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Paediatric Malignancies

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

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

Thursday 13 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

The childhood cancer genome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday 04 July 2019, 09:30-10:30