All Talks (aka the CURE list)

Title to be confirmed

User Benat Mencia.

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

How can insights from autistic doctors, including autistic psychiatrists, contribute to improving understanding of autism and outcomes for autistic people?

User Mary Doherty, Consultant Anaesthetist, Autism Researcher, and Founder of Autistic Doctors International .

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - June 2025

User Pascal Wodtke and Alexander Nicholas Shepherd.

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

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 11:45-13:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Keith Seffen, University of Cambridge.

House CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 V

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR14.

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Transmissible cancers

User Prof Elizabeth Murchison, Department of Veterinary Medicine. .

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

Thursday 26 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

LMB Seminar - Fast and slow pathways of ribosomal subunit association

User Joachim Frank, Columbia University.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 10:00-11:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Wasserstein Hamiltonian flow and its structure preserving numerical scheme

User Jianbo Cui (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBA

User Vicky Metzis.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

LMB Seminar - Cellular response to genetic change

User Andy Fire - Stanford University School of Medicine.

Monday 30 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

compiler socials

𝜇CFI: Formal Verification of Microarchitectural Control-flow Integrity

User Katharina Ceesay-Seitz, ETH Zurich.

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT2.

Monday 30 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

User Prof. Howard Reader.

House Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 01 July 2025, 11:15-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar – The Cancer Loyalty Card Study (CLOCS), aiming to help reduce the delays in cancer diagnosis using transaction data

User Professor James Flanagan, Imperial College London.

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

Wednesday 02 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

TBD

User Hilde Oliver, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

House BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 02 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in Paediatric tumours

User Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology. .

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

Thursday 03 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Applying simple mathematical models in the mining and energy industries

User Jason Furtney, Itasca International.

House Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 July 2025, 11:30-12:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Changing Climate, Changing Corals: Predicting Long-Term Climatological Suitability for Tropical Reefs

User Orlando Timmerman, University of Cambridge.

House Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Thursday 03 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

‘Unpicking the biology of healthy human nasal microbiome’

User Dr Ewan Harrison, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

House Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 03 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Metal-Catalyzed Cycloisomerizations of Enyne and Allene in Polycyclic Natural Product Synthesis

User Professor Xiao-Shui Peng (Chinese University of Hongkong).

House Dept. of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95584842300?pwd=V2DAKEE0bQXA4bbbSUryiRPELlhmzP.1.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Marileen Dogterom - TU Delft, Delft University of Technology.

Monday 07 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

User Dr. Manu Parra-Royón (IAA-CSIC).

House TBC.

Tuesday 08 July 2025, 11:15-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

User Paul Goddard - University of Warwick.

House Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 09 July 2025, 11:15-12:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Symmetry Breaking Routes to Natural and Unnatural Ladderanes

User Prof. Santanu Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

House Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Wednesday 09 July 2025, 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

User Dr Kiran Purushothaman, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT and Dept of Oncology; Dr Gianluca Mucciolo CRUK Cambridge Institute (Biffi Lab).

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

Thursday 10 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

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

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

User 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.

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

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

Dr. Jakob Zimmermann, Department for Biomedical Research, University of Berne

User Jakob Zimmermann, Department for Biomedical Research, University of Berne.

House Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 10 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Computational Electrochemistry in Atomic scale: A brief history, applications and current stage of its development

User Dr. Seung-Jae Shin School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Understanding health and wellbeing during menopause: A longitudinal comparison study between autistic and non-autistic people

User Eunhee Kim, Bournemouth University.

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 July 2025, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Hox Activity Levels Govern the Evolution of Behaviors

User Jimena Berni. Medical Research Building Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex.

House in person at Gurdon Institute.

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

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Condensing the Message: How Notch Signaling Forms Transcriptional Hubs to Control Gene Activation

User Carmen Santa Cruz Mateos. Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge..

House in person at Gurdon Institute.

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

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

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

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

Thursday 17 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

User Julia Gschwind ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge.

House Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Thursday 17 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Dr John James, Immunology, Warwick Medical School. Warwick Medical School

User Dr John James, Immunology, Warwick Medical School. Warwick Medical School.

House Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 17 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

User Dr. Daniela Palacios (PI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, IT), Dr. Arash Latifkar (Postdoc, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA), TBA.

House Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 July 2025, 17:00-19:00

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96372751903?pwd=C2hRQ8UF0B03vDp6IHGfWuTlsqzrTi.1.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Christian Haass - Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.

Monday 21 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Patenting, translating & commercialising research

User Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 24 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Learning Under Constraints: From Federated Collaboration to Black-Box LLMs

User Salma Kharrat, Kaust.

House Computer Lab, FW26.

Monday 04 August 2025, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Hydrodynamics

User Dylan Reynolds, ICTS Bangalore.

Tuesday 19 August 2025, 14:00-15:30

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99625598840?pwd=tiFsd5DQ5nqRyGefhp24MlXakfaa9L.1.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Alan Brown, Harvard Medical School.

Monday 15 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97937314535?pwd=SciQzQiuFkLGF3ERwcMiLLTEbryUxV.1.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Nenad Ban - ETH Zurich.

Wednesday 17 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Professor Ahmed Ahmed, University of Oxford.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

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

CamVet Clinial Research Grants

User Bruno Lopes, Jose Novo Matos, and Tom Kearns, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

House LT2.

Friday 26 September 2025, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House LT2.

Friday 26 September 2025, 08:45-10:00

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96488916942?pwd=BpCGRwD8hD8ec89yfaJ0yKPmV3o6lv.1.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Hiroaki Suga - The University of Tokyo.

Monday 29 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

User Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, The Francis Crick Institute.

House MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients

User Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 07 October 2025, 19:15-21:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London.

House Department of Engineering - tbc.

Friday 10 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Matthew Santer, Imperial College London, UK.

House CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99006584805?pwd=yFgF0P1zMvOJEKkOES4eNPpntaUodk.1.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University.

Monday 13 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 14:30-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

tbc

User Professor Filipe Cabreiro, University of Cologne, Germany.

House MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 15:00-15:30

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Steffi Oesterreich, University of Pittsburgh.

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

Title to be confirmed

Host – Antoine Hocher

User Dr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol.

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Jelena Ninic, University of Birmingham.

House CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

User Dr. Weiyang Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences).

House TBC.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 11:15-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Mihai-Cosmin Marinica, CEA Saclay.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Felix Flicker (Bristol).

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Thursday 23 October 2025, 14:00-15:30

Additive manufacture

User Paul Hooper, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College.

House Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies

User Professor Carol Brayne CBE - Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 October 2025, 18:00-19:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Vittoria Sposini, University of Padova.

Wednesday 29 October 2025, 14:30-15:30

Electronic response to ion projectiles traversing matter from first principles

User Prof. Emilio Artacho (Cambridge & Nanogune).

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Shelly Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

House Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94171771196?pwd=LbKuOThopk72DktYw3WJWcjBOGlKgG.1.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User David Klenerman, University of Cambridge.

Monday 03 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

House The Statistical Laboratory,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Benefits of data openness in a digital world

User Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

Monday 03 November 2025, 19:00-21:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Kim Jelfs, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

Title to be confirmed

Host – Kate Baker

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

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

Nanoscale thermodynamics

User Andrew Briggs, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford.

House Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Parton showers beyond leading colour

User Jeffrey R. Forshaw (Manchester U.).

House Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

Friday 07 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Alex Epstein, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Tomoaki Yagi, RIKEN.

Wednesday 19 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

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

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

User Professor Julian Downward, Francis Crick Institute.

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

Title to be confirmed

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

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

Challenges and opportunities in understanding the dynamic behaviour of engineering materials under complex loading paths

User Antonio Pellegrino, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Bath.

House Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Roshan Kumar Maharana.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 14:30-15:30

House City House, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1RY.

100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?

User Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 19:15-21:00

Title to be confirmed

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Dr Katrina Lythgoe from Department of Biology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Dario Alfè, UCL.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 14:30-15:30

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

Seminars in Cancer

Please note this seminar is on a Friday

User Andrea Sottoriva, Human Technopole.

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

Title to be confirmed

Host - Lin Wang

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Host - Aylwyn Scally

User Dr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

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

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates

User Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)).

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 19:15-21:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Thomas E. Markland, Stanford University.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - soft tissue

User Layla Thompson, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

House LT2.

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosts – Ben Steventon and Alex Cagan

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

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier.

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

Title to be confirmed

Host - Ben Steventon

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