Neurons, Fake News, DNA and your iPhone: The Mathematics of Information

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Jean Dalibard, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

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

A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:15-17:15

House Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Predictive models of bacterial response and the evolution of resistance to antibiotics

User Bartek Waclaw, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 17 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Adolfo G. Grushin.

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

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

Title to be confirmed

User Pierpaolo Mastrolia (Padova).

House Venue to be confirmed.

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

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Deep learning for tomographic image reconstruction: some recent approaches

User Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

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

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

Milstein LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

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

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

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

User Professor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

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

Moire superlattice effects in heterostructures of two-dimensional materials

User Prof. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester.

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

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

Title to be confirmed

User Luigi del Debbio (Edinburgh).

House Venue to be confirmed.

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

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Integrating Imaging and Computational Modelling to Gain Therapeutic Insights for Cancer

User Becky Shipley, University College London.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

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

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

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Jodi Nunnari, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences.

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

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

User Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden .

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

House Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Mitochondria and Cancer: Metabolites and Beyond

User Christian Frezza, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

The Enigma of Emotion

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London.

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

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor 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

Title to be confirmed

User Sir Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham).

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

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

Perutz LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

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

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London.

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

House Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

TBA

User Helen Byrne, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Eruptions, emissions and enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

User Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester).

House Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

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

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

User James Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

The Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

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