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Krill swarms: the carbon export highway - S*£% matters!

User Anna Belcher - British Antarctic Survey.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Origins of Life Systems Chemistry

User Prof John Sutherland (MRC LMB).

Thursday 17 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

James Watt (1736-1819): The Power to Change the World

User Dr Malcolm Dick, University of Birmingham.

Friday 18 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800

User Paul Sampson (Rutgers University).

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Social Impact of Automatic Hate Speech Detection

User Dr. Stefanie Ullmann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Humanities and Social Change.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

The effects of wind on trees and forests

User Toby Jackson - Cambridge Conservation Initiative .

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Re-entry vehicles for future space missions

User Dr Paul Bruce (Imperial College London).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Chasing the bacteria in the river Cam with real-time DNA sequencing: Results of the PuntSeq study

User Dr Lara Urban, Wolfson College..

Friday 25 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again

User Professor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

Monday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology

User Dr. Pearce Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital.

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

Monday 28 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Pacific Shoguns: Japan’s Attempt to Open the Pacific, 1600-1625

User Dr Joshua Batts, Research Associate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

User Professor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

How to Build a Neuron: establishing spatial identity in a structurally complex cell

User Michael Fernandopulle - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Not even wrong

User Dr Robert Brady (Cambridge Computer Laboratory).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

Friday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)

User Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology).

Monday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Making something out of nothing: Tracing the story of a medieval manuscript at Cambridge University Library

User Dr Andrew Dunning, Munby Visiting Fellow in Bibliography, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

User Professor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Antarctic climate of the last 115,000 years from ice cores

User Isobel Rowell.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Documenting Endangered Languages: Experiences in Indonesia

User Prof Mary Dalrymple (Oxford).

Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

User Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Friday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur

User Matt Holmes (CRASSH).

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

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

100 Years of Universes

User Professor John D Barrow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics .

Monday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

User Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Equality for Women = Prosperity for All

User Dr Augusto Lopez-Claros, the World Bank Group.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

User Professor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Growing minibrains: 3D organoid cultures to model tissue development and diseases

User Laura Pellegrini - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

House Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years

User Professor Ian Goodyer, OBE,MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

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

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

User Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Is Obesity a Choice?

User Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

You rock! Understanding words with many meanings

User Lucy MacGregor - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Conservation and plant diversity

User Dr Mauricio Diazgranados, Royal Botanic Gardens.

Friday 22 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

User Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (Newton International Fellow, British Academy and University College London).

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

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

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

User Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of "The Spirit of Inquiry" 200 years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Mathematics vs Dementia

User Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Sexual Health, Risk and Migration: Challenging exclusionary constructions of migrant men who have sex with men

User Arthur Davis - Centre for Gender Studies.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

House Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

The Nutrition and Cancer Journey: from Chemical-Physical Carcinogenesis to Metabolic Carcinogenesis.

User Professor Elio Riboli, MD, MPH, MSc, Imperial College, London.

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

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

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: the life sciences on film and radio

User Max Long (Faculty of History).

Monday 02 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

User Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

User Anna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

Transformation of perception: What are psychotic disorders and why are ethnic minorities at increased risk?

User Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Friday 06 December 2019, 17:45-19:10

A talk by Dr Antonio Rodrigues

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 13 December 2019, 17:45-19:10

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

User Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

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

Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Professor Nigel Peake - title to be confirmed

User Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics .

Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneering genetic therapies for Huntington's disease and its relevance for neurodegeneration

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

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Climate change (TBC)

User Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Structures Research Group.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

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

A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Eske Willerslev - title to be confirmed

User Professor Eske Willerslev, Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Copenhagen.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

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

The Enigma of Emotion

User Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Dr Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

Professor Rebecca Kilner - title to be confirmed

User Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

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

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Professor David Baulcombe FRS- title to be confirmed

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

User Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Volcanic Behaviour

User Dr Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

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