Life Sciences

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Origins and extinctions of early vertebrates: a story of ecology, phylogeny, and the fossil record

User Rob Sansom (University of Manchester).

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

User Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Molecular approaches for studying antigen processing topology and T-cell activation kinetics.

Host: Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15pm

User Dr. Sander van Kasteren, Leiden University.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

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

User Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development

User Tina Schreier, Hibberd group.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-13:30

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

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

User Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

User Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

User Steve Harridge, King's College London.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

User Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Zoonotic Disease Transmission Risks in Displaced Populations

User Dorien Braam (University of Cambridge).

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 24 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

Gates Grand Challenge: development of a universal influenza vaccine at the Laboratory of Viral Zoonotics

User George Carnell.

Friday 24 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathology

User Dr. Ran Barzilay, University of Pennsylvania.

Monday 27 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Milstein LMB Seminar Series: Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer

User Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

Monday 27 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

User John Duncan (MRC CBU).

Monday 27 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The mammalian circadian clock: genes, cells and circuits

Host: Sue Jones

User Mick Hastings, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Neuroscience.

Monday 27 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

User Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Stem Cells: It’s All About the Neighborhood

Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins

User Elaine Fuchs, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

A deeper take on our sexual nature: Importance of cellular sex and underlying mechanisms

User Bruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Cell competition during development and disease

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

User Eduardo Moreno, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

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

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

User Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Voice processing in autism

User Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Adaptive control of RIPK1 dependent cell death signalling in T-cells.

Tea and coffee will be available at 12.15

User Professor Ben Seddon, University College London.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function

User Justin Crocker, EMBL.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

User Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

House TBC.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

The Toxoplasma acrobat: combining biophysics and real time imaging to decode Toxoplasma top gliding performance

User Dr Isabelle Tardieux, Université Grenoble.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Update on novel human astrovirus replication and disease

User Susana Guix (University of Barcelona).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth

User Richard Smith, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

User Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

User James Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

User Charlotte Palmer, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 31 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

Inferring Mycobacterium bovis transmission between cattle and badgers using the RBCT sampling framework

User Andries van Tonder, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 31 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

User Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

How to make good scientific figures

User Matthew Davis (MRC CBU).

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Mate Lengyel

User Athina Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

Monday 03 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

Robustness and scaling in early development: the “distal pinning” mechanism

Hosted by: Fengzhu Xiong & Ben Simons

User Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

It's about time: The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms during infections

User Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh).

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Single cell whole genome sequencing approaches to model evolution in cancer

** Please note this seminar is on a Tuesday **

User Sohrab Shah, MSKCC.

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

User Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Mechanisms of germinal centre dependent antibody dysregulation in early life.

Host: Naomi McGovern, nm390@cam.ac.uk; Tea and coffee will be available at 12.15

User Dr James Harker, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

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

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Eric Miska

User Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

User Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

User Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

User Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Harrold-Odell Country Park

User Richard Dowsett.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

User Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

How to write good papers

User Michael Anderson (MRC CBU).

Monday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Wolfram Schultz

User Chris Summerfield, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Monday 10 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

User Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments

User Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University).

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

User Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Natural Language Processing for Health

User Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Identification of a novel protein complex essential for erythrocyte invasion by human-infective malaria parasites

User Dr Ellen Knuepfer, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality

User Dr. Claudia Schneider.

House Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

The AKT inhibitor Capivasertib (AZD5363): From Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept

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

User Dr Barry Davies - Director, Clinical and Translational Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Title to be confirmed

User Anna Kajaste (Ospedale San Raffaele Milan).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry

User Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

User Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Lines in nature and the landscape

User Martin Davies.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 14 February 2020, 08:45-10:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The mechanical regulation of brain development

User Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Image-based quantitative morphology with geometrical models

User Dr Virginie Uhlmann from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Consciousness

User Tristan Bekinschtein, (Dept. of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants.

User Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling).

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

User Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

User Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Oxygen-dependent control of T-cell mediated immunity.

Host: Nick Holmes, (nh106@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

User Dr. Sarah Ross, Babraham Institute.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

The challenges in therapeutic targeting of the RAF-MEK-ERK signalling pathway

User Dr Simon Cook, Babraham Institute.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Rapid microbial evolution across the parasite-mutualist continuum

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

User Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Silicon as a plant nutrient: An opportunity to improve household incomes of small scale mango farmers in Kenya

User Ravin Jugdaohsingh, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 21 February 2020, 08:45-10:00

Title to be confirmed

User Claudia Zindl, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 21 February 2020, 08:45-10:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

User Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches

User Dr Evangelina Petsalaki from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Computational Psychiatry of Autism

User Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Monday 24 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Fabian Grabenhorst

User Gustavo Deco, Computational Neuroscience Research Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Monday 24 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

User Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences

User Annette Fayet (Oxford).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

User Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Like the Back of Your Hand

User Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Perutz LMB Seminar Series: How our chromosomes are replicated

User John Diffley, Associate Research Director, the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 00:00-00:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approach

User Dr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu .

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Protection against pathogen colonisation and transmission by the microbiota.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

User Dr. Thomas B. Clarke, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Understanding the mechanism of chromosome segregation: lessons from diversity

User Dr Bungo Akiyoshi, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

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

User Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Title to be confirmed

User Linda Dixon (Pirbright Institute).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

User Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-13:30

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

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

User Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

User Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

User Sophia Upton.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Combining 3D printing and collagen scaffolds to produce orthopaedic implants

User Matt Meek, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 28 February 2020, 08:45-10:00

From genes to physiology - further lessons from the retriever obesity model

User Eleanor Raffan, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 28 February 2020, 08:45-10:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

User Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

User Matthew Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU).

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Bigging up behaviour on coral reefs

User Sally Keith (Lancaster University).

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Affect and empiricism in the early modern Arctic

User Anne Goldgar (King's College London).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Isolation and analysis of Immune niches along the human intestine.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

User Dr. William Winston Agace, Danish Technical University .

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Dixon/Greaves Rooms, Department of Pathology.

From magnets to stigma: multiple approaches to tackle the challenges of cutaneous leishmaniasis

User Dr Helen Price, Centre for Applied Entomology & Parasitology, Keele University.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

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

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

User Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris .

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Kerry Franklin, Bristol.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

User Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

User Mal Faloon.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 06 March 2020, 08:45-10:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

User Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

User Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU).

Monday 09 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions

Host: Hugh Robinson

User Gilad Silberberg, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Monday 09 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

User Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

User Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

User Professor Clare Baker: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

User Dr David Stillwell.

House Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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 12 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Engineering the Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA): Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and its Nutrient Regulation in Barley

User Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Broca’s region: cytoarchitecture, transmitter receptors and brain mapping

User Katrin Amunts (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich).

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

3D Genomics in development and disease

User Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Matthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

User Professor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University.

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

Friday 13 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

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

User Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 19 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User E. John Wherry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

How do our brains form maps of the world?

User Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Thursday 19 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Seasearch

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Paul Mylrea.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Greaves Room, Department of Pathology.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Robert Moon, Department of Immunology & Infection, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

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

User Dr Richard Baird, Department of Oncology.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Title to be confirmed

User Alexander Borodavka (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 26 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

A trillion trees?

User Stuart Dainton, Head of Trillion Trees WWF-UK.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Julie Ahringer, PhD FMedSci, Director, Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Member of the Department of Genetics.

Friday 27 March 2020, 00:00-00:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Valentina Boeva from Institute for Machine Learning in Zurich.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 30 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars - date to be found

Post Doc invited speaker

User Zach Lippman, Cold Spring Harbor.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Vicky Hunt, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

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

User Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Gerry Rubin, Vice President, HHMI, and Executive Director, Janelia Research Campus.

Friday 03 April 2020, 00:00-00:00

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

Developmental strategizing towards the treatment of kidney disease

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Fengzhu Xiong

User Andrew McMahon, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, USA.

Friday 03 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science, day 1

User Free Public Exhibition.

Friday 03 April 2020, 13:00-18:00

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science, day 2

User Free Public Exhibition.

Saturday 04 April 2020, 10:00-17:00

Metallic metabolism in Toxoplasma gondii

User Dr Clare Harding, Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow.

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Girls and women on the autism spectrum

User Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Universite Paris Saclay.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Jim Norman, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: David Summers and John Welch

User Dr Trevor Lawley, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 23 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Perutz LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User David Baker, PhD, Director of the Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 00:00-00:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

User An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowski group.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 13:00-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Kate Storey, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

User Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

AGM and Presidential Address: Cambridge Dragonflies

User AGM and Duncan Mackay.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

User John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Peijun Zhang, Director of the electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC).

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 00:00-00:00

Cholinergic regulation of immunity to gastrointestinal nematode parasites

User Prof Murray Selkirk, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

User Greg Reeves, Hibberd group.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

User Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

User Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Paul McVeigh, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

User Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Michael Imbeault

User Dr Kim Judge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

User Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Nieng Yan, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

Monday 18 May 2020, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Repair: Refreezing the Arctic

User Professor Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 10:30-11:30

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Tim Gilberger, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Genetic conflicts shape meiosis, centromeres, and species

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

User Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

User Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Kendrew LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Jonathan Weissman,Professor Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New tools to understand and protect the biosphere

User Professor Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 15 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

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

Thursday 25 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Carolyn Bertozzi, Stanford University.

Thursday 17 September 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Hosted by: Steve Jackson & Hansong Ma

User Titia de Lange, Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

House To be confirmed.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Title to be confirmed

User Clare Isacke, The Institute of Cancer Research.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

User Kikuë Tachibana, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria.

House To be confirmed.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

User Fabian Theis, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany.

House To be confirmed.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Title to be confirmed

User Wendy Bickmore, University of Edinburgh.

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

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science.