Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question

Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

With a Little Help from My Friends: New Ways of Seeing Electrochemistry

Prof Patrick Unwin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta 

Norah Fogarty - King's College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 29 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI

Host - Michael Boemo

Dr Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool from DeepMind, London .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Order, Disorder, Flexibility, Function

Prof Andrew Goodwin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanical pre-patterning as a general mechanism in early morphogenesis

Fengzhu Xiong - Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 22 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Alex Cagan

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

CANCELLED.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Viruses: Elegance in Their Simplicity, or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein?

Dr Alexander Borodavka.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Understanding actomyosin contractility and force propagation within the zebrafish neural tube: an optogenetic approach

Clare Buckley - University of Manchester.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 15 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Programmed DNA elimination in insects

Host – John Welch

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine

Dr George Malliaras.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

London EvoDevo meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

Queen Mary University of London (Math Building Lecture Theatre).

Friday 08 November 2024, 13:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Frank Jiggins

Professor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The rise of life on land: new insights from exceptionally preserved fossils

Dr Sandy Hetherington.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle

Prof Tina Potter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial evolution in the lung

Host – Kate Baker

Dr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lessons for human TB and its treatment from the tiny transparent zebrafish larva

Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Ageing and age-associated mutations in human haematopoietic stem cells

Elisa Laurenti - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Our archaeal origins

Dr Buzz Baum.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Fate versus free will; how does the environment shape early tumour survival?

Maria Alcolea - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Richard Durbin

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

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Multi-tissue tectonics enable self-assembly of the vertebrate body axis

Benjamin Steventon, Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS

Host - Cahir O'Kane

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

An ancient regulatory network sets the position of the forebrain in chordates

Elia Benito-Gutierrez, Department of Zoology/Genentech.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 03 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Richard Durbin

Professor Ben Lehner from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Differential tissue deformability underlies fluid pressure driven shape divergence of the embryonic brain and spinal cord

Susannah McLaren, Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 26 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas

Host - Frank Jiggins

Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

E. coli and the Game of Clones

Host – Kate Baker

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

Dr Omer Bayraktar.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami

Prof Sheena Radford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

Ms Tania Branigan.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Controlling the cell cycle

Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint

Neil Anthwal, Kings College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

Host - Erik Clark

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

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histones

Dr Maria Christophorou.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

Professor Frances Spalding.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugs

Sir Gregory Winter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 19 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-Making

Dr Danielle Shore .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Drosophila AP patterning: networks, dynamics, evolution, and robustness

Erik Clark, Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 09 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Steve Russell

Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections

Professor Sir Tom Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBA

Hansong Ma, University of Birmingham.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 02 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic Inheritance

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

[CANCELLED] Birds of a Feather: the Deep History of Dinosaur Skin

Prof Paul Barrett.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division

Host - Ben Steventon

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Of Odour Plumes and Synchrotrons: Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

Andreas Schaefer.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 22 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Zach Baker

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

New models to study human embryo implantation and early development

Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 01 December 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

Sir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBC

Dr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

Host - Ben Steventon

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning

Dr Brendan Swain.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Short Cuts

Prof Ian Fleming.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of organs and cell types.

Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology

Dr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Circuit basis of learning and decision-making

Dr. Marta Zlatic, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 10 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries

Dr Tamar Makin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological mechanical stress

Dr. Elena Scarpa, Department of Phhysiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 03 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

Dr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration

Prof David Rubinsztein.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Erik Clark

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.

Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cells

Prof. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 13 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery

Prof Adam Nelson.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation

Host - John Welch

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies

Host - Erik Clark

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level

Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B

Dr. Courtney Hanna, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosience.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 09 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Richard Durbin

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

Online.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular mechanisms of oocyte specification in female germline cysts

Dr. Dmitry Nashchekin, Gurdon Institute .

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 02 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

Online.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Progenitor niches in the developing pancreas: regulation of cell fate and beyond

Prof. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 26 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids

Dr. Laura Pellegrini, Kings College London/ MRC LMB.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 19 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Sticky proteins and moving genomes: a single-molecule perspective of pluripotent cell differentiation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks

Host - Henrik Salje

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development

Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decision making without genes?

Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 05 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Cahir O'Kane

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

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

Online.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we age

Prof. Melinda Duer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Form and function during early heart development

Richard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 10 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish

Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiation

Walid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 03 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome

Host - Erik Clark

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

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

Dr Marie Manceau (College De France).

Online.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutions

Prof. Alison Smith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Encoding and decoding morphogen gradients

Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mechanism of neural differentiation

Host – Lara Busby

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

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Chemical Biology in Antibiotic and Anticancer Drug Discovery

Thomas Lanyon-Hogg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

New tricks for Rac and Rho, even after 30 years

Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara, US.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 17 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the Devonian

Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and the Reign of the Mammals

Prof. Steve Brusatte.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From cells to continents: Understanding how bacteria evolve and transmit

Dr. Josephine Bryant.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Space: The Final Front-queer

Dr. Alfredo Carpineti.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution

Host - Hansong Ma

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial development

Marcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic resetting during human germline development

Wolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

Online.

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

Genetics Seminar

Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans

Host – Ritwick Sawarkar

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sustainable seafood for human health

Dr David Willer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Matthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Henrik Salje

Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

Zoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nanoscale Engineering of Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

Prof Fang Xie.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective

Host – Bianca De Sanctis

Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Zoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bioelectronic tools to study the gut-brain axis

Prof Roisin Owens.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis

Maja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany.

Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion

Host - Marco Geymonat

Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

Ms Miranda Lowe.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species

Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

Online.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling the cell cycle: A new model

Sir Paul Nurse.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

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

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why We Aren't Just Great Apes

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applications

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Lin Wang

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

Online.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Climate Change and Planet Earth: A View from the Poles

Prof Michael Meredith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Adherens junctions, mechanotransduction and intra-epithelial communication

Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?

Host - Frank Jiggins

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level

Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

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

Genetics Seminar

Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability

Host - Cahir O’Kane

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Genetics Seminar

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

Dr Dorit Hockman.

Zoom.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancer

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur

Host: Frank Jiggins

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Dr Edwige Moyroud.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Marco Geymonat

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Prof Gaspar Jékely.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cells in gels: identification of Plakoglobin as an evolutionary conserved mechanosensitive regulator of naïve pluripotency

Timo Kohler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes

Host - Carol Edwards

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Dr Jordi Solana.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain

Sumru Bayin, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 29 April 2022, 13:15-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Prof Paola Oliveri.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantation

Ivan Bedzhov, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany.

Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling Drug Transport With Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

Professor Ijeoma F. Uchegbu | UCL School of Pharmacy.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of organismal stress resistance in C. elegans

Rebecca Taylor, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris.

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Atmosphere-ocean interactions: Global-scale impacts on tropospheric chemistry

Professor Lucy Carpenter.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian development

Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

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

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Photosynthesis on an electrode

Dr Jenny Zhang .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamics of starvation-induced and selective autophagy in mammalian cells

Nicholas Ktistakis, Babraham Institute.

Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 25 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality

Hosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

In vivo exploration of biomolecular condensates in early Drosophila development

Tim Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lessons for Tuberculosis Pathogenesis and Treatment from the Zebrafish

Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan | FRS FMedSci .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Signalling dynamics of neutrophil migration at sites of tissue damage

Milka Sarris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Protein Nutrition, Healthy Ageing and Climate Change: How Do We Combine The Three?

Dr. Oliver Witard | University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting

Kevin Chalut, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater and Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Genetics Seminar

Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.

Host: Elves Duarte

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

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Bio in the 21st Century

Sir Prof. Richard Henderson FRS | 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Steve Russell

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells

Host: Ben Steventon

Professor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology.

TBC.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Birdwatching through Geological Time: A Paleontological Perspective on Avian Evolution

Dr Daniel Field.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Energy and Matter at the Origin of Life

Professor Nick Lane.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Asymmetric nuclear division in neural stem cells generates sibling nuclei that differ in size, envelope composition, and chromatin organization

Chantal Roubinet, Postdoctoral Fellow Buzz Baum Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Cahir O'Kane

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

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

To COVID-19 Detection: How physics can be used to create novel tests for viruses

Professor Ulrich Keyser .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards a cellular and molecular understanding of mammalian anterior patterning

Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Hunting for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider

Dr Sarah Williams .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Zooming into the sarcomere: from single molecules to molecular forces

Frank Schnorrer, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 05 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Could we treat mental health disorders by disrupting maladaptive memories?

Dr Amy Milton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Wnt gradients: how they form and their role in tissue morphogenesis

Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Who Cares about the History of Science?

Professor Hasok Chang.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A finger on the pulse of regeneration

Mekayla Storer, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 22 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Physics of Can and Can't

Professor Chiara Marletto.

https://forms.gle/2qkANTNhuZvReZ6AA.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial condensates under stress

Host: Rosana Collepardo

Professor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal.

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Amazing World of RNA

Professor Eric Miska.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids

Dr Emma Rawlins (University of Cambridge).

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 15 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair

Host: Hansong Ma

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

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz | 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: John Welch

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genetic and developmental basis of morphological variation in cichlid fishes

Emília Santos, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

CANCELLED: Replication control during the cell cycle and development

Philip Zegerman, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 04 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function

Snezhana Oliferenko, The Francis Crick Institute.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Richard Durbin

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

From Signals to Chromatin: Germ layer specification in mouse

Sebastian Arnold, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human hypothalamic neurons for studying obesity and its relevance to neurodegeneration

Florian Merkle, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 14 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease

Host: Cahir O'Kane

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

New roles for Golgi-derived PI(4)P-containing vesicles in mitochondrial division

Julien Prudent, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara

Professor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco.

Zoom meeting.

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

Genetics Seminar

Human Immunity – one cell at a time

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mass spectrometry: From ribosomes to receptors

Professor Dame Carol Robinson DBE FRS FMedSci.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The art of conversation

Professor Antje S. Meyer.

Google Meets.

Friday 12 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Online.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Gut induced vascular plasticity drives stem cell adaptation during intestinal regeneration

Julia Cordero, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 March 2021, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

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

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cancer evolution, immune evasion and metastasis

Professor Charles Swanton FRCP FMedSci FAACR FRS.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

Online.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Continued development: the plasticity of adult organs

Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Hansong Ma

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

Venue to be confirmed.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Challenges in the development of therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Professor Dame Kay Davies.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Online.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Understanding the structure-function relationships in asymmetric stem cell division

Mayu Inaba, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 26 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Observing the light of the distant Universe

Professor Licia Verde.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

Online.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Antagonistic effects of ionising radiation in cell competition

David Fernandez-Antoran, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

Host: Frank Jiggins

Dr Patricia Wittkopp, Biological Science Building, University of Michigan.

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Technologies for scalably modeling and simulating whole cells

Professor Jonathan Karr.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

PechaKucha - SciSoc Edition!

Speaker to be confirmed.

Google Meets.

Saturday 13 February 2021, 19:00-22:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Online.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Fluorogenetic Interrogation of Chromatin Position Effects

Iva Tchasovnikarova, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.

Host: Ben Steventon

Professor Elly Tanaka, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Advances in Breast Cancer: From Molecular Science to Patients in the Clinic

Prof Anees Chagpar, Prof Carlos Caldas.

Google Meets.

Saturday 06 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of membrane protein biogenesis

Ramanujan S. Hegde, MRC Labortory of Molecular Biology.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

Online.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges

Host: John Welch

Dr Sally Otto, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ripples from the dark side of the universe

Professor Sir James Hough OBE FRS FRSE FInstP (Hon), University of Glasgow.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

Online.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids

Host: Hansong Ma

Dr Robert Johnston, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tips and Tricks for Inventing the Future

Last talk of term

Mr David A. Homfray CEng CPhys FInstP FRAS FBIS, Former Head of Engineering Realisation Group at the UK Atomic Energy Authority/Culham Centre for Fusion Energy .

Google Meets.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Misinformation in the Digital Age: A Panel

Please note this panel is on a Monday.

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, Dr Jon Roozenbeek, Professor Sander van der Linden.

Google Meets.

Monday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Enhancers get ERKed around by chromatin remodellers during lineage commitment

Brian Hendrich, MRC Stem Cell Institute, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Professor Simon Myers, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:30-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can genomics improve health in Africa? Experience from sickle cell disease in Tanzania

Professor Julie Makani Associate Professor, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Re-generating the principles of appendage regeneration in the single-cell era

Can Aztekin, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

On the interactions between our industrial system and the natural system

Professor Steve Evans, Director of Research, Centre for Industrial Sustainability, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin remodelling determines cell-type specific Notch activity in the developing mouse brain

Jelle van den Ameele, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 13 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Cell Atlas: Mapping the human body one cell at a time

Dr Sarah Teichmann FRS FMedSci, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial-mesenchymal cell plasticity during normal development and cancer progression

Kyra Campbell, Dept. of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

DNA: Inspiring building blocks that made me a learner in perpetuity

Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Imaging and reconstructing mouse development at the cellular level using light-sheet microscopy

Kate McDole, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Friday 30 October 2020, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

New Materials for a New Age

Note that this talk is on a Wednesday

Professor Nicola Spaldin FRS, Chair, Materials Theory, ETH Zurich.

Google Meets.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Combustion Transition: tackling climate change at its source

In collaboration with CUSPE and CUSISS

Mr Simon Spooner, ATKINS Infrastructure. Principal Scientist, UK Water Management. Technical Director, China Infrastructure. Honorary Professor, Nottingham University UK and Ningbo, China..

Google Meets.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.

Host: Marco Geymonat

Professor Angelika Amon, MIT, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA .

Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is sleep good for you?

Professor William Wisden FMedSci, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.

Host: Ben Steventon

Dr Timothy Saunders, Mechanobiology, Institute, National University of Singapore.

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 09:00-10:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ice cores and interglacials

Professor Eric Wolff FRS, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

Professor Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley .

Google Meets.

Tuesday 29 September 2020, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems

Professor Ed Boyden, MIT.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 04 August 2020, 15:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of Life

Host: Richard Durbin

Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis

Professor Phil Baran, Scripps Research.

Google Meets.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The role of FoxN3 in the development of the chondrocranium and associated head muscles in the African Clawed-frog, Xenopus laevis

Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response

Canceled

Professor Geoffrey L Smith FRS. Head, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

Professor Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing [CANCELLED]

Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

Professor Lorna Dawson, CBE, BSC, PhD, FRSE, FRSA, F.I.Soil.Sci., ChSci Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

This talk has been cancelled

Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The mechanical regulation of brain development

Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Michael Imbeault

Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Physics Meets Biology: How Cells Control Their shape and Why It Matters

Professor Ewa Paluch: Professor of Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function

Justin Crocker, EMBL.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:15-17:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

CANCELLED: Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis

Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity

Host: Richard Durbin

Professor Nick Lane, University College London .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo

Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

Host: Richard Durbin

Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

Professor Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Centre, Stanford University, Brown University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is Obesity a Choice?

Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dendritic Cell Migration at Various Scales

Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

Professor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

"CAPs in the niche" A new in vivo labelling system reveals parenchymal cells in the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features

Luigi Ombrato The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

Professor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

Professor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

Professor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic remodelling enables adult liver regeneration and organoid formation

Luigi Aloia The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanical scaling in blood platelets

François Nédélec Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 18 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time? 

Host: Richard Durbin

Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Dressed to Kill: What do Infectious Disease Agents Have in their Wardrobes?

Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain

Host: Michael Imbeault

Professor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution

Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How To - An Evening with Randall Monroe

Randall Munroe.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 19:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Timing of the first lineage segregation in the early mouse embryo

Meng Zhu, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Study of pioneer factor concentration, chromatin binding kinetics & cell-to-cell variability during genomeawakening

Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Linking physical gut remodelling to stem cell divisions in Drosophila

Golnar Kolahgar, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods

Prof Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Stem cell dynamics define clone fixation and spread in human colonic epithelium

Doug Winton, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects

Host: Berta Verd

Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cyclin B1 and the spindle assembly check point: A 15 year odyssey

Jonathon Pines, The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?

Host: Ben Steventon

Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

Professor Mike Cates.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

Dr Anne Corcoran.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project

Professor Alison Murdoch.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Host: Sam Lewis

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

Professor Danny Dorling.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate

Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail

Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are we on the Road to Collapse?

Dr Luke Kemp.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Using phosphoproteomics to study context-specific signalling

Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Language and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Ann Copestake.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

RNA methylation as a new epigenetic mark in cancer

Isaia Barbieri, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nuclear fusion technology

Colin Walters.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Gastruloids: a pluripotent stem cell-based model of early mammalian development

Naomi Moris, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila

Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: the Shape of Things to Come

Professor Sheila Rowan.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines

Host: Jane Charlesworth

Dr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution

Host: Chris Illingworth

Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer

Axel Behrens.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Academic Internships event!

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Saturday 24 November 2018, 13:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt?

Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Non coding RNA and normal botany

David Baulcombe.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Escape from pluripotency

Austin Smith, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis

Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division

Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Particle Physics & CERN

Professor Daniela Bortoletto.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Rejuvenation biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging

Aubrey de Grey.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Saturday 03 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Time to wake up: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Reactivation

Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity

Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Influenza pandemics: past and future

Wendy Barclay.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Constructing the mammalian embryo in vitro: from single stem cells to gastrulation

Berna Sozen, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense

Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira

Dr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Using Drosophila to understand mitochondrial biology and mechanisms of neurodegeneration

Alex Whitworth, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 19 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation

Host: Frank Jiggins

Professor Thomas Flatt from Department of Biology, University of Fribourg .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Drug discovery with machine learning: Towards a new way of thinking about molecules

Alpha Lee.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis

Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 12 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules

Host: Cahir O’Kane

Professor Andreas Prokop from Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

CRISPR based gene drive approaches for population control of malaria mosquitoes

Andrea Crisanti.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry

Dr Frank Hirth, King's College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies

Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Monday 17 September 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building and Breaking Epithelial tubes: an Optogenetic approach

Clare Buckley, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours?

Zuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hedgehog signalling in immune cells

Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Signals regulating cell fates and cell movements in the vertebrate embryo

Sergei Sokol, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan?

Naoki Irie (University of Tokyo).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Self-organization and patterning of sensory organs in Drosophila

François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 11 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer

Host: Alexis Braun

Professor David Glover, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Tracing the Transitions from Pluripotency to Germ Cell Fate with CRISPR Screening

Ufuk Günesdogan, University of Göttingen, Germany.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 04 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Regulatory RNA

Host: Martyna Popis

Professor Eric Miska from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox

Stephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor Sarah Bray from Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita

Juan Fraire-Zamora (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microsoft: Quantum Computing

Anita Ramanan, Microsoft.

Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 18:30-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Improving on Nature: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Animal Enhancement

Dr Sarah Chan, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Organoid systems to study the maternal-fetal dialogue of early pregnancy

Margherita Turco, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 March 2018, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Beginning of Our Universe and what we don't know about Physics

Professor João Magueijo, Imperical College London.

Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution

Jordi Solana (Oxford Brookes University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The genetic framework of germline stem cell development

Karam Teixeira, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 March 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture

Host: Michaela Frye

Dr Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Brain Development Modelled in a Dish

Dr Madeline Lancaster, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

Ms Kavita Puri, BBC.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A unifying theory of branching morphogenesis

Edouard Hannezo, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Eukaryotic cell division and its origins

Host: Alexis Braun

Professor Buzz Baum, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Modularity, criticality and evolvability of a developmental GRN

Berta Verd (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Synthesising Molecular Function: Shape Matters

Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Bristol.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

Professor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Primary liver tumor organoids: a new pre-clinical model for drug sensitivity analysis

Laura Broutier, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales

Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Paracelsus' Chickens - Strange Tales from the History of Chemistry

Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Modulating developmental signals allows establishment of cultures of expanded potential stem cells

Liu Pentao, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development

Host: Alfonso Martinez Arias

Dr Patrick Mueller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration

Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Particulars of Particulates: Granular Research on Dunes and Avalanches

Dr Nathalia Vriend, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell polarity remodelling by the RASSF protein family

Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Light, Sleep & Circadian Rhythms-Biology to Therapeutics

Professor Russell Foster, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford.

Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems

Host: Frank Jiggins

Professor Andreas Wagner, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates

Shunsuke Sogabe (University of St Andrews).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis

Host: Eric Miska

Dr Déborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie, Paris .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain centers

Gaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's Not All About The Science

Dr Anna Barnes, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

Hernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Open Data and the Future of Science

Professor Dame Sally Davies.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of filopodia regulation

Jenny Gallop, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Providing Science Advice to the Government

Sir Mark Walport.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

Brian Metscher (University of Vienna).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion

Daniel Jackson (University of Göttingen).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch signal

Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Living in the Cold

Professor Llyod Peck.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar

An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication

Host: Sudhakaran Prabakaran

Dr Nancy R. Gough.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Monday 13 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cartilage by 3D bioprinting of iPS cells

Stina Simonsson, Institute of Biomedicine, Göteborg (Sweden).

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro

Hosts: Alfonso Martinez-Arias & Shlomit Edri

Dr Anestis Tsakiridis, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders

Emilia Santos (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Exponents of Change: From Artificial Intellegence to Web Science

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Detecting death and damage: understanding macrophage migration in Drosophila

Will Wood, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Dr Kirsten Bomblies, John Innes Centre, Norwich .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Pedagogical and Real Science - the Physics Case

Professor Malcolm Longair.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building a young brain on Old shoulders: A story on the most primitive ventricular brain

Elia Benito-Gutiérrez, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bugs, Bites and Parasites

Professor Janet Hemingway.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates

Andrew Gillis, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”.

Dr Cahir O’Kane, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Perovskite Solar Cells - New Opportunities and Challenges

Dr Olga Malinkiewicz.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell polarity and local condensation of biomolecular condensates

Anthony A. Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (Germany).

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array

Michael Bok (University of Bristol).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Origin of the Laws of Nature

Professor Peter Atkins.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function

Host: Chris Illingworth

Professor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Time and space in insect segmentation

Erik Clark (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A battle for mitochondrial DNA transmission

Hansong Ma, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 June 2017, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Ascl1 control of neural stem cell homeostasis in the developing and adult brain

Noelia Urban, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 June 2017, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton

Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Assembly of embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro

Sarah Harrison, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Bridging Crumb-mediated polarity and Hippo-mediated growth by Spectrin-bound PP2A

Graham Thomas, Center for Celluar Dynamics, PennState.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the functional heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells

Elisa Laurenti, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Variable epigenetic silencing of the repeat genome: implications for non-genetic inheritance

Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast

Host: Marco Geymonat

Dr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum

Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The genetic analysis of population-scale data

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Professor Gil McVean, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies

Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures

Kathryn Kavanagh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes

Ildiko Somorjai (University of St Andrews).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can Future Energy Needs be met Sustainably?

Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reporting from Extreme Environments

Lyse Doucet, BBC.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human embryogenesis and the first trimester intrauterine environment

Graham Burton, Centre for Trophoblast Research, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 March 2017, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila

Nicolas Gompel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

Professor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcription as a driver of epigenetic transitions during oocyte development

Gavin Kelsey, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 March 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Professor Peter Keightley, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The path to delivering nuclear fusion power

Dr Fulvio Militello.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Highlights from the “Deciphering the Mechanisms of Developmental Disorders (DMDD) consortium” – novel insights into gene function during embryogenesis

Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria

Host: Chris Illingworth

Dr Isabel Gordo, Evolutionary Biology Group, Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton

Kate Criswell (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Towards earlier diagnosis for cancer of the oesophagus

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Exploring the mechanisms of haematopoietic lineage progression at the single-cell level

Ana Cvejic, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pluripotency at the multicellular level

Marta Shahbazi, PDN, University of Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

Johannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Genetics Seminar

Decoding transcriptional regulation.

Host: Alexis Braun

Dr Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution

Neal Anthwal (King's College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why scientists should also be revolutionaries

Professor David Nutt.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in brain development and cancer

Eugene Makeyev, Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor Donal O’Carroll, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier

Host: John Welch

Dr Nicolas Galtier, University of Montpellier .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning

Sebastian Shimeld (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Climate Change

Professor Joanna Haigh.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

Professor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world

Professor Sir Michael Marmot.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 17 January 2017, 20:00-21:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coping with a stressful start in life

Alex Gould The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 December 2016, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Our cosmic origins: everything from nothing

Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Lung Stem Cell Niche in Health and Disease

Joo-Hyeon Lee Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 November 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Stem cell control in the Drosophila gut

Host: Alexis Braun

Professor Bruce Edgar, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - 103 years of Crystallography: what has it taught us and where will lead us?

Professor Elspeth Garman, Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford University.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 20:00-21:30