Duncan Simpson

Name:	Duncan Simpson
Affiliation:	Research Services Division, Cambridge
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	Tue Oct 11 10:19:48 +0000 2011

Public lists managed by Duncan Simpson

• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum
• Art Cell Gallery
• Axonal degeneration and repair: plasticity and stem cells
• Brain Training: secrets, drugs and analysis.
• CamBridgeSens
• Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars
• Cambridge Environment
• Cambridge Infectious Disease
• Cambridge RNA Club
• Centre for Trophoblast Research
• Dobson Group - General Interest
• Horizon Forum
• Horizon Seminars
• Horizon: Bioengineering
• Imaging and Mathematics
• Leica Scientific Forum
• Life Science Interface Seminars
• Major Public Lectures in Cambridge
• Modelling Biology
• Museums in Cambridge
• Networks & Neuroscience
• Physics of Living Matter - PLM
• Physics of Living Matter PLM6
• Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)
• Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series
• Physics of Medicine Journal Club
• Physics of Medicine Roadshow
• RSC South East England Regional Meeting
• Research Office Linked Events
• School of Physical Sciences
• School of Technology
• Semiconductor Physics
• Special Lecture Series: THE NATURAL COOK: A THEORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
• Stem Cell Seminars and Events in Cambridge
• Symposium on Computational Biology
• The Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies Seminars
• The political economy of AIDS in Africa
• UCL based talks series

Talks given by Duncan Simpson

Obviously this only lists talks that are listed through talks.cam. Furthermore, this facility only works if the speaker's e-mail was specified in a talk. Most talks have not done this.

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• Marzipan for all
• Biology from First Principles?

Talks organised by Duncan Simpson

This list is based on what was entered into the 'organiser' field in a talk. It may not mean that Duncan Simpson actually organised the talk, they may have been responsible only for entering the talk into the talks.cam system.

• Closing Remarks
• Planar cell polarity: From cell biology to human disease
• Mechanical forces driving zebrafish epiboly
• Collective migration of neural crest cells: a balance of repulsion and attraction
• Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early embryos
• Mechanical regulation of the cytoskeleton
• Zooming into the molecular networks that regulate cellular morphogenesis
• Modeling cytoskeletal systems.
• Transport in random fields and applications to Drosophila melanogaster
• Patterns in active fluids
• Chromatin, nuclear mechanics and the cytoskeleton
• Chemotaxis: linking cell shape, behaviour and strategy
• Controlling the Cell Cycle
• Systems Analysis in Single Cells
• Tracking stem cells at the single cell level: New tools for old questions
• 'Measuring the molecular dynamics of endocytosis using light microscopy
• Fate restriction and multipotency in retinal stem cells
• Embryonic patterning with an oscillating cell population
• Introduction to Physics of Living Matter Symposium 6
• Lecture on Systems Biology 6/6
• Lecture on Systems Biology 5/6
• Lecture on Systems Biology 4/6
• Lecture on Systems Biology 3/6
• Lecture on Systems Biology 2/6
• Lecture on Systems Biology 1/6
• Ill communication: tuning the vertebrate segmentation clock
• The physics of nerves and lipid ion channels
• STORM below the localisation limit
• The social biology of sucrose utilization in yeast: I might like you better if we stuck together
• Collective Cell Migration: Leadership, Invasion and Segregation
• Tissue tectonics: quantitative morphogenesis across spatial and temporal scales
• The physical forces behind collective cell migration
• Rigidity comes with age: biomechanical models of tip growth
• Forces and Regulation for Cell Sheet Movements in Dorsal Closure
• Experimental studies and simulations of factors that power and steer mitotic spindle movements
• Tracking stem cells at the single cell level: new tools for old questions
• A role for structured noise in developmental pattern refinement
• Variability in the cellular response to death receptor ligands
• Universal patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissue
• The gene regulatory logic for reading the Sonic Hedgehog morphogen gradient in the neural tube
• PLM5 Day 2
• Development of connections in the Drosophila nervous system - from growth to function
• Mechanics in neuronal development
• Cell dynamics driving gastrulation in the mouse embryo
• Understanding How Cell Movements Direct Early Mouse Embryogenesis
• Matricellular Elasticity and Nuclear Rigidification with Epigenetic implications
• Sequential activation of apical and basolateral contractility drives ascidian endoderm invagination
• Growth, Form and Patterning in Development
• Day 1 PLM5
• Nanostructured-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (NERS) for Surface Science and Molecular Electronics
• Physical principles in biological sensing and signalling
• DNA replication: for better or for worse
• Signal Encoding at the Single-Cell Level
• Active Forces and Flow for Cellular Polarization
• dSTORM: Super-resolution imaging with small organic fluorophores
• Dynamics of Dpp signaling and growth control
• Probing the dynamics of chronic disease using stable isotopes and mass spectrometry
• Emerging Concepts in Cancer Biology: Merging Glycobiology and Nanotechnology
• "Retinal axon guidance in substrate-bound ephrin patterns.".
• Eukaryotic chemotaxis - how amoebae use non-equilibrium physics to figure out where to go
• Nuclear structural networks: The hardware for regulation of gene expression and stem cell fate
• The E coli membrane: towards a systems description
• Patterning embryos with oscillations
• Information processing in small gene regulatory networks and cascades
• Statistical physics modeling of the bacterial flagellar motor
• Single cells and single molecules in microdroplets
• Terahertz technology: Shedding light on cancer
• Cell cortex mechanics: of blebs and other intriguing aspects of cell shape
• Physics of Living Matter 4 (day2)
• Physics of Living Matter 4 (day1)
• A Journey in the World of Molecules
• Redox chemistry of diamond
• T-cell senescence in chronic hepatitis C infection
• Graduate Student Seminars
• Graduate Student Seminars
• Graduate Student Seminars
• It's not (all) --rocket-- atmospheric science
• Bionanoscience
• Single-Molecule Magnets and Magnetic Refrigerants
• Understanding glass transition on the basis of elastic interactions in a liquid
• How physics can be applied to biological problems
• L. Bragg lecture: "Single-Molecule Approach for Biochemistry, Molecular Biology ... and Beyond"
• Shape, Polarity and Individuation of Animal Cells
• Title to be confirmed
• Title to be confirmed
• Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues
• Multipotency and Cell Fate decision on the Epigenetic Landscape: From Metaphor to Molecules and Mathematical Model
• Excitable systems in cell populations
• Antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies
• DNA: Not just a double helix
• Glimpses of quantum mechanics in biology
• GRAND OPENING of the Physics of Medicine Building
• Computer modelling of the heart
• Reverse engineering the brain: what photons and electrons can tell us about thought.
• Of mice, men, and microscopes: Watching the brain dynamics of motor control at the cellular scale in behaving subjects
• Medical Materials
• New materials for regenerative medicine applications
• Mechanical manipulation of single molecules in nanopores
• Novel Photonics for the Biomedical Sciences
• Imaging biology in the cancer patient
• Physics of Living Matter 3
• Finding the Needle in a Haystack and From Bathtubs to Pipes
• Technomimetic Nanomachines: A wheelbarrow and a molecular motor
• Designing screens and screening designs: from catalytic antibodies to peptide dendrimer enzyme models
• Exchange and Dynamic Correlation
• Preparation and Properties of Pharmaceutical Cocrystals
• Finding new radicals and new electronic states in complex environments
• A simple model of molecular conduction and a new use for characteristic polynomials
• Insights in heterogeneous catalysis mechanisms from DFT calculations
• Biomimetic Organocatalysis: From Concepts to Applications
• Controlled redox and activation reactions in organometallic f-block complexes
• Multiscale modelling of catalytic nanoparticles for CNT synthesis
• Chemical Activity on Graphene Under Stress
• Epoxide-Opening Cascades
• Intermolecular Coulombic Decay and Ultrafast Energy Transfer
• Accelerating Chemistry & Biology: Intelligent Microfluidics
• Progress Toward a Synthesis of Phomactin A
• CPGS Talks
• Non-equilibrium phase transitions in complex systems
• Transcriptional noise in gene regulatory networks
• Atmospheric Aerosols: Their Effect on Climate and on Human Health
• Search for New Antibacterials Using Diversity-Oriented Synthesis
• Selective Molecular Transformations Using Organic Superbases
• Cold Molecules: Production and Control
• Particle Engineering: Role of Surface Chemistry
• Towards a cartography of complex biological systems
• Cost-efficiency of complex human brain networks
• Small, network models of effective connectivity in the human brain: evidence from fMRI and MEG
• Learning and memory in neural networks: statistically optimal computations
• Spontaneous neural activity in the developing nervous system.
• Complexities and uncertainties of neuronal network analyses
• Inference for stochastic models
• Transcriptional networks controlling blood stem cells
• Evolution of biological complexity and multicellular phototaxis
• Combining molecular and physiological data from complex psychiatric disorders
• Causal network structure identification in nonlinear dynamical systems
• Dissecting the dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks
• Entropy as an ordering force
• Title to be confirmed
• Title to be confirmed
• "Intelligence and the Living Cell": Adaptive behaviour and decision-making by single cells
• New Bond Activations at Transition Metal Centers: Fundamental Studies and Applications to Catalysis
• Modern Medicinal Chemistry in the Hit to Lead Arena
• Dynamics on the way to forming glass: past, present and future
• DNA beyond the double helix
• Quantum transitions in Lennard-Jones clusters
• Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative
• Cambridge Physics of Medicine Initiative
• Applications of physical science to biological systems: droplets and fragments
• Materials for Medical Engineering
• Reconstructing the Bacterial Cell Factory
• Strategies for bringing back function to the damaged nervous system
• Tools for Engineering Morphogenesis in Plants
• Closing on closed-loop insulin delivery: Artificial Pancreas - where we are and where we go
• Molecular assembly lines for drug biosynthesis
• Health Technologies KTN: working together to accelerate innovation in healthcare
• Collagen mechanics: from basic understanding to clinical applications
• Systems Biology: from models (and model organisms) to medicines
• Self-renewal and differentiation in the nervous system
• Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues
• Analysing protein kinase activity and proteolysis in dividing cells
• Physiological effects of four-stranded G-quadruplex DNA
• Molecular motors at work
• Bioimaging using atomic force microscopy
• Force sensing protein complexes in the developing animal
• Soft Matters
• Looking for morphogenetic mechanisms
• Different ways to look at Cells
• Cambridge Cancer Centre Symposium
• Title to be confirmed
• Cohesins Functionally Associate with CTCF on Mammalian Chromosome Arms
• The new WHO growth charts: Implications for growth monitoring practice in the UK"
• 'A crystal structure based study of NhaA, a Na+/H+ antiporter with orthologues from bacteria to human'
• 'Light triggers for visualization of signal protein dynamics'
• Material and Polymer using Olefin Metathesis
• 'Construction of the bacterial flagellar rotor
• 'The motile response of bacteria to pH jumps'
• Title to be confirmed
• Design of Catalysts for the Olefin Metathesis reaction: Applications in Synthesis
• Community-based obesity and diabetes prevention Interventions - What do we know?
• 'Mitochondrial FAS - from respiratory deficient yeast to cardiomyopathic mice'
• Deconvoluting the mechanism of Pd-catalysed isomerisation and addition reactions
• Regulation of Transcription by DNA Binding Small Molecules
• Harnessing d-Block Chemistry for Stereoselective Synthesis
• A crystal structure based study of NhaA, a Na+/H+ antiporter with orthologues from bacteria to human
• Mitochondrial adaptation to high altitude hypoxia
• Title to be confirmed
• Catalytic Borylation/Cross-Coupling Protocols That Avoid the Preparation of Haloaromatics
• The 6th Annual Sir William Dunn Lecture
• Gurdon Institute mini-Symposium
• Mitochondrial FAS - from respiratory deficient yeast to cardiomyopathic mice
• Enantioselective C-H Functionalization; Applications in Organic Synthesis
• DNA site-specific recombination: Architecture of a recombinase regulatory complex
• Title to be confirmed
• A Quest for New Reactions. Some Interesting Perspectives for Organic Synthesis
• Mechanisms of transmembrane transport: towards structures of membrane protein drug targets
• Detecting Beta-Sheet Folding During Protein Translation and Secretion
• The genetic epidemiology of refractive error
• Reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotency using defined factors
• Endocrine Clinico-Pathological Conference
• Socs in myeloproliferative disease
• Genetical genomics of diabetes and obesity phenotypes
• Regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis by N-cadherin: implications for atherosclerotic plaque stability
• Understanding ionic liquids: From the electronic structure up
• CAMSoc lecture - "Joining Ceramic Materials - Can it be that difficult?"
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• Endogenous opioids, dopamine & appetite behaviour
• Do exercise referral schemes work? Evaluation of 'Active 4 Life'
• Can a theory-based behaviour change programme improve outcomes for people with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes? The ADDITION Plus trial
• The Vav1 nucleotide exchange factor: from structure to function
• New Dynamic AFM Methods for Biological Systems
• Amino acid transporters and nutrient-sensing mechanisms
• From bio-inspired systems for nanoelectronics to physico-inspired tools to study bio-systems
• Beyond the Curie transition: new mechanisms and material microstructures for magnetic cooling
• Spin Glasses
• Monitoring single ion transporters at work: proton-driven rotation in FoF1-ATP synthase and domain swapping in P-type ATPase
• New Stereoselective Higher-Order Rhodium-Catalyzed Carbocyclizations Reactions for Total Synthesis
• Immune regulation in the intestine: a balancing act between effector and regulatory T cells
• Discussion over lunch
• Discussion
• Molecular dynamics simulations of protein-surface interactions
• Statistical methods in X-ray crystallography
• Serpin metastability and protease inhibition
• Discussion
• Modelling semiflexible chains, filaments, and their networks
• Investigating incretin hormone secretion by single cell dynamic fluorescence imaging.
• Optical micromanipulation and quantifying Images
• Intracellular function and motor properties of myosin VI
• Coffee Break
• Discussion
• Nucleic acid structures - predicting formation and function
• Incretin secretion - small currents matter.
• Cell fate in the mammalian epidermis
• Discussion
• Autophagy upregulation - a possible therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative conditions like Huntington's disease
• Soft Matters - biomechanics in cancer diagnosis and nerve regeneration
• Antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies
• Cells and gels - questions a physicist asks
• Introduction
• There will be a series of 10 minute talks
• Registration at CIMR reception
• Title to be confirmed
• Watching living matter. -Advanced microscopy.
• Relating brain and behaviour in Drosophila
• Tissue Cells Feel and Respond to the Stiffness of Their Substrate / Physical Properties Determining Self-Organization
• From words to literature in structural proteomics
• Molecular imaging using hyperpolarised carbon-13
• No harm in looking? The effects of optical imaging on cytoplasm
• The poroelastic properties of cytoplasm: theory and experiments
• Structure and dynamics of the cell membrane and cytoskeleton
• Where mechanics and biochemistry meet: probing the dynamics of cell polarization and morphogenesis
• Coupling cell cycle morphogenesis and mitotic spindle orientation to regulate tissue morphogenesis
• Biomechanics of epithelial sheet movements (in Drosophila)
• To see the light - living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina
• Morphogen transport and gradient formation
• Mesoscopic events in living cells: insights from bacterial chemotaxis
• Physics and the designs of brains
• Spontaneous activity in the developing nervous system: form and function
• Creation and destruction of biological polymer networks
• Shift happens: A systems-level analysis of the gap gene network in Drosophila
• Evidence for the influence of nuclear architecture in shaping the organisation of genes in eukaryotic chromosomes
• Learning from the worm: predicting phenotype from genotype
• Physics of Living Matter II 15th and 16th November 2007
• Physics of Living Matter
• Mending Broken Hearts: replacing damaged cardiac muscle; the MAGIC programme
• Drinks Reception
• Closing Remarks
• The brain as a statistical machine
• Physical principles of sensory transduction
• COFFEE
• Evolving mechanisms of Pattern Generation: Segmentation in Animals
• Kinetics of Morphogen Gradient Formation
• Imaging embryonic morphogenesis
• LUNCH
• Reaction diffusion and collective behavior in the self-organisation of the mitotic spindle
• Multidimensional fluorescence imaging in living cells
• Studying Single Molecules on living cells
• COFFEE
• Dissecting a protein-protein interaction in living cells
• Watching and modelling limb development
• Visualisation and Modelling of Plant Morphogenesis
• Imaging the Developmental Mechanics of the Heart
• How nature "designs" elastic polymers
• Can Polymer Physics Help Cellular Biomedicine?
• COFFEE
• Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity
• Soft Matter Physics of Cells
• Understanding Biology from the Atomistic Scale
• Introduction and Welcome
• Registration
• Physics of Living Matter
• Everything about stuff
• Using structure to assign function in bacterial biosynthesis
• Probing Bio-Molecular Reaction and Motion
• Systems Biology, a science in flux
• Marzipan for all
• Molecular information for organic chemistry
• Molecular information for organic chemistry
• Computational Methods for the Analysis of Protein Structure, Shape and Function
• Energy Landscapes of Biomolecules
• Evolution and Dynamics of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
• Stochastic events in cell signalling
• Binding site similarity, small- molecule similarity and binding profiles
• Protein Sequence Variations involved in disease - a structural perspective
• Minimal models of self-assembly and protein crystallization in vivo
• Biology from First Principles?
• Investigating Magnetic Roughness by Neutron and X-ray Scattering
• 3-D cryo-EM in biology: specimen preparation and imaging for tomography
• Spin Ice - a Laboratory for Statistical Physics
• An Alternative to the Infernal Combustion engine.? - Modern Fuel Cells
• Fusion of Relativistic Vortices in Josephson Arrays
• Obesity and Modern Humans - Diet, lifestyle or simply in our genes?
• Electronic-structure challenges in biomimetic catalysis
• Chameleon Metals: from nanostructures for plasmon engineering to molecular detection
• Human Evolution: what can be known?
• Defence research: Changing world, changing priorities (R&D in the MoD)
• Polyelectrolyte multilayer microcapsules as a novel biomimetic system
• Single molecule measurements unravel the less traveled pathways in protein unfolding
• Measuring Intermolecular Forces in Biology
• To be confirmed
• Through a Glass Darkly - and Other Optical metastabilities"
• TBA
• PLEASE NOTE SEMINAR CANCELLED
• Granular materials with even circuits: Ball-bearings and dry quicksand
• Is the Hidden Electronic Order in the Cuprates neither Hidden nor Ordered?
• Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter
• Dynamics of Pattern Formation in Electric Field Experiments
• Antibiotics are no substitute for good hygiene - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; the importance of hospital cleanliness and practices
• Signal processing in bacterial chemotaxis
• "Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced Slow Antihydrogen"
• Secondary electron emission from organic monolayers
• Fission yeast interphase microtubules: self-sufficient and self-centred!
• Spin and charge quantum phase transitions in narrow-band metals
• Quantum computing with electron spins in quantum dots
• Antibiotics, 75 years on - New antibiotics, using genes cloned from Streptomyces species
• Ligand-receptor interactions in proteins and membranes
• No Mott Colloquium this week
• Characterisation & Nano-fabrication using focused ion beam SEM
• Carnot and the fields formulation of elementary thermodynamics
• Just print me another computer, will you? - The world of plastic electronics
• Fluorescence imaging on the micro- and the nanoscale
• Finding Ways to Understand Growth Kinetics
• Polymers in motion
• Dynamics of network motifs
• "The Nearby Universe as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope"
• Hush, here comes an aircraft! - The Silent Aircraft Initiative
• Polymorphism in organic and inorganic solids
• Receiving you, Loud and Clear - Digital radio, and its future in the UK
• Controlling the Flow of Colour: Photonic Systems in Biology
• Atomic force microscopy and force spectroscopy of membrane proteins - Joint seminar with Nanoscience
• Photon Anti-bunching
• Local correlation methods for molecular electronic structure calculations
• Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor control
• Faster than the speed of sound - The M52 -the worlds first supersonic aircraft
• Charge Transport in Organic Single-crystal Transistors
• In situ experiments in the ESEM - a challenge for both the scientist and the engineer
• Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity?
• Scanning the cosmological horizon
• Eve, Uncovered - Sequencing the human X-chromosome
• Functional nanoporous materials from reactive block copolymers
• Nano-Ferroelectric Materials and Devices
• Nanomechanical Oscillators: from Thermodynamics to Pattern Formation
• The eyes: gateway to the soul? - Iris Recognition Technology
• Protein Assisted Assembly of Carbon Nanotube into Functional Materials - joint with Nanoscience
• "Mott Centenary Lecture" - Present Status of the Theory of High Temperature Superconductors
• The Larmor Lecture: Epidemiology - where are the limits?
• Granular Segregation as a Critical Phenomenon
• Mapping Phase Diagrams by Atomistic Simulation
• The Support of Mountains and the Survival of Ancient Continental Cratons
• Dynamics of single molecular motors labeled to quantum dots in a living cell
• Differences between non-specific and bio-specific, and between equilibrium and non-equilibrium, interactions in biological systems
• Evolutionary genetics
• Thin film and interface effects in electroactive and responsive polymers
• TBA
• TBA
• Non-Equilibrium Fermi Gas as a Riemann Hilbert Problem
• Probing the Early Universe with Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
• Bio-Inspired Crystal Growth
• Superconducting pairing in small metallic nanoparticles
• Local Interstellar Medium / History of Investigation of Mars and Venus in USSR (1960-1996)
• The Outstanding Magnetic Behaviour of Nematic Suspensions of Goethite Nanorods
• Atom Chips: A Vision for Quantum Information
• Analogies between superfluid helium Three and the Universe
• Feeling and Influencing Active Intracellular Polymer Networks with Light
• Squids
• Field theoretic methods in polymer stat mech
• The properties of free polymer surfaces and their effect upon the glass transition in thin polymer films
• "Quantum turbulence"
• Sudden Cardiac Death. Medicine is not enough, we need physical sciences as well
• The electronic structure of proteins as obtained by first principles total energy calculations
• Swelling and deformation of gels: an old problem revisited