Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mutational signatures: From bytes to bedside

Prof Serena Nik-Zainal, NIHR Research Professor in Genomic Medicine and Bioinfromatics.

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

Thursday 16 April 2026, 09:30-10:30

HDR UK Cambridge Seminar Series

The Silent Clock in the Arteries: Rethinking Cardiovascular Risk Through the Lens of Vascular Ageing

HDR UK Cambridge seminar series event; SIGN UP HERE: https://www.ticketsource.com/university-of-cambridge/t-rzzykzl

Catherine Liao (CONNEQT Health).

Heart and Lung Research Institute (0.R100&101&102).

Thursday 16 April 2026, 13:30-14:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Novel Diffusion Model based Approach for Sleep Music Generation

Kevin Monteiro, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 20 April 2026, 12:00-12:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Numerically verified proofs in pure maths

Daniel Platt, Imperial College London.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 20 April 2026, 12:30-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Response Adaptivity Across Clinical Trials In Portfolios of Biomedical Innovations"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/PFg8_enkTfaTtqpGnzYpbg

Zaile Li, INSEAD.

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

Wednesday 22 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Decoding genomic chaos - a pancancer compendium of chromosomal instability

Professor Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 23 April 2026, 09:30-10:30

Biochemistry Seminar Series - External Speakers

Bacterial Physiology During Growth Arrest: Can It Be Targeted by Anti-Bacterial Therapeutics?

Dr Megan Bergkessel - University of Dundee.

Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 23 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Representational Geometry of Language Models

Matthieu Téhénan (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 24 April 2026, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

 Life, death, and the discovery of PDAR: the Pol II Degradation-dependent Apoptotic Response 

Mike Lee PhD, Associate Professor Department of Systems Biology, UMass Chan Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 April 2026, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge AI in Medicine Seminar Series

Cambridge AI in Medicine Seminar - April 2026

Lingjia Wang and Shuaiyu Yuan.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 April 2026, 11:45-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

From lab to clinic: an introduction to translational research

Dr James Jones; Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology .

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

Thursday 30 April 2026, 09:30-10:30

RSE Seminars

Content, Caching and Kubernetes: Performance and User Experience in the Browser

Laurents Marker - Software developer, National Centre for Atmospheric Science.

Room B, West Hub.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Fun experiments you can only do with frogs

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

A Data-Centric Approach to AI Adaptation and Alignment

Prof. Stephen Bach (Brown University).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding the Interplay between LLMs' Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge

Prof Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 01 May 2026, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Aaron Mueller (Boston University)

Aaron Mueller (Boston University).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 07 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Seminar Series - External Speakers

Chemical strategies for biomolecule functionalisation, and biomaterial conjugation

Dr Chris Spicer - University of York.

Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 07 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CodeScaler: Scaling Code LLM Training and Test-Time Inference via Execution-Free Reward Models

Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST).

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

Friday 08 May 2026, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2026

Keynote: Natasha Latysheva (Google DeepMind).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 09:00-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer

Dr Huiqi Yang and Dr Nicola Thompson, Cambridge University Hopitals Trust.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 09:30-10:30

RSE Seminars

EVERSE Research Software Quality Kit

Michael Sparks - Software Sustainability Institute.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Tissue-scale communication in cancer development

Hosts – Heather Machado, Elena Scarpa and Ben Steventon

Professor Richard White from Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Fazl Barez (Oxford)

Fazl Barez (Oxford).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Lotem Peled-Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Lotem Peled-Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Friday 15 May 2026, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 15 May 2026, 12:00-13:00

Foundation AI

The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery

Yuri Yuri (Oxford) .

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Saturday 16 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Foundation AI

The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery

Yuri Yuri (Oxford) .

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Saturday 16 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Foundation AI

The AI Ecosystem as a Reasoning Maze: How Collaborative Intelligence Accelerates Scientific Discovery

Yuri Yuri (Oxford) .

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Saturday 16 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Luke Gilbert, PhD, Associate Professor of Urology, University of California, San Francisco.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 May 2026, 12:30-13:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of radiation in cancer care: a spotlight on cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck

Dr Gill Barnett; Dept of Oncology; Dr Christopher Jones, Dept of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals .

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

Thursday 21 May 2026, 09:30-10:30

RSE Seminars

"Green" RSEs? A new role (and a new community) to reduce the environmental impact of research

Kirsty Pringle - Software Sustainability Institute; EPCC, University of Edinburgh.

Room E, West Hub.

Thursday 21 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Seminar Series - External Speakers

Title to be confirmed

Dr Giovanna Mallucci - Altos Labs.

Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 21 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Using A Function-Centric Lens to Re-consider Regularisation, Representation Transfer and Geometric Properties of Neural Networks

Israel Mason-Williams (Imperial/KCL).

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

Friday 22 May 2026, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Aditi Raghunathan (CMU)

Aditi Raghunathan (CMU).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 28 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Using Light for Cancer Detection

Dr Danielle Harper; Dept of Oncology and Early Cancer Institute .

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

Thursday 04 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof. Kilian Weinberger (Cornell)

Prof. Kilian Weinberger (Cornell).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 16:00-17:00

Foundation AI

Positional encodings in LLMs

Valeria Ruscio.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 17:00-17:45

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early cancer clinical trials

Dr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospitals, Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 11 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University)

Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 11 June 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic cancer - the clinical challenge;  Why the microenvironment matters during pancreatic cancer progression and treatment

Dr Kiran Purusothaman, CUH and Dept of Oncology; Dr Wenlong Li, Biffi Lab, CRUK Cammbridge Institute.

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

Thursday 18 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Nicholas Tomlin (NYU & Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)

Nicholas Tomlin (NYU & Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 18 June 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clonal haematopoiesis, early detection and pre-leukemia to leukemia development

Prof Elisa Laurenti, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Dept of Haematology.

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

Thursday 25 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Robert West (EPFL)

Robert West (EPFL).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 25 June 2026, 10:00-11:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy and Neurosurgery for the oncologist

Dr Raj Jena and Mr Adel Helmy; Cambridge University Hospitals; Departments of Oncology/ Clinical Nuroscience.

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

Thursday 02 July 2026, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge AI in Medicine Seminar Series

Cambridge AI in Medicine Seminar - July 2026

Mengling Feng and Kai He.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Thursday 09 July 2026, 11:45-13:00