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Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Connecting spaces and scales in embryos

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

UserJesse Veenvliet.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 19 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cued or cueless? Mechanisms that shape mesoderm and enable cell ingression

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

UserSevan Hopyan .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 12 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

UserDr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

HouseOnline.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Opening doors and boosting energy: cellular programs that enable macrophage tissue infiltration.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

UserDaria Siekhaus, ISTA, Vienna Austria.

HouseMRC LMB + online (hybrid).

ClockMonday 05 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

UserDr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

HouseOnline.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Are plant cells balloons? A biomechanical perspective on plant cell growth.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

UserYuchen Long .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 22 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

You shall not pass! How ectoderm patterning modulates lateral mesendoderm migration in the early zebrafish gastrula.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

UserStefania Tavano, ISTA Vienna, Austria .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

STOMATA DIVISION ORIENTATION: INTERPLAY BETWEEN GEOMETRY, GROWTH, AND MECHANICAL STRESS

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

UserLeo Serra The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, United Kingdom .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

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

HouseOnline.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Modelling active morphogenesis of patterned epithelia

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

User Diana Khoromskaia (Crick Institute, London).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 24 April 2023, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Freshwater salinization: From Ecology & Evolution to Real-World Solutions

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

UserDr Rick Relyea, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Connecting spaces and scales in embryos

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

UserJesse Veenvliet .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 13 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Birds on a tree: Progress and challenges of whole-genome phylogenomics

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

UserJosefin Stiller, University of Copenhagen.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Life and death of cells a mystery solved through biomechanics

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

UserLakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanics and patterning combine to orient cell divisions in a planar polarised epithelium

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserGuy Blanchard, PDN, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

UserDr Marie Manceau (College De France).

HouseOnline.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

On the specification of leaf dorsiventrality

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserAgata Burian (University of Silesia in Katowice) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Building and Breaking the Neural Tube

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserClare Buckley (PDN, University of Cambridge) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of a sexually selected syndrome in Mediterranean wall lizards

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

UserDr Nathalie Feiner, Lund University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cephalo-pelvic integration in hybrid mouse models and implications for human obstructed labour

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserEva Zaffarini (McCaig Institute, University of Calgary).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Junctional Remodelling in Vascular Morphogenesis

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserMaria Paraskevi Kotini (Biozentrum, Basel Switzerland).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Is it the weather or the neighbours? The role of the physical and biotic environment in determining biodiversity distributions.

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

UserRegan Early, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechano-chemical feedbacks in plant regeneration

UserKalika Prasad (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserKyogo Kawaguchi .

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

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

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

UserDr Martin D Brazeau, Imperial College London.

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

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Evolution of Morphogenesis: the case of cephalic furrow

UserPavel Tomancak (MPI CBG, Dresden, Germany & CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 23 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mexican Waves: The Adaptive Value of Collective Behaviour

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

UserJens Krause, IGB Berlin.

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserProf Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

HouseOnline.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Olfactory cues in a changing world

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

UserJorg Hardege, University of Hull.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Dynamics and mechanics of cell shape changes during cellular state changes

UserEwa Paluch, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 28 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

UserProfessor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The hidden depths of avian genomes

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

UserAlex Suh, UEA.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petals

UserLucie Riglet, Sainsbury's Laboratory, Cambridge University.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Branching morphogenesis of the lung: tales of the sculptor and the sculpture

UserKatharine Goodwin (Princeton, MRC LMB) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

UserRenske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Single-cell phenomics reveals behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpinning migratory activity during mouse anterior patterning

UserShankar Srinivas, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 14 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution and assembly of a complex weapon system

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

UserChristine W Miller, University of Florida.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Computational Models of the Development of the Central Nervous System

UserDagmar Iber, ETH Zurich (Computational Biology) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial Communities in an Ever-Changing World

Hybrid talk - email for a zoom link

UserAlex Dumbrell, University of Essex.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserProf Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

HouseOnline.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cell extrusion—an exciting start to the end of life

UserJody Rosenblatt, King's College London.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The dynamics of predators in a novel world

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

UserRobert Fletcher, University of Florida.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

How tissues orchestrate growth and morphogenesis – lessons from the vertebrate retina 

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

User Mauricio Rocha Martins (Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 17 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserKatrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

HouseOnline.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

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

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

UserElizabeth Williams, University of Exeter.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

4D reconstruction of developmental trajectories

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserGiovanni Dalmasso (EMBL Barcelona, Sharpe Lab) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 13 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Exploring variation in neural crest development among East African cichlid fishes

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserAleksandra Marconi (Zoology Department, Santos lab) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 13 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

CANCELLED!!!!!! Cell invasion: a casualty of dysregulated cell extrusion

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserJody Rosenblatt, Randall’s Division for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London..

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 06 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Organoids – how can they shed light on immune-mediated development and disease?

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserGeraldine Jowett (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Differentiation of the extra-embryonic endoderm is required for development of the pluripotent epiblast

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserAntonia Weberling (PDN, Cambridge) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

UserDr Dorit Hockman.

HouseZoom.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Drivers of cnidarian morphogenesis

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

User Aissam Ikmi (EMBL, Heidelberg).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 23 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Multicellular coordination in context

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 

UserTakashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cell-type-specific behaviour underlies cellular growth variability in plants

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

UserDaniel Kierzkowski Montreal University .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 09 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Composite morphogenesis: how can a tissue fold and extend at the same time

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

UserMatteo Rauzi (IBV, Nice).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 25 April 2022, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

An ancient DNA perspective on the Ice Age megafauna

UserPete Heintzman (The Arctic University of Norway).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking oceanic sharks’ ups and downs in a changing world

UserDavid Sims (Marine Biological Association).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Getting into shape: new insights into morphological patterning from the Drosophila wing

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserNatalie Dye (POL Dresden) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

The fossil origins of eukaryotic morphogenesis: exploring the beginnings of complex multicellularity in the Holozoa

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserPaul K. Strother (Boston College) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 28 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Differentiation, Communication, and Collective Behavior in Ant Societies

UserDaniel Kronauer (The Rockefeller University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Mechanisms generating robustness in plant organ size and shape

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserAdrienne Roeder .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 21 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Liquid Brains: searching the cognition space

UserRicard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Understanding the role of the extracellular matrix: from elasticity to viscoelasticity

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserAlberto Elosegui-Artola (Francis Crick Institute & King’s College London, London, UK) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 14 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Using experimental evolution to tackle questions in speciation research

UserIsobel Eyres (University of Sheffield).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 08 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Adhesion-regulated junction slippage controls cell intercalation dynamics in an Apposed-Cortex Adhesion Model

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserAlexander Nestor-Bergmann (PDN, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 07 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Breaking the barrier: CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids model pathogen and drug entry to the brain

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserLaura Pellegrini (LMB, Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 07 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Impacts and mitigation of anthropogenic noise

UserSophie Nedelec (University of Exeter).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Emergence of a left-right symmetric body plan during embryonic development

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserSundar Naganathan (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

CADHERIN mediated AMIS localisation - Using mouse embryonic stem cells 3D culture as a model

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserXuan Liang (PDN, Cambridge University) .

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Characterization of a Mechanical Hotspot for Cell Plate Guidance Near an Adjacent Three-Way Junction

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserMarie-Cécile Caillaud, CR CNRS.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 24 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Developmental Control of Avian Skin Patterning

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserMarie Manceau.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 06 December 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

POSTPONED*Drivers of Morphological complexity: a Cnidarian Perspective

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserAissam Ikmi.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Symplasmic auxin movement and the evolution of plant architecture

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserYoan Coudert.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

To stay or leave? Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and progenitor’s segregation within the bird embryonic tail

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserBertrand Benazeraf.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 15 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Y haplotype diversity and male phenotypes

UserJudith Mank, University of British Columbia.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Jamie: "A biomechanical switch regulates the transition towards homeostasis in oesophageal epithelium" Ben: "Integrating pattern formation and cell movements in our understanding of morphogenesis"

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserBen Steventon, Jamie McGinn.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 08 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Matteusz: "Insights into the mechanism and evolution of glial ensheathment" Renske: "Evolution of selfish multicellularity: changes in gene regulation at the origin of multicellularity"

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserRenske Vroomans; Matteusz Trylinski.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Morphogenesis and cell ordering in bacterial biofilms

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserJing Yan.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 18 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cell shape determination: Mechanical competition vs. endogenous genetic programme

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

UserMaria Leptin.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Building organs – emergence of form and fate through local force imbalance

https://zoom.us/j/99568066060?pwd=VjFEYVlwM2ZZY0Z6VHByY1NvRE0yZz09

UserRashmi Priya, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 14 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

"Investigating the role of Syndecan, a conserved heparan sulphate proteoglycan, in the maintenance and proliferation of progenitor cells in the adult Drosophila midgut"

recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8

UserBuffy Eldridge, PDN, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 07 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

"Single-cell morphometrics reveals ancestral principles of notochord development"

recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8

UserToby Andrews, Department of Zoology, Univeristy of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 07 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Forthcoming Museum of Zoology Programme

UserDr Rosalyn Wade (University of Cambridge).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockFriday 04 June 2021, 14:55-15:20

de novo gene emergence in cichlid fishes

UserEmília Santos (University of Cambridge).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockFriday 04 June 2021, 14:30-14:55

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Stretching out the embryo - Anterior expansion and posterior addition to the notochord mechanically coordinate embryo axis elongation

https://zoom.us/j/94691632022?pwd=a1lrNi82ekE2OHFZYjNLekR3WTU5Zz09

UserSusie McLaren, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 01 June 2021, 14:30-15:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Regulation of Phyllotaxis by Auxin Transport Proteins

recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwSKckxt930

UserHenrik Ahl, Sainsbury's laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 01 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Morphogenesis of the mouse and human embryo beyond implantation

https://zoom.us/j/95435060718?pwd=QzIyS0FTcXF3LzlkT2RiVjdmZDhYUT09

UserMatteo Molè.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 24 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Size sensing in biological systems- new insights from planarians

https://zoom.us/j/98275702948?pwd=ODl2MDhjb0t5ckV5bnpOdURnazRxdz09

UserJochen Rink, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen,Germany..

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Wisdom of the crowd – Mechanisms that coordinate individual cell movements for epithelial migration

https://zoom.us/j/99970909084?pwd=U0k1RUxOWnhmUlQ4cTZOL3RJNFZSQT09

UserSally Horne-Badovinac, University of Chicago.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Stochastic gene expression drives mesophyll protoplast regeneration

https://zoom.us/j/94519300866?pwd=clh6eU83aHg5Z1QrMEpTUW14WlpLdz09

UserYuling Jiao, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

‘Fine-tuning cell mechanics at the onset of collective cell motion’

https://zoom.us/j/97700351610?pwd=MlRTeE5BYzZyU0Z1Wm5UdGFwMWx5dz09

UserElias H Barriga, Group Leader at Mechanisms of Morphogenesis Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 26 April 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

The evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes

https://zoom.us/j/95511029379?pwd=aXE2M29BWC9tS2lLK2I5blhaSEJFdz09

UserBuzz Baum.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Against the grain; Modeling seed growth control as an mechano-sensitive incoherent feedforward loop.

https://zoom.us/j/9605624368?pwd=VVM3d203RGRQdkNjbXFhRTYvRWJidz09

UserOlivier Ali.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Two signals converge on a nerve cell’s path: The interplay between chemical and mechanical signals in the developing brain

https://zoom.us/j/92408292136?pwd=WkFSM3k0MDFoT0VacHFQb0o1TG5Edz09

UserEva Pillai.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

The importance of being edgy: directional growth control in Arabidopsis lateral roots

https://zoom.us/j/97556405670?pwd=ZU13RzBIY1NZQVVteVZaSWE2OVdnQT09

UserCharlotte Kirchhelle.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Problem solving in slime molds

UserAudrey Dussutour - Universite Paul Sabatier.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 09 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Generating order out of (pseudo)chaos during vertebrate retinal lamination

https://zoom.us/j/95883597197?pwd=NHJSZVJWQ2R6clV1Qlp1WXoyWUFqZz09

UserCaren Norden.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 08 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Extreme Weapons: A Natural History

UserDoug Emlen - University of Montana.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

From cell dynamics to robust tissue folding

https://zoom.us/j/97571586365?pwd=Tlg2TnRWWnh6andadWdIbzJsRmdHdz09

UserMagali Suzanne.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The mind of the bee

UserLars Chittka - Queen Mary University of London.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cell shape, cell division and the development of early embyos

https://zoom.us/j/95172051126?pwd=YllZNXlTcTJJdDAwUkRRd0ZQbkFmQT09

UserNicolas Minc.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 25 January 2021, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genome duplication, gene dosage, and evolution

UserAoife McLysaght - University of Dublin.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 19 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

First a war then a dance: How sensory organs take shape

https://zoom.us/j/94781964934?pwd=eDQvMUZjV0tTY3hYZ1drYlJmczlNQT09

UserAnna Erzberger (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 18 January 2021, 14:30-16:00

Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion?

UserProfessor Dame Sandra Dawson.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

UserDr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserProf Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Out-of-term seminar

UserAlexandra K. Schnell (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 19 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual time; out-of-term seminar

UserCosima Porteus (University of Exeter).

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

ClockFriday 15 March 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

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony. How culture made the human mind

Zoology Graduate Student's Invited Speaker

UserKevin Laland (University of St. Andrews).

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

ClockTuesday 30 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of color vision in Heliconius butterflies.

PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT VENUE

UserAdriana Briscoe (University of California at Irvine).

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

ClockTuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neuroethology of a striking crustacean, the mantis shrimp

UserDr Kate Feller, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELED DUE TO USS PENSIONS STRIKE.

UserYannick Wurm (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseCanceled - apologies for any inconvenience caused.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

UserHernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

UserMadeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

UserBrian Metscher (University of Vienna).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

UserAssociate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Salamander regeneration: regulation and evolution

UserProfessor Andras Simon, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Ageing Rates in Meerkats

UserJack Thorley - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

How do predators use social information about defended prey?

UserLiisa Hämäläinen - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The role of p53 in cell competition and leader cell migration

UserKatarzyna (Kasia) Kozyrska - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Change and necessity: forest resilience and conservation for the 21st century

UserJonathan Spencer, Head of Planning & Environment Forest Enterprise Forestry Commission.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Understanding consumer demand in the wildlife trade

UserAmy Hinsley, Oxford Martin School University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems

UserDavid Aldridge, Department of Zoology University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Eco-evolutionary dynamics

UserAndrés López-Sepulcre (IEES CNRS Paris).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Sex, eggs and videotape: techniques in threatened bird conservation

UserDebbie Pain Director of Conservation, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT).

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Parasites, Immune Function, and Human Life Histories

UserAaron Blackwell (University of California, Santa Barbara).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

UserJohannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Lessons from plants that don’t stay put: Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias

UserChristian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité Université de Lausanne.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetic evolution of humans and closely related species

UserAida Andres (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

UNESCO biosphere reserves: concept, challenges and opportunities

UserProfessor Martin Price, Perth College Chair of the UK MAB Committee Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development Director, Centre for Mountain Studies.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Information gaps in ecology and conservation

UserTatsuya Amano (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk / Department of Zoology University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Walking response of crickets depends on surface structure of the substrate

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

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Dispersal evolution

UserJean Clobert (Station d’Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS Moulis).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Early life social behaviour and learning in juvenile Hihi

UserVictoria Franks - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Host-parasite coevolution

UserKayla King (University of Oxford).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Surviving the 21st Century

UserMartin Rees, Partha Dasgupta, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Bonnie Wintle, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.

HouseBabbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of butterfly brains

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Non-genetic inheritance in mice

UserRahia Mashoodh (University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes

UserChristopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Selecting For Plasticity in the Harlequin Ladybird

UserLea Van De Graaf - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The role of individual differences in defining a species niche

UserAnne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun - Department of Zoology.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Managing tropical agriculture to minimise biodiversity loss

UserDavid Edwards, Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Science Policy and Expertise

UserRob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature

UserJamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias: lessons from plants that don’t stay put

UserChristian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff?

UserSandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions

UserAnthony Martin, South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project, South Georgia Heritage Trust and University of Dundee.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conflicts in conservation: hunting for solutions

UserSteve Redpath, Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape

UserChristen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Balancing selection in Müllerian mimicry: causes and consequences

UserDr Violaine Llaurens, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité .

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Ethics Seminar Series

Scientific Fraud and Whistle-blowing

UserProf Ronald Laskey, CBE .

HouseTea Room.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Ethics Seminar Series

Cloning, Cell Replacement and Human Embryos

UserDr John Gurdon.

HouseTea Room.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Ethics Seminar Series

The Ethics of Publishing

UserProf Bill Sutherland.

HouseTea Room.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

UserVahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Ethics Seminar Series

The Ethics of Gender Equality: Implications for Women in Science

UserDr Rosie Trevelyan.

HouseTea Room.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Ethics Seminar Series

The Ethics of Using Animals in Research

UserProf Sir Patrick Bateson.

HouseTea Room.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The diversification of birds

UserDr Gavin Thomas, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Ethics Seminar Series

The Ethics of Informing Public Policy

UserProf Derek Smith.

HouseTea Room.

ClockWednesday 14 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Heliconius butterflies: How do bird predators perceive them?

UserDenise DD (University of Cambridge).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

The Fitness Exchange Hypothesis

UserAna Mosterin (University of Cambridge).

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Tracking marine turtles for conservation

UserProfessor Brendan Godley, University of Exeter.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Landscape scale conservation - a bird's eye view

UserDr Juliet Vickery, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How does an alga become a parasite?

UserEllen Nisbet (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Planetary Boundaries 2.0: the latest advancements on defining a safe operating space for humanity on Earth

UserJohan Rockström Professor in Environmental Sciences Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The Assembly of Coevolving Interactions

UserProf. John N Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

'From individuals to populations to communities: Climate change impacts on birds'

UserDr James Pearce-Higgins, Director of Science, British Trust for Ornithology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deep Time and Modern Brains

Please contact the organiser, Liria Masuda-Nakagawa (lm546) if you would like to meet Professor Strausfeld after the seminar.

UserProfessor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona).

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics. Please use the entrance by the Part II room and tea room underneath the external fire escape. Main entrance is not connected to Part II room due to refurbishment..

ClockFriday 12 September 2014, 12:00-13:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences

UserHannah Long (University of Oxford).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment

UserJohn Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What Biologists can learn from bats

UserEgbert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical research Institute.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila

UserBenjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Academic Survivorship Events for Zoology Postdocs

Time management for Postdoc Careers

UserDr Geraint Wyn Story and Dr Anne Forde, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II lecture hall, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 08 April 2014, 14:00-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Floral quartets link flower development and evolution

UserGünter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Hybrid corn and endangered maize: historical perspectives on the conservation of plant genetic resources

UserDr Helen Curry; Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The Politics of Thinking Big in Conservation

UserProfessor Bill Adams; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Making similar embryos with divergent genomes

UserPatrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Producing Eden: Can wildlife thrive beyond national parks in India?

Joint seminar, hosted with the Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS)

UserDr Paul Robbins; Department of Geography International Fellow & University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Friend or foe? Making sense of social research and biodiversity conservation

UserDr Chris Sandbrook; UNEP-WCMC & Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cracking the code of crocodile skin

UserMichel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The (moral) dilemmas of (conservation) research(ers?)

UserDr Bhaskar Vira; Director, Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) and Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation of UK seabirds: a big issue or a done deal?

UserProf. Sarah Wanless, Seabird Ecologist, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes

UserGáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making: Frontiers in Research and Policy

** Note:one-off THURSDAY seminar - no Wednesday session this week ** Joint seminar with CRASSH - Humanitas.

UserProf. Gretchen Daily, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Predicting wildlife dynamics in a changing environment

UserDr Ben Collen, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, UCL.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Lessons from the Dodo: restoring species and ecosystems on Mauritius

UserProf. Carl Jones, Scientific Director of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, and International Conservation Fellow at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Fishy cognition

UserCulum Brown (Macquarie University).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserThanh-Lan Gluckman.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserKwaku Aduse-Poku.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Zoology Graduate Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserLina Maria Arenas.

HouseTea Room, Department of Zoology.

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

Please see above for contact details for this list.

 

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