HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Point-of-Care Testing: Challenge and Opportunity in Resource-Limited Settings

Discussion 13:00 – 14:00 (lunch provided)

Dr. Trevor Peter (Senior Advisor, Diagnostics) and Ms. Maurine Murtagh (Director of Diagnostics), The Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI).

National Blood Service Centre, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Site, Long Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 September 2009, 12:00-13:00

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

HPV vaccines – a success story from the bench to the clinic

Professor Margaret Stanley, Department of Pathology.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 16:20-16:45

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Recent developments in the genetics of breast and ovarian cancer

Professor Doug Easton, Dep. of Public Health and Primary Care.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 15:50-16:20

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Endothelial cell function and placental angiogenesis

Dr Steve Charnock-Jones, Dep. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 14:55-15:20

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

How does the maternal immune system contribute to reproductive success?

Professor Ashley Moffett, Department of Pathology.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 14:30-14:55

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Changing concepts of early placental development

Professor Graham Burton, Dep. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 14:00-14:30

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Birth weight and the risk of cardiovascular disease

Professor Gordon Smith, Dep. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 12:20-12:50

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Heart disease link to lack of oxygen in the womb

Dr Dino Giussani, Dep. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 11:55-12:20

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

The mechanism of intrauterine programming

Professor Abigail Fowden, Dep. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 11:30-11:55

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Epigenetic mechanisms of cell lineage commitment in early development

Dr Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 10:35-11:00

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Epigenetic control of fetal growth and developmental programming

Dr Miguel Constancia, Dep. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 10:10-10:35

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

The importance of imprinted genes for a healthy pregnancy

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dep. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 09:45-10:10

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

External Conference. Registration is required

Programme to be Confirmed.

MR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 09:30-17:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative

Professor Roger Pedersen, Centre for Regenerative Medicine.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 16:30-17:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Cambridge Physics of Medicine Initiative

registration is required for this event

Professor Athene Donald, Director, Centre for Physics of Medicine.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 16:00-16:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Applications of physical science to biological systems: droplets and fragments

Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 15:30-16:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Materials for Medical Engineering

Medical Engineering

Dr Ruth Cameron, Centre for Medical Materials, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 14:30-15:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Reconstructing the Bacterial Cell Factory

Synthetic Biology

Dr David Summers, Department of Genetics.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 14:30-15:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Strategies for bringing back function to the damaged nervous system

Medical Engineering (registration is required for this event)

Professor James Fawcett, Centre for Brain Repair.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 14:00-14:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Tools for Engineering Morphogenesis in Plants

Synthetic Biology

Dr Jim Haseloff, Department of Plant Sciences.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 14:00-14:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Closing on closed-loop insulin delivery: Artificial Pancreas - where we are and where we go

Medical Engineering

Dr Roman Hovorka, Institute for Metabolic Sciences.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:30-14:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Molecular assembly lines for drug biosynthesis

Synthetic Biology

Professor Peter Leadley (Department of Biochemistry).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:30-14:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Health Technologies KTN: working together to accelerate innovation in healthcare

Professor Mehdi Tavakoli, Health Technologies KTN.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:45-12:15

Horizon: Bioengineering

Collagen mechanics: from basic understanding to clinical applications

registration is required for this event

Dr Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:15-11:45

Horizon: Bioengineering

Systems Biology: from models (and model organisms) to medicines

Professor Steve Oliver, Centre for Systems Biology.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 10:45-11:15

Bioengineering

Registration is required

Programme to be confirmed.

MR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 09:30-17:30

China (day 2)

registration is required

Horizon Speakers.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 June 2008, 09:30-17:30

The story of jades.

Part of the China Horizon event (this talk open to non-delegates).

Dr James Lin, Fitzwilliam Museum.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 18:30-19:30

China

Registration is required

Horizon Speakers.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 09:30-17:30

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

The Fact and Fiction of Robots

Kathleen Richardson, Department of Social Anthropology.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 16:30-17:00

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Is there anything 'computers still can't do' and does it matter?

Professor Alison Adam, nformation Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre, University of Salford.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 16:00-16:30

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Can Machines Reason?

Dr Mateja Jamnik, The Computer Laboratory.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 14:45-15:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Learning Language, Evolving languages

Professor Ted Briscoe, The Computer Laboratory.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 14:45-15:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Making Machines That See

Professor Roberto Cipolla, Department of Engineering.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 14:15-14:45

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Caching Decisions: What Jays Know About Other Minds and Other Times

Professor Nicola Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 12:45-13:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Learning to Play: Machine Learning in Games

Dr Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 12:15-12:45

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Reverse-Engineering the Human Motor System

Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 11:45-12:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Synapse Machines and Mental State

Professor Seth Grant, The Sanger Institute.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 10:00-10:30

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Memory - Storing associations between items? Insights from a normative perspective

Dr Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 09:30-10:00

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Cognitive Information Retrieval Systems

Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering.

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 09:00-09:30

Horizon Seminar – "Live Long and Prosper? Ageing in the 21st Century"

Horizon Seminar : "Live Long and Prosper? Ageing in the 21st Century"

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 04 December 2007, 09:00-18:00

Horizon: Energy "What does the future hold?"

Horizon: Energy "What does the future hold?"

Speaker to be confirmed.

TBC.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 09:00-18:00

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Food-borne pathogens, functional genomics and farm animals

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 17:05-17:30

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Bright solutions for food diagnostics

Professor Jim Murray, Institute of Biotechnology and Lumora.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 16:35-17:00

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What's new on the Menu

Chaired by Professor Nigel Slater, Department of Chemical Engineering.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 16:05-17:30

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What's new in the Kitchen

Dr Ian Wilson, Department of Chemical Engineering.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 16:05-16:30

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Plants need their vitamins too

Dr Alison Smith, Department of Plant Sciences.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 15:15-15:40

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Abstract – Red meat and bowel cancer – identifying the link

Dr Gunter Kuhnle, MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:45-15:10

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Nutrients in our Food

Chair: Professor Ian White, Institute of Food Research, Norwich.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:15-15:45

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Dietary Iron

Professor Jonathan Powell, MRC Human Nutrition Research.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:15-14:40

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

The way we ate - Scientific approaches to the archaeology of food

Dr Tamsin O'Connell, Department of Archaeology.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 12:50-13:15

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Why people share food

Dr Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 12:20-12:45

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Human Behaviour

Chair Dr Andre Wadge, Food Standards Agency.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:50-13:15

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What did you eat today? Cultures of food choices

Dr Manpreet Janeja, Department of Social Anthropology.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:50-12:15

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Infant Weight Gain and childhood obesity

Dr Ken Ong, MRC Epidemiology Unit.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:10-11:30

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

The Genetic Basis of Obesity

Dr Sadaf Farooqi, Department of Clinical Biochemistry.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:45-11:10

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Genes Lifestyles and risk of diabetes and obesity

Professor Nick Wareham, MRC Epidemiology Unit.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:20-10:45

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

The Great Food Debate

Dr Susan Jebb, MRC Human Nutrition Research.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 09:55-10:20

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Introduction by Professor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 09:45-09:55

A Sensory World: novel sensor technologies and applications

programme available at https://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/7981

One Day Seminar Series.

Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Tuesday 20 March 2007, 09:30-17:30

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Closing Address

Sir Richard Dearlove (Pembroke College).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 17:30-17:45

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Biological / Chemical Security

Chair Professor Ian White.

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 16:15-17:30

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Digital Security

Chair: Professor Rex Britter.

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 14:15-15:55

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Physical Security

Chair: Professor Sir Michael Pepper.

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 11:40-13:00

Risk, Threat & Detection

Programme details at: http://talks/show/index/7184

One Day Seminar Series.

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 09:30-17:30

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Context

Chair: Professor Ian White.

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 09:00-11:20

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Drinks Reception

Speaker to be confirmed.

Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 17:45-19:30

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Closing Remarks

Professor Sir David King.

Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 17:30-17:45

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Clinical Neuroscience

Chair Professor Alastair Compston, Deartment of Clinical Neurosciences.

Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 16:15-17:30

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Public Understanding of Neuroscience

Chair: Dr Roger Carpenter, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 14:30-16:00

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Translational Neuroscience

Chair: Professor Trevor Robbins, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 12:00-13:30

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Basic Neuroscience

Chair Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology.

Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 10:15-11:45

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

An Introduction to Cambridge Neuroscience

Professor Alastair Compston and Professor Trevor Robbins.

Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 10:00-10:15

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Welcoming remarks

Professor Sir Gabriel Horn, Chair of Cambridge University Government Policy Programme.

Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 09:45-10:00

Neuroscience and Society

One-day seminar.

Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 09:30-17:30

Green Frontiers

Online Registration now available

One-day seminar.

MR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

Tuesday 27 June 2006, 09:30-17:30

Beyond Einstein

Speaker to be confirmed.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 March 2006, 09:30-21:00