Foster Talks

Eating and Walking - how cells manage their energy budget during migration and invasion

Laura Machesky, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 25 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast

Miguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research.

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

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

Foster Talks

Nutritional programming by maternal over-nutrition: a developing obesity crisis.

Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Foster Talks

Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep

Dr Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo, RIKEN BDR.

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

Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Our archael ancestry: cell division from arhaea to eukaryotes

Buzz Baum, MRC-LMB.

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

Thursday 18 January 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!

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Dissecting neuronal circuits underlying visual cognition: from macaques to marmosets

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

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

Thursday 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

Alberto Rosell-Diez, PDN University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

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

Dr Caroline Williams-Gray, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Feedback control in the nervous system: from cells and circuits to behaviour

Dr Timothy O'Leary, Department of Engineering.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Targeting Maladaptive Emotional Memories to Treat Mental Health Disorders: Insights from Rodent Models

Professor Amy Milton, Department of Psychology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Fragile minds in a scary world: trauma and post traumatic stress in very young children

Dr Tim Dalgleish, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Integrative Neuromodulation: from biomarker identification to optimizing neuromodulation

Dr Valerie Voon, Department of Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Fidelity and Replication: Modelling the Impact of Protocol Deviations on Effect Size

Professor Michelle Ellefson.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Membrane shapes and dynamics driven by curved active proteins

Hosted by Milka Sarris and Ewa Paluch

Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute Israel.

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Valentine’s Day for people with multiple sclerosis: promoting brain repair through remyelination

Professor Alasdair Coles, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Children-Agent Interaction For Assessment and Rehabilitation: From Linguistic Skills To Mental Well-being

Dr Micole Spitale, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Programmed axon death: from animal models into human disease

Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Global Views of Mammalian Development

Jay Shendure, University of Washington.

hybrid format.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms

Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham) .

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Cross-modality imaging of the neural systems that support executive functions

Dr Yaara Erez, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity

Marcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY.

hybrid format.

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

Chaucer Club

Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors

Lucina Uddin (UCLA) .

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Dissecting the neural circuits underlying prefrontal regulation of reward and threat responsivity in a primate

Professor Angela Roberts, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Chaucer Club

Perceiving and representing voice identity: effects of taker variability and listener familiarity

Carolyn McGettigan (UCL) .

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Why is the suprachiasmatic nucleus such a brilliant circadian time-keeper?

Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Foster Talks

Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools

Wendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia.

hybrid format.

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

Chaucer Club

Neural dynamics of natural speech perception via natural language processing (nlp) models

Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham) .

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention

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

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Chaucer Club

The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought

Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University) .

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

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

Foster Talks

CANCELLED: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

hybrid format.

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

Chaucer Club

Neural dynamics of working memory

Timothy Buschman (Princeton University) .

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Common elements: An innovative methodology for identifying effective interventions in early childhood education

Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Foster Talks

Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian

Speaker to be confirmed.

hybrid format.

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

Chaucer Club

How do signals from the body shape our actions (and our inactions)? Plus, a discussion on how we can green neuroscience

Charlotte Rae (University of Sussex).

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

Thursday 09 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex

Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge.

hybrid format.

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

Chaucer Club

New models of human hearing via machine learning

Josh McDermott (MIT).

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

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Mechanisms to medicines in neurodegeneration

Professor Giovanna Mallucci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Foster Talks

Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situ

Prof. Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin.

hybrid format.

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

Chaucer Club

Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulation

Chris Butler (Imperial College London/University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis

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

hybrid format.

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

Chaucer Club

Post-encoding persistence of encoding states strengthens individual memories, reorganizes those experiences based on shared features and biases the fate of new memories

Lila Davachi (Columbia University).

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Building brain and body together in bio-inspired robots

Dr Fumiya Iida, Department of Engineering.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought

Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University).

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

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Transdiagnostic approaches to understanding neurodevelopment

Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of Aging

Anne Brunet, Stanford University.

hybrid format.

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

Chaucer Club

Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms

Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham).

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

Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

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

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

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Foster Talks

Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines

David Sheppard, Bristol University.

hybrid format.

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

Chaucer Club

Neural dynamics of working memory

Tim Buschman (Princeton University).

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

In vitro bioelectronic models of the gut-brain axis

Professor Róisín Owens, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Activity dependent myelination: a mechanism for learning and regeneration?

Dr Thóra Káradóttir, WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The function of spontaneous brain activity

Maurizio Corbetta (University of Padua).

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

Thursday 07 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Brain: Understanding the Role of Inflammation in Vascular Health, Stroke, and Cerebrovascular Disease

Dr Nicholas Evans, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 05 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research?

Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University).

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

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression

Jonathan Roiser (UCL).

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

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Regenerative Neuroimmunology - a stem cell perspective

Professor Stefano Pluchino, Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Carving the world into useful task representations

Yael Niv (Princeton University).

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

AI-guided solutions for early detection of neurodegenerative disorders

Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention

Mariam Aly (Columbia University).

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Bedside to bench and back again, a path to translational pain research?

Dr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Reasoning: neural underpinnings, development, and plasticity

Silvia Bunge (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Covid And Cognition

Dr Lucy Cheke, Psychology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Human time vs. mouse time with recapitulated systems.

Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The geometry of neural representations in artificial and biological neural networks

Stefano Fusi (Columbia University).

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

Thursday 06 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Can we repair the Parkinsonian brain?

Professor Roger Barker, Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Foster Talks

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

Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

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

Chaucer Club

Physiology and pathology of the higher brain function: insights from intracranial EEG recordings

Riki Matsumoto (Kobe University) .

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

Thursday 29 April 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Unpacking Nature from Nurture: Understanding how Family Processes Affect Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Professor Gordon Harold, Education.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Learning in pain: probabilistic inference and (mal)adaptive control.

Dr Flavia Mancini, Engineering.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 20 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representations

Andre Fenton, New York University.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

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

Chaucer Club

The role of content-free pointers in online visual memory

Ed Awh (University of Chicago).

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

Thursday 18 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Data-driven Artificial Social Intelligence: From Social Appropriateness to Fairness

Dr Hatice Gunes, Computer Science and Technology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Mesoscale fMRI and electrophysiology in human visual cortex

Dora Hermes (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota).

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

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Organization of Midbrain Serotonin System

Dr Jing Ren, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Foster Talks

How cells integrate chemical and mechanical cues during cell migration in vivo

Roberto Mayor, UCL.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Neuroscience informed treatments for anxiety and depression

Michelle Craske (UCLA).

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

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

A developmental-cognitive perspective on the impact of adolescent social media use

Dr Amy Orben, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Functional evolution of Hox proteins: Regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation

Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for medical research.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Imaginative reinforcement learning

Sam Gershman (Harvard University).

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

Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Electronics on the brain

Professor George Malliaras, Department of Engineering.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Recurrent problems in spinal-cord and cerebellar circuits

Dr Steve Edgley, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Chaucer Club

A data-driven approach to advancing cognitive neuroscience

Kendrick Kay (University of Minnesota).

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

Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Will the Real Preeclampsia Patient Please Stand Up?

Brian Cox, University of Toronto.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

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

Chaucer Club

The human language system in the mind and brain

Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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

Thursday 04 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Pushing the boundaries of episodic memory: Representation and segmentation of naturalistic events by cortico-hippocampal networks

Charan Ranganath (University of California, Davis).

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

Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Lineage tracing through somatic mutations in human development

Flora Vaccarino, Yale University.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Early adversity, brain development, and risk/resilience for mental health across development

Deanna Barch (Washington University, St. Louis).

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

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Social deprivation, coping and drugs: a bad cocktail in the COVID-19 era: evidence from preclinical studies

Dr. David Belin.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 08 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Working Memory 2.0

Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Generation Covid-19: Should the fetus be worried?

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

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Foster Talks

TBC

Kevin Chalut, Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

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

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles).

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Development of the social brain in adolescence and effects of social distancing

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive neuroscience in the era of Big Data: Lessons learned from the Adolescent Cognition Brain Development Study

Damien Fair (University of Minnesota).

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

Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Woofing it Down: Lessons on the neurobiology of appetite from man’s best friend

Eleanor Raffan, PDN, Cambridge.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive control networks involved in different kinds of listening

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Carnegie Mellon University).

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

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The early impact of COVID-19 on mental health and community physical health services and their patients’ mortality in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, UK

Dr Rudolf Cardinal.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Category selectivity in the ventral visual pathway: Computational models and developmental origins

Nancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) .

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

Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Population studies and ageing brains, in a time of COVID

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

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of children and young people.

Professor Tamsin Ford.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

How do our brains form maps of the world?

Alexandra Constantinescu (University College London).

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

Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

NeuroCOVID: Epidemiology, biomarkers, and pathophysiology

Professor David Menon.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Flexible redistribution in the language network

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

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

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Is the COVID-19 pandemic really causing mental illness?

Professor Paul Fletcher.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Adolescent brain development as a window of social-affective opportunities

Eveline Crone (Leiden University).

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

Thursday 08 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

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

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

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

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

Foster Talks

3D Genomics in development and disease

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

Steve Harridge, King's College London.

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

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

Foster Talks

Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding

Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia.

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

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

Foster Talks

Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps

Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante.

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation

Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen.

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

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Activin signaling and the regulation of Drosophila metabolism, body size and appendage scaling

Michael O'Connor, University of Minnesota.

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

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The amazing world of the GnRH neuron

Allan Herbison, PDN Department, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 07 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing

Robin Franklin, WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

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

Thursday 17 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Regulating needs: Exploring the role of insulin-like growth factor-2 in materno-fetal resource allocation and its importance for development, physiology and disease

Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri.

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

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis

Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

SPECIAL FOSTER TALK . Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour

Steve Wilson, University College, London.

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

Friday 22 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis

Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing

Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation

James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Neural progenitors and neural tube defects.

Andy Copp, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Mapping human pluripotency during pre- and peri-implantation development using single cell transcriptional analysis.

Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The emotional brain and the neurobiology of uniqueness

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Neuronal connectivity and functional output in cerebral organoids.

Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Tipping the balance and regulatory processes during sex determination.

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

FOSTER TALK - Decoding the visual cortex

Dr Nathalie Rochefort, University of Edinburgh.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - "Integrating structural and functional approaches to decipher AMPA receptor signaling in synaptic transmission and plasticity"

Dr Ingo Greger, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

TODAY Foster Talk - Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring

Professor Christine Holt.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - CANCELLED - Redox Oscillations in the Circadian Clockwork

Professor Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - TODAY - Professor Ifat Levy, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neurocience, Yale University, USA

Professor Ifat Levy, Yale University, USA.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

TODAY Foster Talk - "Paraspeckles, TDP-43 & alternative polyadenylation: how regulation of a membraneless compartment guides cell fate"

Dr Jernej Ule, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - "Hepatic organoids for the study of liver regeneration and disease"

Meritxell Huch, The Gurdon Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - Dr Rachel Tribe "How to expect the unexpected. Prediction and prevention of preterm birth" Physiology Lecture Theatre

Dr Rachel Tribe,Kings College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Foster Talk: "Self-assembly of the mammalian embryo in vitro" Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PDN Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Foster Talk: Professor Wolfram Schultz "How my brain is getting me the best reward"

Professor Wolfram Schultz, PDN, Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

TODAY: Foster Talk "Evolution of olfactory receptors, circuits and behaviours" Professor Richard Benton

Professor Richard Benton, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Foster Talks: Professor Bill Harris "Promises of a polychrome retina redux: partial fulfilment with spectrum of fates"

Professor Bill Harris, PDN, Cambridge University.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cerebellar evolution and function: a neuroethological perspective

Professor John Montgomery (University of Auckland).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The emergence of pluripotency and germline specification in non-rodent mammals

Professor Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Competitive coexistence between phoretic mites: between ecology and biomechanics?

Syuan-Jyun Sun - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 02 June 2017, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Red vs. Yellow: Genetics of carotenoid coloration in weaverbirds

Hanlu Twyman - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Insects at the extreme: midges, beetles, DNA and physiology in the Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic regions.

Felipe Simões - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 19 May 2017, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

How does exposure to prenatal cortisol affect foraging success in meerkats?

Tejasvini Chalikonda - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:30-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Ageing Rates in Meerkats

Jack Thorley - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

How do predators use social information about defended prey?

Liisa Hämäläinen - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Removing tumours from within and around the brain

Dr Thomas Santarius.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Communication and Coordination: how individuals shape groups

Riva Riley - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 21 April 2017, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The role of p53 in cell competition and leader cell migration

Katarzyna (Kasia) Kozyrska - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Electrophysiology of autocrine and paracrine NMDA receptor signalling in invasive mouse pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour cells

Dr Hugh Robinson, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Kv10.1: a potassium channel involved in malignant growth

Professor Walter Stuehmer, University of Goettingen (Germany).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Cell morphogenesis across scales: from molecular processes to cell-scale behaviour

Professor Ewa Paluch, University College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Live imaging inflammation in wound healing and cancer

Professor Paul Martin, University of Bristol.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

In vivo studies of cellular and subcellular mechanisms that build the vertebrate brain

Professor Jon Clarke, King's College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Signaling pathways to resilience or dysfunction in the brain

Professor Giles Hardingham, University of Edinburgh.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Retinal functomics: What the eye tells the brain, and how it got there

Dr Tom Baden, University of Sussex.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 January 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

One day meeting on vision and neuroscience.

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Can phenotypic plasticity allow specialist parasites to colonise new hosts?

Gabriel Jamie - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 09 December 2016, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Walking response of crickets depends on surface structure of the substrate

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

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Illuminating mouse cortical activity maps using genetically encoded voltage indicators

Professor Thomas Knoepfel, Imperial College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Deep Neural Networks

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Early life social behaviour and learning in juvenile Hihi

Victoria Franks - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Stem cells, gene editing, and cellular models of human neurological disease

Dr Florian Merkel, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Evolution of the tetrapod tympanic ear

Professor Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Speciation in Heliconius butterflies: Pheromones and Female Choice

Kathy Darragh - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 11 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Spatial polarization vision in crustaceans

Dr Martin How, Bristol University.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Neural representation of complex space

Professor Kate Jeffery, UCL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Learning flights in bumblebees

Dr Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Exeter University.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

The causes and consequences of cellular circadian rhythms

Dr John O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Gene duplication and ion channel evolution in weakly electric fish

Prof Harold Zakon, UT Austin.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Unraveling the role of astroglial perisynaptic nanodomains in synaptic strength and memory

Dr Nathalie Rouach, CIRB, College de France, Paris.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 16 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The roles of dopamine in perceptual and economic decision making

Dr Armin Lak, UCL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Fly photoreceptors encode phase congruency

Prof Daniel Coca, University of Sheffield.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

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

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

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

Foster Talks

CANCELLED The pioneering history of IVF from the PND* Laboratory, Cambridge: 1976-2016, and what we know now!

Prof. Simon Fishel, CARE Fertility group.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The behavioural ecology of bacteria in infection

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

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

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Raising the whale: defining zoology at Cambridge

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

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Selecting For Plasticity in the Harlequin Ladybird

Lea Van De Graaf - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The comparative landscape of duplications in Heliconius melpomene and Heliconius cydno

Ana Pessoa Pinharanda - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Prof Michael Strkyer, UCSF.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Spatial homogeneity of seagrass faunal biodiversity

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

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

An assessment of individual learning abilities and their phenotypic traits in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)

Claudia Martina Luna - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 11 March 2016, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The role of individual differences in defining a species niche

Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Endothelial Cells and HIF transcription factors regulating lung pre-disposition for metastatic events

Dr Cristina Branco, PDN Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Astrocyte-like glia during visual circuit assembly in Drosophila

Iris Salecker.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Ancient genome reveals continuity in East Asia over the last 9,000 years

Veronika Siska - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 26 February 2016, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Rewilding and the Future of HNV Species – does restoring flood disturbance recreate suitable habitat for HNV species?

Tim Kasoar - Department of Zoology.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 26 February 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

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Parietal cortex and action space

Prof. Roberto Caminiti.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Probing the mechanisms of learning and memory at the single-neuron level in humans

Dr Ueli Rutishauser California Institute of Technology.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

How the sins of your grandparents affect your health

Dr Erica Watson PDN, Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Evolution of color and motion vision

Claude Desplan- NYU Biology.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

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

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

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

Foster Talks

From mesoderm mechanotransductive evolutionary origins to tumourogenic mechanical induction

Emmanuel Farge, Institute Curie, Paris.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Circuit adaptations underlying drug addiction: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

Prof Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Migration of neuronal and immune cells in forebrain wiring

Dr Sonia Garel, INSERM, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Collective Sensing and Decision-Making in Animal Groups: From Fish Schools to Primate Societies

Iain Couzin.

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

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Concept cells

Prof Rodrigo Quiroga, University of Leicester.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

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

Professor Mark Boyett, University of Manchester.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Learning circuits and cue integration in navigating ants

Barbara Webb.

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

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

Foster Talks

Heart Disease Link to Fetal Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

CANCELLED: Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Polarity reversal during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Career Stories

Dr Trevor Wardill, Dr Erica Watson.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Deciphering signaling specificity in development, one phosphate at a time

Professor Phillipe Soriano, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Looking back: some conclusions from my career in Science

Pr. Martin Raff - MRC LMCB, UCL.

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

Thursday 11 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

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

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

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud

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

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

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Seabirds and Conservation: One Life, Many Islands

Dr Michael Brooke.

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

Thursday 07 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Imaging Brawny Mice and Hypercarnivorous Canids: Applications of CT and MRI for Soft & Hard Tissues

Dr Nathan Jeffrey, University of Liverpool.

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

Monday 16 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Talks

BIOSCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Q&A SESSION: A personal perspective about life in the Bioscience Industry.

Numbers are limited so please contact the organizer by 6th March if you would like to attend

Dr Tim Rink, MD, ScD.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Buiding, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Signals and Factors Controlling Stem Cell Activity in the Adult Brain

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Neural Processing of Naturalistic Features by the Hoverfly Visual System

Dr Karin Nordström, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

*CANCELLED: TERRY SEJNOWSKI TALK ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 12 FEB*

Speaker to be confirmed.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 00:00-00:00

Foster Talks

Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors and Hepcidin in Iron Homeostasis

Dr Carole Peyssonnaux, INSERM, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Going for Gold

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Inflammation-driven angiogenesis - organ fibrosis & the extracellular matrix

Dr Christian Stockmann, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Heliconius butterflies: How do bird predators perceive them?

Denise DD (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Simultaneous camouflage and conspicuous signalling in an island lizard

Kate Marshall.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 05 December 2014, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

"Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolic Disease: Is It All In Our Head?": Elucidating Mechanisms of Central Metabolic Control

Dr Stefan Trapp, UCL, Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Behavioural mechanisms limiting cheating behaviour in the cleaner wrasse Labroides bicolor

Max Gray.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 28 November 2014, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The Fitness Exchange Hypothesis

Ana Mosterin (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Self-Organisation of Pluripotent Cells in the Mouse Embryo

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Cell Migration & Gradient Sensing: Lessons from Zebrafish Neutrophils

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Collective Cell Migration: A Cellular, Molecular & Modelling Approach

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Cyclic Nucleotides and Neural Control of Cardiac Excitability in Cardiovascular Disease

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Acoustic classification of New World bats based on phylogenetic and ecological constraints on call design

Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 August 2014, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The Bush-crow, the swallow, and a curious climate bubble

Andrew Bladon.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 August 2014, 16:30-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Conservation of reef sharks in Arabia: between science and fisherman gossip

Dareen Almojil.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 08 August 2014, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Foraging ecology, distribution and individual specialisation of brown skuas

Ana Carneiro.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 08 August 2014, 16:30-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Antigenic variation among dengue viruses

Leah Katzelnick.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 25 July 2014, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Periodic incremental markings in the enamel of cynodonts and mammaliaforms: the origin of mammalian growth patterns

Rachel O'Meara.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 25 July 2014, 16:30-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Consistency in leaf use by tooth-billed bowerbirds

Carmen Panayi.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 11 July 2014, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

The first heart beat: initiation of cardiac contractile activity

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Reward Inference by Prefrontal and Striatal neurons and their interaction

Prof. Masamichi Sakagami - Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

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

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

Main Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Mechanisms and Evolution of Transcriptional Control in Mammals

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Hippocampal network dynamics underpinning the emergence and persistence of spatial memories

David Dupret - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford.

Main Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Molecular regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells in distinct cell states

Shahragim Tajbakhsh - Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Cricket’s Playlist: an evolutionary neuroanalysis of the singing central pattern generators in different cricket species.

Pedro Jacob (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 21 March 2014, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Cricket’s Playlist: an evolutionary neuroanalysis of the singing central pattern generators in different cricket species.

Pedro Jacob (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 21 March 2014, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Cortical HCN channels: function, trafficking and plasticity

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Allosteric and genetic modulation of brain inhibition

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Cow vs. bird: Balancing food production and biodiversity conservation in the Neotropics

David Williams (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 21 February 2014, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Modelling the Drosophila pair-rule gene system

Erik Clark.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 21 February 2014, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Insights into human biology from patterns of genetic variation

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The role of previous social experience on risk-taking and leadership behaviour in three-spined sticklebacks

Jolle Jolles.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 07 February 2014, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Diversity and function of stream invertebrates in tropical forest and oil palm ecosystems in Sabah, Malaysia: Effects of habitat conversion and strategies for conservation

Sarah Luke (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 24 January 2014, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Investigation of the molecular mechanisms of Minute competition in Drosophila

Iwo Kucinski (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 24 January 2014, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Finding the balance: agriculture, biodiversity, and ecosystem services

Speaker to be confirmed.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 06 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Finding the balance: agriculture, biodiversity, and ecosystem services

Speaker to be confirmed.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 06 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Gender, Science and Myths of Merit

Marlene Zuk (University of Minnesota).

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

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

TBC (muscle metabolism in extreme environments)

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

Rebecca Stott (University of East Anglia, Norwich).

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

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Tales from Television: bringing the natural world to your living room

George McGavin (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 07 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Studies on the evolutionary and functional morphology of mammalian ear ossicles

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

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Thanh-Lan Gluckman.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Kwaku Aduse-Poku.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

MeCP2 in the brain and beyond: from biology to disease

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The end of taxonomy as we know it?

Alfred Vogler (University of East Anglia).

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

How to bridge the gaps between conservation science and practice

Jessica Walsh.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 31 May 2013, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Lina Maria Arenas.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancer

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesis

Prof Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Fifty Years of Computers, statistics and the Tree of Life

Anthony Edwards (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Foster Talks

The mechanical control of CNS development and functioning

Dr Kristian Franze. PDN, University of Cambridge.

Main Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Museums and Science

Ian Owens (Natural History Museum, London).

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Alexis Braun.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 03 May 2013, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Krzysztof Kozak.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Sheep Models of Human Neurodegenerative Disease. How, where and why?

Prof Jenny Morton. PDN, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Life, death and resurrection in the Early Carboniferous

Jenny Clack (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty

Andrew Balmford (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Open Access: common good or uncommon danger?

Stephen Curry (Imperial Collge London).

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

Thursday 18 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

David Labonte.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Alexander Hackmann.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ramona Mogling.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Marius Somveille.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Jumping without slipping: spiders need sticky feet for take-off

Hanns Hagen.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 08 March 2013, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Some assembly required: In vitro reconstitution of cellular structures

Professor Dan Fletcher. University of California Berkeley. .

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Mechanisms underlying the developmental origins of health and disease

Dr Sue Ozanne.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Do mites influence social interactions in the burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides?

Ornela De Gasperin Quintero.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 February 2013, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Food for thought: nutrients and neural stem cells in Drosophila

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

In the Belly of the Beeb

Nick Crumpton.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dave Daversa.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

The microvasculature - an early marker/driver of CVD risk across the life-course

Professor Geraldine Clough. University of Southampton. .

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Pituitary hypoplasia and decreased GnRH neurogenesis in Sox2-deficient Mice

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

The human endometrium - dynamics and disorders

Professor Philippa Saunders. University of Ediburgh. .

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history

Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany.

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

Thursday 13 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history.

Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany.

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

Monday 10 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

Foster Talks

An as-if model of economic decision making

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

A histone tail: Pre-messenger RNA splicing and the coordinated control of gene expression

Dr Tracy Johnson. UC San Diego..

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 16 November 2012, 10:00-11:00

Foster Talks

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

Professor Alexander Hoffmann. University of California San Diego. .

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Pieter Santema.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Yanmin Zhou.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Ephrin and netrin synergy in spinal motor neuron axon guidance

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plants

Dr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. .

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

From VB Wigglesworth to H-factors. Lessons from my first 50 years of research

Peter A. Lawrence, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Foster Talks

Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memory

Dr Mayank Mehta. UCLA..

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

What is evidence-based reproductive medicine and what part did the Physiology Department in Cambridge play historically in its development?

Professor Martin Johnson. Cambridge University. .

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The Promises of a Polychrome Retina

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Microtubule assemblers

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

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

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

From Mammoth to Microscope: Life History and Dental Development in Mammals

Dr Wendy Dirks, University of Newcastle.

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

Thursday 04 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Be careful what you wish for: the issues and politics of generating a potentially human-to-human transmissible bird flu virus

Professor Derek Smith. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge..

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

Thursday 26 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

'Bacterial community diversity of the American alligator gastrointestinal tract'

Sarah Keenan - Louisiana State University.

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

Thursday 19 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Cows under the radar: The genetics of tuberculosis susceptibility in Britain

Bill Amos - Department of Zoology.

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

Thursday 05 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Food for thought: visceral control of nutritional decisions in Drosophila

Dr Irene Miguel-Aliag, Dept of Zoology.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Using C. elegans as a model for neurodegenerative diseases

Chris Li, City College of New York, USA.

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

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Sequencing nucleic acids: from chemistry to life sciences and personalised medicine

Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian, Dept of Chemistry.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The secret lives of the translesion polymerases

Dr Julian Sale, LMB, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Coordinating developmental timing with tissue growth

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

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Intensification of West African agriculture: socio-economic processes and gender-influenced patterns in bird distribution.

Hope Usieta.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 25 May 2012, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Migrants in winter: how do ecological conditions in Africa affect the individual success of trans-Saharan migratory birds?

Marjorie Sorensen.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 25 May 2012, 17:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Mechanism regulating neural differentiation

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The genetics underlying emergence and diversification of a wing decoration in fruitflies

Dr Nicolas Gompel, IBDML, Marseille, France.

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

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

Foster Talks

Origin and properties of adult neural stem cells in the zebrafish brain: role of Notch signaling

Room changed

Prof. Laure Bally-Cuif, University of Paris Sud, France.

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

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Neurochemical control of aggression - insights from crickets

Professor Paul Stevenson, University of Leipzig, Germany.

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

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Epo's impact on exercise performance

Prof. Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Swisserland.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Controlling recombination: from worms to human disease

Professor Simon Boulton, CRUK Clare Hall Laboratories, UK..

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

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

Foster Talks

Synaptic time-windows underlying neurodevelopmental disorders

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

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

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

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

Foster Talks

How much calcium does caffeine release from the endoplasmic reticulum in a large snail neurone?

Prof. Roger Thomas, PDN.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The physics of bird coloration

Professor Doekele Stavenga, University of Groningen, NL..

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Ecological Transactions go Bonk.

Yangchen Lin.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 20 April 2012, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

A window to the past: Does adult ornamental plumage reveal early life environments?

Leila Walker.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 23 March 2012, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Startle displays: halting predator attack.

Alexandra Torok.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 16 March 2012, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

All things bright and beautiful; structural colour in biological systems

Dr Pete Vukusic, Department of Physics, University of Exeter.

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

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Micro-RNAs, oscillations and neural progenitor maintenance

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Potentials and Challenges of Developing Ecosystem-Based Co-management: A Case Study From the Swedish West Coast

Dr Andrea Morf, University of Gothenburg, and the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment.

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

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

Foster Talks

Symphony of a thousand hair cells: orchestrating auditory development

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Strategies to ensure robustness in genome replication

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

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Are epiphytes important in oil palm plantations?

Graham Prescott.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Roles of sperm factors in the nuclear reprogramming.

Marta Teperek.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Polycomb complexes co-associate with a specific RNA polymerase II variant in ES cells

Prof. Ana Pombo, Imperial College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Statistical inference in the fossil record: estimating the divergence time of primates

Professor Simon Tavaré, Department of Oncology University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Decision-making in animal collectives

Dr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Organogenesis during planarian regeneration

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

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

An invasive species as a biofilter to improve water quality: using the bad guys for good.

Claire McLaughlan.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Understanding locust phase-shift.

Katja Stettin.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:00

Foster Talks

A sixth sense: the development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors

Dr Clare Baker, Dept. of PDN.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Regulating the actin cytoskeleton during Drosophila oogenesis

Dr Margot Quinlan, UCLA.

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

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The role of mitochondrial DNA in neuronal development and neurodegeneration

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

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

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

From fly embryos to single molecule studies: elucidating molecular mechanisms of cytoplasmic mRNA transport

Dr Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Local coordination of cell polarity through cell-cell interactions

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

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

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Flies and cameras in times of economic crisis.

Francisco Hernandez.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 09 December 2011, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The molecular and neuronal control of nutrient decisions in Drosophila

Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

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

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Stripes and rings: how to make a centipede.

Jack Green.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 25 November 2011, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution

Aurora Ruiz Herrera, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

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

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Nano-scale pathfinders: how kinesins move along the microtubule

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

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

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Developmental function and possible role in morphological evolution of the vertebrate Cdx genes

Stephen Gaunt, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 10 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Offspring sex ratio bias in meerkats (or a lack thereof).

Kirsty MacLeod.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 04 November 2011, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Genome re-sequencing reveals narrow islands of divergence among radiating butterflies.

Simon Martin.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 04 November 2011, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Physiomimetics: generating functional membranes for buildings (lessons from the ventilation systems of African fungus-growing termites)

Rupert Soar, Wolfson School of Engineering at Loughborough University.

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

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

INFORMAL SEMINAR: Development and maturation of the respiratory system in Drosophila

Maura Strigini, Heraklion, Crete.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

The egress mechanism of malaria parasites: surprising active participation of the host red cell membrane

Dr Virgilio Lew, PDN.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

NO TEA TALK (Peter Lawrence Symposium)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 00:00-00:00

Foster Talks

Stemming Vision Loss using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing

Prof. Peter Coffey, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Looking for novel regulators of cell morphogenesis using microscopy-based functional genomics approaches

Rafael Carazo Salas, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 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)

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Foster Talks

Genetic Shaping of Cells and Tissues.

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Genetic basis of group dynamics in Drosophila

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

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

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Luminal sensing and neuromodulation in the gut: different roles for PYY and NPY

Helen Cox, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College, London.

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

Thursday 06 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Projecto PalNiassa: New fossils from Mozambique

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

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Regulation and developmental role of the hypoxia response machinery in Drosophila

Pablo Wappner, Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 30 September 2011, 11:00-12:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Electrolyte and water transport by the Drosophila midgut

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

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

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

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

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

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

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Microfossils for macroevolution: planktonic foraminifera, the Court Jester and the Red Queen

Prof. Andy Purvis, Imperial College, London.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 16 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

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

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The development and modulation of amphibian motor control systems

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

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Stemming Vision Loss Using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Genetics and physiology of growth in Drosophila

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

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Glutamine and its role in synaptic physiology

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Friends at the ends: a dynamic protein network controls the fate of microtubule tips

Anna Akhmanova, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Calcium channels of vascular remodelling

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling in Drosophila epithelia

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Loopy Lungs in Alligators

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

From mice to molecules: the genetic basis of adaptation

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Intrinsically irregular spiking in a class of cortical inhibitory interneuron

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

foraging: from nature to molecule

Marla Sokolowski, University of Toronto, Canada.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Physiological and pathological plasticity in identified hippocampal inhibitory interneurons

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Neural and mechanical mechanisms of multifunctionality

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The genetic basis of Mullerian mimicry in Heliconius melpomene

Carolina Pardo-Diaz.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Can physiology and neuroscience help us understand the financial markets?

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The origin and evolution of vision

Dan Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Tom Clements.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Neural Circuits Involved in Kicking and Jumping in Locusts and Crickets

Armando Castillo.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 25 February 2011, 17:00-17:30

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Epithelial repair in Drosophila

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Physical aspects of collective cell migration

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

Bruno Lemaitre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Investment and maternal strategies in cooperative breeders

James Savage.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:00

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The evolution of transcriptional regulation

Duncan Odom, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Landscape change and its biological consequences in the Amazonian forest

Jose Ochoa-Quintero.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The centipede Strigamia maritima and the evolution of arthropod head patterning

Vera Hunnekuhl.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 04 February 2011, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

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

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

mRNA localisation at the neuromuscular junction

Alejandra Gardiol, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

How do cells coordinate entry to mitosis?

Agata Lichawska.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The Arts of Aerobatics and Origami in Insect flight

Kristien de Clercq.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 28 January 2011, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Stem Cells and Tissue Homeostasis

Dr 
Kim 
Jensen, 
Anne 
McLaren 
Laboratory 
for 
Regenerative 
Medicine.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Cell competition through growth factor signalling

Eugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Planar Cell Polarity: pointing towards the right direction

Pedro Saavedra.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Neurons feel the force ‐ Mechanosensitivity in the nervous system

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

Frederic Delsuc, CNRS, Universite Montpellier II, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Friday night at the movies: Fluorescence, lasers and 4D

Matt Benton.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 03 December 2010, 17:30-18:00

Foster Talks

On the Role of Nitrogen Oxides in Acclimatization/Adaptation to Hypoxia

Prof Martin Feelisch, University of Warwick.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Continuous surprises: Live-Cell Imaging reveals that SMG6 and UPF1 inhibit release of nonsense mRNA from the transcription site

Oliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Molecular neuroendocrinology: how the brain builds its peptidergic sprinkler systems.

Paul Taghert, Washington University, St Louis.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 12:00-13:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Developmental and functional crosstalk between the Drosophila gut and its neighboring tissues

Gerit Linneweber.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 26 November 2010, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Scans and Skulls and Holes and Moles

Nick Crumpton.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 26 November 2010, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Rotavirus Calciomics: An Opera in Several Acts

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

DNA combing and massive sequencing of replication intermediates suggest a domino model for replication origin activation in the human genome

Olivier Hyrien, Department of Biology, ENS Paris.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The Ins and Outs of Fly Guts

Paula Cognigni.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Jaws 5: The Beginning

Kelly Richards.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

The nerve dependence of vertebrate limb regeneration

Prof Jeremy Brockes, University College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Why pain gets worse - the molecular basis of sensitization

Peter McNaughton, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Foster Talks

Analysis of synaptic connectivity and function in the cerebellum in vivo

Prof Henrik Jörntell, Lund University, Sweden.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The evolution and function of jaws: a study in taxonomic, morphological and functional variation

Emily Rayfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Motor circuit dysfunction in a Drosophila model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina revealed by two-photon laser scanning and serial block-face scanning electron microscopy

Kevin Briggman (Denk lab), Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Potassium channel and Calcium signalling in Drosophila learning

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Homeostatic growth in the Drosophila intestine

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Opening a window on primate and afrotherian evolution: new early Tertiary mammals from Algeria and Tunisia

Rodolphe Tabuce, Université Montpellier 2.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

p38 SAPK signaling protects the Drosophila larval hindgut against chronic stress

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

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Specification of muscle identity in Drosophila

Laurence Dubois, Centre de Biologie du Développement, Toulouse.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Termites as ecosystem engineers. Water, soils and architecture in _Macrotermes_ mounds in Namibia

J. Scott Turner, Syracuse University USA.

Museum demonstration room, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

Jordi Casanova, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The Allure of the Centipede

Michael Akam, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

How and why desert ants learn habitual routes

Matthew Collett, University of Exeter.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

CANCELLED

Olivier Hyrien, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 00:00-00:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Evolutionary genetics of mito-nuclear cooperation, fitness and disease in Drosophila

David Rand, Brown University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Neural mechanisms of sky compass orientation in the desert locust (NOTE LATE START 17:00)

Uwe Homberg, University of Marburg, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Foster Talks

Molecular and cellular mechanisms for cold sensing'

Prof Carlos Belmonte.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Exploring the Relationship between Extinction Risk and Skewed Adult Sex Ratios

Jo Venables.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 05 March 2010, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

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

GL BROWN PRIZE LECTURE

Prof Graham McGeown, Queen's University, Belfast.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Organizational Principles of the Locomotor Network of Drosophila Melanogaster

Temur Yunusov.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Replication Fork Dynamics - In Vivo Analysis of PCNA-interacting Proteins

Shiphali Shetty.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 26 February 2010, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

"Development and organisation of connectivity in an embryonic motor

Dr Matthias Landgraf.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 February 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

Nicky Clayton, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Life-history trade-offs in the evolution of insect parental care (redux)

James Gilbert.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

A Total Evidence Analysis of Ruminant Systematics

Eva Baermann.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 19 February 2010, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Autocorrelation and Pinwheels in Primary Visual Cortex’

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

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

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

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Identifying PCNA Interactors in Human Cells

Simon Cooper.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The Regulation of Motoneuron Dendrite Growth in the Fruit Fly Larva

Maarten Zwart.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 12 February 2010, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

"Useful or just trendy? Using physics to solve biological problems"

Dr Miodownik- King's College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The Cognitive Architecture of a Mini Brain: Lessons from Honeybees

Martin Giurfa, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Population Dynamics in Meerkats

Andrew Bateman.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Taking shape; how Drosophila renal tubules find their way

Helen Skaer, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Analysis of Kinesin-1 function during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis

Lucy Williams.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Shells and Stones: Molluscan Analyses as a Means of Characterizing Hominin Habitats during the Pleistocene

Tom White.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 29 January 2010, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Emma Rawlins.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Multi-legged running in the real world: how do cockroaches, dogs, and horses handle different surfaces?

Andrew Spence, Royal Veterinary College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Top Tips for Organ Shape

Helen Weavers.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Integrating Costs into Priorities for Conservation Planning in a Biodiversity Hotspot

Jonathan Green.

Tea Room, Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 January 2010, 17:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Prof Lopez-Barneo.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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