Zangwill Club

Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

Peter John (King's College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injury

Katie Long, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmaceutical nanotechnology and the control of in vivo drug transport

Prof Ijeoma Florence Uchegbu University College London .

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online: https://zoom.us/j/94645182181?pwd=ZENTaStsZ2IxVkZBSElpMjBnUUdWQT09 Meeting ID: 946 4518 2181 Passcode: 8yWtSkrEku .

Friday 27 January 2023, 12:30-01:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Towards the development of a pan-betacoronavirus vaccine: evaluating cross-reactive embecovirus antigens in vivo

Charlotte George, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 27 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Outcome and Complications Associated with Cholecystoenterostomy Surgery in Dogs and Cats

Sebastian Prior, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 27 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition

He Bian (Princeton University).

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

Thursday 26 January 2023, 16:00-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution

Host - Hansong Ma

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

Amygdala and PFC encode different associative structures and their connectivity helps predict subclinical variation in mental well-being

Miriam Klein-Flugge (U. of Oxford).

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Genome-wide pharmacogenomic studies of clozapine

Antonio F Pardinas, Cardiff University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Alternative meristems: mapping the expression landscape of transcription factor in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

Dr Facundo Romani, Haseloff Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:15-13:45

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

"Leveraging transcriptomic maps to navigate human brain diseases"

Dr Mina Ryten, Professor of Clinical Genetics, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Hybrid seminar: Clinical School Seminar Room 3 & on Zoom (see Abstract for link).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein Lecture 2023: Understanding the Hox timer by Using mammalian Pseudo-Embryos

Denis Duboule, Collège de France, Paris France, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Thursday 26 January 2023, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk prediction models and their applications to prevention and early detection

Prof Antonis Antoniou, Dept of Public Health and Primary Care.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 09:30-10:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean Warming and Accelerating Southern Ocean Zonal Flow

Jia-Rui Shi (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute).

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Ben Schreiber, Image Analysis Team, Dept of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

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

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

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

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

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

Dr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol.

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Heads and shoulders: progress on the origin of the modern vertebrate body plan

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Dr Martin D Brazeau, Imperial College London.

Main Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Taking it up a Notch, building the body plan

Professor Kim Dale, University of Dundee.

In Person.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour?

Professor Timothy Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London.

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

Monday 23 January 2023, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The paths to compulsion: new insights into the factors that shape the vulnerability to develop compulsive disorders

David Belin, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 23 January 2023, 16:15-18:00

ARClub Talks

Ageing on the Autism Spectrum

Prof Francesca Happe.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 23 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Zangwill Club

Reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders: are we nearly there yet?

Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial development

Marcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Mechanisms of intervertebral disc calcification and its clinical implications in dogs

Viviana Rojas, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 20 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

A novel approach to producing a Universal Influenza Vaccine

Ian Mickleburgh, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 20 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Neural network models as mechanistic explanations of brain information processing

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Columbia University.

Online.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Systematic discovery of ORFs in ~700 human viruses using massively parallel ribosome profiling

Dr Shira Weingarten-Gabbay. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortex

Wolfram Schultz (PDN, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

"Neuronal and glial responses to the absence of microglia"

Professor Josef Priller, University of Edinburgh, DRI & Technical University Munich.

Hybrid seminar: Clinical School Seminar Room 11 & on Zoom (see Abstract for link).

Thursday 19 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

In vivo functional screens for modelling cancer initiation and progression

Dr Eric Rahrmann, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 09:30-10:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Can we have jam today and jam tomorrow? Improving outcomes for older people living with mental illness using applied and translational research

Dr Ben Underwood, Department of Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mexican Waves: The Adaptive Value of Collective Behaviour

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Jens Krause, IGB Berlin.

Main Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Engineering a bacteria for lung therapy

Prof. Luis Serrano.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99349389275?pwd=ZHI3em1DQTA0VTlVLzkvUTN6ZGkxdz09.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Early Science and Medicine

'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850

Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh).

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

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Parameterising melt at the base of Antarctic ice shelves with a feedforward neural network

Clara Burgard, University of Grenoble Alpes.

BAS Seminar Room 1;https://ukri.zoom.us/j/95564564065.

Monday 16 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Monitoring of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and reasons for vaccine acceptance in Finland between 2020 and 2021

Charlotte Hammer, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 13 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Using genomics to diagnose helminths in poo

Marina Papaiakovou, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 13 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Genetics Seminar

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

"White matter in dementia; from lesions to plasticity"

Dr Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir, University of Cambridge.

Hybrid seminar: Clinical School Seminar Room 2 & on Zoom (see Abstract for link).

Thursday 12 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer.

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 12 January 2023, 09:30-10:30

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

Dr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna.

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

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

Microglia webinar series

Microglial control of synaptic and neuronal network activity

Dr. Christian Madry. Charité Berlin, Germany.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09 (Meeting ID: 941 2860 1767, Passcode: E2Gpvk35FP).

Monday 09 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics

Dan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine.

CRUK CI.

Monday 09 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Medicine - The Textbook Addisonian?

Larissa Gardner and Oliver Russell, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 06 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

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

Prof Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida.

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Biological factors associated with the onset of psychosis

This meeting will be held in-person and online

Dr Boris Chaumette, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris.

Herchel Smith Building Seminar Room and on Zoom (contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk) .

Thursday 15 December 2022, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

Dr Daniel Muñoz-Espin; Department of Oncology / Early Cancer Institute.

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

Thursday 15 December 2022, 09:30-10:30

Parasitology Seminars

Schistosoma-gut microbiome interactions: Implications for the pathophysiology of the infection (and more?)

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

Alba Cortéz Carbonell (Universitat de València, Spain) .

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated

Cynthia Rudin, Duke University.

Zoom.

Monday 12 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Social Gathering 🍾.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 18:30-20:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from social psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis

Dr. Carolyn Parkinson (UCLA).

Online.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from social psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis

Dr. Carolyn Parkinson (UCLA).

Online.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023**

Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Mild traumatic brain injury – a misnomer?

Dr Virginia Newcombe, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 08 December 2022, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Structural basis of how the BIRC6/SMAC complex regulates apoptosis and autophagy

Tim Clausen, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP).

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: translating mechanistic insights towards new cancer therapies.

Prof Steve Jackson; The Gurdon Institute .

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 09:30-10:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative Evidence

Speaker to be confirmed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative Evidence

Speaker to be confirmed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Edward Young, Zahara Girones.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neuroscience in artistic cartoons

Paul Apicella, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France .

St John's College.

Monday 05 December 2022, 18:30-00:00

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2022-2023 Series

Metabolic control of myeloid cell function in chronic central nervous system inflammation

Dr. Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti - Clinical Neurosciences.

Hybrid & Department of Chemistry (Pfizer lecture theatre).

Monday 05 December 2022, 18:00-19:00

Microglia webinar series

Microglia in Neurodegeneration

Prof. Jochen Herms. LMU Munich, Germany.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09 (Meeting ID: 941 2860 1767, Passcode: E2Gpvk35FP).

Monday 05 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic resetting during human germline development

Wolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 02 December 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insects in Flight

John Brackenbury.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 18:45-20:30

Chaucer Club

Against brain reorganisation. Perspectives from individuals with congenital and acquired hand loss

Tamar Makin (MRC CBU).

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

Thursday 01 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Peeking Inside Black Boxes: New Insights Into Depression Recovery with Deep Brain Stimulation Using Explainable AI

Dr Christopher Rozell, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Infecting under the radar: lentiviral evasion of DNA sensing

Dr Rebecca Sumner (University of Surrey, UK).

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

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

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

Online via Zoom.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Defining genetic and environmental determinants of malaria transmission

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

Prof Matthew Marti. University of Glasgow..

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Motile behaviour and evolution of bacteria in antibiotic landscapes

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Nuno Miguel Oliveira, DPhil, BBSRC Discovery Fellow & Teaching Bye-Fellow in Zoology (Christ's College).

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

Online.

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India

Sonia Wigh.

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

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

How can we treat visceral pain?

Dr David Bulmer, Department of Pharmacology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Mechanism and regulation P element transposition in Drosophila

Donald Rio, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94108711681?pwd=cXN4VGlQVHBZYkpMUVJ0SXV3emtaUT09.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviour

Juan Alvaro Gallego.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Olfactory cues in a changing world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Jorg Hardege, University of Hull.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR..

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

Monday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The enigmatic and integrative claustrum

Adam Packer, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 16:15-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer

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

Zoom.

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

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2022-2023 Series

Using AI to Discover Dual-purpose Therapeutics Targeting Aging and Disease at the same time

Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD - Insilico Medicine.

Virtual Talk (Zoom).

Saturday 26 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

The measurement of difficult things: From psychophysics to psycho-oncology

Professor Dame Lesely Fallowfield (Sussex University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Brain charts for the human lifespan.

Dr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

Laura Weston, Cleo Price and Alex Chan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 25 November 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Speaker to be confirmed.

via zoom .

Thursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Myelin Repair

Myelin regeneration - from gene therapy to energy metabolism

Dr Vanja Tepavčević, Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Bilbao, Spain.

Zoom and in person.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Changing Connectomes: How Brain Network Changes are Linked to Cognition in Health and Disease

Prof. Marcus Kaiser (University of Nottingham, UK).

Online.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans

Host – Ritwick Sawarkar

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivity

Trevor Robbins (Psychology Dept, UoC).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

Professor Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances

Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

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

Thursday 24 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Dr Kate Baker

Dr Kate Baker, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Developmental disorders of presynaptic vesicle cycling - Synaptotagmin-1 and beyond

Dr Kate Baker, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar – Designing efficient clinical trials during a pandemic

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century

Jenny Bangham (QMUL).

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

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

You get a methylation, and you get a methylation, everybody gets a methylation

Host: GIPA, Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association

Dr Pedro J Batista, NIH, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MC, USA.

Virtual.

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

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

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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia and Mate Lengyel.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The hidden depths of avian genomes

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Alex Suh, UEA.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sustainable seafood for human health

Dr David Willer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Zangwill Club

Disruption of Information in Working Memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Fit for this world - cellular properties are set during critical periods of development

Matthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

Alice Prodger, Giulia Cattaneo, Freddie Maginnis, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 18 November 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Bethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

via zoom .

Thursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Henrik Salje

Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research).

Via Zoom - See website for details: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/.

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

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

This seminar has been cancelled - we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you

**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023**

Louis Chesler, ICR.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The molecular basis of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

Dr Roman Kellenberger, Evolution and Development, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Simulating medicine: testing- speculations about medical science and clinical practice

Prof Jacob Stagenga, Department of History and Philosophy of Science: .

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

Thursday 17 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

ARClub Talks

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Autism Research: State of the Field and Future Directions

Zachary J. Williams, Vanderbilt University .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Knowledge Graphs for Precision Oncology

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Krishna C Bulusu Director, Early Data Science Oncology Data Science, Oncology R&D AstraZeneca.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Early Science and Medicine

From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

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

Dr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion for a Clean Aviation Future

Dr. Sergey Kiselev, Zeroavia.

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

Monday 14 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nanoscale Engineering of Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

Prof Fang Xie.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement

Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

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

Zangwill Club

Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processing

Dr Ione Fine (University of Washington).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Clinical presentation of squamous cell carcinoma of the frontal sinus and response to radiation therapy

Pietro Loddo, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 11 November 2022, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Uncovering the role of the vertebrate gut microbiota in the pathophysiology of schistosomiasis mansoni

Klara Stark, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 11 November 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Contributing Authors.

via zoom .

Thursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective

Host – Bianca De Sanctis

Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognition

Steve Fleming (UCL).

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

Thursday 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

Prof Christopher Yau, University of Oxford .

Virtual Seminar .

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Analyzing artificial neural networks to understand the brain

Dr Grace Lindsay.

Online.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Digital Youth: understanding risk, building resilience and harnessing solutions with young people in the digital world

This seminar will be held in-person and online

Prof Ellen Townsend, University of Nottingham.

Herchel Smith Building Seminar Room and on Zoom (contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk) .

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

What have we learned about autism from infants?

Tony Charman, King's College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

Dr Edith Forestier, Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

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

Parasitology Seminars

Taming your inner parasite: novel tools to study cryptosporidiosis

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

Dr Adam Sateriale (Francis Crick Institute).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Asymmetry in the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice

Lettie Roach, Columbia University.

BAS Seminar Room 1; https://ukri.zoom.us/j/92279923623.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Reconstructing Southern Hemisphere hydroclimate over the Common Era from paleoclimate records and climate models using data assimilation

Quentin Dalaiden, UCLouvain.

BAS Seminar Room 1; https://ukri.zoom.us/j/97859929989.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

New Frontiers in PKA Signaling

Susan Taylor, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99725572898?pwd=NG82MzVpQmczczAvdkZzN2lJNkt1UT09.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century

Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Hypothalamic episode generators underlying the neural control of fertility

Professor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution and assembly of a complex weapon system

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Christine W Miller, University of Florida.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bioelectronic tools to study the gut-brain axis

Prof Roisin Owens.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Reconsolidation-based approaches for the treatment of mental health disorders

Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 07 November 2022, 16:15-18:00

Microglia webinar series

Microglial states and nomenclature

Prof. Amanda Sierra. Achucarro Basque Centre for Neuroscience, Spain.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09 (Meeting ID: 941 2860 1767, Passcode: E2Gpvk35FP).

Monday 07 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Asymmetry in the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice

Lettie Roach, Columbia University.

BAS Seminar Room 1; https://ukri.zoom.us/j/97859929989.

Monday 07 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation

Professor Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Myelin Repair

Neurovascular Interactions: Mechanisms, Imaging, Therapeutics

Dr Katerina Akassoglou.

Zoom and in person.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis

Maja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany.

Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Soft Tissue

Laura Owen, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 04 November 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mosquitoes in the Cambridgeshire Fens: past, present and future

Mark Welch, Natural History Museum.

Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion

Host - Marco Geymonat

Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

Ultrasound for the brain: new tools for reading and writing in the neural circuits

Charlie Demene (ESPCI Paris).

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Huntington's disease, the Young Adult Study (HD-YAS)

Dr Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing Parasite-Resistant Systems in Tomatoes to Control Infestations of Cuscuta campestris

Dr Min-Yao Jhu, Sustainable Crop Nutrition Group, Crop Science Centre.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Zika virus emergence: the African exception

Dr Louis Lambrechts (Institut Pasteur, France).

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

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Crick Lecture 2022: Neurobiology of Social and Sickness Behaviors

Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91021060396?pwd=c1o1TWVTSTNHTWM1dW5lcm54cURKQT09.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 2: cell biology

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 03 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observing the Southern Ocean carbon cycle with autonomous floats

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

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

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Michele Vendruscolo, Co-Director, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Early Science and Medicine

Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images

Surekha Davies (Utrecht University).

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

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

HF radar remote sensing of the marginal ice zone and other interesting places

Stuart Anderson, University of Adelaide.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/91008981392;BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Tuesday 01 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

Dr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath.

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial Communities in an Ever-Changing World

Hybrid talk - email for a zoom link

Alex Dumbrell, University of Essex.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tree islands enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in oil palm landscapes

Clara Zemp.

Zoom only - contact organiser for link.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Embryonic and adult neural stem cells- what underlies their difference

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova and Sumru Bayin

Dr Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Virtual.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain

Prof. Usha Goswami, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 31 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Reimagining Museum Collecting & Collections in Natural History: A Decolonial Perspective

Ms Miranda Lowe.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Zangwill Club

Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder

Dr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species

Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Engineering insights into the strange world of cancer

Dr Shiladitya Sengupta, Harvard Medical School, US.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84909272851?pwd=MWh4VTFZd3ovRjN3LzZ4eU9yOVdpUT09.

Friday 28 October 2022, 12:30-01:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Mr Wobbles

Sara Formoso Prado, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 28 October 2022, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Modelling the implementation of routine varicella vaccination in the UK

Lauren Adams, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 28 October 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Harriet Allen, President CNHS.

via zoom .

Thursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Network-based approaches towards studying context-specific cell signalling

Dr Evangelia Petsalaki.

Online.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century

Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 1: genes and genetic instability

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

Thursday 27 October 2022, 09:30-10:30

Parasitology Seminars

Evidence for pervasive transcription in trypanosomes

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

Dr Antonio Estevez (Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina 'López-Neyra’, IPBLN-CSIC, Granada, Spain).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Buffering genetic variation in populations

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology Unit.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

Online.

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s

Tinne Claes (KU Leuven).

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

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud and David Liu.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling the cell cycle: A new model

Sir Paul Nurse.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Prefrontal Mechanisms for Group Behaviour

Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, and German Primate Center, Göttingen.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 24 October 2022, 16:15-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TALK POSTPONED

Francesca Buffa.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Random walks, self-reinforcement and neurons

Daniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 .

Monday 24 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Zangwill Club

Insights into cortical organisation and neurodevelopment from a genome wide association study (GWAS) of 2,347 structural cortical phenotypes

The host for this talk is Simon Baron-Cohen (sb205@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Translating Proteostasis Mechanisms to Therapeutics of Diseases of Protein Conformation and Aging

Prof Rick Morimoto, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Northwestern University, US.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81119667575?pwd=bXNQVzBXR2p3NXRDWDVVamFQa2JJdz09.

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Exploring terminal duct lobular unit (TDLU) development using non-traditional models

Ben Davies, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 21 October 2022, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Acupuncture in Veterinary Medicine

Hanna Machin, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 21 October 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Georgie Bray, RSPB.

via zoom .

Thursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

Neurocomputational basis of anxiety

Oliver Robinson (UCL).

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Identification of candidate neural biomarkers of OCD symptom intensity and response to Deep Brain Stimulation

Dr Nicole Provenza, Baylor College of Medicine.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

Dr. Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Evolution & Development Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Investigating enteric virus-host interactions in human intestinal organoids

Dr Christiane Wobus (University of Michigan Medical School, USA).

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

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour pathology, structure and nomenclature

Dr. Paul Edwards (University of Cambridge).

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 09:30-10:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

A semantics knowledge commons for climate change

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Peter Murray-Rust, Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714)

Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University).

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

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built

Professor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Lorin Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University .

Virtual Seminar .

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The dynamics of predators in a novel world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Robert Fletcher, University of Florida.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Cryo-ET reveals sarcomere structures at molecular resolution

Prof. Dr. Stefan Raunser, Director, Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96648790745?pwd=Tkx6OVpoY01ieTRMTFMzZ0QvWWR2UT09.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?

Prof. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease.

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

Monday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why We Aren't Just Great Apes

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 17 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Representation and computation in visual working memory

Paul Bays, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 17 October 2022, 16:15-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Climate variability and change in the subpolar Southern Ocean (and its impact on biogeochemistry and marine ecosystems)

Graeme MacGilchrist, Princeton University & NOAA-GFDL.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/99601243156; BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Monday 17 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Plastic brains for flexible decisions

Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applications

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Power to the protein: analyse, signal and protect with bacterial superglues

Professor Mark Howarth, University of Cambridge.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83567507458?pwd=d3VlOGo1djBaQkRyL21YT2NSMFhQQT09.

Friday 14 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Incidence of post-anaesthetic respiratory complications and their risk factors in 199 dogs undergoing surgery for brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome

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

LT2.

Friday 14 October 2022, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Genomic epidemiology of E. coli isolates from Pakistan

Ubaid Zia, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 14 October 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Monica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

via zoom .

Thursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Lin Wang

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

Multimodal imaging and stimulation approaches to study motor learning

Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford).

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

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

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

Probing the rate limitation of a cancer driver mutation

Hans-Reimer Rodewald, DKFZ.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Translational Biomarkers of Cognitive Control and Reward Responsivity

Dr James Cavanagh, University of New Mexico.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Protein import into chloroplasts and its regulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system

R. Paul Jarvis, Section of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford .

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Virology Seminars

The many ways that vaccinia virus interferes with interferon: does monkeypox virus do so too?

Prof. Geoffrey Smith (Department of Pathology. University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Parasitology Seminars

Mathematical modelling in the neglected topical disease elimination era

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

Dr Martin Walker. (Royal Veterinary College and Imperial College London).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

An introduction to counts-of-counts data

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Simon Tavaré PhD Herbert and Florence Irving Director Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences Columbia University.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

Online.

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

ARClub Talks

Autistic Friendships

Prof. Tony Attwood, Associate Professor at Griffith University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Autistic Friendships

Prof. Tony Attwood, Associate Professor at Griffith University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Designing the BEARS (Both Ears) Virtual Reality Training Package to Improve Spatial Hearing in Young People with Bilateral Cochlear Implant

Dr Deborah Vickers, Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Environment-neuroendocrine interactions regulating larval settlement in the marine worm Platynereis

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Elizabeth Williams, University of Exeter.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

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

Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Climate Change and Planet Earth: A View from the Poles

Prof Michael Meredith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 10 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Anterior Insula and Prospect Theory

Veit Stuphorn, Department of Neuroscience, Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A..

Zoom only.

Monday 10 October 2022, 16:15-18:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Gene Therapy and beyond – hopes and challenges in therapy development for neurological disorders”

Dr Kathrin Meyer, Ohio State University.

MRC MBU, Sackler Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Monday 10 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Reduced overturning and abyssal ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin

Kathy Gunn, CSIRO.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/95409884242; BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Monday 10 October 2022, 10:00-11:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Exploring the origin of multicellularity in real time: what we've learned from 5,000 generations of laboratory evolution

Online talk - email organisers for a zoom link

William Ratcliff, Georgia Tech.

Venue to be confirmed.

Saturday 08 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

What kind of network is the brain?

John Mollon (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Adherens junctions, mechanotransduction and intra-epithelial communication

Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean water masses reveal the geographic pattern of water cycle change

Jan Zika, UNSW Sydney.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/95640767988; BAS Seminar Room 2.

Friday 07 October 2022, 10:00-11:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds: From back pain to paralysis; what should we do with those discs?

Viviana Rojas and Sam Khan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

Stefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography).

Thursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30

Chaucer Club

Tidying up working memory

Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

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

Thursday 06 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Myelin Repair

Building a remyelination trial in pediatric MS

Professor Ann Yeh, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Zoom and in person.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Using coupled climate models to understand recent and projected Southern Ocean changes

Ariaan Purich, Monash University.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/97192560202; BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 05 October 2022, 10:00-11:00

Genetics Seminar

Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?

Host - Frank Jiggins

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

Zoom meeting.

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

ARClub Talks

SENSORY SUBTYPES IN AUTISM: State of the Evidence & Future Directions

Professor Alison Lane, Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre School of Psychology & Public Health, La Trobe University .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 12:30-01:30

Immunology in Pathology

Title to be confirmed

Salim Khakoo.

Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Regulation of mRNA translation and decay

David Bartel, Professor of Biology, MIT, HHMI, and Whitehead Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99553714360?pwd=bVRGN3o1a0dsazJIMnVIemlRbjltZz09.

Tuesday 27 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

Chengyan Liu, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory .

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/98617015574; BAS seminar room 330b.

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

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

This seminar has been cancelled - we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you

**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023**

Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

ARClub Talks

The neuroscience of resilience: Lessons from autism

Mayada Elsabbagh, McGill University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 14 September 2022, 12:30-01:30

Myelin Repair

Integrated epigenomics reveal dysregulated chromatin landscapes in aged hematopoietic stem cells underlying aberrant transcription

Dr Isabel Beerman– National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD.

Zoom and in person.

Monday 12 September 2022, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Encoding tissue morphogenesis with genetics, mechanics and geometry

Professor Thomas Lecuit, Group leader at IBDM and Turing Center for living systems, Marseille. Professor at Collège de France, Paris.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91594582633?pwd=UlBaTk1uTHJ4bW9JbFMwSEZxRE0zdz09.

Thursday 08 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

This seminar will be held in-person and virtually

Prof Chris Hollis & Prof Ellen Townsend, University of Nottingham.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 12:30-13:30

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

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

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein Lecture 2022 - Project Lightspeed – The discovery of the first Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine

Özlem Türeci, M.D., Professor Personalized Cancer Immunotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Co-founder, CMO BioNTech, Germany.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09.

Tuesday 26 July 2022, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein Lecture 2022 - mRNA Cancer Vaccines

Ugur Sahin, M.D., Professor Translational Oncology & Immunology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Co-founder, CEO BioNTech, Germany.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09.

Tuesday 26 July 2022, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

ARClub Talks

Taking heterogeneity seriously: Towards new research and support strategies

***PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME OF ARCLUB TALKS***

Beatriz Lopez, University of Portsmouth.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 12:30-01:30

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

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

Venue to be confirmed.

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

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

Mitochondria and Cancer - lessons learned dissecting cellular and molecular interactions

**Please note this seminar will take place at 12 noon**

Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

Dr Daniel Muñoz-Espin; Department of Oncology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The impact of climate variability on ice sheet dynamics in an East Antarctic basin

Felicity McCormack, Monash University.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/94254273724;BAS seminar room 2.

Tuesday 12 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Combining multi-omics and biological knowledge to extract disease mechanisms

Please contact Ciara for further details

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

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic Cancer: Challenges, Models and Therapeutic Opportunities

Dr Giulia Biffi; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Deep-reaching global ocean overturning circulation generated by surface buoyancy forcing

Andreas Klocker, University of Tasmania.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/98472047905;BAS seminar room 2.

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 15:00-16:00

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

Prof William Rosenberger, George Mason University.

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

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

Microglia webinar series

Spatial heterogeneity of microglia in CNS disease

Bart Eggen, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

https://zoom.us/j/95152465088?pwd=eTNJUzJTbjJLa2YvcXY4aFJ1eXA1QT09 Meeting ID: 951 5246 5088 Passcode: X1cm68NuVp .

Monday 04 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

A system-wide quantitative map of RNA subcellular re-localization in response to UPR activation

Tom Smith, Research Fellow, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

CCMR Events

Mechanisms of NSC differentiation: from Coagulation to Immunomodulation

In Person at JCBC, or online via Zoom (contact: kh621@cam.ac.uk) for details

Dr Christian Schachtrup, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 16:00-18:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Network function in human cerebral organoids as a platform for mechanistic and therapeutic advances in cognitive disorders

Dr Susanna Barrett Mierau.

Online.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies

Karen Campbell (Brock University).

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

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

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Phenotypic Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Variants

Dami Aderonke Collier.

https://zoom.us/j/3099086970?pwd=NDhZc2ZjUkNaOXQ5SlZha1k2QjVZZz09.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Axoptosis: Mechanisms for coordinating axonal degeneration”

Professor Leonard A. Levin, McGill University.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 30 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: The most lethal urological malignancy

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Chaucer Club

Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domains

Jorn Diedrichsen (University of Western Ontario).

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

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Unexpected roles for ubiquitin in immunity.

Justine Mintern .

Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data

Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89002493651?pwd=B_2gKl7va_h0CQ9yoMPSbn2ifYLGi4.1.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Somewhere over the Brainbow: super-multicolour imaging to automate neural circuit reconstructions

Dr Marcus Leiwe, Kyushu University, Japan.

Hodgkin–Huxley Seminar Room Physiology Building, Downing Site CB2 3DY Cambridge.

Monday 27 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Perception and learning in autism

Nazia Jassim, PhD candidate, Autism Research Centre.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 27 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“In vivo assessment of synaptic loss in non-AD tauopathies”

Dr Negin Holland, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 23 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cell differentiation and tumour initiation - two sides of the coin

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Oceanic and atmospheric controls on decadal melt variability in the Amundsen Sea

Joren Janzing, Utrecht University/BAS.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/94378667032;BAS seminar room 1.

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

Theory of mind, gender, and human progress | Empathy, psychopathy, and brain structure

Marcin Aleksander Radecki.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 20 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deciphering Shared Intratumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity of Human Tumors

Valentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Discovering and quantifying patterns in networks with coloured nodes

Dr Vincenzo Nicosia.

Online.

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

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways

Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Computer-based trainings as an add-on to the treatment of alcohol addiction: Where are we, how did we get there, and where should we go?

Prof Mike Rinck, Radboud University.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

CpG Enrichment as a Vaccine Strategy for Influenza A Virus

Dr Elly Gaunt, The University of Edinburgh.

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

Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Inducing mtDNA alterations in mouse dopaminergic neurons to study if and how they contribute to Parkinsons disease like phenotype”

Professor Rudolf Wiesner, University of Cologne.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study

Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84968458381?pwd=TWM5ZkF2bjdBM09jaVlJZHRUTFlFUT09.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

CANCELLED The impact of environmental factors on cancer

Dr Elisabete Silva, Brunel University London.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Finding a needle in a haystack: Genome-wide analyses of anthelmintic resistance in helminths of livestock

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

Dr Roz Laing (University of Glasgow).

Department of Pathology Lecture Theatre.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Misinformation: Subjective beliefs, Source credibility, and Social Networks

Jens Koed Madsen, London School of Economics.

https://zoom.us/j/91013725662?pwd=V1VVYzJGenB2R3p5NHl3dUhaNlM1QT09.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jakub Onysk and Yul Kang.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

Dan Swerdlow, Silence Therapeutics .

Virtual Seminar .

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Are we alone?

Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 13 June 2022, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Neurodevelopmental risk assessment in the COVID-19 Mother Baby Outcomes (COMBO) Initiative at Columbia University

Dr. Dani Dumitriu, Columbia University Iriving Medical Center.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 13 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level

Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

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

LT2.

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

Chaucer Club

Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control

Sven Bestmann (UCL).

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

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

Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

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

Genetics Seminar

Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability

Host - Cahir O’Kane

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis

Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Multi-modal neuroimaging biomarkers in dementia with Lewy bodies: An overview

Dr Elijah Mak, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Sickness behaviour and depression: an updated model of peripheral central immune interactions”

Professor Federico Turkheimer, King's College London.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Maike de La Roche, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Publishing your work in Nature Human Behaviour and other Nature portfolio journals

Marike Schiffer, PhD (Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour).

https://zoom.us/j/91285050301?pwd=bkNKeXhRV25US2phMlNISGpGcERvZz09.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

David Schroeder, University of Reading.

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

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

Immunology in Pathology

Therapeutic targeting of recurrently mutated driver oncogenes using TCR gene therapy

Chris Klebanoff.

Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Decoding transcriptional regulation

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova & Julie Ahringer

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

Gurdon Institute Tea Room AND on Zoom.

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

Microglia webinar series

How microglia shape synapse homeostasis

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated in "Venue"

Michela Matteoli, Milan, Italy..

https://zoom.us/j/97166826000?pwd=QzlIMzVZQ0V3MHhFeG5UZExIaFhSdz09 Meeting ID: 971 6682 6000 Passcode: z8dyfgibi8.

Monday 06 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Promoting Psychological Health Among Adolescents and Adults on the Autism Spectrum

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time

Prof. Somer Bishop & Dr. Shuting Zheng, University of California San Francisco.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 06 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

Immunology in Pathology

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

Mathew Clement.

Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Wayne Soo.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

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

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

Alex Berry, Fang Foo, Mica Taylor.

LT2.

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

Genetics Seminar

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings

Joel Voss (University of Chicago) .

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What is a delusion? Results and implications of phenomenological research

Dr Jasper Feyaerts, Ghent University.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 26 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

"The prohibitin proteins in myelination"

Dr Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 26 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

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

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

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Understanding Myc Transcription

Dr Cathy Wilson, Department of Pharmacology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

Dr Dorit Hockman.

Zoom.

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

Immunology in Pathology

Regulation of innate immune activation during viral infections

Ian Humphreys.

Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America

Kathryn Renton (UCLA).

Zoom.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Apathy and impulsivity in neurological disease – cause, effect and treatment

Professor James Rowe.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted: Ben Simons

Wolf Reik, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Projectile Fusion A new challenge in applied computational science and engineering

Dr. Nathan Joiner, First Light Fusion, Yarnton, Oxfordshire.

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

Monday 23 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Control limited perceptual decision making

Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 23 May 2022, 16:15-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Genomic Evolution of Cancer

David Wedge, University of Manchester.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancer

Roberta Azzarelli Wellcome, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute University of Cambridge.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Aaron Klug Memorial Symposium

Various - see Further Information.

Registration via https://www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/sites/klug/.

Friday 20 May 2022, 09:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS: Fad diets and broken hearts: the link between diet and DCM in dogs

Cat Partington, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 20 May 2022, 08:45-10:00

Genetics Seminar

Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur

Host: Frank Jiggins

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Unlocking lncRNA functions using an arrayed CRISPRi screening platform with cellular and molecular phenotyping

Fien Gysens, PhD student, OncoRNA lab, Ghent University, Belgium.

Online.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Hacking the germline : how paralogs bend the rules of gene expression

Peter Andersen, Group Leader, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Online.

Thursday 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

Batuhan Arasli, University of Maryland.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Attachment, Uptake and Cytosol Penetration: How non-enveloped viruses enter the cell

Prof. Stephen Harrison.

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

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Cell Plasticity and Lineage Commitment in Liver Tumorigenesis

**Please note this seminar will take place in person only**

Lars Zender, University Hospital Tuebingen.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Belowground Microbial Community Responses to Climate Change: Resistance, Resilience, and Alternative States

Professor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

Prof Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

"HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE- Where has our research taken us to date?"

Professor Roger Barker, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer resistance in the naked mole-rat, a tale of transformation

Prof Ewan St John Smith; Dept of Pathology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 09:30-10:30

Parasitology Seminars

Genome-led vaccine target discovery for parasitic infections

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

Professor Gavin Wright (University of York).

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

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Dr Edwige Moyroud.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

T cells in the brain

Professor Adrian Liston.

Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Root System Architecture Traits Supporting High Yielding Winter Wheat

Eric Ober.

Online.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: NSP2 and the Regulation of the Symbiotically Permissive State

Darius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2022

Various.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Exploring mechanisms of human brain expansion in cerebral organoids

Dr Madeline Lancaster MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

How a recurrent circuit of Poisson spiking neurons is able to implement sampling-based inference

Wen-Hao Zhang.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

On the neural language of the cerebellum

Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 16 May 2022, 16:15-18:00

ARClub Talks

Neuroplacentology

Anna Penn, Columbia University & NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 16 May 2022, 15:30-16:30

Zangwill Club

Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength and Reward Value Modulate the Intrinsic Excitability and Recruitment of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Ensembles

Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamic buffering of extracellular chemokine to enable robust adaptation during directed tissue migration

Mie Wong, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks

Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84829493214?pwd=HI3JJJ8nrt6O8AELEzbXvT8ZoBj51t.1.

Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Feline cholangiopathies – A search for an immune-mediated aetiology

Jason Bestwick, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 13 May 2022, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Does Schistosoma mansoni harbour a microbiota

Fabio Formenti, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 13 May 2022, 08:45-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Kendrew Lecture 2022: Chemogenetic and optogenetic technologies for probing molecular and cellular networks

Alice Ting - Professor of Genetics, of Biology and, by courtesy, of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator .

Zoom link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99780084619?pwd=V3RmYTdTbmlBLzFLd1NOR0hHcjFIZz09.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Marco Geymonat

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Stomatal evolution and using knowledge of stomatal function to breed more resilient crops

Professor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol .

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thoughts that go bump in the night: sleep-sensitive circuits in psychiatry

Prof Matt Jones, University of Bristol.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 12 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Dr Suzannne Turner, Dept of Pathology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 09:30-10:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Face and feeling: Examining the role of facial feedback in emotional feeling

Dr. Nicholas Coles, Stanford University,.

https://zoom.us/j/93583553185?pwd=d1kvR3A1VnNxemZwWUNhR2RJUGk5Zz09.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sensitivity of Antarctic shelf waters to wind amplitude and meltwater

Adele Morrison, Australian National University .

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/91303317777; BAS seminar room 1.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Prof Gaspar Jékely.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The future of cancer screening: stratified, pan, both or neither?

Professor Peter Sasieni, King’s Clinical Trials Unit, King’s College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

Guy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

Online.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 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

Dr Lizzi Pitt, University of Bath.

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

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Aversive cognition: inference, learning and control of aversive states in the human brain

Flavia Mancini, Department of Engineering.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 09 May 2022, 16:15-18:00

Microglia webinar series

Diversity of brain macrophages

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated in "Venue"

Josef Priller, University of Edinburgh & Technical University of Munich.

https://zoom.us/j/93385021933?pwd=cnNabGRvL0lJUk9qKzFNNGpydTdCQT09 Meeting ID: 933 8502 1933 Passcode: bmBXz8QB2j.

Monday 09 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Hematopoietic Malignancies

Hosted by: Andrea Brand & John Gurdon

Prof Robert G Roeder, The Rockefeller University, New York.

Webinar.

Monday 09 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Investigating how schizophrenia risk genes impact brain function and cognition

Professor Jeremy Hall (Cardiff University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cells in gels: identification of Plakoglobin as an evolutionary conserved mechanosensitive regulator of naïve pluripotency

Timo Kohler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Use of cellular barcoding to track the clonal evolution in Ewing's Sarcoma cells

Ya Ma, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 06 May 2022, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Looking for the biases and gaps in spillover data of zoonotic viruses

Imogen Lindsley, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 06 May 2022, 08:45-10:00

Foster Talks

The long road of building a nervous system - smooth travels and accidents on the journey to get the shape and size.

Elisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona.

On Zoom.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes

Host - Carol Edwards

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS)

Cathy Price (UCL).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

Professor Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemas.

Online.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Brain charts for the human lifespan

Dr Richard Bethlehem, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 05 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

The Role of Mononuclear Phagocytes in Sexual Transmission

Dr Andrew Harman, The University of Sydney.

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

Thursday 05 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Can we block axon degeneration in disease?”

Dr Andrea Loreto, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 05 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

ENIGMA at 10: What have we learned from a decade of large scale collaborative meta-analysis in neuroimaging

Prof Sarah Medland.

Online.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in paediatric tumours

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Taming your intestinal parasite - building the tools to study Cryptosporidium

Canceled

Dr Adam Sateriale (Francis Crick Institute).

Thomas Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Biochemistry (Sanger).

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Evaluating the skill of seasonal forecasts of sea ice in the Southern Ocean: insights from the SIPN South project 2017-2022

François Massonnet, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain).

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/94619857237; BAS seminar room 1.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Dr Jordi Solana.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair

Magdalena Götz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

Zoom only.

Monday 02 May 2022, 16:15-18:00

Pharmacology Tea Club seminars

Protein Design Using Deep Learning

Annual David James Lecture 2021-2022, Department of Pharmacology

Professor David Baker, Institute of Protein Design, Washington University.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oWsowrrnQ5-LiMi6OtktrQ .

Friday 29 April 2022, 17:00-18:15

Zangwill Club

Trials and Tribulations: the challenges of promoting sustainable improvements in child development

Professor Pasco Fearon.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 April 2022, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain

Sumru Bayin, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 29 April 2022, 13:15-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

The evolution of virulence in Streptococcus suis

Eliza Rayner, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 29 April 2022, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Investigating BOAS in different brachycephalic breeds

Fran Tomlinson, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambrige.

LT2.

Friday 29 April 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Transposons and evolutionary novelties of a symbiotic genome

Alexandra Dallaire, Future Leader Fellow, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew; Gurdon Institute; Darwin Tree of Life UK.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

RNA Length has a non-trivial effect in the stability of biomoelecular condensates formed by RNA-binding proteins

Ignacio Sanchez-Burgos, PhD student, Collepardo Lab, Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time

Anna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania) .

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

Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

**Please note this seminar has been cancelled and rescheduled to 16 March 2023**

Fatima Metcha-Grigoriou, Institut Curie.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What can genetics tell us about depression?

Dr David Howard, King's College London.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 28 April 2022, 12:30-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Dr Jason Carroll; CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 09:30-10:30

CCMR Events

CCMR Annual Symposium

Please contact the University of Cambridge Online Store to register: https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/

Prof. Anna Williams; Prof. Brian Popko; Prof. Robin Franklin; Dr Omar de Faria Jr; Dr Alexandra Nicaise; Dr Nick Cunniffe; Dr Andras Lakatos; Dr Andrea Lareto; Dr Madeline Lancaster; Dr Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 09:00-21:00

Parasitology Seminars

Hunting the Silent Killer: Investigating Chagas disease in a murine model

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

Dr Martin Taylor. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Prof Paola Oliveri.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Preventing and reversing immunopathology: respective roles of regulatory CD4 T cells and regulatory plasma cells

Professor Simon Fillatreau.

Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genotypic variation in maize influences rates of soil organic matter mineralisation and gross nitrification

Dr Lumbani Mwafulirwa, Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Characterising the epistatic relationship between signalling pathways for AM symbiosis in rice

Raffy Hull, PhD student, Paszkowski group, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity

Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Prof Trevor Campbell, The University of British Columbia .

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

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Cell-type-specific vulnerability, degeneration and repair in a novel human organoid neuraxis model

András Lakatos, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

Monday 25 April 2022, 16:15-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Drug response and tolerance in normal and cancer cells

Klaas Mulder, Molecular Developmental Biology, Radboud University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Marine biogeochemistry along the Northern Antarctic Peninsula

Thiago Monteiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande/University of Edinburgh.

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Monday 25 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS: Neurotoxicoses: a short case series

Bruno Scalia, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 22 April 2022, 08:45-10:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

A Connectomic Hypothesis for the Hominization of the Brain

Prof Claus Hilgetag.

Online.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Recent irreversible retreat of Pine Island Glacier caused by changes in ocean forcing

Bradley Reed, Bangor University.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/92025631637;BAS seminar room 2.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination

University of Cambridge.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/87988930234?pwd=eHRGTHFtUE9UL0pJOWNtdDF2VDN2UT09.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Foster Talks

Global Views of Mammalian Development

Jay Shendure, University of Washington.

hybrid format.

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

RNA Collaborative Seminar Series special event

Kathryn Lilley; Alex Borodovka.

Online.

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 15:00-17:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Engineering Organoid Development

Professor Matthias Lutolf, Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering, Basel, Switzerland and Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, EPFL, Switzerland.

Zoom link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97051627883?pwd=cUh3ZDZkT3I2bHdxVXo0TytZSEJkdz09.

Tuesday 19 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Daniel St Johnston & Andrea Brand

Anne-Kathrin Classen, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Live Zoom Seminar.

Tuesday 12 April 2022, 11:30-12:30

Foster Talks

Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant function

Manohar Bance, University of Cambridge.

hybrid format.

Thursday 07 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Myelinated axon formation, health and function”

Professor David Lyons, University of Edinburgh.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 07 April 2022, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical features of high grade serous ovarian cancer

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Boundary layer turbulence below ice shelves in the shear-dominated regime

Carolyn Begeman (Los Alamos National Laboratory).

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/99471476617;BAS seminar room 330b.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Revealing the “box” code: the spatial and temporal regulation of plant-parasitic nematode pathogenicity

Clement Pellegrin, Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Combining multi-scale phenotyping, AI-powered analysis with genetic mapping studies to connect lab-based plant research with in-field crop improvement

Ji Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

CamBRAIN talks

Neurotalks: Lifelong Brain Development

Yizhou Yu (MRC Toxicology Unit) and Nejc Kejzar (Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

The Cambridge Tap.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 19:00-22:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

David Liu and Edward Young.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 13:30-15:00

Microglia webinar series

Microglial extracellular vesicles

Claudia Verderio, CNR Vedano al Lambro, Italy..

https://zoom.us/j/99313378855?pwd=WHdISHZkQmtDcDNjSDVwd3lRWjBFdz09 Meeting ID: 993 1337 8855 Passcode: S1euwnDicX.

Monday 04 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Deciphering the regulation and regulatory function of oncogenic transcription factors using time-resolved functional genetics

**Please note this seminar will take place on a Friday**

Johannes Zuber, IMP, Vienna BioCentre.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 01 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Inflammation and mental health: questions of causality

Prof Ed Bullmore.

Online.

Thursday 31 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lessons learned from neurobiological characterization studies of functional neurological disorder

Dr David Perez, Harvard Medical School.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 31 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

In vivo functional screens for modelling cancer initiation and progression

Dr Eric Rahrmann, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 31 March 2022, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Max Perutz Lecture 2022: Therapeutic Opportunities in Glycoscience

Carolyn Bertozzi, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry, Baker Family Director, Stanford ChEM-H, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Stanford University.

Zoom: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92288963882?pwd=MEFqUURaRmJ1dkpTNkl1dzhDcHE2QT09.

Tuesday 29 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Causality, Perturbations, Gene Regulation, and Drug Repurposing

Caroline Uhler, Co-Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Zoom.

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

Zangwill Club

Thinking the right thoughts

Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 25 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

via zoom .

Thursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Robust tuning of epigenetic memory by resource competition

Omer Karin, Postdoc, Simons lab, Gurdon Institute.

Online.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

LINE1 biology and its interactome dynamics after drug treatment

Samira Hozeifi, Postdoc, LaCava lab, ERIBA, Netherlands.

Online.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Foster Talks

Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

Physiology Lecture theatre (and on Zoom) .

Thursday 24 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Virtual reality in the assessment, understanding, and treatment of mental health disorders

Chair: Dr Graham Murray

Prof Daniel Freeman, University of Oxford.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 24 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Myelin's highway to the axon and implications for axonal support”

Professor Julia Edgar, University of Glasgow.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 24 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

Prof Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

Lecture Theatre 2, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 09:30-10:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Disentangling polar biogeochemistry using multidisciplinary approaches

Kate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/96825239086; BAS seminar room 1.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Pre-breeding, food security and net zero: so much to do, so little time and money

Phil Howell, Head of Cereals Pre-Breeding, NIAB .

Online.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Improving the mycorrhizal symbiosis in spring barley – lab and field studies

Dr Tom Thirkell, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, CSC.

Online.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

DNA methylation changes at major animal evolutionary transition

Alexandre de Mendoza Soler.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 22 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Protein self-assembly - From fundamentals to applications in materials and drug discovery

Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, U. of Cambridge.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19

Professor Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) .

Zoom meeting.

Friday 18 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantation

Ivan Bedzhov, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany.

Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Martin Davies.

via zoom .

Thursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Foster Talks

Development of interneurons in visual cortex

Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.

hybrid format.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Prof Aldo Faisal.

Online.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memory

Seralynne Vann (Cardiff University).

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

Thursday 17 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Title to be confirmed

**This seminar has been postponed and will be rescheduled early next year**

Karen Vousden, The Crick Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Treating Gaming Disorder in the NHS: A two year overview

Chair: Dr Valerie Voon

Prof Henrietta Bowden-Jones (President of Psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine).

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 17 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Functional transcriptomics in neurodegenerative disorders”

Dr Roberto Simone, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 17 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer Dept of Haematology, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 09:30-10:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Understanding the effects of repetition on belief

Lisa Fazio (Vanderbilt).

via zoom .

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Variability and drivers of the subpolar Southern Ocean circulation from satellite altimetry

Matthis Auger, Sorbonne Université.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/96468249588; BAS seminar room 330b.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Immunology in Pathology

Mazes models and maths - discovering how chemotactic cells decide where to go, and how reverse chemotaxis can work

Professor Robert Insall.

Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

Dr Kostya Kanyuka, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling Drug Transport With Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

Professor Ijeoma F. Uchegbu | UCL School of Pharmacy.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Early Science and Medicine

Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade

Yijun Wang (New York University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Network science and network medicine: New strategies for understanding and treating the biological basis of mental ill-health

Dr Petra Vértes, Department of Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

An ancient DNA perspective on the Ice Age megafauna

Pete Heintzman (The Arctic University of Norway).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions

Gilad Silberberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

Monday 14 March 2022, 16:15-18:00

Psychology talks and events

Clinical neuroscience and the heart: How cardiac signals influence emotion and cognition

Professor Sarah Garfinkel (UCL).

virtually served - Zoom.

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:15-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of organismal stress resistance in C. elegans

Rebecca Taylor, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Modelling the spatial and temporal patterns of anthrax risk across Kenya and Uganda using a Bayesian approach

Valentina Ndolo, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 11 March 2022, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

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

Malina Filipas, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 11 March 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Rebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

via zoom .

Thursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Foster Talks

Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish

Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai.

hybrid format.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris.

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

Online.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Transcription and Genome Replication Machinery of Non-segmented Negative Strand RNA Viruses

Dr Rachel Fearns, Boston University, USA.

https://zoom.us/j/94063949846?pwd=UW8wTlNKR09UTWZqdHBubjlQSGJxUT09.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can We Rewrite Maladaptive Memories? The Potential and Challenges of Harnessing Memory Reconsolidation as a Therapeutic Target in Mental Health

Chair: Prof Jeff Dalley

Dr Ravi Das, University College London.

Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 10 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Beyond proteinopathies, in vivo clinical markers for inflammation and synaptic loss in frontotemporal lobar degeneration”

Dr Maura Malpetti, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 10 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies - an overview

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Reconsidering the relationship between personality and politics

Bert Bakker (Amsterdam).

via zoom .

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

The discriminatory power of the T cell antigen receptor

Omer Dushek.

Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Atmosphere-ocean interactions: Global-scale impacts on tropospheric chemistry

Professor Lucy Carpenter.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Flavia Mancini and Finn Ashley.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:30-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking oceanic sharks’ ups and downs in a changing world

David Sims (Marine Biological Association).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

Professor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

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

Monday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

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

Wayne Soon (Vassar College).

Zoom.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Inhibitory control of dopaminergic neurons - dendrites, soma and axons

Zayd Khaliq, NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

Monday 07 March 2022, 16:15-18:00

Microglia webinar series

Role of microglia in myelin repair

Mikael Simons, DZNE Munich, Germany.

https://zoom.us/j/95012836819?pwd=bi83ZjNFOHFFVkdxV0h3Rmc4djFBdz09 Meeting ID: 950 1283 6819 Passcode: 5cpeaE6bg0.

Monday 07 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird.

Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Pharmacology Tea Club seminars

The COVID Moonshot: Open Science Discovery of Oral Non-Covalent SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitor Therapeutics

Dr Alpha Lee, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81177193310?pwd=QTVKcWQvTWtPU0ZVbGlpZFhzNTJIdz09 .

Friday 04 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian development

Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 04 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Identification and production of putative antimicrobial peptides from the Black Soldier Fly

Leila Fahmy, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 04 March 2022, 08:45-10:00