Biology

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Understanding Myc Transcription

User Dr Cathy Wilson, Department of Pharmacology.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar - Using connectomes to accelerate studies of the neuronal control of behavior in Drosophila

User Gerald M. Rubin, Senior Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, LMB Fellow.

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91661708050?pwd=WS9Ua0czQm9FaC9qaWk3S2VQMjE5dz09.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Small RNA-directed Reprogramming of Gene Expression During Host-bacteria Interactions

User Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Simone Reber, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings

User Joel Voss (University of Chicago) .

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

User Alex Berry, Fang Foo, Mica Taylor.

House LT2.

Friday 27 May 2022, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Friday 27 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

User Professor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Immunology in Pathology

Can viral infections exacerbate the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease?

User Mathew Clement.

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova & Julie Ahringer

User Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria.

House To be confirmed.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 11:30-12:30

Immunology in Pathology

Therapeutic targeting of recurrently mutated driver oncogenes using TCR gene therapy

User Chris Klebanoff.

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The role of ocean heat transport from the Atlantic into the Arctic Ocean on sea ice variability

User David Schroeder, University of Reading.

House https://ukri.zoom.us/j/98387914302; BAS seminar room 1.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Hh signalling and the anti-tumour immune response: biology and new treatment opportunities

User Dr Maike de La Roche, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

CpG Enrichment as a Vaccine Strategy for Influenza A Virus

User Dr Elly Gaunt, The University of Edinburgh.

House CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research), Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis

User Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control

User Sven Bestmann (UCL).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Coupled ice-ocean modelling of the Amundsen Sea glaciers

User Jan De Rydt, Northumbria university.

House https://ukri.zoom.us/j/92941632380; BAS seminar room 1.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-14:30

Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability

Host - Cahir O’Kane

User Professor Michael Coleman from Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus .

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

On the stability of Antarctic grounding lines

User Ronja Reese, Northumbria University.

House https://ukri.zoom.us/j/92941632380; BAS seminar room 1.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:30-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

User Kathryn Bateman, Tom Hordle, Department of Veterinary Medicine Interns.

House LT2.

Friday 10 June 2022, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level

User Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Friday 10 June 2022, 13:15-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

TBC

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Dr Roz Laing (University of Glasgow).

House Department of Pathology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Misinformation: Subjective beliefs, Source credibility, and Social Networks

User Jens Koed Madsen, London School of Economics.

House Psychology Department Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

The impact of environmental factors on cancer

User Dr Elisabete Silva, Brunel University London.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Professor Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Mapping the consequences of peripheral nerve injury on brain organisation and hand function

User Ken Valyear (Bangor University).

Thursday 16 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Valentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

Monday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Cell differentiation and tumour initiation - two sides of the coin

User Dr Walid Khaled Dept of Pharmacology/ Cambridge Stem Cell Institute .

Thursday 23 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domains

User Jorn Diedrichsen (University of Western Ontario).

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Kidney cancer: The most lethal urological malignancy

User Prof Grant Stewart, Dept of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies

User Karen Campbell (Brock University).

Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Pancreatic Cancer: Challenges, Models and Therapeutic Opportunities

User Dr Giulia Biffi; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 07 July 2022, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

User Julio Saez-Rodriquez, Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine and Group Leader at the EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU).

Monday 11 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

User Dr Daniel Muñoz-Espin; Department of Oncology.

Thursday 14 July 2022, 09:30-10:30

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

Title to be confirmed

**Please note change of time and date**

User Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

Thursday 14 July 2022, 12:00-13:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Lung Cancer. Part 1. Patient pathway and Intervention; Part 2: Futurescape

User Professor Robert Rintoul (Papworth Hospital) & Dr Frank McCaughan (Dept of Biochemistry).

Thursday 21 July 2022, 09:30-10:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Topography-mediated Transport of Warm Deep Water across the Continental Shelf Slope, East Antarctica

User Chengyan Liu, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory .

House British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin.

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Thursday 15 September 2022, 13:00-14:00

Satellite altimetry over polar ice sheets

User Thomas Slater, University of Leeds.

House British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Wednesday 21 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Christopher Yau, University of Manchester.

House Marjory Stephenson Seminar Room, Hopkins Building, Dept of Biochemistry.

Monday 26 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Parasitology Seminars

Defining genetic and environmental determinants of malaria transmission

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Prof Matthew Marti. University of Glasgow..

Wednesday 05 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Acute portal hypertension during liver lobectomy in a dog - a rare, but fatal complication

User Malina Filipas, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

House LT2.

Friday 07 October 2022, 08:45-10:00

Parasitology Seminars

TBC

User Dr Martin Walker. Royal Veterinary College, RVC..

House TBC.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Hans Reimer-Rodewald, DKFZ.

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Thursday 13 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

TBA

User Yan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 14 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Reduced overturning and abyssal ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin

User Kathy Gunn, CSIRO.

House British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 10:00-11:00

Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?

Host - Eric Miska

User Dr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris.

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Hosted by: Andrea Brand & Iva Tchasovnikarova

User Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan.

House To be confirmed.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observing the Southern Ocean carbon cycle with autonomous floats

User Channing Prend, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of Washington.

House https://ukri.zoom.us/j/91769463955; BAS seminar room 1.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Louis Chesler, ICR.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Thursday 17 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre.

House Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit.