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MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Response Adaptivity Across Clinical Trials In Portfolios of Biomedical Innovations"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/PFg8_enkTfaTtqpGnzYpbg

UserZaile Li, INSEAD.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockWednesday 22 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mutational signatures: From bytes to bedside

UserProf Serena Nik-Zainal, NIHR Research Professor in Genomic Medicine and Bioinfromatics.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 16 April 2026, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Generating crossmodal gene expression from cancer histopathology improves multimodal AI predictions"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/MSeOkbjoRr2eCc1JQaumTQ

UserSamiran Dey, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkota.

HouseLarge Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 14 April 2026, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Nonparametric causal decomposition of group disparities"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/4GWLKVphSsu3k4a4D_dreQ

UserAng Yu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

HouseLarge Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockMonday 13 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A unifying framework for generalised Bayesian online learning in non-stationary environments"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/W8Gl6_hoQ7mUob4Rh8miIA

UserGerado Duran-Martin, Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford .

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 07 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The birth of scientific anti-racism

Please note earlier time

UserJenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz).

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

ClockTuesday 17 March 2026, 15:00-16:30

Coffee with Scientists

Research on research

UserSteven Wooding (Head of Research on Research, Research Strategy Office).

HouseBoard Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 13 March 2026, 11:00-12:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Sex as a process

UserPaul E. Griffiths (University of Sydney & Macquarie University).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2026, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast

Host - Marco Geymonat

UserDr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Aleksej Zelezniak

UserDr Aleksej Zelezniak, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and King's College London.

HouseDepartment of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

UserProfessor Katrina Lythgoe from Department of Biology, University of Oxford.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

AI revolution! At whose cost? Towards environmental AI ethics

UserMilena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2026, 13:00-14:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "New Bayesian methods and tools to address health challenges"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/7KTIPoNBSVuPXcFtZh8MiQ

UserDr Raiha Browning, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

HouseLarge Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Machine learning: applications to cancer

UserDr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 26 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr HaDi MaBouDi

UserDr HaDi MaBouDi, University of Sheffield.

HouseDepartment of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Permission to know

UserJessie Munton (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 12 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Where do we stand on the origin of eukaryotic cells?

Host – Antoine Hocher

UserDr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China

UserLuis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockTuesday 10 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Genomic newborn screening, and how to evaluate it"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/0erNJSr0T2OKXJE4uYYgHQ

UserEllen Thomas, Genomics England.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 10 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Roser Vento-Torno

UserDr Roser Vento-Torno, Group Leader, Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

CANCELLED - Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation

Host - Aylwyn Scally

UserDr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

ClockThursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Jonathan Frazer

UserJonathan Frazer, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

HouseDepartment of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

How personalised is your immune system?

Host - Lin Wang

UserProfessor Aleksandra Walczak from Laboratoire de physique, l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HouseG12 Large Lecture Theatre in Department of Plant Sciences and Zoom.

ClockThursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical models for missing data not at random: identification, inference, and imputation"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/y-ukrQxwTLGSoGtSGiGUkA

UserIlya Shpitser, Johns Hopkins School University .

HouseLarge Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 13 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism through the lens of Otto Warburg

UserProf Christian Frezza CECAD Research Center, University Hospital Cologne.

HouseOnline only via Zoom.

ClockThursday 08 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil

UserThomas Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 01 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

UserProfessor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology & Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 27 November 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture

UserLiz White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 24 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

Vaccine communication and policy

UserKatie Attwell (University of Western Australia).

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

ClockFriday 21 November 2025, 11:00-12:30

Genetics Seminar

Small RNAs in Epigenetic Inheritance: a lesson from worms

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

UserDr Germano Cecere from Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Who was Henslow?

UserKate Hooper (Independent Researcher).

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

ClockMonday 17 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Robust and conjugate Gaussian processes"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here:https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/oURXKjAISECZrOvFPRw0Mw

UserFrançois-Xavier Briol, University College London.

HouseLarge Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 11 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Molecular bases of Shigella virulence and host immune response

Host – Kate Baker

UserProfessor Benoit Marteyn from Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Strasbourg.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Predictive resampling for scalable Bayes"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/gELlOqxOT3imWtS8MRVYRw

UserEdwin Fong, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2025, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr José Davila Velderrain

UserDr José Davila Velderrain, Research Group Leader, Human Technopole, Italy.

HouseDepartment of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Mary Hesse Lecture

How scientific plurality and sociality enhance scientific objectivity

Second Annual Mary Hesse Lecture

UserHelen Longino (Stanford University).

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction

UserAvey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex).

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

ClockTuesday 14 October 2025, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Professor Mark Isalan

UserProfessor Mark Isalan, Professor of Engineering Biology, Imperial College London.

HouseDepartment of Genetics.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Effective Health Technologies Faster? Value-Based, Response Adaptive Learning in Clinical Trials"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/IMAzE11MRtyNkOGZpkv4GA

UserProfessor Stephen Chick, INSEAD.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 30 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Upgrading survival models with CARE"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/M66a6T77T9-0PCylnJfB7g

UserWilliam Underwood, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Upgrading survival models with CARE"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/M66a6T77T9-0PCylnJfB7g

UserWilliam Underwood, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 23 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Predictive Polygenic Scores: Considerations and an Example"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/2-jzYw6UQ0uzKp5LpplBhg

UserAllison Meisner, Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

HouseLarge Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 11 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic cancer - the clinical challenge;  Why the microenvironment matters during pancreatic cancer progression and treatment

UserDr Kiran Purushothaman, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT and Dept of Oncology; Dr Gianluca Mucciolo CRUK Cambridge Institute (Biffi Lab).

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 10 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in Paediatric tumours

UserDr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology. .

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 03 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Coffee with Scientists

Science advice under uncertainty

UserAmy Orben (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

ClockFriday 13 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Rausing Lecture

But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure

Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserAsif Siddiqi (Fordham University).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early cancer trials

UserDr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospitals, Dept of Oncology.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 05 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserMichael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

TheCultureLab

UserHelene Scott-Fordsmand (Clare Hall & HPS, Cambridge) and Anatolii Kozlov (Science & Technology Studies, UCL).

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

ClockFriday 30 May 2025, 14:30-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "AI for the Human Cell Atlas"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/jy1cAVg4SeiEB-grYmQV8Q

UserProfessor Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute & Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 20 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Regression Tree Approach to Missing Data"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81415700586?pwd=7rhWD5jDWlkAq1nuMUPDJGDkhQsMCM.1

UserProfessor Wei-Yin Loh, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Investigating complex dependence structures using Bayesian mixture modelling"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/7PLSTFN7QM6iUvdzQaegEw

UserDr Michail Papathomas, University of St Andrews.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 29 April 2025, 15:15-16:15

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Common atoms mixture models in some biostatistical inference problems"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/4uUskN5ZQjaJzckpMbxQ1Q

UserProf Peter Mueller, University of Texas.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 29 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Nonparanormal Approach to Marginal Inference"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click on the link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xwbSLwLITemQeb8b-jk-Fg

UserSusanne Dandl, University of Zurich.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 25 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cu2ldnhQhKdTBNWL6Mo1A

UserHabib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cu2ldnhQhKdTBNWL6Mo1A

UserHabib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623

UserAlexander van Dijk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

Group selection and Ronald Fisher

UserRobert Asher (Associate Professor and Curator, University Museum of Zoology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 07 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Unnecessary sleep: opium, the trial of Ann, and the therapeutic dilemma of slavery

Cambridge Lecture in the History of Medicine

UserKeith Wailoo (Princeton University).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology

Host - Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic

UserJustine Holzman (Princeton University) and Amelia Urry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

The evolution of sentience

UserNicholas Humphrey (Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 14 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science as communication

UserJim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development

Host - Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University .

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

UserAlice Corbella, University of Warwick.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

UserAlice Corbella, University of Warwick.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour

Host - Erik Clark

UserDr Justin Crocker from EMBL Heidelberg .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Efficient Sequential Experimentation: Bridging Model-Based Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GS1_Dn3SQXydSuW9p3oNnQ

UserAlberto Caron, The Alan Turing Institute.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?

Host - Kate Baker

UserDr John Lees from EMBL – EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare

Host - Cahir O'Kane

UserProfessor Sir Mark Caulfield, Vice Principal for Health, Queen Mary University of London and Director of the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free online seminar using Zoom Webinar. Register using this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AbR8yEMdQKGtBfxJbbEeNQ

UserIda Scheel, University of Oslo.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

UserProfessor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology & Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 09 January 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

UserProf Christian Frezza CECAD Research Center, University Hospital Cologne.

HouseOnline only via Zoom.

ClockThursday 19 December 2024, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Machine learning: applications to cancer

UserDr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 05 December 2024, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Personalized Decision-Making for Infectious Disease Control: Causal Inference and Complex Dependence"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcuCpqT8oGtciL4QahuHDVi2_-NRp9enh

UserIvana Malenica, Harvard University.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI

Host - Michael Boemo

UserDr Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool from DeepMind, London .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A domino theory of disease

UserHarriet Fagerberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neandertal-human interactions

Host – Alex Cagan

UserDr Mateja Hajdinjak from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockThursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "IV-learner: learning conditional average treatment effects using instrumental variables"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0od-CorDouHdEyadWd2HkaL_HUObpPwuoJ

UserKarla Diaz Ordaz, University College London .

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

What does 'achromatic' mean? Refractions on the construction of early achromatic telescope lenses

Anita McConnell Lecture

UserMichael Korey (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon of the Dresden State Art Collections).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Programmed DNA elimination in insects

Host – John Welch

UserDr Laura Ross from Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about it

Host – Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Multi-state modelling to estimate infectious disease burden"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf-6gpjkvHNaHjyzJDmLJi7vIrRb-STIQ

UserPeter Kirwan, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Mary Hesse Lecture

In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming

First Annual Mary Hesse Lecture in the Philosophy and History of Science

UserNancy Cartwright (Durham University, and University of California, San Diego).

HouseOld Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 15:00-16:30

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial evolution in the lung

Host – Kate Baker

UserDr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkf-ysqDgqG9W5MbRoGxq5re7R9XadbBBd

UserIda Scheel, University of Oslo.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 22 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Bayesian latent multi-state modelling for longitudinal health trajectories"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcuutqTkoG9R7enI9iOHBr61dOjW5BTKl

UserYu Luo, Kings College London.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

What can butterfly hybrid zones tell us about the genomic architecture of species barriers?

Host – Richard Durbin

UserDr Konrad Lohse from Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

ClockThursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Bayesian nonparametric spectral analysis of multivariate time series"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdOmpqzMuHNHNuAnIvofAmb7HOCQIQwzW

UserRenate Meyer, University of Aukland.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 27 August 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Leveraging the Virtuous Cycle: Clinical Trials - Translational Science - Basic Science

UserProf Jean Abraham; Director, Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit, Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre , School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 18 July 2024, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Translating the biology of epigenetics into clinical applications for cancer

UserDr Harveer Dev, Early Cancer Institute, Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology..

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre , School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 11 July 2024, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy and Neurosurgery for the oncologist

User Dr Raj Jena, Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology; Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre , School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 27 June 2024, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early cancer trials

UserDr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospitals, Dept of Oncology.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 20 June 2024, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Bayesian framework for incorporating exposure uncertainty into health analyses with application to air pollution and stillbirth"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/22b7f255-8f6c-4dce-9c83-36281a3261bf@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990

UserJoshua Warren, Yale School of Public Health.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 18 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée

Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSuzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 30 May 2024, 16:00-17:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science

UserNick Jardine (History and Philosophy of Science) and Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Topological Properties of the Protein Universe"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/93edb3b5-eb5d-4d19-b30b-1526233e3c17@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990

UserChristian Madsen, University of Melbourne.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Making predictions under intervention to avoid causal blind spots in treatment decisions"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7045e477-b689-46bc-9ec3-fe1ed827a158@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990

UserProf Niels Peek, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 21 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS

Host - Cahir O'Kane

UserProfessor Marc Freeman from The Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 09 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale

Host – Richard Durbin

UserProfessor Ben Lehner from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century

UserMichael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas

Host - Frank Jiggins

UserDr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

E. coli and the Game of Clones

Host – Kate Baker

UserProfessor Jukka Corander from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and University of Oslo.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 18 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of radiation in cancer care: a spotlight on cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck

UserDr Gill Barnett; Dept of Oncology and Strangeways Research Laboratory; Dr Christopher Jones, Dept of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals .

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre , School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 18 April 2024, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Bayesian behavioural-change epidemic models: is your population alarmed?”

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vceqsqDwtHNLalYuBk7GmojclSXN5wIcE

UserRob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclceGorT0qE9YE3YCcRSFhCPPH_6ZNFPgh

UserDimitris Rizopoulos, Professor of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

UserProfessor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Uncertainty Quantification in the Digital Medicine Era"

This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsduitrTotGNZxFmtFPPAx6Jh2LZfCYbV3

UserMarcos Matabuena, Harvard University .

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

Host - Erik Clark

UserProfessor Shelby Blythe from Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Is AI generated art really art?

UserMilena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Statistical modelling for state-of-the-art gene editing experiments"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdOmqqzsuE9HyOT32ptW3DZiTCmkZT-3X#/registration

UserMagdalena Strauss, European Bioinformatics Institute .

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

"Meet the Expert": How to survive and thrive as an entrepreneur

Booking required, lunch provided, note later time

UserDr Jason Mellad, Co-Founder and CEO of Startcodon. .

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Early Science and Medicine

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

UserKatarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

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

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYocuCvpjotHNQoiEBwivER-WSnaKd-IlFw

UserIda Scheel, University of Oslo.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity

Host - Steve Russell

UserDr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

UserAna Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

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

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic Inheritance

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

UserDr Nicola Iovino from Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Semiparametric posterior corrections"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-quqjkiHtRsIwSM3Sec0QFfHrtRftXa

UserAndrew Yiu, University of Oxford.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division

Host - Ben Steventon

UserDr Helen Matthews from School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Causal machine learning for biomarker subgroup discovery in randomised trials".

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf-qppzwsEtEisA_2ZCkA3KoJ3d53uW1P

UserPaul Newcombe, GlaxoSmithKline.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

UserProfessor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

UserProf Christian Frezza CECAD Research Center, University Hospital Cologne.

HouseOnline only via Zoom.

ClockThursday 14 December 2023, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Hyper-Localization and Predictive Modeling of Rapid Lung Function Decline in Cystic Fibrosis"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOyurDkjHdO0RzdaqWctUrYMks1YPvY1

UserRhonda Szczesniak and Emrah Gecili, both from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineages

Host - Zach Baker

UserProfessor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Unravelling the mechanisms and decision-making logic of biological systems"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtdOisrTosGNIMVJIXmGuq2X_so_tpo7s6

UserGiorgos Minas, St Andrew's University.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

Host - Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A new frequentist implementation of the Daniels and Hughes bivariate meta-analysis model for surrogate outcomes"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcuuurzIuGtEUj6y8h6vKpM1Krt5hj60L

UserDan Jackson, AstraZeneca.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lifecycle of a constant: e

UserAlistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of organs and cell types.

Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli

UserDr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Precision oncology: a philosophical perspective

UserDr Benjamin Chin-Yee, Haematologist (Western University, Canada); MA in History and Philosophy of Science..

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Harnessing Extra Randomness: Replicability, Flexibility and Causality"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofuihqzgvHNyG24AgAAytgHlr1nmpetpx

UserRichard Guo, Stas Lab, University of Cambridge.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Where inattention pays

UserJingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

UserDr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

UserMarissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

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

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lineages as evolving processes

UserJohn Dupré (University of Exeter).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Dynamic survival analysis: modelling the hazard function via ordinary differential equations"

This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlce-spjIqHdQ4PYgBuSHSUSDRmLBAJQ5n

UserDr F. Javier Rubio, University College London.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution

Host - Erik Clark

UserProfessor Yolanda Schaerli from Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why we shouldn't democratise science

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation

Host - John Welch

UserProfessor Michael Whitlock from Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Some advances and applications of robust gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdOypqTwrH9LeiEEIL8dXxO_IpOC8lVMS

UserSam Livingstone, University College London.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 03 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies

Host - Erik Clark

UserProfessor Urs Schmidt-Ott from the Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 13 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Curing cancer with AI – hype or hope?

UserProf Richard Gilbertson, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Director of CRUK Cambridge Centre.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 27 July 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies

UserDr Amos Burke Clinical Consultant, Dept of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology & Palliative Care.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 20 July 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in paediatric tumours

UserDr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 29 June 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Nutrition and cancer prevention

UserProf Martin Wiseman, World Cancer Research Fund International and Visiting Professor in Human Nutrition Southampton University .

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 15 June 2023, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians

Host - Richard Durbin

UserDr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

UserDr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19'

This will be an online seminar. To register to attend, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocO6qrTsiH9V3mlmvd_EOYT1sTBOKOmUZ

UserDr Lampros Bouranis, Athens University of Economics and Business.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPaul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

UserDr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the oncologist

UserDr Raj Jena Dept of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals; Mr Adel Helmy, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 25 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Modelling the response to vaccine in non-human primates to define SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection'

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-usqDovGdf1TbAtYgsGCRJmoz0Hmbfi

UserMélanie Prague, Inria, University of Bordeaux.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

UserDr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks

Host - Henrik Salje

UserProfessor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Virology Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer

UserDr James Jones; Cambridge University Hopitals NHSFT.

HouseOnline only via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer

UserDr James Jones; Cambridge University Hospitals NHSFT.

HouseOnline only via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Expertise as perspectives in dialogue

UserMichael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Shedding light on tumour physiology

User Dr Mariam-Eleni Oraiopoulou; research associate VISION Lab CRUK Cambridge Institute .

HouseOnline only via Zoom.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer

Host - Cahir O'Kane

UserProfessor Serena Nik-Zainal from Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

UserDr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

UserDr Trevor Lawley from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Methods for Bayesian optimal design of experiments, with application in biological science’

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrd-uoqjMiGN3f68WQc7zJQ7LmM4sZa2rx

UserProf Dave Woods, University of Southampton.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome

Host - Erik Clark

UserDr Mounia Lagha from Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France .

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

UserDr Marie Manceau (College De France).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mechanism of neural differentiation

Host – Lara Busby

UserProfessor Kate Storey from School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

ClockThursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian Covariance Structure Modelling of Clinical Trial Data'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpf-uvrDMiGtLpMKemoVfOPmiD91Ju0-Xq

UserStef Baas, University of Twente.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

CANCELLED

UserLynn Berry (Open University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'From Data to Decisions: Causal Inference Motivated by Policy Questions'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodOytqjItGNL_he9tZXSxmdT7KTWWQRgF

UserProf Mats Stensrud, EPFL.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

UserJan Becker (European University Institute).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Phases of research for statistical methods’

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtd--hrzItHtTIezm0p763Lsc95VI0Q254

UserDr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg

UserFrederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution

Host - Hansong Ma

UserProfessor Heidi McBride from McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal, Quebec .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Detecting National, Regional and Global Changes in Terror Activity'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf-iqrjoiGd3egbADJAIx6u477THr4Et9

UserDr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

UserProfessor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 12 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Statistical approaches for differential analyses on transcriptomics data"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfuivpj0jEta0t6wA4iKlz8YOaojvNwdt

UserDr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 10 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Double soft-thresholded model for multi-group scalar on vector-valued image regression'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOmvrj4pHd3vnOm5ReIZ1wmXR9x-xC1z

UserProf Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockFriday 16 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

UserProf Christian Frezza, CECAD Research Center, University Hospital Cologne.

HouseOnline via Zoom.

ClockThursday 01 December 2022, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution

UserProf Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans

Host – Ritwick Sawarkar

UserDr Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

UserProfessor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Using Electronic Health Records for Scientific Research: Promises and Perils”

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctduyqrjgsEtYxJkz-fTWdzMmjL7qFrnAC

UserProfessor Bhramar Mukherjee, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2

Host – Henrik Salje

UserProfessor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

UserRenske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The HealthGap study: Using linked administrative data to understand cardiovascular health of Indigenous people living in Victoria, Australia"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpc-qtqD4iHtMcJUj5fiD4uVwRqMWP4XkI

UserDr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

UserElisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective

Host – Bianca De Sanctis

UserDr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdu6gpjgrHd1yp38Mi3xQxgCg_5BOQThO

UserProf Christopher Yau, University of Oxford .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

UserTom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies

UserFabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion

Host - Marco Geymonat

UserDr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Making all pairwise comparisons in multi-arm clinical trials without control treatment"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlc-Grrj0vHNCSqPPY92EKkTJG5Xjm5yhY

UserDr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?

UserProf Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

UserDr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: "Variable Selection and Prioritization in Bayesian Machine Learning Methods"

This will be a free virtual seminar. To register, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc--rrT8qGNMFApbQ8304Icj6vW4CDcFo

UserLorin Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks

Host - Lin Wang

UserProfessor David Liu, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)

UserKatrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

UserManabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?

Host - Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Michael Turelli, from Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, CA .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and prediction"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcuipqTMuGtP_pIJrVQDLQGbP3ndqAh-N

UserDavid Balding, Honorary Professor of Statistical Genetics at UCL Genetics Institute and University of Melbourne.

HouseSeminar Rooms 1 & 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockMonday 22 August 2022, 15:30-16:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Challenges in risk prediction using routinely collected health data"

This will be a free online seminar. To register, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdOupqDspHtK1D30gXlBykdbIvLV8DMdH

UserDr Elizabeth Williamson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine .

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 14 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Design and Inference for Enrichment Trials with a Continuous Biomarker"

This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to attend virtually, please register for free here - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErduCprzwiEtQhPshDBMXcqhwlvdZtp_IP

UserProf William Rosenberger, George Mason University.

HouseSeminar Room 12, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockTuesday 05 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: The most lethal urological malignancy

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

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Optimising the discovery and development of gene silencing drugs with genetics and genomics”

This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudeGqrDgpH9w6XLGADT0ZoJB-ARc5EdD0

UserDan Swerdlow, Silence Therapeutics .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

UserProfessor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

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

Genetics Seminar

Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability

Host - Cahir O’Kane

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Genetics Seminar

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

UserDr Dorit Hockman.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor William Sullivan, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Virtual Seminar: “Group Testing in Structured and Dynamic Networks”

This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960970204?pwd=dnVyWUFTSkM1bjJkWGMvc0ViLzA2Zz09

UserBatuhan Arasli, University of Maryland.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach

UserNaftali Weinberger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)

UserOsiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar

A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell division

Host - Marco Geymonat

UserDr Fernando Monje Casas, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), Seville.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

UserNader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Optimal design of First in Human trials via dynamic programming”

This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to participate virtually, please register using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvf-qgrTwrHNMDOZ_UZNN7h-wCbi90t9bA

UserDr Lizzi Pitt, University of Bath.

HouseSeminar Room 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes

Host - Carol Edwards

UserProfessor Jason Wolf, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in paediatric tumours

UserDr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 05 May 2022, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS

UserCatherine Herfeld (University of Zurich).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea

UserHyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 April 2022, 15:30-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Sparse Hamiltonian Flows (or: Bayesian Coresets Without all the Fuss)"

This will be a virtual seminar. FREE registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-2vpz4qHNxdJ4Cm4hyLEn4BVOG5YcIt

UserProf Trevor Campbell, The University of British Columbia .

HouseThis will be a virtual seminar. FREE registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-2vpz4qHNxdJ4Cm4hyLEn4BVOG5YcIt .

ClockTuesday 26 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Learning (to learn) from others

UserRichard Moore (University of Warwick).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

UserDr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies - an overview

UserDr Amos Burk Clinical Consultant, Dept of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology & Palliative Care.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On the nonexistence of moralometers

UserEric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

UserWayne Soon (Vassar College).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer

UserAxel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

UserDr Susumu Hirabayashi, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Epistemic bunkers

UserKatherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality

Hosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang

UserProfessor Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927

CANCELLED

UserDaniel J. Sherman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

UserTracey Loughran (University of Essex).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: "A flexible sensitivity analysis for sample selection bias"

This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-matt-tudball-tickets-251838374357

UserMatt Tudball, University of Bristol.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.

Host: Elves Duarte

UserDr Johannes Köster, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 13:30-14:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: "Using Variational Bayes for fast inference in large longitudinal datasets”

This will be a free virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-virtual-seminar-dr-david-hughes-tickets-242962345917

UserDr David Hughes, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India

UserMinakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums

UserEleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Investigating the evolution and development of body plans and body parts in arthropods

Host - Steve Russell

UserProfessor Alistair McGregor, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

UserAyah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientist’s guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

UserDr Raj Jena, Dept of Oncology & Mr Adel Helmy, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience (CUH NHS Foundation Trust).

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 06 January 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological imaging: 1: Introduction and non-radionuclide techniques; 2: Radionuclide techniques

UserProf Ferdia Gallagher, Department of Radiology (Cambridge University) & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, (Cambridge University Hospitals).

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 16 December 2021, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells

Host: Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology.

HouseTBC.

ClockMonday 06 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids

UserJaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

UserKate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU virtual seminar: "Assessing batch effects and their implications in single cell RNA sequencing experiments"

This will be a virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for the joining information.

UserProf Sarah Langley, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

UserMarieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells

Host: Cahir O'Kane

UserProfessor Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systematic anti-cancer therapy

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

User Dr Gary Doherty, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Climate storylines and managing uncertainty

UserMathias Frisch (Leibniz University Hannover).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

UserRyan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

UserDr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing

UserJacob Stegenga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

UserGuido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold

McConnell Lecture

UserGloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU seminar: "NanoSplicer: Accurate identification of splice junctions using Oxford Nanopore sequencing"

This will be a online seminar. You can register for free at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-heejung-shim-tickets-198278104147

UserDr Heejung Shim, Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG), University of Melbourne.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 02 November 2021, 10:00-11:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

UserMaree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

UserCharlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: “Methodological Advances in Risk Prediction"

This will be a virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for the joining information.

UserDr Glen Martin, University of Manchester.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Rausing Lecture

The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMaría M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseThe Theatre, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial condensates under stress

Host: Rosana Collepardo

UserProfessor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

Early Science and Medicine

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

UserSara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair

Host: Hansong Ma

UserDr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain

UserChris Otter (Ohio State University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism.

Host: John Welch

UserProfessor Tatiana Giraud, Departement Genetique et Ecologie Evolutives, Université Paris-Saclay.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Virtual Seminar: “Estimating treatment effects from adaptive clinical trials”

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProf Ian Marschner, University of Sydney.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 14 September 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Viral Oncology

UserProfessor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

HouseOnline by Zoom - as below.

ClockThursday 22 July 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

HouseOnline - Google Meet.

ClockThursday 17 June 2021, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure

Host – Richard Durbin

UserDr Karen Miga from Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserDr Vitor Hadad, Stanford University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in paediatric tumours

UserDr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 27 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

UserElla Larsson (University of Westminster).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Probabilistic models of transcriptomic dysregulation in human genetic disease'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProf David Knowles, Columbia University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

UserDr Suzanne Turner, Dept of Pathology, Cambridge University.

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 20 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

Early Science and Medicine

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

UserMonique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland

UserFranziska Holt (University of York).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization

UserHarun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Adapting Real-World Experimentation To Balance Enhancement of User Experiences with Statistically Robust Scientific Discovery'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProfessor Joseph Jay Williams, University of Toronto .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease

Host: Cahir O'Kane

UserProfessor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

NB this lecture will not be recorded.

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

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants

UserChristoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separation

Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara

UserProfessor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 06 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Futures

UserJenny Andersson (Upsala University) and Sandra Kemp (Lancaster University).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 06 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

World models and intuition in the 1970s

UserSarah Dry (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 15:30-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Statistical Inference with M-Estimators on Bandit Data’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserKelly Zhang, Harvard University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Human Immunity – one cell at a time

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserDr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 13:30-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

UserProfessor Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

HouseLive event cancelled.

ClockThursday 22 April 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

UserDr Robert Rintoul, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Frank McCaughan, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Dept of Biochemistry.

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 15 April 2021, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Bayesian pyramids: Identifying interpretable deep structure underlying high-dimensional data’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProfessor David Dunson, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockWednesday 31 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies: an overview

UserDr Amos Burk Clinical Consultant, Dept of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 18 March 2021, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill

UserEllen Fridland (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

PP2A-B55 inhibitors Arpp19 and ENSA define the cell cycle program by controlling the temporal pattern of protein phosphorylation

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

UserDr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

UserDavid Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early detection and treatment of lethal prostate cancer.

UserDr Charlie Massie, Dept of Oncology and Dr Harveer Dev, Clinical Lecturer Early Detection Programme.

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 09:30-10:30

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

UserAnna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

UserChris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

UserDr Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology.

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 04 March 2021, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later this year.

Host: Hansong Ma

UserDr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 04 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?

UserLena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

UserEdwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Drawing processes

UserChiara Ambrosio (University College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: i. Introduction & Non-radionuclide techniques ii. Radionuclide techniques

UserProf Ferdia Gallagher, Dept of Radiology, & Dr Luigi Aloj, Dept of Nuclear Medicine, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory

UserKourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

UserJack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Virtual Seminar: 'A Simulation-Free Approach To Assessing the Performance of the Continual Reassessment Method'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProfessor Thomas Braun, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

UserKaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserDr Patricia Wittkopp, Biological Science Building, University of Michigan.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

UserElizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A natural history of evil

UserAlexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.

Host: Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Elly Tanaka, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 11 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The AKT inhibitor capivasertib (AZD5363): from discovery to clinical proof concept

UserDr Barry Davies, Director, Clinical Translation Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 11 February 2021, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted

UserAdrian Erasmus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

UserJosie Gill (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Renaissance eugenics

UserMackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges

Host: John Welch

UserDr Sally Otto, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Truth AND consequences

UserPolly Mitchell (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clinical treatment and cancer stem cell biology in malignant glioma

UserDr Harry Bulstrode, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 09:30-10:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

UserAmir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How does process tracing work?

UserChristopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 21 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids

Host: Hansong Ma

UserDr Robert Johnston, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientist’s guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

UserDr Raj Jena, Dept of Oncology & Mr Adel Helmy, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseOnline - Google Meet as below.

ClockThursday 21 January 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunotherapy

UserDr Christine Parkinson, Dept of Oncology, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseOnline - Google Meet.

ClockThursday 14 January 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic anti-cancer therapy

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

UserDr Gary Doherty, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseOnline (see Google Meet link below).

ClockThursday 17 December 2020, 10:00-11:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: ‘The DURATIONS design: a practical trial design to optimise treatment duration’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserDr Matteo Quartagno, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 15 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Exploring the role of the tumour microenvironment: what do the other cells do?

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

UserDr Jacqui Shields, MRC Cancer Unit.

HouseOnline (see Google Meet link below).

ClockThursday 10 December 2020, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'PROGRESS in sample size calculations for clinical prediction model research'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProfessor Richard Riley, Centre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 08 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

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

UserProfessor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

HouseOnline (see Google Meet link below).

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls

UserAriane Hanemaayer (Brandon University and CRASSH, Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

UserRana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

UserSee description.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Simon Myers, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 13:30-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

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

UserProfessor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

HouseOnline (see Google Meet link below).

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

UserMax Long (Faculty of History).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Do we live in a post-truth era?

UserKristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: ‘Score driven modeling of spatio-temporal data’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserAlessandra Luati, University of Bologna .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

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

UserDr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

HouseOnline (see Google Meet link below).

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship

UserHaixin Dang (University of Leeds).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

UserLeah DeVun (Rutgers University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

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

UserLeonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

UserDr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit .

HouseOnline (see Google Meet link below).

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 09:30-10:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

UserVictoria Lee (Ohio University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Using auxiliary variables in mediation analysis to address unmeasured confounding'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProfessor Richard Emsley, NIHR Research Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62

UserMiles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

UserJim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseOnline (meet.google.com/exf-zbdn-gmq).

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from case studies

UserPetri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

UserKaren Harvey (University of Birmingham).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

UserChristopher Preston.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseOnline (see Google Meet link below).

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.

Host: Marco Geymonat

UserProfessor Angelika Amon, MIT, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseOnline - Google Meet.

ClockThursday 22 October 2020, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Science and speculation

UserAdrian Currie (University of Exeter).

HouseTeams.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

UserAnna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.

Host: Ben Steventon

UserDr Timothy Saunders, Mechanobiology, Institute, National University of Singapore.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 09:00-10:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Stochastic treatment interventions in causal survival analysis'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserDr Lan Wen, Harvard University .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips

UserCatarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Assumption-lean inference for generalised linear model parameters'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProf Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 24 September 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

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

HouseOnline - "meet.google.com/epi-proa-bxu":URL.

ClockThursday 16 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Viral Oncology

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

UserProfessor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

HouseOnline - "meet.google.com/tyd-okcn-wmr":URL.

ClockThursday 09 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The biology and fundamental management of colorectal cancer

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

UserMr Simon Buczacki, Dept Haematology (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline - Google Meet.

ClockThursday 02 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

UserDr 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 .

HouseOnline - Google Meet.

ClockThursday 25 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

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

UserDr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader, Department of Oncology..

HouseOnline - Google Meet.

ClockThursday 18 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Parameterizing Causal Marginal Models'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProf Robin Evans, University of Oxford.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 16 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in Paediatric tumours

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

UserDr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseOnline - Google Meet.

ClockThursday 11 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

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

HouseOnline - Google Hangouts.

ClockThursday 04 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of Life

Host: Richard Durbin

UserProfessor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Artificial Intelligence for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities

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

UserDr Namshik Han, Head of Computational Biology, Milner Therapeutics Institute.

HouseOnline - Google Hangouts.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: “Delayed-acceptance Sequential Monte Carlo”

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserJoshua Bon, Queensland University of Technology.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 21 May 2020, 10:00-11:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric Malignancies

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

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

HouseOnline - Google Hangouts.

ClockThursday 21 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Treatment of kidney cancer

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

UserMr Grant Stewart, Cambridge University Hospitals.

HouseOnline - Google Hangouts.

ClockThursday 14 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

UserProf Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

HouseOnline - Google Hangouts.

ClockThursday 07 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

UserProfessor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

HouseOnline - Google Hangouts.

ClockThursday 30 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

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

UserJamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 23 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

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

UserProfessor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

HouseOnline - Google Hangouts.

ClockThursday 09 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

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

UserDr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

HouseClinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

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

UserDr Richard Baird, Department of Oncology.

HouseClinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

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

UserDr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 19 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University.

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

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

UserProfessor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserCarina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

UserDr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

UserProfessor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 05 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

UserDr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

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

UserDr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

UserLaura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

This talk has been cancelled

UserDr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

UserJonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

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

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Michael Imbeault

UserProfessor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserProfessor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Creativity and AI

UserMarta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

UserProfessor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

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

UserDr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Recent insights into drug resistant Shigella: a major contributor to the global diarrhoeal disease burden

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserStephen Baker, Professor of molecular microbiology, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease .

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

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserProfessor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunotherapy

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

UserDr Christine Parkinson, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic anticancer therapy

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

UserDr Gary Doherty (University of Cambridge).

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 09 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Exploring the role of the tumour microenvironment: what do other cells do?

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

UserDr Jacqui Shields - MRC Cancer Unit.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 12 December 2019, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Cell Plasticity in Colon Carcinogenesis’

Host: Grad Student Society -

UserProfessor Dr Florian Greten, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frakfurt.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Big data and small talk: why we need both

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProf. Nick Steel, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.

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

ClockFriday 29 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity

Host: Richard Durbin

UserProfessor Nick Lane, University College London .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

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

UserProfessor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 28 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

UserSusanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

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

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science

UserAmy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

Host: Richard Durbin

UserDr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer- NB 9am start time

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

UserDr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 09:00-10:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

UserDr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

UserDr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 07 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

UserDr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 24 October 2019, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time? 

Host: Richard Durbin

UserProfessor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain

Host: Michael Imbeault

UserProfessor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Activation of transcription factor Nrf2 as a strategy to restore the cellular redox and protein homeostasis’

Host: Christian Frezza (CF366@hutchison-mrc.cam.ac.uk)

UserProfessor Albena Dinkova-Kostova,Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre, Division of Cellular Medicine, University of Dundee .

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 01 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Treatment of cancer by inhibition of mtDNA gene expression’

Host: Christian Frezza - (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar)

UserNils-Göran Larsson, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm .

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 03 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

UserDr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

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

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Combining omics data and biological knowledge to understand and treat cancer’

Host: Christian Frezza

UserJulio Saez-Rodriguez, Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine & EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockWednesday 10 July 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Combining omics data and biological knowledge to understand and treat cancer’

Host: Christian Frezza

UserJulio Saez-Rodriguez, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy Frankfurt.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockMonday 01 July 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

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

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

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

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Why Standard Naming and Pixel-based Contouring/Voluming are important to research in the radiation Oncology area’

Host: Dr Richard Benson (richard.benson@addenbrookes.nhs.uk)

UserProf Andrew Miller, Radiation Oncologist, Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, Wollongong, NSW Australia / Adjunct Professor of Informatics, School of Informatics, University of Wollongong .

HouseClinical School - Seminar room 10.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Next-Generation Biopsies in Gastrointestinal Cancers’

Host: Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald (cf208@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk)

UserDr Nicola Valeri, Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Trust.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

UserMr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

UserDr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserRuth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS

UserJenny Bangham (HPS), Marta Halina (HPS) and Ernesto Schwartz Marin (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects

Host: Berta Verd

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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

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

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserProf Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘New protagonists of the tumour microenvironment’

Host: Sujath Abbas - sa837@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk (Grad Student Society)

UserDr Ilaria Malanchi, Tumour-Host Interaction Lab,Francis Crick Institute, London .

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Genetics Seminar

Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?

Host: Ben Steventon

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Genetics Seminar

Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

UserProfessor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Mammary epithelial cell fate and tumour initiation at the single cell resolution’

Host: Rebecca Fitzgerald

UserWalid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 09 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

UserDr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

UserProfessor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Genetics Seminar

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

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

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

UserAnna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

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

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Host: Sam Lewis

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

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre 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.

UserDr Charlie Massie, Early Detection Programme.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

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

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

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

HouseClifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Beauty, truth and understanding

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

UserLouisa Bellis (University of Cambridge).

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

UserAgnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines

Host: Jane Charlesworth

UserDr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

UserJack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

HouseUniversity Museum of Zoology.

ClockMonday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution

Host: Chris Illingworth

UserDr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Decolonising the history of science curriculum

UserMary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic Anticancer Therapy

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

UserDr Bristi Basu, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

THIS SEMIAR IS NOW CANCELLED - 'Cell Plasticity in Colon Carcinogenesis'

Host: Graduate Student Society (Sujath Abbas)

UserProfessor Florian Greten, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frankfurt.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 15 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The integrated approach to the diagnosis of haematological malignancies

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

UserDr Mike Scott, Department of Haematology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 03 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

UserDr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

UserDr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

UserDr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit .

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The C theory of time

UserMatt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

UserDr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation

CANCELLED

UserTal Arbel (Tel Aviv University/University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Time-asymmetry in thermal physics

UserKatie Robertson (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge/University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserDr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense

Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira

UserDr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

UserDr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Thomas Flatt from Department of Biology, University of Fribourg .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanations for medical artificial intelligence

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules

Host: Cahir O’Kane

UserProfessor Andreas Prokop from Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Many Molyneux Questions

UserJonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The long-lost Paston Collection

UserSpike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

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

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

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

UserDr Matthew Murray, Department of Pathology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 26 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Research frontiers and new therapeutic strategies in pancreatic cancer

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

UserDr Tobias Janowitz, Department of Oncology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 19 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

UserMr Raaj Praseedom, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 12 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

*PLEASE NOTE 09.00 START TIME. These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

UserDr Robert Rintoul, CUH and Papworth NHS Foundation Trusts, and Dr Frank McCaughan, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 05 July 2018, 09:00-10:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Colorectal cancer. Part 1. Presentation, Diagnosis and Intervention. Part 2. 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.

UserMr Simon Buczacki, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Dr Marc de la Roche, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 28 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

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

UserDr Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 21 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Nuclear Mechanopathology & Early Cancer Diagnostics’

Host: Ashok Venkitaraman ((Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar) Contact:pa-venkitaraman@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor GS Shivashankar, Deputy Director, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockFriday 15 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies: an overview

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

UserDr Amos Burke, Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 14 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Cellular Plasticity in Cancer: driving force and therapeutic target’

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

UserProfessor Thomas Brabletz, Department of Experimental Medicine, University Erlangen-Nuernberg.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 05 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly

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

UserDr Florian Markowetz, Group Leader, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 31 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

The power of parenting support

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Leiden University.

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

ClockFriday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserAndreas Malm (Lund University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer

Host: Alexis Braun

UserProfessor David Glover, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration

UserAgnes Bolinska (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Julie-Anne Gandier (University of Toronto).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Is Primary Care Research important, and can it be led by primary care?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Richard Hobbs, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford .

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

ClockFriday 04 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulatory RNA

Host: Martyna Popis

UserProfessor Eric Miska from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Accelerating the translation of mutational signatures'

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar) Contact:pa-venkitaraman@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk

UserDr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Translational Science: using biomarkers to guide clinical development in oncology

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

UserDr Andy Pierce, AstraZeneca.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserProfessor Sarah Bray from Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway of haematological malignancies

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

UserProfessor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 19 April 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer - demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway

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

UserDr Charlotte Coles, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 12 April 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Proton Beam Therapy: Current and Future Provision"

Host: Dr Gail Horan

UserYen-Ching Chang, Consultant in Clinical Oncology, UCHL.

HouseCambridge Instute Lecture Theatre(CRUK) RobinsonWay Cambridge CB2 0RE.

ClockTuesday 20 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

TALK CANCELLED Targets for drug discovery: from target validation to the clinic

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

UserDr Paul Smith, AstraZeneca.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument

CANCELLED

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Imaging techniques and novel tools for early detection and intervention

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

UserDr Sarah Bohndiek and Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Early Detection Programme.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 08 March 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Instituting Molecular Precision in Localised Prostate Cancer - A Cure for All?’

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

UserRob Bristow, University Professor of Cancer Studies, Director of MCRC.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Genetics Seminar

Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture

Host: Michaela Frye

UserDr Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Eukaryotic cell division and its origins

Host: Alexis Braun

UserProfessor Buzz Baum, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to early detection and tumour development

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

UserProfessor Paul Pharoah and Dr Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 09:30-10:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Disaggregating goods

Please note change of day and time

UserMariam Thalos (University of Utah).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales

UserDr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development

Host: Alfonso Martinez Arias

UserDr Patrick Mueller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Oxidative Stress Defences in Cancer

Host: Prof Ashok Venkitaraman (Queries to: AC288@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk)

UserProfessor Joan Brugge, Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professor of Cell Biology and Director of the Ludwig Centre at Harvard University.

HouseClifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2018, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Andreas Wagner, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis

Host: Eric Miska

UserDr Déborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie, Paris .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept

UserJaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

UserHernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

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

UserProfessor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 14 December 2017, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Tracking metabolic reprogramming in cancers with PI3K/Akt activation’

Host: Christian Frezza

UserGeorge Poulogiannis, Team Leader, Division of Cancer Biology, Institute of Cancer Research, London.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

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

UserProfessor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

UserMadeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Evidence is Not Enough: Towards a democratically legitimate role for evidence in health policymaking

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDr Katherine Smith, Reader - Global Public Health Unit Social Policy, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh.

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

ClockFriday 24 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

UserBrian Metscher (University of Vienna).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism - a hallmark of cancer

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

UserDr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A bold hypothesis about pursuit

UserAdrian Currie (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Iron holds the whale

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication

Host: Sudhakaran Prabakaran

UserDr Nancy R. Gough.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro

Hosts: Alfonso Martinez-Arias & Shlomit Edri

UserDr Anestis Tsakiridis, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Metastasis latency: new molecular insights

Host: Sakari Vanharanta

UserRoger Gomis, ICREA Research Professor, IRB Barcelona.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserDr Kirsten Bomblies, John Innes Centre, Norwich .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

UserDr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Bioloy.

HouseClinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans

UserJacob Stegenga (with Zoë Hitzig) (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Genetics and genomics: focus on value

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Martina Cornel, Clinical Genetics & Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam .

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

ClockFriday 06 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function

Host: Chris Illingworth

UserProfessor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘The role of Mre11 in DNA double strand break repair - myth and facts’

Host: Ashok Venkitaraman

UserProfessor Shunichi Takeda, Department of Radiation Genetics, Kyoto University.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockMonday 18 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

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UserProf. Merryn Gott, Professor of Health Sciences, University of Auckland.

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

ClockTuesday 05 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

UserAssociate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Satellite RNAs, Heterochromatin and Cancer: A Novel Mechanism of Induction of Breast Cancer by Loss of BRCA1?

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

UserProfessor Inder Verma, Salk Institute, San Diego, USA .

HouseClifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

ClockMonday 26 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O'Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet in front of the Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB.

ClockThursday 22 June 2017, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Exploring and exploiting aberrant self-fate programs in leukemia’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC talk)

UserDr Johannes Zuber, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Analyses for Rule-Based Models of Cellular Signalling'

SPECIAL COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Host by: Dr Ben Hall

UserDr Jean Yang, Assistant Professor,Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA .

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockThursday 25 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations”

UserProf Richard Emsley, Centre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre.

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

ClockTuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the analysis

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Paul Burton, Professor of Data Science for Health, Newcastle University.

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

ClockFriday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserLissa Roberts (University of Twente).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast

Host: Marco Geymonat

UserDr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Alterations of the Polycomb machinery in cancers’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC talk)

UserRaphaël Margueron, Curie Institute, Paris.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Genetics Seminar

The genetic analysis of population-scale data

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Gil McVean, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Is the NHS financially sustainable?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserJohn Appleby, Director of Research and Chief Economist, The Nuffield Trust & Visiting professor City University and Imperial College, London.

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

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Non-coding RNA - new roles for old players’

Host: Dr Carla Martins

UserProfessor Anders Lund, Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

Genetics Seminar

Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Peter Keightley, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history and the antiquarian

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria

Host: Chris Illingworth

UserDr Isabel Gordo, Evolutionary Biology Group, Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

UserJohannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Decoding transcriptional regulation.

Host: Alexis Braun

UserDr Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The interaction between tumor hypoxia and DNA methylation

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

UserDr Bernard Thienpont, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, KU Leuven, Belgium.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Genetics Seminar

Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserProfessor Donal O’Carroll, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Describing the HIV cascade of care using routine clinic and surveillance databases: methodological challenges

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserCaroline Sabin, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare.

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

ClockFriday 02 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research

UserDr Marta Halina, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 19:00-20:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'

UserSusanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Impact of the Microbiome on cancer and its treatment

Host: Dr Pippa Corrie

UserDr Trevor Lawley, Group Leader, Host-Microbiota Interactions Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Stem cell control in the Drosophila gut

Host: Alexis Braun

UserProfessor Bruce Edgar, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

What causes wellness? The social determinants of health

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserSir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Strathclyde; former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.

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

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What makes econophysics distinctive?

UserJames Weatherall (University of California, Irvine).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Should we screen for diabetes and related cardiovascular risk?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Torsten Lauritzen, Department of Public Health, Institute of General Medical Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark..

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

ClockFriday 04 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Defining transcription units across the human genome.

Host: Michaela Frye

UserProfessor Nick Proudfoot, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England

UserLeah Astbury (Department of History and Philosphy of Science).

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

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Using experimental evolution to understand adaptation from standing genetic variation.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Christian Schlotterer, Institute of Population Genetics of Vetmeduni Vienna .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Directing and shaping the inside-out axis of the vertebrate brain

Host: Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Jon Clarke, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeast

Host: Chris Illingworth

UserProfessor Frank Albert, University of Minnesota .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Neural mechanisms of behavioral switches

Host: Liria Masuda-Nakagawa

UserDr. Arantza Barrios, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Mechanisms of colon cancer initiation, progression and metastasis"

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC talk)

UserJoerg Huelsken, Associate Professor, Debiopharm Chair in Signal Transduction in Oncogenesis, EPFL, Lausanne.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 05 July 2016, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of lymphomagenesis: Developmental origins of a paediatric cancer

Host Dr Simon Pacey

UserDr Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 28 June 2016, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet in front of the Round Church, CB2 1UB.

ClockThursday 16 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Common germline genetic variation and risk of cancer

UserProfessor Paul Pharoah, Dept of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 June 2016, 09:30-10:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Head and neck cancer: insights into aetiology and prognosis from a clinical cohort

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Andy Ness, Director, Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit, University of Bristol.

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

ClockFriday 10 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Computational Radiotherapy Symposium, 2016: personalised radiotherapy, or how computers can cure cancer

Organiser: Prof Neil Burnet (jms203@medschl.cam.ac.uk Tel: 01223768433)

UserSpeakers as detailed in Symposium Programme.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 June 2016, 12:30-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Comparative aspects of canine cancer and therapy

UserDr Jane Dobson, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 June 2016, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Surgery and prostate cancer

UserMr Adam Nelson, CRUK CI and Cambridge University Hospitals.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 June 2016, 09:30-10:30

Rausing Lecture

Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age

Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Future of medicines development: capabilities and how industry is evolving and interacting with academia and the NHS

Host: Dr Jean Abraham

UserAndrew Hughes, Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine,The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Coffee with Scientists

How to study fire

UserJenni Sidey (Research Associate, Department of Engineering).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 13 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Treatment of lung cancer

UserDr Susan Harden, Cambridge University Hospitals.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 09:30-10:30

Coffee with Scientists

The technological singularity: superintelligent machines and the future of humanity

UserMurray Shanahan (Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Making an impact on the public’s health and wellbeing in England

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health England.

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

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Mechanisms of MYC-driven genome instability”

Host: Dr Anna Philpott

UserJean Gautier, Professor of Genetic and Development, Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York (USA).

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Coffee with Scientists

How should scientists quantify academic value?

UserAlecia Carter (Research Fellow, Churchill College and Department of Zoology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Beyond the reference genome:  inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species.

Host: Chris Illingworth

UserDr Zamin Iqbal, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Builders of the vision

UserDaniel Cardoso Llach (Carnegie Mellon University/Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Treatment of pancreatic cancer

UserProfessor Duncan Jodrell, CRUK CI and Cambridge University Hospitals.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes

UserChristopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

Data-driven versus hypothesis-driven science

UserSteve Oliver (Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry; Director of the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 22 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

UK Biobank: opportunities and challenges

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Catherine Sudlow, Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and UK Biobank’s Chief Scientist and Senior Epidemiologist.

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

ClockFriday 22 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Tomas Marques-Bonet, Institut Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CSIC), Barcelona.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Dietary priorities for obesity - are all calories created equal?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR - note this talk is on a Thursday

UserDean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,.

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

ClockThursday 14 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistry

Event is now fully booked

UserAlissa Aron, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 31 March 2016, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Why Determining Pathogenicity in the Age of Precision Medicine, will Require More than Analyzing Genomic Sequences”

Host: Dr Marc Tischkowitz

UserDr Bruce Gottlieb, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Department of Human Genetics, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Seeing the wood as well as the trees: the importance of the ‘macro’ perspective for public health

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Richard Smith, Dean, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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

ClockFriday 11 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“New Developments in Molecular Imaging of Prostate Cancer”

Host: Professor Fiona Gilbert

UserProfessor Wim Oyen, Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, ICR, London.

HouseBerridge Room, Department of Radiology, Level 5.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Gene and Genome Regulation in Early Fruit Fly Neurogenesis.

Host: Steve Russell

UserDr. Robert Zinzen, Max-Delbruck-Center Berlin.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Innate Genetics and the Tumour Microenvironment Cooperate to Drive Prostate Cancer Aggression

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

UserProf Robert G Bristow, Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Coffee with Scientists

Did the earth sciences have a 20th-century revolution?

UserMartin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Role of neuromesodermal progenitors in axial elongation.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Val Wilson, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain cancer

UserProfessor Richard Gilbertson.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 09:30-10:30

Coffee with Scientists

Are we tackling the causes of global warming effectively?

UserSir David King (Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The quest for causal understanding of inequalities in health: holy grail or chimera?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Martin White, MRC Epidemiology Unit and the UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR); Director of the NIHR Public Health Research Programme.

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

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Checkpoint and non-checkpoint functions of Drosophila Mad1 and RZZ.

Host: Yuu Kimata

UserProfessor Roger Karess, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900

UserTatjana Buklijas (Liggins Institute and Central European University).

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

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The impact of machines

UserHenry K. Miller (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation

UserEmily Adlam (Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

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

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam

This seminar will start an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

UserLiana Saif (University of Oxford).

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

ClockTuesday 26 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

Genetics Seminar

An experimental assay of the genotype to phenotype connection.

Host: John Welch

UserDr Fyodor Kondrashov, Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Combine and conquer: critical pre-clinical and clinical aspects of targeted anti-cancer drugs’

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

UserDr Udai Banerji, Drug Development Unit, ICR.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 12:00-13:00

Coffee with Scientists

Science education

UserEugene Kang (Pusan University) and Keith Taber (Education, Cambridge).

HouseBoard Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 04 December 2015, 14:30-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

UserHelen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade

UserSarah Bull (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Tumor-­induced reprogramming of hepatic metabolism disrupts anti‐tumor immunity”

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

UserDr Tobias Janowitz, Department of Oncology.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The Global Health Security Agenda

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Mika Salminen, Director of the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland and Chair of the Global Health Security Agenda.

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

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky Way

Free & open to the public. Suitable for A-level students.

UserProf Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

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

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Genomics approaches for the investigation of gene regulation.

Host: Steve Russell

UserDr Jim Hughes, Hughes Genome Biology Group, Oxford .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Intrinsic and extrinsic determinants of pancreatic cancer stem cells

Host: Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Graduate Student Society

UserProfessor Christopher Heeschen, Centre Lead, Centre for Stem Cells in Cancer and Ageing, Barts Cancer Institute, London.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

Genetics Seminar

Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserDr Ronald van Rij, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

On the political use of physiognomy around 1500

This seminar will take place an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

UserJoseph Ziegler (University of Haifa).

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

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Title TBC

UserProf Walter Gregory, Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds.

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

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

Coffee with Scientists

A 21st-century biologist looks at Sir Isaac Newton

UserMargaret Ann Goldstein (Baylor College of Medicine, and Clare Hall).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserDr Jacqueline Deschamps, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Simulating scientific merit dynamics

UserShahar Avin (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

Making archaeological knowledge

UserAlison Wylie (University of Washington, and Durham University) and John Robb (Archaeology, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Targeting Polycomb repression to the genome.

Host: Steve Russell

UserDr Yuri Schwartz, Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Sweden .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison

Special Joint Needham Research Institute and HPS Seminar

UserFloris Cohen (Utrecht University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Academics, scientists and the future of medical publishing

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDomhnall MacAuley, University of Ulster; Consultant-Associate Editor, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and PLOS Medicine.

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

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Intra-tumour heterogeneity and genomic rearrangements in solid cancers.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserDr Roland Schwarz, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Melanoma and the translational cycle of innovation in cancer therapeutics

Host: Dr Pippa Corrie

UserProfessor Grant McArthur, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Into the void: bridging the gap between risk genes and psychiatric phenotypes.

Host: Cahir O' Kane

UserDr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Genomics of radiation responses and radiosensitivity

Host: Dr Ajithkumar

UserProfessor Michael McKay, North Coast Cancer Institute, NSW, Australia.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - "Synergistic effect of radiotherapy and cis-platinum chemotherapy delivered via gold nanoparticles in glioblastoma multiforme"

CANCELLED

UserDr Sara Piccirillo, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Alexandra Vaideanu, Deptatment of Engineering .

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 08 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Novel dual-action combination therapy enhances angiogenesis whilst reducing tumour growth and spread’

Hosts: Jacqui Shields/Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre)

UserProfessor Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke, Professor of Angiogenesis, Deputy Institute Director QMUL .

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 07 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

“Leveraging Social Psychological Theory to Understand Engagement with Personalized Genomic Information”

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserWilliam Klein, Associate Director, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA.

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

ClockFriday 26 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Are all inequalities in heart disease unfair?

This seminar is organised by the Clinical Nursing Research Group led by Professor Christi Deaton and Dr. Ian Wellwood. All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments are available outside the seminar room from 13:45.

UserDr. M. Justin Zaman, James Paget University Hospital & UEA.

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

ClockThursday 25 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Interrogating the Architecture of Cancer Genomes

Host : Dr Bristi Basu

UserDr Peter Campbell, Head of Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 23 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Modifiable early life risk factors for childhood obesity – evaluating the potential for prevention

UserProfessor Sian Robinson, Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockMonday 22 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Inhibitory activities of short linear motifs underlie Hox interactome specificity in vivo.

Hosts: Steve Russell and Boris Adryan

UserDr Samir Merabet, IGFL France.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 14:30-15:30

HPS History Workshop

Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain

UserBrandon Jackson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Harnessing hypoxia signalling in cancer'

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

UserProfessor Margaret Ashcroft, Cambridge Cardiovascular.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'ECM remodelling during cancer progression'

Hosts: Sakari Vanharanta and Jacqui Shields (Hutch)

UserDr Janine Erler, Associate Professor - Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC),Copenhagen .

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Lipidomics, infancy nutrition and growth

UserDr Philippa Prentice, MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

HPS History Workshop

Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Rausing Lecture

Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview

Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserJianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Model systems to study embryonic patterning.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserDr Benoit Sorre, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape

UserChristen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

DNA damage response: Mechanisms and relevance for cancer development and treatment

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar - Host: Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Graduate Student Society

UserProfessor Jiri Bartek, The Danish Cancer Society Research Center Genome Integrity Unit, Denmark.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

HPS History Workshop

John von Neumann, Alan Turing and the origins of cellular automata

UserJonnie Penn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Designing trials to find the right dose"

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

UserDr Adrian Mander - Director of MRC Biostatistics Unit Hub for Trials Methodology Research, Cambridge.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Genetics in drug discovery and development

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserJohn Whittaker, Professor and Vice President of Statistical Platforms and Technologies at GSK.

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

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

New dimensions of antiviral immunity in insects.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserDr Maria Carla Saleh, Institut Pasteur, Paris .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Metastatic Stem Cells, TGF-beta signalling and poor-prognosis in CRC

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Eduard Batlle (Group Leader, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona).

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs).

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Sebastian Kadener, University of Jerusalem.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:30

HPS History Workshop

Pedagogy and the vernacular in medieval astronomy

UserSeb Falk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:15

Bradford Hill Seminars

Capacity Building for Tobacco Research and Control in Eastern Europe

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserKristie Foley, PhD, Professor and Director, Medical Humanities and Public Health, Davidson College, USA.

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

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers

UserProfessor Marcus Munafò, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Sabrina Spencer, Meyer Lab, Stanford University Medical Center.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 14:30-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, .

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

ClockTuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,.

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

ClockTuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Defining treatment paradigms in prostate cancer; the UK as a dominant force - past, present, and future

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

UserProfessor Malcolm Mason, NCRI Prostate Cancer Clinical Studies Group and School of Medicine, Cardiff University.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 14 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Valuing the economic benefits of complex interventions: when maximising health is not sufficient

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Katherine has an international reputation for the economics of genetic technologies and services

UserProfessor Katherine Payne, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester.

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

ClockFriday 13 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909

UserPatrick Ellis (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Assessing causality in perinatal and developmental epidemiology

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Debbie Lawlor is interested in how biological, social and environmental exposures from across life affect the risk of chronic diseases and how appropriate prevention of these diseases can be achieved

UserProfessor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol, MSc(Lond), MBChB, PhD(Bristol), MPH(Leeds), MRCGP, MFPHM Professor of Epidemiology.

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

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Mike Brockhurst, Department of Biology, University of York .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology

UserPaul Pharoah, CRUK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Newtonian politics

UserJason Grier (York University, Canada).

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

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Systems Biology of Cancer

Host: Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Graduate Student Society

UserProfessor Jussi Taipale, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Sweden .

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Causes and Consequences of New Mutations.

Host: Cahir O'Kane

UserDr Matthew Hurles, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Psychometric validation as theory avoidance

UserAnna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

in vivo models

Please note: this talk takes place on WEDNESDAY!

UserSuzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature

UserClaire Sabel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Reto Gassmann, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Portugal .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Genomic technologies

UserJason Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s

UserSusanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)

UserChristian List (London School of Economics and Political Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

What counts as evidence? Some reflections on what counts as 'good enough' evidence in public health

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Mark's main research interests are in evidence-based policymaking, systematic reviews, and the evaluation of the health effects of social policies

UserMark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserProfessor Chi Wai Eric So, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, Department of Haematological Medicine, King's College London .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Computational Biology

This talk was postponed from February 5 2015

UserFlorian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics

UserJonathan Knowles (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

Single cell transcriptomics.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserDr Steve Harvey, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821)

UserSophie Brockmann (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London).

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

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response.

Host: Yuu Kimata

UserDr. Adrian Saurin, Division of Cancer Research, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Computational biology

This lecture has been postponed. It will now take place on February 12 at 9:30.

UserFlorian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550–1750

UserClare Griffin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

UserVahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

MYC Oncoproteins act as Epigenetic Modifiers

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar - Host by: Dr Anna Philpott

UserDr Frank Westermann, Research Group Neuroblastoma Genomics, DKFZ, Heidelberg.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Imaging gene activity in living cells.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Jonathan Chubb, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Optimizing Image Guided Radiotherapy for Patient Benefit”

Host: Professor Neil Burnet

UserDr Peter Remeijer, Medical Physicist NKI /Avl, Amsterdam.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts: centrosomes & mRNA.

Host: Yuu Kimata

UserDr Jens Januschke, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Senescence, cell death and apoptosis

UserMasashi Narita, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Research in psychiatry at a time of therapeutic optimism

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Using zebrafish models to identify novel alleles affecting human behaviour- a proof of principle study using smoking as an example.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Caroline Brennan, The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of London .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Metastasis

UserSakari Vanharanta, Department of Oncology.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Explaining the reduction in ovarian cancer mortality 1977 to 2014

Host: Dr Marc Tischkowitz

UserDr Steven Narod, Director, Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit, Women's College Research Institute, Toronto, Canada.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 13 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Ovarian Cancer in Transition

Host: Dr Christine Parkinson

UserMr Douglas Levine, Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour Metabolism

UserChristian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 December 2014, 09:30-10:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Enlightened Aging: How the Baby Boom Generation can change tomorrow's Long Old Age

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: In this seminar, Dr Larson will draw on his work on Aging and dementia/brain function.

UserProf. Eric B Larson MD, MPH, MACP Vice President for Research, Group Health Executive Director and Senior Investigator Group Health Research Institute Professor of Medicine and Health Services University of Washington Seattle.

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

ClockFriday 05 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

In vivo function-based genomic approaches for cancer drug target discovery

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProfessor Daniel Peeper, Head, Division of Molecular Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 12:00-13:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Nutrition and cancer: prevention, management and policy

UserProf Martin Wiseman, Medical and Scientific Adviser, World Cancer Research Fund International.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

COMT: from single nucleotide polymorphism to whole brain function.

Host: Boris Adyran

UserDr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Transcription

UserJason Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston

UserSteve Irish (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'

UserVictoria Pickering (Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum, London).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Please note change of date and time

UserEleanor Knox (King's College London).

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

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 14:00-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Revisiting the use of families in complex genetic disease studies

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Heather J. Cordell, Professor of Statistical Genetics, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University.

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

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Large scale genomic analyses of complex traits in human populations.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserDr Nicole Soranzo, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Development and the cell cycle

UserAnna Philpott, Department of Oncology, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history

Please note change of date

UserTimothy Rees Jones (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How does an alga become a parasite?

UserEllen Nisbet (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cell fate in response to anti-mitotic chemotherapeutics

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar (please note unusual date)

UserProfessor Stephen Taylor, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Tracking genomic aberrations of the androgen receptor (AR) in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

UserDr Gerhardt Attard, Royal Marsden Hospital, London.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy

UserEmma Pyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Genetics in Africa

UserDr Manjinder Sandu, International Health Research Group & Genetic Epidemiology Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

The memory of retinal stem cells?

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Jochen Wittbrodt, COS Heidelberg, Heidelberg University.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Visual STS

UserPeter Galison (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Stratified Medicine in Cancer Therapy - a practical guide”

Host: Dr Nitzan Rosenfeld

UserProfessor Gary Middleton, Professor in Medical Oncology, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of Notch signalling by the endosomal pathway.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Dr. Thomas Klein, Institute of Genetics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Clinical and nutritional implications of the low FODMAP diet

UserHeidi Staudacher, Dietitian & NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow, Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences, King's College London.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Understanding mechanisms of long-range gene regulation.

Host: Boris Adyran

UserDr Greg Elgar, Systems Biology, MRC NIMR, London .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Brownian motion pictures

UserCharlotte Bigg (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Farewell to content

UserKim Sterelny (Australian National University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Genetics Seminar

Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserProfessor Nick Gilbert, MRC Human Genetics Unit, The University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

What does experiential knowledge contribute to public health evidence to reduce health inequalities?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Jennie Popay, Sociology and Public Health, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University.

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

ClockFriday 17 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life.

Host: Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti

UserProfessor Alison Woollard, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The realist stance

Note unusual day and time

UserAnjan Chakravartty (University of Notre Dame).

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

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Lung cancer, biomarkers and unanswered questions - a clinical translational perspective

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

UserDr Fiona Blackhall, Consultant Medical Oncologist, The Christie Hospital, Manchester .

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 13:00-14:15

Bradford Hill Seminars

Genomics and Ageing Well

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor David Melzer, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School.

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

ClockFriday 10 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The role of stem cells in the pathogenesis of hepato-biliary cancers

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProfessor Nisar Malek, University of Tubingen, Germany.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“CDD’s new Research Strategy”

Host: Professor Duncan Jodrell

UserDr Nigel Blackburn, Director of Centre for Drug Development, Cancer Research UK.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Catalysing delivery of novel and targeted therapeutics from human genetics

UserDr Nadeem Sarwar, Vice President and Global Head - Genetics & Human Biology; Director - Integrated Human Genomics (IHGx) Unit, Eisai Inc. .

HouseNew Seminar Rooms, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

ClockMonday 15 September 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deep Time and Modern Brains

Please contact the organiser, Liria Masuda-Nakagawa (lm546) if you would like to meet Professor Strausfeld after the seminar.

UserProfessor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona).

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics. Please use the entrance by the Part II room and tea room underneath the external fire escape. Main entrance is not connected to Part II room due to refurbishment..

ClockFriday 12 September 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Paradigm changes produced by targeted agents in Phase I trials in Oncology. Case studies of a TFbeta inhibitor and a Sonic Hedgehog inhibitor”

Host: Dr Richard Baird

UserDr Jordi Rodon, Head of Research Unit for Molecular Therapy of Cancer Oncology Department. Vall D’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 09 September 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cellular hierarchies in normal and malignant epithelial tissue

CRUK CI open seminar

UserJohn Stingl, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 28 July 2014, 14:45-15:45

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Scottish Collaboration On Translational Research into Renal Cell Cancer (SCOTRRCC): a springboard for renal cancer biomarker development’.

Host: Professor Tim Eisen

UserMr Grant Stewart, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Urological Surgery, University of Edinburgh .

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 22 July 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Noninvasive cancer genomics

CRUK CI seminar

UserNitzan Rosenfeld, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 27 June 2014, 13:45-14:45

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epigenetics and microRNA

This talk has been rescheduled from earlier in the year

UserEric Miska, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

HouseCRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Precision Cancer Prevention: Trying to use Genomics to Save Lives

Host: Dr Marc Tischkowitz

UserJohn Hopper, Professor & Director (Research), Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Australia.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 24 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Nature, culture and philosophy

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Tim Lewens

UserTim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HousePeterhouse Lecture Theatre, Trumpington Street.

ClockFriday 20 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology

UserPaul Pharoah, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints

UserDr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

HouseFitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Representationalism and pragmatism

UserPiotr Szalek (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland).

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

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserProfessor Giuseppe Gargiulo from Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, University of Bologna .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 12 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MRI and MRS in cancer research and treatment

UserJohn Griffiths, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Breast Imaging research in Cambridge

Host: Dr Richard Baird

UserProfessor Fiona Gilbert, Head of Department of Radiology, Cambridge.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

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

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Radiotherapy

UserNeil Burnet, Department of Oncology.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Undermining Myc: Mitochondria Hold the Key

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Daniel Murphy, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Global Burden of Disease: from Global to Local

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Adrian is Public Health England's Director of Population Health Science

UserProfessor Adrian Davis.

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

ClockFriday 30 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Metabolism, oxygen and cancer

UserJohn Griffiths, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Iron in the Bowels of Cancer

UserDr Chris Tselepis, Senior Lecturer, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 26 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

(At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Tom Gilbert from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

HPS History Workshop

Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside

UserCaitlin Doherty (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences

UserHannah Long (University of Oxford).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Personalised Cancer Medicine. How do we get there?

Host: Dr Jean Abraham

UserDr Helena Earl, Dept. of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Rausing Lecture

Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa

Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserGabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is empathy? A genealogical account

UserRiana Betzler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockFriday 16 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr. Giorgos Pyrowolakis from BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies & Institute for Biology, University of Freiburg.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation

POSTPONED

UserAdrian Boutel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"From trials evaluating drugs to trials evaluating treatment algorithms – Focus on the SHIVA trial"

Host: Dr Gill Barnett

UserDr Christophe Le Tourneau, Medical Oncologist, Head of the Phase I Program at the Institut Curie, Paris, France,.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Where are we heading with cancer diagnosis research?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Prof Rubin's principal research interest is the management of gastrointestinal problems in primary care and at the interface with secondary care, particularly for cancer and inflammatory bowel disease

UserProfessor Greg Rubin, GP and Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at Durham University.

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

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Twilight of the Scientific Age

UserDr Martín López Corredoira (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands).

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Molecular mechanisms of Mediator complex recruitment by transcription factors.

Hosts: Boris Adryan and Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserAlexis Verger from Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Université de Lille .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Therapeutics and clinical trials

UserDuncan Jodrell, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Spatio-temporal control of RhoGTPases and the cytoskeleton in invading cancer cells by integrins and endocytic trafficking

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Patrick Caswell, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

From stripes to blood flow: cell fates of the lateral plate.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserProfessor Christian Mosimann from the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences (IMLS), University of Zürich.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Signal transduction

UserIan Mills, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment

UserJohn Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Iodine status in the UK and implications for fetal brain development.

If you are not from HNR and wish to attend, please email reception.office@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk. Tea will be served beforehand from 3.45pm.

UserDr Sarah Bath, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockMonday 28 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Computational insights into stem cell differentiation using dynamic hybrid modelling.

Host: Steve Russell

UserDr Ben Hall from Microsoft Research, Cambridge .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila

UserBenjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

**Postponed to 22 May** Drug discovery

This talk has been postponed until 22 May

UserGrahame McKenzie, MRC Cancer Unit.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Centrosome changes in cancer – causes and consequences

CRUK CI guest seminar

UserMonica Bettencourt Dias, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 09 April 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Targeting bioenergetics in hypoxic and rapidly growing tumours

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Jacques Pouysseggur, Institute of Research on Cancer and Ageing (IRCAN), Nice, France.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 08 April 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

**Postponed to 19 June** Epidemiology

Postponed to 19 June

UserPaul Pharoah, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 April 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Personalized Medicine in Oncology: The Dutch experience”

Host: Dr Richard Baird

UserProfessor Jaap Verweij, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Weytemaweg 80, 3105 CN Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 01 April 2014, 12:00-13:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Socioeconomic status, diet and body weight: a search for mechanisms

If you are not from HNR and wish to attend, please email reception.office@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk. Tea will be served beforehand from 3.45pm.

UserDr Pablo Monsivais, UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockMonday 24 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014. £10 but FULLY BOOKED!

UserLuke Webster.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 21 March 2014, 19:30-21:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

In vivo models

UserSuzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

HouseCRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 March 2014, 09:30-10:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE?

Part of Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Free & open to all.

UserDr Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde).

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

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 19:00-20:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Scaling up capacity for Primary Health Care in Africa

Prof Maeseneer is a Belgian family physician engaged in work to tackle global health inequalities by strengthening primary care systems

UserProfessor Jan De Maeseneer, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University.

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

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Origin and evolution of novel microRNAs.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Antonio Marco, University of Essex.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Genomic technologies

UserJason Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Floral quartets link flower development and evolution

UserGünter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Nipple shields: A novel system to deliver drugs and nutrients to breastfeeding infants

If you are not from HNR and wish to attend, please email reception.office@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk. Tea will be served beforehand from 3.45pm.

UserDr Stephen Gerrard & Rebekah Scheuerle, BioScience Engineering Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockMonday 10 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The Political Economy of Public Health: Explaining the Postcommunist Mortality Crisis

Larry King is a political economist whose work addresses the 'social determinants of the social determinants' of health

UserProfessor Lawrence King, Professor in Sociology and Political Economy, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The prospects for Darwinian imperialism

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Julius Hafalla, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Immunology and Infection.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Solid vs. non-solid tumours

Please note change of room, we will meet external attendees in reception and accompany them to the seminar room.

UserBrian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

HouseCRUK CI Room 215.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

A Drosophila resource to study human pathology.

Host: Sarah Bray, PDN (sjb32@cam.ac.uk)

UserDr Shinya Yamamoto, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Engineering flies.

Host: Cahir O'Kane (c.okane@gen.cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Hugo J Bellen, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cell death and autophagy in response to inhibition of glycolysis

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Cristina Muñoz Pinedo, IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies.

Hosts: John Welch and Ben Longdon

UserDr Daniel Streicker, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Computational biology

Please note change of room, we will meet external attendees in reception and accompany them to the seminar room.

UserFlorian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Room 215.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Studying the invasive migration of Drosophila immune cells.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserProfessor Daria Siekhaus, IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Making similar embryos with divergent genomes

UserPatrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Vaccinia virus has evolved the Bcl-2 family of proteins to thwart the host innate immune system.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Stephen Graham, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Transcriptional regulation and techniques

Please note this talk is on a Wednesday

UserDuncan Odom, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“What can we do to accelerate the discovery of new medicines for patients?”

Host: Dr Bristi Basu

UserProfessor Chas Bountra, Head of Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Clinical Medicine .

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is evidence?

UserMatt Penfold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Checks and Balances in Drosophila Muscle and Heart Differentiation Programs.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserDr Mike Taylor, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Circulating DNA and diagnostics

UserNitzan Rosenfeld, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 09:30-10:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Human nature: from theory to practice

UserTim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Interstitial sodium and it relevance to salt-sensitive hypertension

If you are not from HNR and wish to attend, please email reception.office@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk. Tea will be served beforehand from 3.45pm.

UserDr Viknesh Selvarajah, BHF Clinical Research Training Fellow, Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Addenbrookes Hospital.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Translating Tumour Metabolism into New Diagnostics and Novel Anti-Cancer Therapeutics

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProfessor Michael Lisanti, Director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit, University of Manchester.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Crohn’s disease: triggered by selective failure in the endogenous nanomineral pathway of the gastrointestinal tract?

If you are not from HNR and wish to attend, please email reception.office@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk. Tea will be served beforehand from 3.45pm.

UserDr Jonathan Powell, Head of Biomineral Research, MRC Human Nutrition Research.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Deconstructing Greatwall Kinase.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Helfrid Hochegger, University of Sussex .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cracking the code of crocodile skin

UserMichel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The medicalisation of love

UserBrian Earp (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance.

Host: Ian Furner

UserProfessor Jurek Paszkowski, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Propensities and pragmatism

UserMauricio Suarez (Complutense University of Madrid).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The multiple inventions of transgenic mice

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bacterial Genomes and Metagenomes: from point mutations to public health

Mark Pallen is a medically qualified bacteriologist with research interests that span genomics and bioinformatics and a spectrum of basic and applied research. He holds an undergraduate degree from Cambridge and a PhD from Imperial.

UserProfessor Mark Pallen, Professor of Microbial Genomics and Head of the Division of Microbiology and Infection.

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

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr. A. Jeyaprakash Arulanandam, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Personalized medicine initiative at Gustave Roussy

Host: Dr Richard Baird

User Professor Jean-Charles SORIA - Chef de Service, Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology, Paris University XI and cancer specialist at Institut Gustave, Roussy..

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 14 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

The evaluation and treatment of Combat Blast wounds

If you are not from HNR and wish to attend, please email reception.office@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk. Tea will be served beforehand from 3.45pm.

UserMr Tim Coakley, International Tactical Medical Solutions Inc. (ITMS), Virginia USA.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockMonday 13 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Chasing metabolic alterations in cancer

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Arkaitz Carracedo, CIC bioGUNE, (Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences), Derio, Spain.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 07 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Host: Dr Richard Baird

UserProf Josep Tabernero, Head, Medical Oncology Department, Vall d' Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 17 December 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Metastasis

UserGill Murphy, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 December 2013, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour metabolism

UserChristian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

HouseCRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 December 2013, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The autophagy signaling network in the coordination of a cell's response

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProf Francesco Cecconi, University of Tor Vergata, Italy .

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

CANCELLED

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Marc Dionne from the Peter Gorer Dept of Immunobiology, King's College London .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"The Cambridge Breast Cancer Programme"

Host: Dr Richard Baird

UserProf Carlos Caldas, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Juan Pablo Couso, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes

UserGáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Understanding changing BMI distributions in England, their causes and long term consequences

UserProfessor Klim McPherson, Visiting Professor in Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford.

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

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Motors, rulers and clocks in chromosome segregation.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Helder Maiato from Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift

UserRaj Patel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Willi Hennig and philosophy

UserCharissa Varma (Darwin Correspondence Project).

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

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

MRC Cancer Unit Annual Lecture

The p53 pathway: 21 years of the "guardian of the genome"

Refreshments will be available after this talk outside the lecture theatre

UserProf Sir David Lane, Chief Scientist, A*STAR, Singapore.

HouseMax Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Scottish Collaboration On Translational Research into Renal Cell Cancer, developing a systems medicine approach to personalised treatment

UserMr Grant Stewart, Department of Urology and Edinburgh Urological Cancer Group,Western General Hospital. Edinburgh.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2013, 12:00-13:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Individual risk: does it exist?

UserPhil Dawid (Statistical Laboratory, Univeristy of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Development

UserAnna Philpott, Department of Oncology.

HouseCRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal?

Host: Viji Draviam

UserProfessor Jakob Nilsson from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Target-Based Approach in Early-Phase Clinical Trials in Cancer

Host: Dr Richard Baird

UserFilip Janku, Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, (Phase I Clinical Trials Program), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 01 October 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserProfessor Charles Swanton, CRUK & UCL Trials Centre, UCL.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 24 September 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Advances in non-surgical treatment for cervix cancer

UserDr Li Tee Tan, Addenbrooke's .

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 10 September 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Insights for the role of tumour-related inflammation and stem cells in Drosophila

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Marcos Vidal, Beatson Institute, Glasgow .

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 03 September 2013, 12:00-13:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

“How to build a retina”

UserBill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockWednesday 21 August 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Risk and uncertainty in radiotherapy. Why I am the weakest link?

UserDr Tom Roques, Lead of Head and Neck Cancer Multidisciplinary Team, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 16 July 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Genetic modifiers and microenvironmental control of tumor invasiveness

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar- Please note unusual time and 1:00pm start

UserProf Douglas Hanahan, EPFL, Switzerland .

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 02 July 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Image guidance – benefits and risks"

UserProfessor Marcel van Herk, Imaging Physicist, Project Leader, The Netherlands Cancer Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 25 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Feedback control of the anaphase-telophase transition.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Helder Maiato, Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Rationality in extraordinary science

CANCELLED

UserVashka dos Remedios (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Economics of Cancer Medicines

UserProfessor Richard Sullivan, Guy's Hospital, London.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Sibling Rivalry and Stress Tolerance: the Single-Cell Biology of Mycobacteria.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Bree Aldridge, Tufts University, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Boston .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Lawlor's work is focused on the life course and genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and diabetes

UserProfessor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol.

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

ClockThursday 06 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660–1720

UserMichelle Wallis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Control of cytokinesis and the dark side of actomyosin forces

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Mark Petronczki, London Research Institute.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 04 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The entrenchment of metaphors in scientific practice

UserAnna de Bruyckere (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Renal Cancer and Oxygen Sensing"

UserProf Patrick Maxwell, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Rausing Lecture

Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?

Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserCrosbie Smith (University of Kent).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Anne Kathrin Classen, LMU Munich .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

The evolutionary dynamics of unusual reproductive systems.

Hosts: Eli Vieira Araujo Jnr and John Welch

UserDr Laura Ross from the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford ..

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Explanation in neuroscience

UserZina Ward (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘CLL – from chemotherapy to targeted kinase inhibition’

Buffet Lunch will be provided by courtesy of Chugai Pharma UK Ltd.

UserDr George Follows, Consultant Haematologist, Addenbrooke's .

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Bradford Hill Seminars

The geography of obesity: A tale of two cities

UserAdam Drewnowski is Professor of Epidemiology and the Director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the School of Public Health at University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

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

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry

UserProf Alan Windle, FRS, Dept of Material Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

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

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserDr Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

HPS History Workshop

Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Macrophages Into Tumor Hypoxic Areas: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Massimiliano Mazzone, VIB Vesalius Research Center, Belgium.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden. CB2 1JF.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 18:30-20:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Digital maps and minimal animals in movement ecology

UserEtienne Benson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

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

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Sequence-based discovery of transcriptional targets.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Stein Aerts, Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven University.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“The identification of patients who benefit from targeted therapy in renal cancer”

(The lunch will be provided by courtesy of Pfizer)

UserProfessor Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 23 April 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Computational biology

UserFlorian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 09:30-10:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding

Postponed from 4 March

UserDavid Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Tips at the Edge: Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics at the Cell Cortex.

UserProfessor Dr Anna Akhmanova from Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrech University .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

HPS History Workshop

Varieties of tacit knowledge

UserTim Rogan (Faculty of History).

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

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserDr Fiona Blackhall, Manchester University, Manchester Cancer Research Centre Lung Group Lead.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Molecular mechanisms that mediate the adaptation to hypoxia in Drosophila.

UserProfessor Pablo Wappner from Instituto Leloir, Argentina .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epigenetic cancer conspirators: DNA methylation, non-coding RNA and chromatin loops

This is an open seminar, all are welcome to attend

UserAdele Murrell, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

HouseCRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 09:45-10:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Scientific discovery and Wittgenstein's hinges

UserMinwoo Seo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Linking the mitotic spindle to the plasma membrane during cytokinesis.

UserDr. Mark Petronczki from Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

How to maintain a stable genome: A Passenger Perspective.

UserDr Susanne Lens from University Medical Centre Utrecht.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

UserSteffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Challenges in Implementing Personalized Cancer Medicine: the IGR experience

UserProfessor Alexander Eggermont, Director General, Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, France.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Fate

UserProfessor Margaret Buckingham from Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Selection and maximization

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Telomeres and the challenges to chromosome integrity

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Julie Cooper, London Research Institute.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Proteinases and Cancer

UserGill Murphy, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Common sense and phrenology

UserSean Dyde (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar

The mitotic checkpoint - a structural perspective.

UserDr. Victor Bolanos Garcia, Oxford Brookes University, UK .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 16:45-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Quantification and modeling of spindle positioning and size regulation in the C. elegans embryo

UserDr. Akatsuki Kimura, National Institute of Genetics, Japan .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 16:00-16:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin

UserPatricia Fara (Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Clare College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Hox Control of a Drosophila Feeding Circuit.

UserProfessor Dr Ingrid Lohmann from The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Stem cells and cancer

UserJohn Stingl, Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 09:30-10:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

More models, more problems?

UserRune Nyrup (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'

UserMaaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Perspectives on Next Generation DNA Sequencing.

UserDr Harold Swerdlow from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Localisation-based feedback controls during mitosis and the maintenance of chromosomal stability

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Adrian Saurin, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 04 December 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

**Talk postponed** Introduction to statistics

**Talk postponed** Will be rescheduled next year

UserSarah Vowler, CRI.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

UserSiegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cellular responses to DNA damage: translating molecular insights towards new cancer therapies

UserProf Steve Jackson, Head of Cancer Research UK Laboratories The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression during Development.

UserDr Barbara Jennings from the Transcriptional Regulation Group, UCL Cancer Institute .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Objectivity in psychology – a Kantian perspective

UserKatharina Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Dimension reduction based on sliced inverse regression (SIR): a look at the special case when n ‹p

UserJérôme Saracco, Bordeaux Institute of Technology & Bordeaux Institute of Mathematics (Probability and Statistics team).

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

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of Estrogen Receptor Transcription in Breast Cancer

UserDr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Aesthetics in science

UserAngela Breitenbach (Philosophy, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Towards personalized medicine in Breast Cancer"

UserProf. Dr. Sabine C. Linn, medical oncologist Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model.

UserDr Pavel Tomancak from MPI for Cell Biology, Dresden .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The Peckham Experiment

UserBoris Jardine (Science Museum, London).

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

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

UserKristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

A genomic Odyssey of predicting drug response: is Ulysses home yet?

UserDr Federico Innocenti, UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Signalling Networks in Cell Proliferation and Fate Control

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProfessor Sibylle Mittnacht, UCL Cancer Institute.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Philosophy Events

Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals?

UserHuw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseLB3, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

PTEN phosphatase-independent maintenance of apical membrane integrity during colorectal glandular morphogenesis.

UserProfessor F. C. Campbell from the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

A life in science: from academia to industry and back.

UserSir Peter Williams from The Royal Society .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Alexander Aulehla - EMBL Heidelberg.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!

UserNicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 16:45-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Science funding 2.0

UserShahar Avin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Parasitology Seminars

Dense core secretory vesicle assembly: a ciliate approach

Host: Professor Mark Field (mcf34@cam.ac.uk)

UserDr Aaron Turkewitz, University of Chicago.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockFriday 28 September 2012, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit

UserJason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC.

HouseCCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ.

ClockThursday 13 September 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Circulating Tumour Cells: Biomarker Utility and Insights to Metastasis'

UserProfessor Caroline Dive, Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology Group, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 14 August 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Understanding Response & Resistance Mechanisms to Targeted Therapy

Note unusual day and time

UserDr Keith Flaherty, Director of Developmental Therapeutics at Massachusetts General Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cancer-related inflammation

UserDr Thorsten Hagemann, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Environments and human health

UserSally Macintyre, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow.

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

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 18:30-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Rapid evolution of mammalian genomes and transcriptomes

UserChris Ponting, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 14:30-15:30

HPS History Workshop

Conceptual change in history of science

UserIrene Goudarouli (University of Athens).

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

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The sciences of subjectivity

Special seminar: please note this will be held on a Wednesday

UserSteven Shapin (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci

note unusual location

UserMatthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Emergence in complexity science

UserLena Zuchowski (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Fat taxes, nutrient profiling and trends in the incidence of coronary heart disease

UserDr Mike Rayner, Director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Group, Depatment of Public Health, University of Oxford.

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

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control

Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserThomas Schlich (McGill University).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserAlistair Sponsel (Harvard University).

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

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics and adaptive benefits of emergency and modular rearrangements of protein domains

UserProf. Erich Bornberg-Bauer PhD, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity School of Biol.Sciences, University of Muenster.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Strategies to enhance effectiveness of Radiotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer"

UserDr Thomas Brunner, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, Oxford.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“New Insights into the Mechanisms and Selectivity of Protein Degradation by the Proteasome Pathway”

UserAlfred Lewis Goldberg - Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School ( guest of St Johns College).

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2012, 10:30-12:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Cancer, Development & Adult Tissue Maintenance

UserProf. Nicholas Hastie MRC HGU and the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

UserIan Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired).

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

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Colonial classification

UserKhadija Carroll La (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly

UserScott Waddell Ph.D Professor of Neurobiology, University of Oxford.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

HPS History Workshop

The global biopolitics of female sterilization

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Investigating key effectors downstream of APC (adenomatous polyposis coli) deletion in vivo

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProf Owen Sansom, Beatson Institute, Glasgow.

HouseMax Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC LMB.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

ALK Hunting in Colorado - new drugs for lung cancer's new diseases

Note unusual day and time

UserDr Ross Camidge, University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) and the University of Colorado Cancer Center,.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Preserving scientific heritage: collaborating with scientists

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Philosophical issues in research funding allocation

CANCELLED

UserHeather Douglas (University of Waterloo) and Donald Gillies (UCL).

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

ClockSaturday 28 April 2012, 13:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserProf Richard Sullivan, Professor, Kings College London, Director, Centre for Global OncoPolicy & Health Kings Health Partners.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Always on guard: p53 dynamics in single living cells

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Alexander Loewer, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrueck Center, Germany.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 03 April 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Exploiting ASS1 deficiency in the treatment of mesothelioma"

UserDr Peter Szlosarek, Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology, Barts and The London.

HouseSeminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 11:30-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Thalidomide and its analogues ; How molecules selected for anti-TNFa activity affect so many different pathways with direct binding with Cereblon mediating both anti proliferative and Immunomodulatory functions"

Individuals who are interested in meeting with any of the speakers should contact me asap. Thanks, Jonathan (jlh66@cam.ac.uk)

UserJerome B. Zeldis CEO of Celgene Global Health & Angus Dalgleish, St George's Hospital London.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 20 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

UserDiethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Re Service Reforms in the new Commissioning Landscape"

UserHannah Farrar, Director of Strategy and System Management, NHS, London.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“The mosquito immune response against malaria parasites”

UserDr George K Christophides, Imperial College, London.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe

Please note change of speaker and title

UserJosé Ramón Marcaida (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

The development and structure of the insect cuticle

If you wish to talk to the speaker please contact the Host, Boris Adryan on b.adryan@gen.cam.ac.uk

UserBernard Moussian, University of Tubingen.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

HPS History Workshop

'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977–1980

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"DICER1 and miRNA processing - a novel paradigm in cancer predisposition"

UserDr Marc Tischkowitz, Dept of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

UserMandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

History of Medicine Seminars

A pre-peanut history of food allergy

UserMatthew Smith (University of Strathclyde).

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

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Myeloproliferative neoplasms – JAK/STAT signalling and stem cell subversion"

UserProf Tony Green, University of Cambridge Department of Haematology.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Molecular regulation of Wallerian axonal degeneration

UserDr Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Imaging tumour responses to treatment

UserKevin Brindle, Dept. Biochemistry and Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Technological trajectories of hip replacement

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The challenge of the asylum mortuary in early 20th-century Central Europe

UserLeslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London and CRASSH, Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Radiotherapy toxicity, Radiogenomics and RAPPER"

UserDr Gill Barnett, Dept. of Oncology.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Molecular Model Solutions

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring the origin of leaves

UserDr Jill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Transcriptional control of EMT and malignant tumor progression

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProf Gerhard Christofori, University of Basel, Switzerland.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

The family of mitochondrial transport proteins

User Edmund R.S. Kunji - The Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

HPS History Workshop

How to assess influence: Wu Wen-Tsun's work in measure, number and weight

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The informational gene: semantic concepts in genetics as models

UserRahul Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine

UserDr Alison Foster, Senior Curator, University of Oxford Botanic Garden.

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

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring epistasis maps of cellular processes

UserProfessor Michael Boutros, DKFZ Heidelberg.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Neo-adjuvant radiochemotherapy in breast cancer

UserDr Alain Fourquet, Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut Curie, Paris.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 13 December 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Integration of Cell Growth and Cell Metabolism by Myc

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProf Martin Eilers, Theodor-Boveri-Institute, University of Würzburg, Germany.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 06 December 2011, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Is water H2O?

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc.

UserProf Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Retrocausality – what would it take?

Please note change of date

UserHuw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Therapeutics

UserDuncan Jodrell, Cambridge Research Institute and Department of Oncology.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

UserStefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Mechanisms and regulation of DNA recombination during meiosis

UserMatthew Neale - MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

HPS History Workshop

Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

UserEvelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Assessment of Trend in Recurrent Event Processes

UserProfessor Jerry Lawless, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.

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

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Singularist semirealism

UserBence Nanay (University of Antwerp and Peterhouse, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Changes in cell and tissue architecture in early stages of colorectal cancer

UserProfessor Inke Näthke - Dundee Cancer Centre, University of Dundee.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

UserGregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cancer Gene Discovery in the Mouse

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr David Adams, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseMax Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC LMB.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Biochemistry of Autumn - Why do the leaves fall?

Organised by CU ChemSoc, SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

UserProf Brian J Ford (President of CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 19:00-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

(note unusual location)

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Post-transcriptional regulation of human mitochondrial gene expression

UserMichal Minczuk - MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics

UserAnna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Genetic predisposition to cancer’

UserProf Bruce Ponder, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900

UserA. Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

UserDr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45

Genetics Seminar Series

A genome-wide screen for developmental regulators of airway maturation regulators in Drosophila

UserProfessor Christos Samakovlis - The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Integration of RNA- and ChIP-sequencing reveals two major gene expression levels in metazoa

UserDaniel Hebenstreit - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Tumour-stroma Interactions in Breast Cancer

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProf Clare Isacke, Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 04 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Statistical Software at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling

UserProfessor William J. Browne, School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol.

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

ClockTuesday 27 September 2011, 14:30-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Closing Remarks

UserProfessor Alfonso Martinez Arias ( Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 17:30-17:35

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Planar cell polarity: From cell biology to human disease

UserProfessor John Wallingford, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 17:00-17:25

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mechanical forces driving zebrafish epiboly

UserDr Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 16:30-16:55

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early embryos

UserDr Benedicte Sanson, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 15:00-15:25

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Zooming into the molecular networks that regulate cellular morphogenesis

UserDr Rafael Carazo Salas, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 12:45-13:10

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Modeling cytoskeletal systems.

UserDr Francois Nedelec, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 12:15-12:40

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

DNA repair inhibitors in cancer treatment

UserProf Hilary Calvert, UCL Cancer Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 12:00-13:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Transport in random fields and applications to Drosophila melanogaster

UserDr Isabel Palacios, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 11:45-12:10

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Patterns in active fluids

UserDr Stephan Grill, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 10:30-10:55

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Controlling the Cell Cycle

Please note this seminar is Fully Booked The Lawrence Bragg Lecture 2011

UserProfessor Sir Paul Nurse, The Royal Society, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 16:50-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Systems Analysis in Single Cells

UserProfessor Mike White, University of Manchester, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 16:20-16:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Tracking stem cells at the single cell level: New tools for old questions

UserDr Timm Schroeder, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz, Munich, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 15:50-16:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

'Measuring the molecular dynamics of endocytosis using light microscopy

UserDr Christien Merrifield, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 14:50-15:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Fate restriction and multipotency in retinal stem cells

UserDr Jochen Wittbrobt, Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology and Physiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 14:20-14:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Embryonic patterning with an oscillating cell population

UserDr Andrew Oates, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 13:50-14:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Introduction to Physics of Living Matter Symposium 6

Registration is Required for this Meeting

UserProfessor Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 13:30-13:45

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Haploid Genetic Screens in Human Cells

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Thijn Brummelkamp, Netherlands Cancer Institute.

HouseMax Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC LMB.

ClockTuesday 06 September 2011, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Drawing causal inferences in epidemiological studies of early life influences

UserAndy Ness, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.

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

ClockFriday 08 July 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The ATM-mediated DNA damage response: moving between the forest and the trees

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDr Yossi Shiloh, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 28 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Viral and host contributions to cervical carcinogenesis’

UserDr Nick Coleman, Department of Pathology & Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 21 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Advances in Head and Neck Radiotherapy"

UserDr Chris Nutting, Royal Marsden Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Kant on psychology as 'physiology of the inner sense'

UserKatharina Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 08 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Developing Medicines for Pancreatic Cancer"

UserDr Dave Tuveson, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

HPS History Workshop

History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives?

UserJoeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Pierre-Olivier Méthot (University of Exeter).

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

ClockWednesday 01 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

SOCCAR trial: an update

UserDr Joe Maguire, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Genomic Imprinting and Cancer

UserAdele Murrell, CRUK Cancer Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 May 2011, 09:30-10:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

A framework for emergentism(s)

UserOlivier Sartenaer (Université Catholique de Louvain).

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

ClockWednesday 25 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

UserPhilip Ball, prizewinning science writer.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

''Deciphering Mechanisms of Endoderm Development and Disease''

UserDr Heiko Lickert - Institute of Stem Cell Research, German Research Centre for Enviromental Health, Munich.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserProf. Roy Rampling, University of Glasgow and The Beatson Cancer Centre, Glasgow.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge University Botanic Garden visit

UserTour guides (Friends of the Botanic Garden).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

''How SUMO talks to ubiquitin''

UserProfessor Ron Hay - Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Authority waterfalls: an anti-realist model of research impact

UserShahar Avin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 11 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProf Sibylle Mittnacht, The Institute of Cancer Research.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

''How Cells Defend Their Cytosol Against Bacterial Invasion''

UserDr Felix Randow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserDr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre & Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Genes into Geometry: Imaging for mouse phenotyping

UserMark Henkelman, Department of Medical Biophysics and Medical Imaging, University of Toronto.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 April 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Somatic Genetics of Human Cancer - Moving Towards Large Scale Resequencing of Cancer Genomes"

UserDr Andy Futreal, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 12 April 2011, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Population thinking, statistical autonomy, and Biology's First Law

UserJoeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"The Cambridge breast cancer program- recent progress"

UserDr Carlos Caldas, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopy

UserProf. Brian J. Ford, President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Many ways to make ends meet: orchestration of DNA double-strand break repair processes by the NHEJ pathway

UserProf. Aidan Doherty - Genome Damage & Stability Centre, University of Sussex..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"FGF-2, S6 Kinase 2 and Chemo-resistance in Lung Cancer"

UserProf. Michael Seckl, Imperial College, London and Charing Cross Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

UserDr Elizabeith Murchison - Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserMark Cobain, Platform Director, Nutrition and Health, Unilever Discover.

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

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Gene Regulatory Networks for Vertebrate Mesoderm Specification

UserDr Matt Loose, School of Biology, University of Nottingham.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

A Causal Diagram Approach to Evidence Synthesis

UserIan Shrier, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada.

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

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Mesothelioma: a disease of our time

UserDr David Gilligan, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Comparative logical models of signalling networks in normal and transformed hepatocytes

UserDr Julio Saez-Rodriguez - Group Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). joint appointment at EMBL-Heidelberg, Genome Biology Unit, Cambridge..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Dropouts in the AB/BA crossover design

UserJohn Matthews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University.

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

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Targetting pre-neoplasia in the bronchus"

UserDr Robert Rintoul, Papworth Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya

UserRuth Prince (Cambridge Centre of African Studies).

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

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic approaches to metabolic disease

UserDr Ines Barroso - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Application of Systems Biology Approaches to Study Cell Signalling and Transcription

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserProf Mike White, University of Liverpool.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history

UserSimon Schaffer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 13:00-14:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

What have the planets got to do with the metals? Scientific axioms and astrology.

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Control of DNA Replication

UserRon Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Pregnancy testing and the 1930s controversy over the hormonal placenta

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

History of Medicine Seminars

Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared

UserPeregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, University of London).

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

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Breast MRI by the Shutter-Speed Method: Elimination of Unnecessary Breast Biopsies"

UserDr Charles S. Springer, Jr., Advanced Imaging Research Centre. Oregon Health & Science University.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 21 December 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

RCC Cinderella comes of age

UserProf. Tim Eisen, Dept. of Oncology, University of Cambridge & Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 14 December 2010, 12:00-13:00

Medieval Medicine Discussion Group

Somnambulism, violence and imagination in medieval medicine

Please note change of time and venue

UserWilliam MacLehose (UCL).

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

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 17:00-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

The impact of economic crisis on mental well-being and happiness

UserDora Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, psychologist / a former Director of The Public Health Institute of Iceland.

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

ClockFriday 03 December 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Neuroblastoma- Disordered Developmental Programs Contribute to Tumorigenesis

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar- Please note change to regular time and date

UserProf Carol Thiele, National Cancer Institute, USA.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Susceptibility to Cancer - What's New?"

UserProf Doug Easton, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain

UserNils Guettler (Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

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

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Bradford Hill Seminars

Child gambling and problem gambling

UserDavid Forrest, Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Gambling, University of Salford.

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

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

The 4-dimensional E.coli chromosome: how a temporal programme can be encoded in a 2D genetic map.

UserDr Andrew Travers - Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, Paris..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Targeting NG2 Cells in Glioblastoma

UserDr Colin Watts, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape

UserHilary Powell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncogenes and Tumour Suppressors 1 & 2

Note extended session - finish time 11 am

UserAshok Venkitaraman & Dave Tuveson; Hutchison/MRC Research Centre & Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 09:30-11:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The human automatism debate in the late 19th century

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Bradford Hill Seminars

Could Vaginal Lubricants Lead to Safer Sex in Africa?

UserRobert Pool* and the Microbicide Development Programme Team, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, University of Barcelona.

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

ClockFriday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Rab protein evolution and the history of the eukaryotic endomembrane system

UserProf. Mark Field - Dept of Pathology, Cambridge..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Nature and the space of reasons

UserAlexis Papazoglou (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Politeness and the ethical force of natural history

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Stars and sequences - Genomics as a public science

UserDr Simone Roedder, Institute of Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld, Germany.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Chromosome Translocations and Tumour Suppressors in Breast Cancer"

UserDr Paul Edwards, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Organisms, autonomy and division of labour

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 20 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Representational practices and the ethics of natural history, 1650–1720

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 13 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Imaging Tumour Cell Death"

UserProf. Kevin Brindle, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration

UserCarl Fisher (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Silencing chromosomes with Xist in embryonic and adult stem cells.

UserDr Anton Wutz - Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

The social biology of sucrose utilization in yeast: I might like you better if we stuck together

The Bragg Lecture 2010

UserAndrew Murray, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 17:30-18:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Collective Cell Migration: Leadership, Invasion and Segregation

UserAlexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 17:00-17:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Tissue tectonics: quantitative morphogenesis across spatial and temporal scales

UserGuy Blanchard, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurobiology, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 16:30-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

The physical forces behind collective cell migration

UserXavier Trepat, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 15:30-16:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Rigidity comes with age: biomechanical models of tip growth

UserBela Mulder, Fundamental Research on Matter Institute, Amsterdam, Holland.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Forces and Regulation for Cell Sheet Movements in Dorsal Closure

UserDan Kiehart, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 14:30-15:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Variability in the cellular response to death receptor ligands

UserSuzanne Gaudet, Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 10:00-10:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Universal patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissue

UserAllon Klein, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 09:30-10:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mechanics in neuronal development

UserKristian Franze, Department of Physics. The Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 17:00-17:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Cell dynamics driving gastrulation in the mouse embryo

UserKat Hadjantonakis, Sloan Kettering Memorial, New York, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 16:30-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Understanding How Cell Movements Direct Early Mouse Embryogenesis

UserShankar Srinivas, Department of Physiology, anatomy and genetics, University of Oxford.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 16:00-16:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Matricellular Elasticity and Nuclear Rigidification with Epigenetic implications

UserDennis Discher, Biophysical Engineering lab at University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Growth, Form and Patterning in Development

UserBoris Shraiman, KITP University Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 14:00-14:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“EGFR Mutation Screening in NSCLC”

UserDr David Gonzalez de Castro, The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Unravelling cancer cell signalling networks and screening for novel drug targets

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserDaniel Peeper, The Netherlands Cancer Institute.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 07 September 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Breast Radiotherapy - Past, Present and Future"

UserDr Charlotte Coles, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 29 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Gastro Intestinal Stroma Tumours (GISTS)"

UserDr Ramesh Bulusu, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Dynamic Notch signaling in neural progenitor cells

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserRyoichiro Kageyama, Kyoto University, Japan.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

New approaches to the clinical management of cervical cancer

UserNick Coleman, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 09:30-10:30

Rausing Lecture

From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren

Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMyles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Prostate cancer imaging: from cell to man

UserJohn Kurhanewicz, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Urology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 11:30-12:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Molecular and functional imaging of cancer

UserZaver Bhujwalla, Professor of Radiology and Oncology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 10:45-11:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Magnetic resonance microscopy

UserG. Allan Johnson, Charles E. Putman Professor of Radiology, Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Duke University.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 10:00-10:45

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"A New Window of Opportunity in Prostate Cancer"

UserDr Danish Mazhar, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Talk Cancelled

Cancelled due to unforseen circumstances, apologies for the inconvenience

UserGuillermo de la Cueva Mendez, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Cancer Cell Unit..

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Stem cell identity and mRNA export: unexpected roles of geminin and GANP"

UserProf. Ron Laskey, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Small RNA and epigenetics in plants"

UserProf. Sir David Baulcombe.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 May 2010, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Mechanisms regulating neural differentiation

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserKate Storey, University of Dundee.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar Presentations & Networking Event

FREE & OPEN TO ALL

UserClaire Stanley, Fionn O'Hara & Simon Beaumont.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Radiotherapy in the management of cancer

UserNeil Burnet, Department of Oncology and Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Macromolecular interactions in the control of chromosome instability”

UserProf. Ashok Venkitaramann, (Hutchison-MRC Research Centre).

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 27 April 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Stem cell fate

UserPhil Jones, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research centre.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The NCAG Report: Delivering a World Class Chemotherapy Service

UserProf Roger James, Previously: • Deputy Medical Director Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust • Medical Director Kent & Medway Cancer Network.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 20 April 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserDr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 13 April 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging studies of dissolution phenomena in pharmaceutical delivery devices

UserMick Mantle, Assistant Director of Research, Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 09 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Brain Cancer"

UserProf. John Griffiths, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 30 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Deciphering the Mammary Epithelial Cell Hierarchy

UserDr John Stingl, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

HPS History Workshop

Edmund Selous: birdwatching and interpreting animal behaviour in Britain, 1900

UserKathryn Ticehurst (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.

UserSebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Mathematical culture in Elizabethan England

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The Role of the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Antagonist, Lrig1, in Normal Tissue Homeostasis and Cancer

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserKim Jensen, Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine and Department of Oncology.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

' The mechanics of tissue morphogenesis '

UserDr Thomas Lecuit - Developmental Biology Institute, Marseilles..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The 'economic' metaphor in biology: a case study

UserNatasha Goldberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserDr Alison Dunning, Strangeways Research Laboratory & Dept. of Oncology.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion

UserJim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) & Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge).

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

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

"Genetics of common obesity - what have we learned from genome-wide association studies?"

UserDr Ruth Loos - MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 14:30-16:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The prognostic significance of subtypes of breast cancer classified using immunohistochemistry

UserDr Paul Pharoah, Strangeways Research Laboratory/Oncology.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

UserBarry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Incongruent counterparts, orientation, and higher geometry

UserNicholas Teh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The constructive idea: art and science in '30s London and Cambridge

UserBoris Jardine (Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

High-throughput Cancer Cell line Screens: Linking Drug Response to Molecular Signatures

UserDr Ultan McDermott, Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Stem Cells in Mammalian epidermis"

UserProf. Fiona Watt - Wellcome Trust for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 14:30-16:30

HPS History Workshop

Title to be confirmed

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

White maps of Africa – the making of blank spaces

UserNils Petter Hellström (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Can we age in utero? Can we kill cancer cells by making them replicate faster? And other ATR stories…

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserOscar Fernandez-Capetillo, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Primary prevention of Hepatitis C

UserDr Matthew Hickman, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol.

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

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Insights into the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington's disease"

UserProf. Gillian Bates - King's College London School of Medicine.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 14:30-16:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Causation and exceptions

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

HPV vaccines - will they do their job?

UserProf. Margaret Stanley, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Medieval Medicine Discussion Group

Reconstructing Old English anatomical vocabulary

UserConan Doyle (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

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

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Organising microtubule organisers (and some new proteomics tools)

UserDr Ken Sawin, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 14:30-16:30

HPS History Workshop

Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s Québec

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

How Are Health Inequalities Doing in Scotland? Are We Sure We Know?

UserProfessor John Frank, Director of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy.

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

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

UserDavid Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The new LAW of microRNA-mediated gene silencing: implications for lung cancer development

UserDr Tyson V. Sharp, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 December 2009, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

R.A. Fisher Exhibition

UserProf. AWF Edwards.

HouseLibrary, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2009, 09:30-16:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The epistemology of memory

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

UserDorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cellular senescence: molecular mechanisms and implications for cancer and aging

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserPeter Adams, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Cell-Cell Communication during Fertilization in Arabidopsis: a Surprising Link to Disease Resistance

UserProf. Ueli Grossniklaus - Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 14:30-16:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cell Signalling

UserErmanno Gherardi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Intensity modulated radiotherapy for children’s tumours and estimation of the carcinogenic risk”

UserDr Michael Williams & Dr Gail Horan, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Lyell's plots

UserAdelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group).

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

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 13:00-14:15

Bradford Hill Seminars

The Golestan Cohort Study

UserProf. Reza Malekzadeh, Digestive Disease Research Centre, University of Tehran.

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

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is a thick concept?

UserNiklas Möller (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"The Arguments for and against Sentinel Node Biopsy (SNB) in Melanoma"

UserProf. J Meirion Thomas, Royal Marsden Hospital & Imperial College, London.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

SPECTACULAR CHEMISTRY LECTURE

Free & open to all (suitable for families)

UserDr Hal Sosabowski, University of Brighton.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Cell fate specification and tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila mesoderm"

UserProf. Manfred Frasch - Developmental Biology, University of Erlangen - Nuremberg.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 14:30-16:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The irreversibility of cell cycle transitions: why the clock never turns back

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserFrank Uhlmann, CRUK London Research Institute.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Steroid Hormone Receptors in Prostate Cancer: A Hard Habit to Break?

UserDr Gerhardt Attard, The Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Deference at a distance

UserJohn Cusbert (ANU/University of Oxford).

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

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

UserArtyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Phospholipase and lysophospholipase D signalling in cancer"

UserProf. Michael Wakelam, Institute Director, The Babraham Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

HPS History Workshop

The meaning of altruism in interwar London

UserNick Whitfield (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosopy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Immunostimulatory antibodies in cancer treatment"

UserProf. Peter Johnson, Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Southampton.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Fungi in history

UserNick Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 13:00-14:15

Bradford Hill Seminars

Healthy and unhealthy prisons.

UserColonel Clive Fairweather, Former Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland.

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

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

HUNTING THE ANTISOCIAL CANCER CELL

Free & open to all

UserProf. Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 October 2009, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Molecular Mechanisms of Cellular Senescence in Cancer and Ageing

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

UserFabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, IFORM-IEO, Milan.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 29 September 2009, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems Genetics of complex Traits in Drosophila"

Note unusual time - Seminar will be held at 16:00pm

UserProf. Trudy Mackay - NC State Univeristy.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 September 2009, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Clinical Aspects of Proton Radiotherapy

UserProf Tony Lomax, Head of Medical Physics, Centre for Proton Radiation Therapy, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 September 2009, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

TALES FROM THE BREWHOUSE

Tickets £5 (over 18s only)

UserRichard Naisby, Milton Brewery, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 September 2009, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Adoptive T Cell Therapy of Cancer

UserCassian Yee, Fred Hutchinson Research Center, Seattle.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 08 September 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Is brain cancer a stem cell disease?

UserColin Watts, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

PRIVATE EVENING TOUR OF THE CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - NOW FULLY BOOKED!

Limited numbers. Tickets: Adults £5. Under 16s £3.

UserBotanic Garden guides.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 18:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Chromatin control in development and disease"

UserProf. Peter Verrijzer - Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 14:30-16:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Translational imaging studies in ovarian cancer

UserJames Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and Evis Sala, Department of Radiology.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Autonomy and ontology: freedom in Kant and Heidegger

UserSacha Golob (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world

Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPamela H. Smith (Columbia University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What reasons needn't be

UserCiara Fairley (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 20 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Birth weight and the risk of cardiovascular disease

UserProf. Gordon Smith, Department of Obsetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

The state of PET for experimental medicine in oncology - current challenges

UserProfessor Pat Price, Ralston Paterson Professor of Radiation Oncology, Christie Hospital, University of Manchester.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Watching transcription in living cells"

UserDr Jonathan Chubb - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 14:30-16:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Inherited susceptibility to cancer

UserBruce Ponder, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Mad women and mad-doctors

UserAlexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

Psychoanalysis and war

CANCELLED

UserEli Zaretsky (New School for Social Research, NY, and Institut du Temps Présent, Paris).

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

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Chromatin Modifications in transcription and cancer

UserProf.Tony Kouzarides - WT/CRUK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2009, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Taming the tiger by the tail: modulation of DNA damage responses by telomeres

UserDavid Lydall, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

HPS History Workshop

Placing trust in photographs – photography and the illustrated press

UserGeoff Belknap (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Cancer, Development, Tissue Maintenance and the Multifunctional WT1 gene

UserProf. Nick Hastie - Director of MRC human genetics unit, Edinburgh.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2009, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

OPCML in Tumour Gene Therapy in Ovarian Cancer

UserHani Gabra, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2009, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ART MEETS SCIENCE – THE STORY OF LAPIS LAZULI & ULTRAMARINE

Free & open to all.

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton-Kerr Institute, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Preservation of fertility in patients with cancer

UserRaj Mathur (Addenbrooke's Hospital) and Tom Mathews (Medical Director, Bourn Hall).

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 21 April 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Connecting Lung Epithelial Stem Cells and Lung Cancer by Stress-Activated Protein Kinases

UserJuan Jose Ventura, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 07 April 2009, 12:00-13:00

All Talks (aka the CURE list)

Multipotency and cell fate decisions: Three neglected principles towards understanding the epigenetic landscape

UserSui Huang, Institute for Biocomplexity and informatics, University of Calgary, Canada.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 02 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Title to be confirmed

Tea Club Talk - Open to All

UserDr Sadaf Farooqi, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

What comes after cancer stem cells?

UserDoug Winton, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 24 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Development of copper markers for PET imaging of tumour hypoxia

UserMartin Christlieb, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 20 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits

UserProfessor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA.

HouseWilliam Harvey.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 16:45-17:30

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Do cells care about physics?

UserDr. Jochen Guck (University of Cambridge).

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Outreach chemotherapy programme

UserPippa Corrie, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Where do the laws of logic come from?

UserFlorian Steinberger (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

UserRahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Autophagic cell death through Dictyostelium eyes

UserDr Pierre Golstein - The Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Marseille.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 12:30-13:30

Genetics Seminar Series

How does centralspindlin form microtubule bundles and accumulate on them during cytokinesis.

UserDr Masanori Mishima - Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 14:30-16:30

HPS History Workshop

Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

What does a living cell know of itself?

UserDennis Bray, Department of PDN, University of Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

CANCELLED

Talk is CANCELLED and will be rescheduled for next term

UserProfessor Henning Walczak - Chair of Tumour Immunology, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The spatial organisation of Ras signaling

UserPhilippe Bastiaens, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Phospho-dependent Activation and Silencing of the Spindle Checkpoint"

UserDr Kevin Hardwick - WTC for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

UserCarsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Physics of Multicellularity

UserProf Ray Goldstein ( DAMTP, Cambridge).

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Adipose tissue inflammation and ceramide

Tea Club Talk - Open to All

UserAssoc. Prof Rachel Fisher, Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Karolinska Institute.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR CANCER PATIENTS

Free & open to all

UserDr Rebecca Fitzgerald, Hutchison-MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Research Centre, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems biology of genetic interactions in yeast"

UserDr Balazs Papp - Biological Research Center, Szeged..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

HPS History Workshop

God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour

UserMichael Barany (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Magnificent pas de deux: spindle orientation in yeast - ACT I

UserMarisa Segal, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells

UserProf. Allan Bradley- Director of Wellcome Trust Sanger institute.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 12:30-13:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'A falling star' – the sovereign self in Otto Weininger

Jointly hosted with CRASSH, and held in their seminar room at 17 Mill Lane

UserLouis Sass (Rutgers University, New Jersey).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Defending shallow essentialism

UserNathan Wildman (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth

UserBecky Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 13:00-14:15

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update

Please note change of venue

UserVarious speakers.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 14:00-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

The interplay of Notch with Shh and Wnt signalling in mesoderm development.

UserDr Kim Dale - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Cell movements in reshaping tissues

UserAlexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Understanding Chromosomal Instability and Exploiting it for Cancer Therapy

UserProf. Ashok Venkitaraman - Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2009, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Role of the c-Myc-target gene Misu (NSun2) in regulating epidermal stem cell fate and its implications for cancer

UserMichaela Frye, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Building bridges between genes, brains and language.

http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1512

UserDr Simon Fisher - WTC for Human Genetics, University of Oxford..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Mapping Morphogenesis

UserRichard Adams (University of Cambridge).

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

TALK CANCELLED

UserProf. Tariq Enver - The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Diagnostic and prognostic MRS-based biomarkers for brain tumours: human and animal model studies

UserCarles Arús, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Gene-lifestyle interaction in type 2 diabetes

UserProf. Nick Wareham - Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The Historiography of the Scientific Image

UserChitra Ramalingam (Harvard University).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Disease mechanisms in human obesity and related metabolic disease

UserProf. Stephen O'Rahilly - Co-Director of IMS and Director of IMS-MRL, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues

UserProfessor Ben Simons, Department of Physics, Cambridge University.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 06 January 2009, 12:00-13:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

L. Bragg lecture: "Single-Molecule Approach for Biochemistry, Molecular Biology ... and Beyond"

Chair: Professor Peter Littlewood

UserProfessor Sunney Xie, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology University of Harvard.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Damian Brunner, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 14:30-15:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Title to be confirmed

Chair: Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias

UserDr Krystyne J. Van Vliet, Department of Materials Science & Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 14:00-14:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues

UserProfessor Ben Simons, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 12:00-12:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Multipotency and Cell Fate decision on the Epigenetic Landscape: From Metaphor to Molecules and Mathematical Model

UserDr Sui Huang, Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 11:30-12:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Excitable systems in cell populations

UserDr. Jordi Garcia Ojalvo, Polytechnical University of Barcelona, Spain.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 11:00-11:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies

UserProfessor David A Lomas, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 10:00-10:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

DNA: Not just a double helix

UserDr Julian Huppert, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 09:30-10:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Glimpses of quantum mechanics in biology

Physics, Molecules and Cells - Chair: Dr David Summers

UserProfessor Mike Payne, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 09:00-09:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

GRAND OPENING of the Physics of Medicine Building

UserProfessor Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge Professor Sir Aaron Klug, MRC LMB, Cambridge Professor David Delpy, Chief Executive of EPSRC.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 16:00-18:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Computer modelling of the heart

UserProfessor Denis Noble, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Reverse engineering the brain: what photons and electrons can tell us about thought.

UserProfessor Winfried Denk, Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Biomedizinische Optuik, Germany.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 14:30-15:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Medical Materials

Physics and Medicine (cont) – Chair Professor Athene Donald

UserDr Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 13:30-14:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

New materials for regenerative medicine applications

UserProfessor Kevin Shakesheff, Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 12:00-12:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mechanical manipulation of single molecules in nanopores

UserDr Ulrich Keyser, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 11:00-11:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Novel Photonics for the Biomedical Sciences

UserProfessor Kishan Dholakia, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 10:30-11:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Imaging biology in the cancer patient

Session 1: Physics and Medicine – Chair Professor Peter Littlewood

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 10:00-10:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics of Living Matter 3

registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you

Userregistration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Heterogeneity and transcriptional noise in cell populations

UserOne Day Special Meeting - see abstract for details.

HouseDepartment of Genetics.

ClockMonday 15 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Angiogenesis imaging for human drug development: decision making tools or decorations?

UserAnwar Padhani, Consultant Radiologist and Head of Imaging Research, Paul Strickland Scanner Centre, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood.

HouseLecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockFriday 12 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

The Error Statistical Philosophy

UserProfessor Deborah G. Mayo, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

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

ClockTuesday 09 December 2008, 14:30-16:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

This talk has now been postponed until next year

UserRebecca Fitzgerald, Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Laboratory.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 09 December 2008, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

The Imprinted Brain Theory of Autism

UserDr. Christopher Badcock, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics.

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

ClockFriday 05 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

lvb23's list

Title to be confirmed

Please note change to usual day

UserProf. John Danesh: Cambridge University.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Status of human tissues

UserAlix Rogers (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour suppressors 1 and 2

UserAshok Venkitaraman & Dave Tuveson; Hutchison/MRC Research Centre & Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseRoom 009, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 09:30-10:30

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Biology in five dimensions - the evolution of development

UserMichael Akam, Museum of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Delineating the Fanconi Anaemia DNA repair defect

UserKJ Patel, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2008, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

OBESITY - A GROWING PROBLEM

UserDavid Haslam, MB BS, National Obesity Forum.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Lost connections: a tale of wandering centrosomes.

UserFanni Gergely, Cancer Research Uk Cambridge Research Institute..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Psy Studies

Can psychometric/educational testing be multicultural? The case of Greenland

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL LENT TERM

UserChristian Ydesen (Centre for Educational Sociology, Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary

UserEvelyn Welch (Queen Mary, University of London).

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

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Network Biology

UserMadan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Isoforms of PI 3-kinase: signalling and biological roles

UserProf. Bart Vanhaesebroeck - Institute of Cancer at Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The role of developmental biology in cancer research

UserAnna Philpott and Shin-ichi Ohnuma, Department of Oncology, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Mechanisms of synaptic communication: Vesicle traffic and Neuronal disease"

http://www.vib.be/Research/EN/Research+Departments/Department+of+Molecular+and+Developmental+Genetics/Patrik+Verstreken

UserDr Patrik Verstreken, Dept of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, K.U. Leuven..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Is the pessimistic induction valid?

UserSam Nicholson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Stochasticity in stem and progenitor cell fate

UserBen Simons, TCM The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Transcriptional control of blood stem cell development

UserDr.Bertie Gottgens - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?

UserAndrew Cunningham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

"DNA repair in archaea: insights into mechanisms of homologous recombination"

www.nottingham.ac.uk/genetics/people/allers/index.php

UserDr Thorsten Allers, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The Editorial Process Demystified

Note unusual time and venue

UserAndrew Sugden, International Managing Editor, Science Magazine.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Methodology and the visual image

Please note the different time

UserGeoff Belknap (HPS).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 10:30-01:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Molecular bases and function of cellular heterogeneity in development

UserAlfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

'Intimate Encounters and Dangerous Liaisons: Spatial Organization of Transcription in the Mammalian Nucleus'

www.babraham.ac.uk/pjl_pages/osborne/osborne.html

UserCameron Osborne, Babraham Institute..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mechanisms of DNA replication

UserNick Robinson, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison/MRC Centre.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

UserAngela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Objective consequentialism, criteria of rightness and ignorance

UserJoanna Burch Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Transcriptional noise in gene regulatory networks

UserLawrence Wernisch, MRC Biostatistical Unit, Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Combinatorial histone modifications and the epigenetic regulation of stem cell commitment and differentiation

UserProf. Niall Dillon - Chair of Epigenetics, Development and Cancer Section at MRC-CSC, Imerial College London.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Engineering Self-Orgonization and electical signaling in Bacteria using standardized Genetic Parts"

www.gen.cam.ac.uk/About/iGEM2008-Genetics.htm

UseriGem, International Genetically Engineered Machine, Cambridge Genetic Department..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900

UserTorben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseWhipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 17:30-19:30

HPS History Workshop

'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Biophysics of behaviourally defined neurocircuits

UserDennis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The role of Fam38 in integrin activation and lung cancer

UserTariq Sethi, Chair of Respiratory and Lung Cancer Biology, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 12:00-13:00

Networks & Neuroscience

Towards a cartography of complex biological systems

UserProfessor Luis Amaral (Northwestern University, USA).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Networks & Neuroscience

Cost-efficiency of complex human brain networks

UserProf Ed Bullmore (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 16:05-16:30

Networks & Neuroscience

Small, network models of effective connectivity in the human brain: evidence from fMRI and MEG

UserDr. Rik Henson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 15:40-16:05

Networks & Neuroscience

Learning and memory in neural networks: statistically optimal computations

UserDr Mate Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 14:50-15:15

Genetics Seminar Series

"Transcriptional Silencing and lineage commitment in Pluripotent cells"

www.cscr.cam.ac.uk/research/bhendrich.html

UserDr Brian Hendrich, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Networks & Neuroscience

Complexities and uncertainties of neuronal network analyses

UserDr. David Parker (Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 14:00-14:25

Networks & Neuroscience

How molecules constrain networks

UserDr Aldo Faisal, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 12:30-12:55

Networks & Neuroscience

Inference for stochastic models

UserDr Lorenz Wernisch ( MRC Biostatistics Unit).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 12:05-12:30

Networks & Neuroscience

Transcriptional networks controlling blood stem cells

UserDr. Bertie Gottgens (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 11:40-12:05

Networks & Neuroscience

Combining molecular and physiological data from complex psychiatric disorders

UserDr. Pietro Lio / Emanuel Schwarz (Computer Laboratory / Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 10:20-10:45

Networks & Neuroscience

Causal network structure identification in nonlinear dynamical systems

UserProfessor Zoubin Ghahramani (Department of Engineering).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 09:55-10:20

Networks & Neuroscience

Dissecting the dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks

UserDr. Madan Babu (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Division of Structural Studies).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 09:30-09:55

Psy Studies

Psychoanalysis, psyche and spirit in the modern world

UserSudhir Kakar (INSEAD, Fontainebleau & Goa).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Groundwork for a Humean theory of ideal laws

UserBilly Wheeler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

How plasmids cope with noise in the bacterial cell

Note unusual time

UserDavid Summers, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Development of memory T lymphocytes

UserProf. Philip G Ashton-Rickardt - Chair in Immunology Division of Medicine, Imperial College London.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Orford Ness: landscape of war and science

UserSophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 20 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

"Worms on Prozac: A genetic dissection of neuronal signalling pathways"

www.ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/research-groups/nurrish.htm

UserDr Stephen Nurrish, MRC Lab of Molecular Cell Biology, University College, London..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

UserGáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

DNA beyond the double helix

UserJulian Huppert, Biological and Soft Systems, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

High-throughput cancer cell line screening: a tool for discovery

UserUltan McDermott, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The evolution of wonder

UserPaul White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

UserJeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserRichard Benson, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 30 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserNick Carroll, Department of Radiology.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Early phase clinical trials in Cambridge

UserDuncan Jodrell, Cambridge Research Institute and Department of Oncology.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 16 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control"

UserProf. Don Ingber, Departments of Pathology and SurgeryChildren’s Hospital Harvard Medical School.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 08 September 2008, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Special seminar: Analysing the dynamic glycome

Please note that this lecture is on a Wednesday at the CRI.

UserLara Mahal, University of Texas, Austin.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 03 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Trophoblast Research

The Centre for Trophoblast Research official launch

Please register by email: horizon.forum[at]rsd.cam.ac.uk

Usersee abstract for details.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 July 2008, 10:00-17:15

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

TBC

UserGill Murphy, CRI and Charles Wilson, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 24 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

A parametric approach to modeling changes in general health and cognition: developing a stochastic model of aging

UserArnold Mitnitski, PhD, Department of Medicine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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

ClockWednesday 18 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The new riddle of causation

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Reason in action: a Kantian view of norms

UserSasha Mudd (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 04 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability".

UserProfessor David Pellman, Havard Medical School..

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)

Note changed location and time!!!

UserUrs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A..

HouseAustin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR

LIMITED SPACES SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 18:30-20:00

Rausing Lecture

Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power

Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserJohn Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Constructive empiricism as an epistemological thesis

UserPaul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Toxoplasma gondii, a model for host-parasite interations

UserDr Jim Ajioka, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

TBC

UserPhil Jones, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre and Kate Fife, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

PET/MR: a new modality for molecular imaging

UserAdrian Carpenter, Head of MRI, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre and Reader in Imaging Sciences, Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseLecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

Scottish psychotherapy: communion, community and communication

UserGavin Miller (Manchester Metropolitan University).

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

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in the tropics

UserCatherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability

Please note location and time!

UserAlexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

TBC

UserAdele Murrell, CRUK Cancer Research Institute and TBC.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2008, 12:00-13:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

UserAndreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

A social construction of health

UserElly Kingma (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“A cellular perspective on sensory-organ regeneration in the zebrafish”

UserHernan Lopez-Schier – Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 14:30-16:00

Psy Studies

The psycho-reflexology of film: Soviet non-fiction cinema of the 1920s

Please note early start

UserBarbara Wurm (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 16:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

UserAdam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Thomas Digges' astronomy

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Love at First Light”

UserGero Miesenboeck – Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

UserJessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

"The evolution of Disease Resistance to AIDS".

UserProfessor Jonathon Heeney, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 22 April 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Chromosome translocations and gene fusions in breast cancer and Improving outcomes in melanoma: a fresh look

UserPaul Edwards (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre) and Pippa Corrie (Addenbrooke's Hosptial, Clinical Oncologist, Lung and Upper GI Cancer).

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 22 April 2008, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"The love and hate affaire between Wingless and Notch in Drosophila wing development"

UserMarco Milan, ICREA and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB).

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 15 April 2008, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserHugo Ford, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 15 April 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserErmanno Gherardi (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) and Helena Earl (Medical Oncologist; Sarcoma, breast and ovarian cancer), Addenbrooke's Hospital).

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 25 March 2008, 12:00-13:00

Psy Studies

Revolution in mind: making the psychoanalytic field, 1870-1945

UserGeorge Makari (Weill Medical College of Cornell University).

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

ClockWednesday 19 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Monitoring anticancer drug uptake by magnetic imaging and spectroscopy' and 'Breast cancer heterogeneity- a clinical challenge'

UserJohn Griffiths (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute) and Carlos Caldas (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute).

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Mind-dependence and realism about the mind

UserMark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

UserGerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserPaul Pharoah (Strangeways Research Laboratories) and Rajesh Jena (Addenbrooke's Hospital)).

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2008, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

'Cell fate decisions and establishment of pluripotency'

UserJennifer Nichols - Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 14:30-16:00

All Talks (aka the CURE list)

Immune regulation in the intestine: a balancing act between effector and regulatory T cells

Immunology seminars

UserProf Fiona Powrie Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Genetics Seminar Series

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Usertba.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Practical judgement: a Kantian perspective

UserSasha Mudd (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Experimental manipulation of the epidermis to study normal and cancer stem cells and The GIST of GISTS (Gastrointestinal Stromal tumours)

UserFiona Watt, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and Ramesh Bulusu, Clinical Oncologist (Lung/Upper GI/Lymphoma), Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project

UserIris Montero Sobrevilla (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century

UserAndreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic Dissection of the Homeostatic Signaling: Systems that Stabilize Neural Function

UserGraeme Davis, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics - UCSF.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

HPS History Workshop

Zhang Jingsheng and the ‘sexual field’ in 1920s China

UserLeon Rocha (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

UserJordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Mitotic Chromosome Condensation and Segregation

UserDr Frank Uhlmann, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 18:15-19:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserStefanie Reichelt (CR UK Cambridge Research Institute) and Sara Booth (Palliative Care), Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Distancing animals in medieval chronicles

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserBrigitte Resl (University of Liverpool).

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

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

What drives recombination hotspots in humans?

UserGil McVean, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Subjective probability and action guidance

UserMartin Peterson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Imaging biology in the cancer patient (K. Brindle)

UserKevin Brindle (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and Department of Biochemistry) and Athar Ahmad (Medical Oncologist, Colorectal Tumours), Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Genome Instability and Cancer: lessons from analysis of Bloom's syndrome

UserIan Hickson, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Genomic imprinting: a model for the epigenetic control of genome function

UserAnne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 14:30-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Ubiquitin / proteasome mediated protein degradation

UserLaura Itzhaki, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 09:30-10:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The primacy of secondary qualities

UserMike Collins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Computational biology and cancer: the CRI perspective" and "Lung Cancer: A New Strategy"

UserSimon Tavaré, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and Tim Eisen, Medical Oncologist (Lung and Renal cancer), Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

MRI screening for women at high risk of breast cancer: from genetically based biological differences to tumour growth rate

UserMartin Leach, Co-director of the Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research Group, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton.

HouseLecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Membrane machines for bacterial virulence, drug resistance and motility.

UserProfessor Colin Hughes, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2008, 18:15-19:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Acute Myeloid Leukaemia: Molecular Pathogenesis, Prognostication and Targeted therapy (Brian Huntly)

UserBrian Huntly (Department of Haematology, Cambridge Institute of Medical Research) & Charles Crawley (Oncology Department, Addenbrookes Hospital).

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2008, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC - LOOKING NORTH: ARCTIC SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR, 2007-2008

Please visit www.soci.org for updated details/late cancellation notification.

UserProf Elizabeth Morris, Scott Polar research Institute, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Beyond VEGF: vascular signaling targets for therapeutic manipulation

UserDavid Quinn, University of Southern California.

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 December 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Imaging liver cancer

UserDavid Lomas, University of Cambridge and Department of Radiology, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockFriday 14 December 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

UserAndreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ARE WE STAR DUST OR NUCLEAR WASTE?

UserDr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

The PASADENA method for 13C hyperpolarisation of biomolecules for imaging and spectroscopy

UserPratip Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology and Huntingdon Medical Research Institute, Pasadena, California.

HouseLecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages

UserKathleen Walker-Meikle (University College London).

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

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 13:00-14:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

From words to literature in structural proteomics

L Bragg Lecture

UserWolfgang Baumeister Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried (Germany).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Molecular imaging using hyperpolarised carbon-13

From molecules to cells

UserFerdia Gallagher Departments of Biochemistry and Radiology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 16:30-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

No harm in looking? The effects of optical imaging on cytoplasm

From molecules to cells

UserBrad Amos MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 15:30-16:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

The poroelastic properties of cytoplasm: theory and experiments

From molecules to cells

UserGuillaume Charras UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology, London (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Structure and dynamics of the cell membrane and cytoskeleton

From molecules to cells

UserPietro Cicuta Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 14:30-15:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Where mechanics and biochemistry meet: probing the dynamics of cell polarization and morphogenesis

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserEd Munro Center for Cells Dynamics, Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, Seattle (USA).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 12:00-12:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Coupling cell cycle morphogenesis and mitotic spindle orientation to regulate tissue morphogenesis

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserYohanns Bellaiche Curie Institute, Paris (France).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 11:30-12:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Biomechanics of epithelial sheet movements (in Drosophila)

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserNicole Gorfinkiel, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 11:00-11:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

To see the light - living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserJochen Guck Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 10:00-10:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Morphogen transport and gradient formation

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserFrank Jülicher Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (Germany).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 09:30-10:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mesoscopic events in living cells: insights from bacterial chemotaxis

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserDennis Bray Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 09:00-09:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics and the designs of brains

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserSimon Laughlin Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 17:30-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Spontaneous activity in the developing nervous system: form and function

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserStephen Eglen. DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 17:00-17:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Creation and destruction of biological polymer networks

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserDyche Mullins Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of San Francisco (USA).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 16:30-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Shift happens: A systems-level analysis of the gap gene network in Drosophila

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserJohannes Jaeger Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 15:30-16:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Evidence for the influence of nuclear architecture in shaping the organisation of genes in eukaryotic chromosomes

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserMadan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Learning from the worm: predicting phenotype from genotype

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserAndrew Fraser, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 14:30-15:00

Psy Studies

The discomforting past of peptic ulcer: histories of psychosomatic medicine and H. pylori

UserKatherine Angel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

UserGuillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

FIREWORKS – EXPLOSIVES FOR ENTERTAINMENT !

UserDr Tom Smith, Davas UK Ltd, Kimbolton.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Toxin-antitoxin pairs in biotechnology and therapy

UserGuillermo de la Cueva Mendez - MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

UserBenoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic variation in Salmonella Typhi

UserJohn Wain- Molecular Microbiology, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 14:30-16:00

Psy Studies

1919: psychology and psychoanalysis, Cambridge and London

UserJohn Forrester (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 31 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Practical reasoning and inference

UserJonathan Dancy (University of Reading and University of Texas at Austin).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Mechanism of epidermal maintenance of mice and men

UserBen Simons - Cavendish Laboratory, TCM, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

UserTom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Membrane Trafficking in Trypanosomes

UserDr Mark Field, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Depeartment of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2007, 18:15-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain

UserCarlos López Beltrán (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

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

ClockMonday 15 October 2007, 13:00-14:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BEAGLE 2 AND BEYOND – THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION

UserProf Colin Pillinger FRS, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 19:00-20:00

lvb23's list

Regulating of cell polarity by formins, microtubules and electric fields

UserDr Fred Chang: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

HouseDepartment of Genetics.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

UserMarcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

lvb23's list

Regulation of chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis

UserProf. Claudio Sunkel: Universidade do Porto.

HouseDepartment of Genetics.

ClockMonday 08 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Horizon Forum

The Functional Structures of Biological Surfaces

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBotanic Gardens.

ClockFriday 05 October 2007, 10:30-17:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DO ANIMALS HAVE MEMORIES OF TOMORROW?

UserProf. Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 28 September 2007, 19:00-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

UserAnjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Alternative splicing in the human transcriptome: Functional and structural influence on proteins

ECTOPIC SEMINAR

UserDr. Kei Yura, Quantum Bioinformatics Team, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto, Japan.

HouseBateson Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BITING BACK AT BLOOD-SUCKING INSECTS

UserDr James Logan, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 September 2007, 19:00-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

Please note unusual time!

UserAlistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders

Please note location and time!

UserWim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 26 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra

Please note location and time!

UserAlexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 19 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Stem cells and the role of the microenvironment

UserDr Gil Smith, National Institute of Cancer, NIH, USA.

HouseLecture Theatre, Depeartment of Pathology.

ClockMonday 02 July 2007, 17:30-18:30

Horizon Forum: The Cell-Materials Interface

Regulation of epidermal homeostasis by extracellular stimuli

UserDr Kim Jensen, Welcome Trust Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2007, 14:40-15:10

Horizon Forum: The Cell-Materials Interface

Designing artificial materials to stimulate nerve cell regrowth

UserDr Stephanie Lacour, Dept.of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2007, 12:05-12:35

Horizon Forum: The Cell-Materials Interface

Mechanical coupling between engineered and biological material systems

UserProfessor Krystyn Van Vliet, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2007, 10:45-11:15

Horizon Forum: The Cell-Materials Interface

The effect of substrate mechanics on cell behaviour

ttendance is free, but registration is REQUIRED. To register please email: horizon.forum@rsd.cam.ac.uk with your name and department.

UserDr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2007, 10:15-10:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Supposing this and that

UserFlorian Steinberger (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

ClockWednesday 20 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

Please note different location!

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HouseAustin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A tool of developmental biology for understanding tumorigenesis

UserShin-ichi Ohnuma, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Dept of Oncology..

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 09:30-10:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms

Please note different location!

UserPeter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseAustin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Environments: a problem for the bio-statistical theory of health

UserElselijn Kingma (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com

The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserTrevor Pinch (Cornell University).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 24 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BACK TO THE FUTURE - TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT REVISITED

Free & open to all

UserProf. Peter Lillford, CBE, University of York.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 May 2007, 19:00-20:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Getting more from your markers; statistical cleaning of genetic data

UserJérôme Goudet, Department of Ecology & Evolution, LAUSANNE, Switzerland.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 17 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

HPS History Workshop

The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger'

UserNatalie Kaoukji (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 16 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Glial cell differentiation and function in Drosophila

UserChristian Klämbt, Institut für Neurobiologie, Badestr. 9, D-48149 Münster, Germany.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene Networks and Natural Selection

UserAndreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Colour-experience: eco-dispositionalism and inverted earth

UserStefan Brenner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler

UserPatrick Boner (Kommission zur Herausgabe der Werke von Johannes Kepler, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

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

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Growth regulation of ribosome biogenesis in yeast: what's inside the black box?

UserDavid Shore, Department of Molecular Biology and NCCR Program "Frontiers in Genetics", University of Geneva.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 26 April 2007, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

“Disease mechanisms in cancer: the leukaemia paradigm”

UserProfessor Bryan D Young, Institute of Cancer, University of London.

HouseLecture Theatre, Depeartment of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2007, 18:15-19:15

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Provisional knowledge

UserPaul Teller (University of California at Davis).

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

ClockThursday 19 April 2007, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Multiple Sclerosis: from inflammation to neurodegeneration

UserProfessor Henry McFarland, Neuroimmunology Branch, NIH USA.

HouseLecture Theatre, Depeartment of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 20 March 2007, 18:15-19:15

Genetics Seminar Series

The antigenic and genetic evolution of influenza viruses

UserDerek Smith, University of Cambridge (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Thinking Society: What is Life?

Student Papers and Grand Discussion

What is Life?

UserGaurav Jaggi, Colin Higgins, Kevin Channon - Discussion.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 17:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Can Kant have an account of self-knowledge?

UserYoon Choi (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

UserAleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

"Reverse Phenotyping: Towards a systems approach to complex phenotypes and common disease"

UserDr Stephan Beck, Immunogenetics Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseLecture Theatre, Depeartment of Pathology.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2007, 18:15-19:15

Thinking Society: What is Life?

What is Music? What is Life? and other unanswerable questions

What is Life?

UserDr Nikolaus Bacht, Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

Thinking Society: What is Life?

Self-discipline as a way of life: Why would anyone eat only fruits and vegatables?

What is Life?

UserProfessor Matthew Kramer, Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockFriday 09 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

Thinking Society: What is Life?

Biological Reductionism: Does it describe life or Life?

What is Life?

UserDr David Summers, Head of Genetics Department.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockThursday 08 March 2007, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Thinking Society: What is Life?

Incorporating Life into Philosophy: Dilthey, Bergson and Heidegger

What is Life?

UserDr Melissa Lane, Senior Lecturer in History.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2007, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Can systems biology be useful, an ascidian perspective

NOTE CHANGE IN TIME - APOLOGIES FOR SHORT NOTICE

UserPatrick Lemaire, University of Marseille (F).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 12:00-13:00

Psy Studies

How we became our brains: a historical perspective

UserFernando Vidal (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

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

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Practices, rules and motivation

UserCaroline Baumann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Embryos and Ancestors

UserPhil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Reference failure: why worry?

UserChristina McLeish (St Catharine's College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

'Les particularités la plus considerable': Fontenelle's éloges

UserLisa Mullins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

UserPauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

‘The dog days’: rabies in England, 1830–1860

UserMichael Worboys and Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester).

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

ClockTuesday 20 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neanderthal Genomics

Please note different location and time!

UserSvante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

HouseSeminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The sceptical consequences of phenomenal realism

UserTorben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Philosophy of Physics

The nature of time in a closed system

UserDr Jonathan Oppenheim (DAMTP).

HouseMeeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Alchemy and natural history

UserJenny Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans

UserManolis Dermitzakis, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 08 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

HPS History Workshop

The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Philosophy of Physics

The Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity

UserDr Edward Anderson, Peterhouse and DAMTP.

HouseMeeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 05 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Psy Studies

The mismeasure of stickman: testing intelligence by drawings

UserBarbara Wittmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

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

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The difference between cause and condition

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction

UserSophie Weeks (Homerton College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Size and Shape in Drosophila wing morphogenesis

UserAntonio Garcia Bellido, CSIC Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Spain.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris

UserEmma Spary (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL).

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

ClockTuesday 23 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Geological deluge and snowball Earth

UserMartin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 22 January 2007, 13:00-14:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

THE CHEMISTRY OF CHRISTMAS - an exciting practical demonstration lecture

UserDr Colin Pulham & Prof Lesley Yellowlees (University of Edinburgh).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2006, 19:00-20:00

Psy Studies

Four erotic problems: elements of a history of arts of love

UserMichel Feher (École Normale Supérieure, Paris).

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

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Relative meaning

UserJoe Sandham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

MIXING CHEMICALS AND CHARACTERS: The craft of writing science-based fiction

UserMalcolm Rose - prizewinning childrens science fiction author.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 19:00-20:00

HPS History Workshop

Electrons in the family

UserJaume Navarro (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 22 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Philosophy of Physics

Is Teleportation a (quantum) mystery?

UserBerry Groisman, CQC, Cambridge.

HouseMeeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 20 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Closing Remarks

UserProfessor Peter Littlewood (Department of Physics, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 17:15-17:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

The brain as a statistical machine

The Activity of Living Matter

UserProfessor Daniel Wolpert (Department of Engineering, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 16:45-17:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physical principles of sensory transduction

The Activity of Living Matter

UserDr Tom Duke, Department of Physics, Cambridge.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 16:15-16:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Evolving mechanisms of Pattern Generation: Segmentation in Animals

The Activity of Living Matter

UserProfessor Michael Akam (Laboratory for Development and Evolution, Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 15:15-15:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Kinetics of Morphogen Gradient Formation

The Activity of Living Matter

UserDr Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan (Cell Biology, Geneva, Switzerland).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 14:45-15:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Imaging embryonic morphogenesis

The Activity of Living Matter

UserDr Richard Adams (Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 14:15-14:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Reaction diffusion and collective behavior in the self-organisation of the mitotic spindle

The Activity of Living Matter

UserProfessor Eric Karsenti (EMBL, Heidelberg).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 12:00-12:50

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Multidimensional fluorescence imaging in living cells

Watching Living Matter

UserDr Clemens Kaminski (Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 11:30-12:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Studying Single Molecules on living cells

Watching Living Matter

UserDr David Klenerman (Department of Chemistry, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 11:00-11:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Dissecting a protein-protein interaction in living cells

Watching Living Matter

UserProfessor Ashok Venkitaraman, MRC Hutchison Laboratory.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 10:00-10:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Watching and modelling limb development

Watching Living Matter

UserDr James Sharpe (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 09:30-10:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Visualisation and Modelling of Plant Morphogenesis

Watching Living Matter

UserDr Jim Haseloff (Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 09:00-09:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Imaging the Developmental Mechanics of the Heart

The Structure of Living Matter

UserProfessor Scott Fraser (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 17:15-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

How nature "designs" elastic polymers

The Structure of Living Matter

UserDr Jane Clarke, Department of Chemistry.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:45-17:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Can Polymer Physics Help Cellular Biomedicine?

The Structure of Living Matter

UserProfessor Josef Käs (Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:15-16:45

Genetics Seminar Series

Speciation and genomic diversity of Drosophila species: based on microarray and genome analyses

** Ectopic Seminar **

UserDr. Atsushi Ogura, Department of developmental biology and neuroscience, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Speciation and genomic diversity of Drosophila species: based on microarray and genome analyses

** Ectopic Seminar **

UserDr. Atsushi Ogura, Department of developmental biology and neuroscience, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity

The Structure of Living Matter

UserProfessor Ray Goldstein (DAMTP, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 15:15-15:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Soft Matter Physics of Cells

The Structure of Living Matter

UserProfessor Athene Donald (Department of Physics, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 14:45-15:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Understanding Biology from the Atomistic Scale

The Structure of Living Matter

UserProfessor Mike Payne, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 14:15-14:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Introduction and Welcome

UserProfessor Peter Littlewood (Department of Physics, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 14:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Sexual selection and sexual conflict

UserDavid Hosken, University of Exeter (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Three degrees of (anti-realist) modal involvement

UserPaul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 08 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Philosophy of Physics

Stochastic Einstein Locality : Part Two

UserJeremy Butterfield, Trinity College.

HouseMeeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 06 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Vertebrate Limb Patterning and Morphogenesis

UserMiguel Torres, Universidad Autónoma Madrid (Spain).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 02 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy on the move: mind and body in Stanley Cavell's work

UserJoab Rosenberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 01 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Philosophy of Physics

MACHIAN DYNAMICS: THE END OF TIME? PART TWO

UserJeremy Butterfield, Trinity College.

HouseMeeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950

Note: This seminar will start at 12.30

UserJasper Heinzen (Darwin College).

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

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 12:30-13:45

Philosophy of Physics

Machian Dynamics: The End of Time?

UserJeremy Butterfield, Trinity College.

HouseMeeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 23 October 2006, 16:30-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

*** POSTPONED *** - Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans

UserManolis Dermitzakis, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Not all computations are effective methods

UserMark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 18 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual

UserRoger Cooter (University College London) and Claudia Stein (University of Warwick).

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

ClockTuesday 17 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

Philosophy of Physics

Stochastic Einstein Locality Revisited

UserJeremy Butterfield, Trinity College Cambridge.

HouseMeeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 16 October 2006, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge

UserMelanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockWednesday 11 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Why do research?

UserPeter Lawrence, MRC lab, Cambridge (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserWilliam Adams, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 05 June 2006, 13:00-14:15

University of Cambridge, New Zealand Studies Seminar Group

Empire and nature in New Zealand: theologies of nature and natural theologies, 1830-1920 (based on joint research with John Stenhouse)

This seminar is organised with The Cabinet of Natural History. All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch.

UserJames Beattie, Otago University.

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

ClockMonday 29 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's "Natural History and Theory of the Heavens"

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserAnna Mrker, Max Planck Institute, Berlin.

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

ClockMonday 22 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserBenjamin Wardhaugh, University of Oxford.

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

ClockMonday 15 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

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