Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do females fight?

Eleanor Bath (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol: past, present and future

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Dr Anja Schmidt (University of Cambridge).

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Giants and national identity in early modern Europe

Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are we on the Road to Collapse?

Dr Luke Kemp.

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Immunology in Pathology

Beyond the cancer cell: Exploring the tumour stroma as immune modulators

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Jacqueline Shields, MRC Cancer Unit.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail

Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Ribosome profiling and virus infection

Dr Andrew Firth (Dept of Pathology).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

From Sinners to Saints: How Redemption Narratives Motivate Prosocial Consumer Behaviors

Dr. Eric Levy, Queen Mary University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Deciphering the regulation of Plasmodium falciparum replication

Dr Markus Ganter, Heidelberg University Hospital .

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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.

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

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

Epigenetic control of malignant melanoma

Emily Bernstein, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD

Mike Blatt, Glasgow.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

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

Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield.

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

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

Chaucer Club

Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics

Thalia Eley (Kings College London).

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

Greg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Livestock Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA MRSA ST398) in Relation to Pig Farming in the UK

Rhiannon Wood, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 22 February 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Glycoengineering of poultry vaccines’

Thippesh Sannasiddappa, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 22 February 2019, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate

Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The computational physiology of the basal ganglia and of their disorders and therapy

Hagai Bergman, Department of Medical Neurobiology (Physiology) Institute of medical research – Israel Canada (IMRIC), The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC).

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking all the things: towards a biodiversity knowledge graph

Roderick Page (University of Glasgow).

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

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

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

Dr Konstantina Pallas, Microsoft.

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

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

Professor Danny Dorling.

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

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

ARClub Talks

Experience of Motherhood for Autistic Women

Sarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Multi-dimensional cancer-immune cell interaction during metastasis’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (SV358@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk)

Xiang Zhang, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.

Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Immunology in Pathology

Organoid Systems to Study the Maternal-Fetal Interface of Human Pregnancy

Host: Dr Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Margherita Turco, Department of Pathology, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Chemical and Biological Data - from Compound Selection to Mode of Action Analysis (and Back Again)

Dr Andreas Bender (Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept of Chemistry).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Dr Charlie Massie, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Spatiotemporal regulation of host immune defences to HSV-1 infection

Chris Boutell, University of Glasgow.

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic inheritance: mechanism and function of genomic imprinting

Host: Sam Lewis

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

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

British Antarctic Survey

Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic

If external to BAS, please email aling@bas.ac.uk in advance to gain access to the building

Dr Jiankai Zhang (Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Chaucer Club

The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs

Tamar Makin (UCL).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

Paul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis

Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Stem cells, regeneration and organoid cultures

Meritxell Huch, Wellcome Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Member of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 01 March 2019, 08:45-10:00

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Making evidence credible for public health policy

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

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project

Professor Alison Murdoch.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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

Matt Lambon Ralph (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor

Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Chemical regulation of functional RNAs

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

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

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild

Susan Johnston (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series Milstein Lecture - Intracellular Membrane Contact Sites, Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegeneration

Pietro De Camilli Departments of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Kavli Institute for Neuroscince, Yale University School of Medicine.

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

Dr Anne Corcoran.

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

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

Immunology in Pathology

Niche dependencies for normal and malignant B1 cells

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Ingo Ringshausen, Department of Haematology.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Statistical Approaches to Personalised Medicine in Breast Cancer

Dr Oscar Rueda (CRUK - CI).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The social incentives hypothesis of political belief polarization

Ben Tappin, Royal Holloway, University of London. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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.

Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity

Alexandre Antonelli, Kew.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

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

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Chaucer Club

Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?

Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Parasitic plants

Helen Moore.

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

How bacteria escape from elimination by the host's complement system

Wilhelm Schwaeble, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 08 March 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

When the search for Salmonella reveals more’

Chioma Achi, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 08 March 2019, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Animating Molecular Biology

Janet Iwasa, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Department, University of Utah.

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

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Regulatory Genomics: From Basic Biology to Disease Mechanisms and Ageing

Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write a Fellowship proposal

Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 11 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial evolution in the human gut

Pauline Scanlan (University College Cork).

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

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

Early Science and Medicine

Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body

Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth).

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

Professor Mike Cates.

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Immunology in Pathology

Immune regulatory functions of group 2 innate lymphoid cells

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Tim Halim, CRUK.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Towards the high-level sequence code of gene regulation

Dr Aleksandr Sahakyan (MRC WIMM, Oxford).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

Lecture Cancelled.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Title TBC

Mary-Claire King, human geneticist professor, University of Washington.

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Hitchin' a ride: how herpesviruses modulate host-cell membrane trafficking

Dr Stephen Graham (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Metabolic and community changes underpinning life phase transitions of snow algae

Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-13:30

Craik Club

"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."

Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Kevin Hand.

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual time; out-of-term seminar

Cosima Porteus (University of Exeter).

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

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Out-of-term seminar

Alexandra K. Schnell (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Isabelle Tardieux, Universite ́ Grenoble.

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, Diagnosis and Treatment Pathways in Haematological Malignancies

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

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Robert Bristow, Manchester Cancer Research Research Centre, University of Manchester.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour

Steve Wilson, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservation

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Abigail Burns.

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

Thursday 21 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

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

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Parasitology Seminars

How does the African trypanosome control expression of its Variant Surface Glycoprotein coat?

Dr Gloria Rudenko, Imperial College London.

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

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

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Bluetongue virus structure and replication

Polly Roy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Foster Talks

Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis

Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

Cambridge Concert Orchestra.

Wesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

Saturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

Parasitology Seminars

Systematic strategies for proteome mining and antimicrobial discovery

Dr Matthew Child, Imperial College London.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 04 April 2019, 18:45-20:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Pathogen restriction and host specificity: insights from the human pathogen Salmonella Typhi

Jorge Galan, PhD, DVM, Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology; Chair, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis.

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

Friday 05 April 2019, 00:00-00:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Factors and Functions of ER Membrane Contact Sites

Gia Voeltz PhD, HHMI Investigator and Professor University of Colorado at Boulder.

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

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 00:00-00:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Tak Mak, UHN, Toronto.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

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

Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Friday 12 April 2019, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

The President and Officers.

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

Friday 12 April 2019, 18:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Saturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

Epigenetics and schistosome development and infection success

Prof Christoph Granau, University of Perpignan via Domitia.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 17 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Craik Club

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Title to be confirmed

Host: Dr Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Philip Elks, University of Birmingham .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

'Thoughts on discussing clinical ethics with students during rotations

Dr Peter Fordyce, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 26 April 2019, 08:45-10:00

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

Title to be confirmed

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

Thea Tlsty, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 26 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - CryoEM of proton pumping macromolecular machines

John Rubinstein.

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

Monday 29 April 2019, 00:00-00:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

Janet Rossant, University of Toronto, Canada.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

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

Immunology in Pathology

Regulators of chicken B cell development – basic research and application

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Dr. Sonja Härtle, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serious Ovarian Cancer

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

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Title TBC

David Rudner, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School.

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

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

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

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

Dr Oliver Morgan, World Health Organisation .

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

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

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Karl Hoffmann, Aberystwyth University.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Berta Verd

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Modifications of RNA: their function and role in cancer

Tony Kouzarides, PhD FRS FMedSci, Professor of Cancer Biology, Cancer Research UK Gibb Fellow, Director of the Milner Therapeutics Institute, Member of the Department of Pathology.

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

Thursday 16 May 2019, 00:00-00:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

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

Professor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Azim Surani

Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University, NY, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

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

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Philip Zegerman

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

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

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

Immunology in Pathology

Title to be confirmed

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Helena Westerdahl, Lund University,Sweden.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jean-Mathieu Bart, Institute of Research for Development, France.

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - The 100,000 genomes project and beyond

Tim Hubbard, Professor of Bioinformatics & Head of Department, King’s College London.

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr John Herrington, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

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

Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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.

Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption. The latest developments in global volcano monitoring.

Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric Malignancies

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Title TBC

Xiaodong Zhang.

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

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 00:00-00:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The childhood cancer genome

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Chris Sander, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovative engineering: From the Antikythera Mechanism to the Square Kilometer Array

Prof. Danielle George, University of Manchester.

Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 24 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

Dr Raaj Praseedom - Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team..

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

Dr Raaj Praseedom.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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.

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

Dr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anna Obenauf from Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 16 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series Perutz Lecture - The enigmatic TMEM16 family

Lily Jan, ack and DeLoris Lange Professor of Molecular Physiology at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

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

Thursday 19 September 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

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

Christopher Vakoc, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Steve Jackson

Arturo Londoño-Vallejo, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Valerie M Weaver, University of California, San Francisco.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Judith Campisi, The Buck Institute for Research on Ageing .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Philip Zegerman & Eric Miska

Lori Passmore, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

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

To be confirmed.

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