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Foster Talks

The Environment and the Developing Brain: A Complex and Continuing Conversation

UserStephen G. Matthews, Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health, Depts Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 28 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpin cell migration essential for mouse anterior patterning

UserShankar Srinivas, Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics at the University of Oxford, based at the Institute for Developmental and Regenerative Medicine. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 09 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast

UserMiguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserSusan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Human lung organoid models of lung development and disease

also hybrid, check this space for upcoming Zoom link!

UserEmma Rawlins, The Gurdon Institute/PDN, Univeristy of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 07 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Dissecting neuronal circuits underlying visual cognition: from macaques to marmosets

UserKeita Tamura, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Going out on a limb to study mechanisms controlling organ size and proportions

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86076415954?pwd=XTPUrPn3tx4Z1T0ant39Y7HyaVBPtO.1

UserAlberto Rosell-Diez, PDN University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Immunosuppression for Parkinson's disease - a new therapeutic strategy?

UserDr Caroline Williams-Gray, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Membrane shapes and dynamics driven by curved active proteins

Hosted by Milka Sarris and Ewa Paluch

UserNir Gov, Weizmann Institute Israel.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 23 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Programmed axon death: from animal models into human disease

UserProfessor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

How can we treat visceral pain?

UserDr David Bulmer, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Dr Kate Baker

UserDr Kate Baker, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Hypothalamic episode generators underlying the neural control of fertility

UserProfessor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built

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

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

UserProfessor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Foster Talks

The long road of building a nervous system - smooth travels and accidents on the journey to get the shape and size.

UserElisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona.

HouseOn Zoom.

ClockThursday 05 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity

UserProfessor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Global Views of Mammalian Development

UserJay Shendure, University of Washington.

Househybrid format.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant function

UserManohar Bance, University of Cambridge.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 07 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

UserDanijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

HousePhysiology Lecture theatre (and on Zoom) .

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Development of interneurons in visual cortex

UserRenata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish

User Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity

UserMarcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools

UserWendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention

UserDr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

CANCELLED: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

UserDanijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 09 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex

UserRiccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 02 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Mechanisms to medicines in neurodegeneration

UserProfessor Giovanna Mallucci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Foster Talks

Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situ

User Prof. Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis

UserFiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Transdiagnostic approaches to understanding neurodevelopment

UserDr Duncan Astle, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of Aging

UserAnne Brunet, Stanford University.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The brain control of appetite: Can an old dog teach us new tricks?

UserDr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines

UserDavid Sheppard, Bristol University.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

In vitro bioelectronic models of the gut-brain axis

UserProfessor Róisín Owens, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Can we repair the Parkinsonian brain?

UserProfessor Roger Barker, Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Regulation of stem cell fate by niche-derived factors and forces.

UserSara Wickström, University of Helsinki.

HouseLive Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representations

UserAndre Fenton, New York University.

HouseLive Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

ClockThursday 18 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Organization of Midbrain Serotonin System

UserDr Jing Ren, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Electronics on the brain

UserProfessor George Malliaras, Department of Engineering.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Recurrent problems in spinal-cord and cerebellar circuits

UserDr Steve Edgley, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Will the Real Preeclampsia Patient Please Stand Up?

User Brian Cox, University of Toronto.

HouseLive Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Working Memory 2.0

UserEarl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Generation Covid-19: Should the fetus be worried?

UserDr. Topun Austin (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) & Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (Dept. of Psychology) .

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

TBC

UserKevin Chalut, Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge.

HouseLive Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

UserJulie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles).

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

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Population studies and ageing brains, in a time of COVID

UserProfessor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care).

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Flexible redistribution in the language network

UserDr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences).

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

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

3D Genomics in development and disease

UserStefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis

UserKate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing

UserRobin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation

UserJames Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neural progenitors and neural tube defects.

UserAndy Copp, University College, London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The emotional brain and the neurobiology of uniqueness

UserTara L. White, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, USA.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Tipping the balance and regulatory processes during sex determination.

UserRobin Lovell-Badge, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

FOSTER TALK - Decoding the visual cortex

UserDr Nathalie Rochefort, University of Edinburgh.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - CANCELLED - Redox Oscillations in the Circadian Clockwork

UserProfessor Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

TODAY Foster Talk - Integrin-associated adhesion complexes and their role in mechanotransduction

UserDr Christof Ballestrem, Welcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research, University of Manchester.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair

UserProfessor Manuel Serrano, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Ageing Rates in Meerkats

UserJack Thorley - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 05 May 2017, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

How do predators use social information about defended prey?

UserLiisa Hämäläinen - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 05 May 2017, 16:30-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The role of p53 in cell competition and leader cell migration

UserKatarzyna (Kasia) Kozyrska - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 21 April 2017, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Kv10.1: a potassium channel involved in malignant growth

UserProfessor Walter Stuehmer, University of Goettingen (Germany).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Live imaging inflammation in wound healing and cancer

UserProfessor Paul Martin, University of Bristol.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Signaling pathways to resilience or dysfunction in the brain

UserProfessor Giles Hardingham, University of Edinburgh.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

One day meeting on vision and neuroscience

In the Craik Club tradition, the administrative arrangements for this meeting are minimal. There is no registration fee. However, so that we can cater appropriately (and also for security reasons), we do ask you to sign up at http://doodle.com/poll/hrd

UserOne day meeting on vision and neuroscience.

HouseDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience: Physiology Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 12 December 2016, 10:30-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Walking response of crickets depends on surface structure of the substrate

UserEdith Julieta (Julie) Sarmiento-Ponce - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 09 December 2016, 16:30-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Deep Neural Networks

UserNikolaus Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseNick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 16:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Early life social behaviour and learning in juvenile Hihi

UserVictoria Franks - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Evolution of the tetrapod tympanic ear

UserProfessor Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Spatial polarization vision in crustaceans

UserDr Martin How, Bristol University.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Learning flights in bumblebees

UserDr Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Exeter University.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Fly photoreceptors encode phase congruency

UserProf Daniel Coca, University of Sheffield.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

UserElizabeth Murchison, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge Veterinary School.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The behavioural ecology of bacteria in infection

UserDr. Ashleigh S. Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Raising the whale: defining zoology at Cambridge

UserProf Jim Secord, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Selecting For Plasticity in the Harlequin Ladybird

UserLea Van De Graaf - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 22 April 2016, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Michael Strkyer, UCSF.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Spatial homogeneity of seagrass faunal biodiversity

UserPr. Richard S K Barnes, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The role of individual differences in defining a species niche

UserAnne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 11 March 2016, 16:30-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

‘Of mice and men -­ and birds, too: how to pack lots of neurons in tiny brains, and why that should matter

UserPr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

"Transforming an 800 year old University to make it even better"

UserProfessor Jeremy Sanders, Pro-Vice Chancellor of The University of Cambridge.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

ClockThursday 14 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Concept cells

UserProf Rodrigo Quiroga, University of Leicester.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The Achilles' heel of the heart: the cardiac conduction system

UserProfessor Mark Boyett, University of Manchester.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Heart Disease Link to Fetal Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress

UserProfessor Dino Giussani - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

CANCELLED: Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions

UserProf Ranulfo Romo, Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Polarity reversal during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

UserDr Manuel Thery, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Career Stories

UserDr Trevor Wardill, Dr Erica Watson.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Deciphering signaling specificity in development, one phosphate at a time

UserProfessor Phillipe Soriano, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 15 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Foster Talks

**Out-of-Term Neuroscience Seminar** Cell Biological Insights into Parkinson’s Disease and ADHD

UserProfessor Morgan Sheng, Vice President (Neuroscience & Molecular Biology), Genentech .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Extreme Threats - GL Brown Prize Lecture 2015, The Physiological Society

UserProfessor Mike Tipton, Department of Sport & Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth.

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud

UserDr. Nick Hopwood - Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Making, breaking and directing polarity during neural lumen formation and neurogenesis in the zebrafish embryo

UserProfessor Jon Clarke, King's College London, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neuroimmune interactions in early development and the biological embedding of health disparities

UserProfessor Staci Bilbo, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, USA.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Visual information processing and its role in fly and cephalopod behaviour.

UserDr Trevor Wardill, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction

UserProfessor Norbert Weissmann, ECCPS Professur, University of Giessen, Germany.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Signals and Factors Controlling Stem Cell Activity in the Adult Brain

UserDr François Guillemot, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Going for Gold

UserProfessor Tom Welton, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Inflammation-driven angiogenesis - organ fibrosis & the extracellular matrix

UserDr Christian Stockmann, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Heliconius butterflies: How do bird predators perceive them?

UserDenise DD (University of Cambridge).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 05 December 2014, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The Fitness Exchange Hypothesis

UserAna Mosterin (University of Cambridge).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Self-Organisation of Pluripotent Cells in the Mouse Embryo

UserProfessor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience & Gurdon Institute.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Fronto-subcortical Circuits in Cognition & Emotion: Modulation by Serotonin, Dopamine and Glutamate

UserDr Hannah Clarke, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cell Migration & Gradient Sensing: Lessons from Zebrafish Neutrophils

UserDr Milka Sarris, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience / Cambridge Immunology Network.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Collective Cell Migration: A Cellular, Molecular & Modelling Approach

UserProfessor Roberto Mayor, UCL, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cyclic Nucleotides and Neural Control of Cardiac Excitability in Cardiovascular Disease

UserProfessor David Paterson, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

A Deadly Game of “Tag”: Insect Aerial Predation as a Model for Sensorimotor Processing

UserDr. Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The Reward Prediction Error of Dopamine Neurons: What information does it convey and how is it generated?

UserDr. Christopher D. Fiorillo - Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST - Daejeon, Korea.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The first heart beat: initiation of cardiac contractile activity

UserDr. Shankar Srinivas - Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics - University of Oxford.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Reward Inference by Prefrontal and Striatal neurons and their interaction

UserProf. Masamichi Sakagami - Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

GL Brown Lecture: Calcium in the heart: from physiology to disease

UserProfessor David Eisner - Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms and Evolution of Transcriptional Control in Mammals

UserDr. Duncan Odom - Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute at University of Cambridge..

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Molecular regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells in distinct cell states

UserShahragim Tajbakhsh - Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Regulation of lymphocyte development and activation by RNA binding proteins and non-coding RNA

UserDr Martin Turner; Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, The Babraham Institute.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cortical HCN channels: function, trafficking and plasticity

UserDr Mala Shah; Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Allosteric and genetic modulation of brain inhibition

UserProf Trevor Smart; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Insights into human biology from patterns of genetic variation

UserDr Chris Tyler-Smith - The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Dendritic Potassium Channel Regulation by Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP)

UserDr HyeYoung Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California in San Francisco.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

All for one and one for all: single-cell properties in the service of circuit-level computations

UserDr Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

TBC (muscle metabolism in extreme environments)

UserDr Lindsay Edwards, GlaxoSmithKline, Director (Metabolism and Systems Biology).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

UserRebecca Stott (University of East Anglia, Norwich).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Studies on the evolutionary and functional morphology of mammalian ear ossicles

UserProf Dr Wolfgang Maier (Chair of Systematic Zoology (emeritus) University of Tübingen).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserThanh-Lan Gluckman.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 28 June 2013, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserKwaku Aduse-Poku.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 28 June 2013, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

MeCP2 in the brain and beyond: from biology to disease

UserDr Stuart Cobb. Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserLina Maria Arenas.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 31 May 2013, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancer

UserProf Paul Martin. School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesis

UserProf Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The mechanical control of CNS development and functioning

UserDr Kristian Franze. PDN, University of Cambridge.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Museums and Science

UserIan Owens (Natural History Museum, London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserKrzysztof Kozak.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 03 May 2013, 16:30-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserDavid Labonte.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 05 April 2013, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserAlexander Hackmann.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 05 April 2013, 16:30-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserRamona Mogling.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 22 March 2013, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserMarius Somveille.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 22 March 2013, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Some assembly required: In vitro reconstitution of cellular structures

UserProfessor Dan Fletcher. University of California Berkeley. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Depolarizing GABA actions in development and disease: back to the future

UserProfessor Kai Kaila. Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Food for thought: nutrients and neural stem cells in Drosophila

UserDr Alex Gould. MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London..

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

In the Belly of the Beeb

UserNick Crumpton.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 16:30-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserDave Daversa.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 16:00-16:30

Foster Talks

Pituitary hypoplasia and decreased GnRH neurogenesis in Sox2-deficient Mice

UserDr. Juan Pedro Martinez-Barbera. UCL Institute of Child Health.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The human endometrium - dynamics and disorders

UserProfessor Philippa Saunders. University of Ediburgh. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

An as-if model of economic decision making

UserDr Ian Krajbich. Department of Economics, University of Zurich .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Combinatorial and Dynamic Control Logic within pathogen-responsive Gene Regulatory Networks

UserProfessor Alexander Hoffmann. University of California San Diego. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserPieter Santema.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserYanmin Zhou.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 16:30-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Ephrin and netrin synergy in spinal motor neuron axon guidance

UserDr. Artur Kania, Neural Circuit Development research unit Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plants

UserDr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The Promises of a Polychrome Retina

UserProfessor Bill Harris. Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Microtubule assemblers

UserRob Cross, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology,Warwick Medical School .

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Coordinating developmental timing with tissue growth

UserDr Alisson Gontijo, Instituto de Neurociencias, CSIC-UMH Unidad de Neurobiología del Desarrollo, Alicante.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanism regulating neural differentiation

UserProf. Kate Storey, Cell and Devlopmental Biology division, University of Dundee.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Epo's impact on exercise performance

UserProf. Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Swisserland.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Synaptic time-windows underlying neurodevelopmental disorders

UserDr Rhiannon Meredith, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Netherlands.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Without a leg to stand on: locomotion in the earliest "land" animals

UserDr Stephanie Pierce, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and The Royal Veterinary College, London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The physics of bird coloration

UserProfessor Doekele Stavenga, University of Groningen, NL..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Micro-RNAs, oscillations and neural progenitor maintenance

UserProf. Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universtity of Manchester.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Symphony of a thousand hair cells: orchestrating auditory development

UserProf. Corne Kros, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Strategies to ensure robustness in genome replication

UserProf. Julian Blow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Decision-making in animal collectives

UserDr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Organogenesis during planarian regeneration

UserDr Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The role of mitochondrial DNA in neuronal development and neurodegeneration

UserDr Joseph Bateman, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Local coordination of cell polarity through cell-cell interactions

UserProfessor David Strutt - MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution

UserAurora Ruiz Herrera, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Nano-scale pathfinders: how kinesins move along the microtubule

UserZeynep Oekten, Institute for Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The importance of nature (as opposed to nurture) in the development of cortical interneurons

UserDr Simon Butt, Dept. of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetic, University of Oxford.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

NO TEA TALK (Peter Lawrence Symposium)

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 00:00-00:00

Foster Talks

Stemming Vision Loss using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing

UserProf. Peter Coffey, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Dynamic aspects of the function and stoichiometry of ion channel complexes

Note unusual week day (Friday)

UserProf. Yoshihiro Kubo, National Institute for Physiological Science, Japan.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 14 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Genetic Shaping of Cells and Tissues.

UserProf. Enrico Coen, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Genetic basis of group dynamics in Drosophila

UserJoel Levine, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Projecto PalNiassa: New fossils from Mozambique

UserRui Castanhinha, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Museu da Lourinhã, Portugal.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockMonday 03 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Electrolyte and water transport by the Drosophila midgut

UserSubrata Tripathi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 07 July 2011, 16:00-17:00

Imprinting primes learning: thyroid hormone a determining factor for the critical period

UserProfessor Koichi J. Homma, Department of Molecular Pathology, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan.

HouseSub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley, CB23 8AA.

ClockWednesday 06 July 2011, 12:30-13:30

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Trying to make sense of all that nonsense (-mediated mRNA decay)

UserOliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, Switzerland.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 09 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The development and modulation of amphibian motor control systems

UserKeith Sillar, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 02 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Stemming Vision Loss Using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing

UserProf Pete Coffey, Inst of Ophthalmology, University College London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Genetics and physiology of growth in Drosophila

UserPierre Leopold, Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, University of Nice, France.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 26 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Glutamine and its role in synaptic physiology

UserDr
 Brian 
Billups, 
Dept of 
Pharmacology, Univ of 
Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Calcium channels of vascular remodelling

UserProf David J Beech, Inst of Membrane & Systems Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Univ of Leeds.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling in Drosophila epithelia

UserIsabel Guerrero, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Loopy Lungs in Alligators

UserProf Colleen G. Farmer, Dept of Biology, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

From mice to molecules: the genetic basis of adaptation

UserHopi Hoekstra, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Intrinsically irregular spiking in a class of cortical inhibitory interneuron

UserDr Hugh Robinson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Transient population dynamics: implications for life history, evolution and conservation

UserStuart Townley, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

foraging: from nature to molecule

UserMarla Sokolowski, University of Toronto, Canada.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Physiological and pathological plasticity in identified hippocampal inhibitory interneurons

UserDr
 Karri 
Lamsa,
 Dept 
of 
Pharmacology, 
Univ 
of 
Oxford.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Neural and mechanical mechanisms of multifunctionality

UserHillel Chiel, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Can physiology and neuroscience help us understand the financial markets?

UserDr 
John 
Coates, 
Judge 
Business 
School, Univ of 
Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The origin and evolution of vision

UserDan Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserTom Clements.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Epithelial repair in Drosophila

UserAntonio Jacinto, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Physical aspects of collective cell migration

UserDr 
Alexandre 
Kabla, 
Dept 
of 
Engineering, Univ of 
Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The Drosophila intestinal epithelium as an immune barrier: from steady-state to pathology

UserBruno Lemaitre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Infection and Autoimmunity: co‐habitation may be a good thing

UserProf
. Anne 
Cooke, 
Dept 
of 
Pathology, Univ of 
Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The evolution of transcriptional regulation

UserDuncan Odom, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

How form shapes function; from sensory neurones to the organisation of the primate cortex

UserDr 
Mikko 
Juusola, 
Dept 
of 
Biomedical 
Science,
 Univ 
of 
Sheffield.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

mRNA localisation at the neuromuscular junction

UserAlejandra Gardiol, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 03 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Stem Cells and Tissue Homeostasis

UserDr 
Kim 
Jensen, 
Anne 
McLaren 
Laboratory 
for 
Regenerative 
Medicine.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Cell competition through growth factor signalling

UserEugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neurons feel the force ‐ Mechanosensitivity in the nervous system

UserDr Kristian Franze, Dept of Physics & Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ. of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mammalian phylogenomics and evolution: where are we and what is next?

UserFrederic Delsuc, CNRS, Universite Montpellier II, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Rotavirus Calciomics: An Opera in Several Acts

UserProf Fabian Michelangeli, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Control of sexual differentiation and behavior by the doublesex gene in Drosophila melanogaster

UserStephen Goodwin, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The Ins and Outs of Fly Guts

UserPaula Cognigni.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Jaws 5: The Beginning

UserKelly Richards.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

The nerve dependence of vertebrate limb regeneration

UserProf Jeremy Brockes, University College London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Why pain gets worse - the molecular basis of sensitization

UserPeter McNaughton, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Motor circuit dysfunction in a Drosophila model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

UserDr. Wendy Imlach, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Seeing in the dark: Vision and visual behaviour in nocturnal insects

UserEric Warrant, Department of Cell and Organism, University of Lund.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Is life impossible? Information, sex and the origin of complex organisms

UserJoel Peck, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Potassium channel and Calcium signalling in Drosophila learning

UserJames Hodge, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Homeostatic growth in the Drosophila intestine

UserBruce Edgar, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 16 September 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

p38 SAPK signaling protects the Drosophila larval hindgut against chronic stress

UserHugo Stocker, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 03 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Specification of muscle identity in Drosophila

UserLaurence Dubois, Centre de Biologie du Développement, Toulouse.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

From genes to shape: notions from the study of the Drosophila tracheal system

UserJordi Casanova, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The Allure of the Centipede

UserMichael Akam, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

CANCELLED

UserOlivier Hyrien, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 00:00-00:00

Foster Talks

‘Seeing is believing: imaging Ca2+-signalling events in living cells’

GL BROWN PRIZE LECTURE

UserProf Graham McGeown, Queen's University, Belfast.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Social cognition: lessons from corvids and children

see also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_MnwNyX0Ds

UserNicky Clayton, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Autocorrelation and Pinwheels in Primary Visual Cortex’

UserProf Horace Barlow and Dr David Berry, PDN, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Fifty Years of Wild Chimpanzee Tool Use: Where Do We Stand?

UserBill McGrew, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Population Dynamics in Meerkats

UserAndrew Bateman.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Taking shape; how Drosophila renal tubules find their way

UserHelen Skaer, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Top Tips for Organ Shape

UserHelen Weavers.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The developmental origins of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome

UserSusan Ozanne, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mycobacterial disease in Drosophila: old signals, new biology

UserMarc Dionne, Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology of Inflammation, King's College London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

A systems approach to cellular shape and motion

UserProfessor Jonathon Howard, Director of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The evolutionary biomechanics of dinosaur locomotion

UserJohn Hutchinson, Royal Veterinary College, Univ London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Obesity and insulin resistance: Lessons from human genetics

UserProf. Stephen O’Rahilly, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserSteve Williams, MRC LMB, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

'Understanding the MRC's failure to fund Edwards' and Steptoe's work that led to the birth of Louise Brown

UserMartin Johnson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Life in rotten places: how O2 and CO2 sensing alter foraging in a worm

UserMario DeBono, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cancelled

UserEnrico Coen, John Innes Center, Norwich.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The Evolution of Creationism

(NOTE TUES NOT THURS) see also http://ncseweb.org/about

UserEugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education USA.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Pathobiology of antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies

UserDavid Lomas, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrookes Site, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Conflict and cooperation in social birds

UserAndy Radford, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

How to control respiration: hydroxylation, hypoxia, and HIF

UserProfessor Randall Johnson (University of California).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 28 September 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Sarah Bray, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Variation in response to intruder scent cues in meerkats

UserCesar Raff Mares (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Large Animal Research Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Genetic susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis in UK cattle

UserErin Driscoll (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Molecular Ecology Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The Evolution of Human Languages

UserMark Pagel, University of Reading.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Histone modification changes upon DNA damage

UserJorrit Tjeertes (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 08 May 2009, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Role of the human origin recognition complex ORC in DNA replication

UserAloys Schepers, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Silicification in Eukaryotes

UserAlan Marron (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Development and Evolution Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 01 May 2009, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Contextual influences in filial imprinting; behaviour and neural correlates

UserStephen Town (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 01 May 2009, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The genetics of pigmentation in the Red-billed quelea

UserNeil Walsh (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 24 April 2009, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Elucidation of cyclin A function in the human cell cycle through proteomics

UserFelicia Walton (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cell Biology Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 24 April 2009, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Deceptive signalling strategies in the fork-tailed drongo

UserTom Flower (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Bird Behavioural Ecology Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The importance of forest fragments in the oil-palm matrix. Could parasitoids save the rainforest?

UserTim Cockerill (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Insect Ecology Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Cardiac t-tubules: Ca2+ handling microdomains

UserClive Orchard, University of Bristol.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Control of microtubule length by depolymerizing kinesins

UserJoe Howard, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Pups and personality: Individual variation in helping behaviour in cooperative meerkats

UserSinead English (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Large Animal Research Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Genetic linkage and reproductive isolation in Heliconius butterflies

UserRichard Merrill (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Butterfly Genetics Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

RNA-based guidance in axons

UserChristine Holt, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Large-scale genetic structure and the demographic history of the domestic horse

UserVera Warmuth (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Archaeogenetics Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Somatic knock-ins + Chemical Genetics = Unveiling the specific roles of Cdk1 and Aurora A

UserPaola Marco (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cell Biology Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Plasticity, Regeneration and Repair of Spinal Cord Injury

UserJames Fawcett, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Information-Energy trade-offs in spiking and graded cells

UserBiswa Sengupta (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Insect Vision Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Microcephaly genes and primate brain size evolution

UserStephen Montgomery (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

New insights into neurogenic hypertension

UserJulian Paton, University of Bristol.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserMagda Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Sex ratios and rarity in birds: an unhappy balance?

UserPaul Donald, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Complex mechanisms of simple memories: from miRNAs to (perhaps) attention

UserMani Ramaswami, Trinity College, Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Disease, experiment and physiology

UserJames Fitzsimons, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Measuring osmotic modulation of synaptic responses

UserRichard Dyball, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Causes and consequences of avian personality differences

UserKees van Oers, Netherlands Institute of Ecology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Making new motor neurons in the spinal cord of zebrafish

UserCatherina Becker, University of Edinburgh.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Macroecology of the oceans

UserSimon Jennings, CEFAS Lowestoft.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Mouse molecular genetic studies of axon degeneration

UserMichael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

To Cross or Not To Cross? Transcriptional Control of Axonal Pathfinding Choices.

UserDr Sara I. Wilson, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

What comes next in biological microscopy?

UserBrad Amos, MRC Molecular Biology Cambridge.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Timing the end of neural proliferation in Drosophila

UserAlex Gould, National Institute for Medical Research London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Stem cell renewal and lineage selection in mammalian epidermis.

UserDr Fiona Watt, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Ecosystem decay in Amazonian forest fragments

UserBill Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 20 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

mRNA quality control: How do cells recognize and degrade aberrant mRNAs?

UserElisa Izaurralde, Max Planck Inst Developmental Biology, Tuebingen.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The lamprey locomotor network and functional recovery after spinal injury

UserDr David Parker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

The role of Pax genes in neurogenic placode identity

UserDr Clare Baker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-16:30

Foster Talks

Early intracellular Abeta amyloid pathology and its relevance to Alzheimer's therapeutics

UserDr Claudio Cuello (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Metabolic adaptation to high altitude hypoxia.

UserDr Andrew Murray (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

The secret life of neural stem cells

UserDr Kojiro Yano (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-16:30

Foster Talks

Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease – Hype or Hope?

UserDr Roger Barker (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Stem Cells, cancer and brain repair.

UserDr Colin Watts (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Chromatin and pluripotency

UserDr Veronique Azuara (Imperial College, London).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Horses for courses in intrauterine programming

UserDr Abby Fowden (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Reward and uncertainty

UserDr Wolfram Schultz (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-16:30

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

CANCELLED

UserTim Blackburn, Institute of Zoology London/Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Phylogeography reveals South Africa's hidden vertebrate diversity

UserPaulette Bloomer, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Baboon Metaphysics

Note unusual day

UserDorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Foster Talks

Teenagers: A Natural History

UserDr David Bainbridge, PDN.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-16:30

Foster Talks

Understanding actions.

UserDr James Kilner, The Institute of Neurology, UCL.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Where is the plasticity in cerebellum-dependent forms of learning?

UserProf. Christopher H. Yeo, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Monoamines and mechanosensory behaviour in C. elegans

UserDr William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 04 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The vital role of kissing in reproduction

UserDr. Bill Colledge, PDN.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 May 2007, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

An interaction between the Trk and EphA tyrosine kinase families controls retinotectal topography

Host: Matthieu Vermeren

UserDr. Uwe Drescher, King's College London.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Experience Dependent Mechanisms of Visual System Development

Host: Bill Harris

UserProf. Hollis Cline, Cold Spring Harbor.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 April 2007, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Note change of venue

UserDr. Sarah Bray, PDN.

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 March 2007, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Imaging neurulation in the zebrafish embryo

Note change of venue

UserDr. Richard Adams, PDN.

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 March 2007, 16:00-16:30

Foster Talks

Sweet dreams: new pathways of glucose-sensing in the brain

Host: Richard Dyball

UserDr. Denis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Plasticity of neuron to astrocyte signalling in the cerebellum

Host: Steve Edgley

UserDr. Tom Bellamy, Babraham Institute.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Epithelial Physiology: facts, fantasies and fun

The Physiological Society 2006 G.L. Brown Prize Lecture

UserProf. Richard Boyd, University of Oxford.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Selectivity in the expression of pre- and post-synaptic mechanisms in cortical circuits

Note change of time; Host: Sue Jones

UserProf. Alex Thomson, School of Pharmacy, London.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 February 2007, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Modelling of primary processes in Drosophila phototransduction

UserDr. Marten Postma, Hardie Lab, PDN.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

E.solo and E.pluribus: two new experimental organisms

UserProf. Dennis Bray, PDN.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 16:00-16:30

Foster Talks

Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits

Host: Kate Lewis

UserProf. Steve Wilson, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, UCL.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 January 2007, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Domains of the electrogenic Na/bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1 that contribute to function, expression, and ion translocation

Additional Talk: Host - Christof Schwiening

UserProf. Mark Bevensee; Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

HouseBryan Matthews Room, Physiological Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Dynamics of gamma oscillations in the neocortex

UserDr Hugh Robinson, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Functions, mechanisms and evolution of genomic imprinting

UserDr Anne Ferguson-Smith, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The chemical synapse goes electric: GPCRs, voltage and beyond

Additional Talk: Host - Martyn Mahaut-Smith

UserProfs. Itzchak & Hanna Parnas; The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Motor neuron degeneration and legs at odd angles

Host: Bill Colledge

UserProf. Elizabeth Fisher.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

How does the cytoskeleton regulate cell shape during morphogenesis?

UserDr Katja Roper, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

New brain cells for old - neurogenesis in the adult brain: what happens and does it matter?

UserProf. Joe Herbert, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Programming the blood & cardiovascular system in Xenopus & zebrafish embryos

Host: Sarah Bray

UserProf. Roger Patient, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Regulation of the positional stability of neurons: why you need glia

UserDr Matthieu Vermeren, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neuronal excitability is controlled by pH - but the pH of what?

UserSchwiening Lab, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Roles of feedback regulation of signaling in kidney and brain development

Host: Clare Baker

UserProf. Ivor Mason, King's College London.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Chipping away at genome regulation

UserDr Rob White, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

(feed)-Back to the Future: (feed)-Forward thinking on the interplay between Golgi cells and granule cells in the cerebellum

UserDr Tahl Holtzman, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

From sodium pump to calcium pump - going round in circles?

UserProf. Roger Thomas, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

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