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ARClub Talks

Community Action to Understand and Prevent Suicide among Autistic People

UserDr. Anne Kirby, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at Trinity College Dublin .

Househttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81286610099?pwd=HsKTIo1MzZ7eEOJUaVYrEBbCvSSW1g.1.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2026, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Laura Taylor

If you are external to BAS and would like to attend please reach out to the organisers before the talk and arrive at reception 10 minutes before so we can let you in.

UserLaura Taylor (British Antarctic Survey and University of Cambridge).

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

How personalised is your immune system?

Host - Lin Wang

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

HouseG12 Large Lecture Theatre in Department of Plant Sciences and Zoom.

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

UserProf. Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern University, Boston.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 22 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserMeenu Bhati (Postdoc, UEdimburgh), Roberto Campalastri (PhD student, MRC Tox, Cambridge, UK).

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 22 January 2026, 16:30-17:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

How can we best teach ethics to vet students?

UserDr David Williams, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 23 January 2026, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Mechanistic and Therapeutic Targeting of PIEZO1 in Red Blood Cell Disorders

UserRasiqh Wadud, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 23 January 2026, 08:45-10:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

UserSantiago Zelenay, CRUK Manchester Institute .

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation

Host - Aylwyn Scally

UserDr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Evidence of filovirus circulation among bats and humans in Ghana

UserMaya Juman, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 30 January 2026, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

UserEmmeline Robinson, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 30 January 2026, 08:45-10:00

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Degrading Proteins in the Brain: Can we get there and how can we make it work?

UserWill Farnaby, University of Dundee Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation.

HouseClifford Allbutt Building Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

ClockFriday 30 January 2026, 11:30-12:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Efficient fMRI design for activations and patterns

UserRik Henson, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK..

House MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Soft tissue

UserPatrick Lennon, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 06 February 2026, 08:45-10:00

Zangwill Club

BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness

UserJuliane Britz, University of Fribourg.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Leveraging large-scale datasets in boutique MEG studies

UserChetan Gohil, University of Oxford, UK..

House MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Illuminating the Future: The Transformative Power of Laser Materials Processing in Science, Engineering, Art and Design

UserProf Bill O’Neill FREng, FInstP, FLIA, FIAPLE, Director of the Centre for Industrial Photonics, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 09 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

UserFelipe Karam Teixeira and Victor Girard.

Housein person at Gurdon Institute.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2026, 16:00-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Phylogenomic insights into the origin of eukaryotes

Host – Antoine Hocher

UserDr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex

UserSamira M. Epp, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.

House MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Brainwide sequences of neural activity

UserMatteo Carandini, University College London.

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 16 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

UserKristina Kordova, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 20 February 2026, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

UserNiamh Casey, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 20 February 2026, 08:45-10:00

Zangwill Club

Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine

UserEmilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The emergence of perception through subcortico-cortical loops

UserLivia de Hoz, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 23 February 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Energy Efficient Cities initiative: TBC

UserProfessor Ruchi Choudhary, Professor of Digital Civil Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 23 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Algorithm-mediated social learning

UserWilliam Brady (Northwestern University).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Machine learning: applications to cancer

UserDr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

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

ClockThursday 26 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

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

Seminars in Cancer

UserAshani T. Weeraratna, PhD, John Hopkins.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserEmma Mitchell (NEB, sponsor), Magdalena Crossley (PI, CRUK, Cambridge, UK).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 26 February 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserEmma Mitchell (NEB, sponsor), Magdalena Crossley (PI, CRUK, Cambridge, UK).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 26 February 2026, 16:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics

UserClaire Elwell, University College London (UCL).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

To divide or differentiate, that is the question

UserAnna Philpott, Department of Oncology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

HouseBiffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

ClockFriday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

UserProfessor Katrina Lythgoe from Department of Biology, University of Oxford.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Neurology

UserPaul Freeman Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 06 March 2026, 08:45-10:00

Zangwill Club

The complexity of platform power

UserPhilipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

UserManon Revel (Google DeepMind).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast

Host - Marco Geymonat

UserDr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

UserStella He, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 13 March 2026, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

UserDorothy Hadju, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 13 March 2026, 08:45-10:00

Zangwill Club

Emotions as Moral Character Trackers

UserRoger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent at Canterbury.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Natural History: Contributions from some Cambridge scientific giants of the 19th century

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

UserCNHS President and a former President of Cambridge Philosophical Society.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Zangwill Club

Using neural networks to understand and enhance human learning

UserProf Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserGuillermo Parada Gonzalez (Postdoc, Crick Institute and KCL, London, UK), Eleni Liapi (Postdoc, Aarhus University, DK).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 26 March 2026, 16:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 15 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Neurology

Usertbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 17 April 2026, 08:45-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

UserClemens Plaschka, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna.

HouseIn person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link .

ClockMonday 27 April 2026, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Ben Steventon

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserRòża Przanowska (Postdoc, UVirginia), Zhipeng Lu (PI, USC).

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 30 April 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

UserKatja Roeper and Nadine Muschalik.

Housein person at Gurdon Institute.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2026, 16:00-17:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Oncology

Usertbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 08 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

UserFrancisco X. Real, CNIO, Madrid.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts – Alex Cagan, Elena Scarpa and Ben Steventon

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS Presentations

Usertbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 15 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS Presentations

Usertbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 22 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserMiguel Aracena Velazquez (PhD student, UYork), Pedro Madrigal (Project Leader, EMBL EBI).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 28 May 2026, 16:30-18:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Equine

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 12 June 2026, 08:45-10:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

UserTyler Jacks, PhD, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserNida Ali (Postdoc, UCambridge, UK), TBD (Novogene, Sponsor).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 25 June 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Housein person at Gurdon Institute.

ClockWednesday 08 July 2026, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserSung Chul Kwon (PI, UHong Kong), TBD .

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 16 July 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

UserMarta Zlatic.

Housein person at Gurdon Institute.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2026, 16:00-17:30

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