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A personal list of talks.

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Javier Igea. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

3 upcoming talks and 2204 talks in the archive.

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 107th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockSaturday 11 April 2026, 11:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Natural History: Contributions from some Cambridge scientific giants of the 19th century

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

UserCNHS President and a former President of Cambridge Philosophical Society.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2026

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

UserThe President and Officers.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 March 2026, 18:30-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection

UserAlice Wickenden (Faculty of English).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 16 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Seed Testing, its History and Links with Cambridge

UserPam Butler.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 12 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast

Host - Marco Geymonat

UserDr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Telling plant stories: agency of botanicals in Cambridge's collections

UserKimberley Glassman (Fitzwilliam Museum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2025

UserDuncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 05 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

UserProfessor Katrina Lythgoe from Department of Biology, University of Oxford.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

UserEmily Hughes and Sophia Kamps (Kew Gardens).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ladybirds in the UK: more diverse than you may think!

UserPeter Brown.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 26 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The fisherman's catastrophe, the historian's problem: on historicizations of water bodies as Second Nature

UserHilbrand Wouters (University of Konstanz).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Update on Swift Conservation in the UK

UserDick Newell.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Return of the Beaver: reintroducing the first beavers to Northamptonshire for 400 years

UserBen Casey, Wildlife Trust BCN.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 12 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Where do we stand on the origin of eukaryotic cells?

Host – Antoine Hocher

UserDr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Plant knowledge-making and the entanglements of natural things: investigations with Hans Sloane's herbarium

UserBrad Scott (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trumpington Meadows past, present and future

UserIain Webb, Wildlife Trust BCN.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 05 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Representing the tropical 'hortus': natural knowledge in Michael Boym's Flora Sinensis (1656)

UserEszter Csillag (Hong Kong Baptist University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Nature's Memory; behind the scenes at the world's natural history museums

UserJack Ashby, Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 29 January 2026, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

CANCELLED - Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation

Host - Aylwyn Scally

UserDr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

ClockThursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The intricate relationships of Sallow and Hazel and the Organisms that live on them

UserDuncan Mackay.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 22 January 2026, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

How personalised is your immune system?

Host - Lin Wang

UserProfessor Aleksandra Walczak from Laboratoire de physique, l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HouseG12 Large Lecture Theatre in Department of Plant Sciences and Zoom.

ClockThursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil

UserThomas Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of the Little Wilbraham River

UserDavid Lomas, retired academic, medic & engineer.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 27 November 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture

UserLiz White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Visit to the Vercors

UserMonica Frisch, CNHS.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 20 November 2025, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Small RNAs in Epigenetic Inheritance: a lesson from worms

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

UserDr Germano Cecere from Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Who was Henslow?

UserKate Hooper (Independent Researcher).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Unsung Songbirds: Vocal Communication and Cognition in Corvids

UserClaudia Wascher, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 13 November 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Viral ghosts and specimen hosts: pathogen detection in natural history museum collections

UserMaya Juman (Department of Veterinary Medicine).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Looking for the Goshawk - The Lost Raptor

UserConor Jameson, writer and naturalist.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Molecular bases of Shigella virulence and host immune response

Host – Kate Baker

UserProfessor Benoit Marteyn from Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Strasbourg.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Resurrecting the list: exploring Coimbra Botanical Garden in 1800 through multi-species network visualisation

UserNathan Cornish (University of Southampton).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plastics in the Environment

UserClaire Barlow, Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing, IfM.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Practical environmental narratives: managing land in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

UserBronte Evans Rayward (Department of Geography).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Conserving Butterflies: Past, Present and Future

UserMatt Hayes, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Making communication common: information architecture, classificatory schemes and reference aids in the repositories of early scientific societies

UserEwa Zakrzewska (European University Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Searching for (and finding) Snow Leopards

UserPeter Pilbeam.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 16 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeking immunity: cacao research and the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 1930–1940

UserMika Hyman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Past and Future of Natural History

UserChief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History

Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)

UserDino Martins.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Richard Relhan: can a portrait be reconstructed from the biographical bones?

UserChris Preston.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Planting crops, gathering knowledge: scientific objects, plantation economies and knowledge production in nineteenth-century Guatemala

UserChristian Stenz (Heidelberg University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mothers, Minds, and Matrilines

UserDr Molly Fox, UCLA.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Cave science, bat guano and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900

UserKatherine Enright (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Vere, Lady Lynch (1647–1682): women colonists as artists and scientists in early English Jamaica

UserEleanor Stephenson (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'North to the future': deep ecological fieldwork in Arctic Alaska

UserBen Weissenbach (Scott Polar Research Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

From known to unknown? Investigating Pleistocene landscapes at Happisburgh

UserDr Rachel Bynoe, University of Southampton.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 106th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseCommon Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockSaturday 19 April 2025, 11:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

UserJim Woodhouse, CNHS President; Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 20 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2025

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

UserThe President and Officers.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 20 March 2025, 18:30-18:55

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens

UserJim Endersby (University of Sussex).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Cambridgeshire Bird Club - 1925 to 2025: a century of bird watching

UserBob Jarman.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 13 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623

UserAlexander van Dijk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The History of Forests

UserCharles Turner.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology

Host - Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Health and nutrition among the Maya

UserDr Ines Varela-Silva, Loughborough University.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Revisiting the paradigm of African ape and human origins

UserProf David Begun, University of Toronto.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996–2004

UserIsobel Newby (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2024

UserDuncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 27 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic

UserJustine Holzman (Princeton University) and Amelia Urry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Great Fen: progress on the peat

UserHenry Stanier, Monitoring & Research Officer at the BCN Wildlife Trust.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 20 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century

UserLeonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Squirrels of the British Isles: Red, Grey, and Black!

UserHelen McRobie, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development

Host - Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University .

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Reconstructing the hominin tree

UserDr Suzy White, University of Reading.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks

UserVarious speakers.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alice Hibbert-Ware: Nature Study and the Little Owl Food Enquiry (1936-7)

UserMax Long.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour

Host - Erik Clark

UserDr Justin Crocker from EMBL Heidelberg .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Genetic adaptation to pathogens and the environment in humans and other primates

UserDr Aida Andres, UCL.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914–15) and Cambridge

UserBenjamin Hegarty (Kirby Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 03 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Marine World

UserFrances Dipper.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 30 January 2025, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?

Host - Kate Baker

UserDr John Lees from EMBL – EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

What can toothed whales teach us about the evolution of menopause?

UserDr Sam Ellis, University of Exeter.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insect Conservation: conserving the little things that run the world

UserEd Turner, Professor of Insect Ecology and Curator of Insects, Cambridge Museum of Zoology.

HouseWeston Seminar Room (First Floor) - David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 January 2025, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare

Host - Cahir O'Kane

UserProfessor Sir Mark Caulfield, Vice Principal for Health, Queen Mary University of London and Director of the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Sagittal cresting among apes and capuchin monkeys: implications for understanding fossil hominins

UserDr Katharine Balolia (Australian National University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Ginger as storied matter: decolonisation and display in Amgueddfa Cymru's Economic Botany collection

UserFiona Roberts (Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tropical Butterflies: using museum collections to study changes in biodiversity

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserTiffany Ki, Henslow Research Fellow, Darwin College.

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 28 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI

Host - Michael Boemo

UserDr Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool from DeepMind, London .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Helminth parasites of humans: past, present and future

UserDr Thomas Crellen (University of Glasgow).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-century French Empire

UserJens Amborg (Uppsala University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Future-proofing the Fens

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserLaurie Friday, Cambridge Centre for Landscape Regeneration.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Alex Cagan

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

HouseCANCELLED.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The first plants changed the planet and they used mud to do it

UserWilliam McMahon (Department of Earth Sciences).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Studying Speciation in the Small Ermine Moths (Yponomeuta)

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserNathan Clark.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Programmed DNA elimination in insects

Host – John Welch

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Are we the storytelling apes: great ape gesture and beyond

UserProf Cat Hobaiter (University of St Andrews).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Indeed it is the thing itself': women and visual culture in the Earth Sciences, 1813–1850

UserGrace Exley (University of Leeds and Oxford Natural History Museum).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

London EvoDevo meeting

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plant Collecting in Kyrgyzstan

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserKathryn Bray, Senior Horticulturist, CU Botanic Garden.

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Intensive kinship and violence against women

UserDr Olympia Campbell .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A beep in the dark: 120 years of midwife toads in Great Britain

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSteve Allain, the Pop Punk Herpetologist, ARU .

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 31 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Denisovans, Dragon Man and more

UserProf Chris Stringer.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Where stones remained silent, plants spoke': practising historical biogeography in 19th-century Egypt

UserAnna Simon-Stickley (Max Planck Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The FINDER Project: a (molecular) journey across Eurasia to identify new Denisovans

UserDr Katerina Douka, University of Vienna.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockFriday 25 October 2024, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Global Warming in the Arctic

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserColin and Christine Lang.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial evolution in the lung

Host – Kate Baker

UserDr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evolving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity

UserDr Adam Hunt (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Finding W H Hudson — the writer who came to Britain to save birds

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserConor Jameson, writer and naturalist.

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 17 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A plague from on high? Comets, disease and meteorology in late medieval England

UserTom Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife, or, Why are there so many species?

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 10 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Richard Durbin

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

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

UserXinnian Dong, Duke University, USA.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 16 May 2024, 12:15-13:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise

UserAisha Alowais Alshamsi (Warburg Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wicken Fen: 125 Years of Conservation

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UserAjay Tegala.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 May 2024, 19:15-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2024

UserThe President and Officers.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 May 2024, 18:45-19:10

Genetics Seminar

Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS

Host - Cahir O'Kane

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545)

UserSheena McKeever (Department of History of Art).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Richard Durbin

UserProfessor Ben Lehner from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enid MacRobbie Women in Science Lecture

UserPhilippa Borrill, John Innes Centre.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 02 May 2024, 12:15-13:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century

UserMichael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas

Host - Frank Jiggins

UserDr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 2

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 20 April 2024, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 1

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 19 April 2024, 13:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar

E. coli and the Game of Clones

Host – Kate Baker

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What and Where I Record

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UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

UserJiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Bones of Contention: Piecing together the puzzle of fossil hominin long bones

UserDr Julia Aramendi (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum

UserLinda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserRosemary Fricker.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering the molecular basis of cell-surface immune signaling

UserCyril Zipfel, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

New insights into the social flexibility of chimpanzees and gorillas

UserDr Jake Funkhouser (University of Zurich) .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe

UserArrianna Dalla Costa (Warburg Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserPeter Pilbeam.

HouseMeeting Room (Second Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

Host - Erik Clark

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

UserRhett Harrison, CIFOR.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Evolution of Locomotion Through the Development Lens: Insights into the Morphology of the Human Talus and Calcaneus

UserDr Carla Figus (University of Bologna) .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769–1838

UserEdwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserOlwen Williams.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Kenneth Sporne Lecture: Uncovering the drivers of complexity in vascular plants, new insights from fossils and genes

UserSandy Hetherington, University of Edinburgh.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human Remains from Pompeii. Excavation, research and valorisation

UserDr Valeria Amoretti (Archaeological Park of Pompeii).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840s–1850s

UserMathias Grote (Universität Greifswald).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservation

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Water Insecurity Experiences Scales (wwwWISEscales.org): The Value of Globally Comparable Data on Water Access, Use, and Reliability.

UserDr Sera Young (Northwestern University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer

UserAmelia Hutchinson (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMorgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Steve Russell

UserDr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

FF Blackman Memorial Lecture in Plant Physiology

UserAlex Costa, University of Milan, Italy.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Unpacking the Beauty Premium: A multidimensional and evolutionary exploration of the impact of physical attractiveness on social and economic outcomes

UserDr Jeanne Bovet (Northumbria University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant

UserZara Kesterton (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic Inheritance

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 01 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Darwinian fitness

UserProf Lloyd Demetrius (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

UserAlex Aylward (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division

Host - Ben Steventon

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation

UserLuke Mackinder, University of York.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 25 January 2024, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The human pelvis and childbirth: reframing 'normality'

UserDr Lia Betti (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2024, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

UserProfessor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision

UserGuillermo Willis (Warburg Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Ticketed Event

UserAnnual Social Gathering.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 December 2023, 18:30-20:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Zach Baker

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMorag Hunter.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sleeping giant – opening access to the untapped scientific data held in the Cambridge University Herbarium

UserDr Anne Dubéarnès, Cambridge University Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

PhD and post-doc speed talks

UserVarious.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Why be a monk?

UserProf Ruth Mace, UCL.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockMonday 27 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia

UserPhoebe McDonnell (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Health of the Cam

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserStephen Tomkins.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

Host - Ben Steventon

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

UserProfessor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)

UserErica Fischer (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and Adventure

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserPaul Krusic.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of organs and cell types.

Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mining the medicinal plant treasures of a biodiversity hotspot using biotechnological tools

UserProfessor Nokwanda Makunga, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Scribbles and archaeological pareidolia, or technaesthetic explorations? Considering Neanderthal material engagements

UserDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes, University of Liverpool.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Biodiverse City

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserGuy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chasing the ghost behind germination and starvation: the unidentified hormone ‘KL’

UserDr Thomas Irving, Cereal Symbiosis Group, Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The myth of archaic introgression into humans: 3 more telling vignettes!

UserProf William Amos, Dept of Zoology, Univ of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century

UserRachel Feldberg (University of York).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserLiam Saddington.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

RR-Myb related transcription factors, novel regulators of chloroplast biogenesis

UserDr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 02 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human-wildlife cooperation: Honeyguides et al.

UserDr Dominic Cram, University of Cambridge (Zoology).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

UserMarissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserWill Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A symplastic, not a simplistic, path: new insights into the role and structural properties of the plasmodesmata cell wall

UserDr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The links between primate socio-ecology, human-primate interactions, and microbial ecology: insights from macaques

UserDr Krishna Balasubramaniam, Anglia Ruskin University .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcuCtrTwoG9I1M856dIPOpwYUO3q4WdIv.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England

UserDaniel Gettings (University of Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

People Power for Nature

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserPete Exley, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 19 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Erik Clark

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling

UserDr Lee Cackett, Plant Physiology and Symbiosis Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 19 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina

UserSilvia M. Marchiori (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 16 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Beyond Campus: Industry Expert Seminar - Enhancing the sustainability of the food system through SEEDesignTM

UserDr Mike Nuccio, Senior Director of AI at Inari, USA.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Do Neandertal and Modern Human Neanderthal craniofacial differences reflect contrasting sexual selection for vocal pitch?

UserProfessor Stanley Ambrose ( University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcuCtrTwoG9I1M856dIPOpwYUO3q4WdIv.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation

Host - John Welch

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies

Host - Erik Clark

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 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

UserProf. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Richard Durbin

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

TLWD scaffold proteins sustain circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis

UserDr Eva Herrero Serrano, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 08 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants

UserProfessor Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, UK.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 01 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

UserLynn Berry (Open University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rubisco activity and the response of crop leaf photosynthesis to shade

UserDr Samuel Taylor, University of Lancaster.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 25 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I

UserCraig Martin (Ca' Foscari University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Immunity activation and execution in plants: a biochemical perspective

UserProfessor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute, Germany.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 18 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment

UserValentine Delrue (Ghent University & Ca' Foscari University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks

Host - Henrik Salje

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Circadian regulation of sunflower development

UserProfessor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 11 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700–72

UserJacob Orrje (Uppsala University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

UserProfessor Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University London and Royal Botanic Garden Kews, UK.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Cahir O'Kane

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 15 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

UserThe President and Officers.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 14 April 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 14 April 2023, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cool as a caterpillar

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserKevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 23 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserTatiana Bebchuk.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unraveling the molecular evolution of betalain-producing enzymes to boost their industrial application

UserDr Alejandra Guerrero Rubio, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 16 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: A Great Ape Dictionary: now what?

UserDr Cat Hobaiter, Wild Minds Lab, University of St Andrews.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcuCtrTwoG9I1M856dIPOpwYUO3q4WdIv.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2023, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain

UserMax Long (History, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserJonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Considering B vitamin metabolism in plants, and for food and nutritional security

UserProfessor Teresa Fitzpatrick, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The status of 3D replicas of human bones and ethical considerations

UserDr Vanessa Campanacho, BioantTalks.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sdOGrqDwtH9DwT4Tba-QxoyFA2Z8eMLuC.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal

UserFrancesco Bianchini (King's College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome

Host - Erik Clark

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

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unravelling the molecular mechanism of petal spot initiation in sexually deceptive South African daisy Gorteria diffusa.

UserDr Udhaya Ponraj, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: Neanderthal Technaesthetics: Material Minds and Complex Cognition

UserDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvdO-vrT8sGdEYFuLdBRtsAQ9Cc4OWPlad.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2023, 16:30-17:30

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Modern views on the diversity, functional disparity, and structure of Cambrian ecosystems

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

UserKarma Nanglu, Harvard University.

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

ClockTuesday 28 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mechanism of neural differentiation

Host – Lara Busby

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

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development

UserProfessor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockThursday 23 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKES: Constructing Identity in Death: A Case-study from Metal Period Philippines

UserProfessor Marc F Oxenham, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland and School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University, Australia.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsduigrTwtEtMPh6m9S7OnOef5SaPcSYOn.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish

User Molly Schumer, Stanford.

Houseonline via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish

User Molly Schumer, Stanford.

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

ClockTuesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

CANCELLED

UserLynn Berry (Open University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserJoshua Pike.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Bumblebees' floral preferences are shaped by rapid valuation of sensory nectar properties

UserDr Fei Peng, Visiting Researcher, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKES: Eugenics, and the Misuse of Mendel

UserDr Adam Rutherford, Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkd-qsqzMuH9Tk68gRcyOhzhF_Tae1s9_G.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserDr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Encountering Ayahuasca in the devil's paradise: Amazonian science and Victorian violence in the nineteenth century

UserTaylor E. Dysart (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseZoom.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular insights into abiotic and biotic factors shaping diatom ecophysiology and signalling

UserDr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Applications of X-ray imaging in Archaeology and palaeontology

UserDiamond Light Source  .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom - https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcOuvrDsvGNNzMF5svFLoXHVu2MGHcTMr.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

UserJan Becker (European University Institute).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisis

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

HouseVia Zoom, and in-person: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil microbiomes and one Health

UserProfessor Marcel van der Heijden, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseOnline only.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

UserDr Laura Moody (University of Oxford).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Seeing through the noise: how fish use visual information to navigate in challenging conditions

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

UserCait Newport, University of Oxford.

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

ClockTuesday 31 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg

UserFrederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution

Host - Hansong Ma

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Alternative meristems: mapping the expression landscape of transcription factor in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

UserDr Facundo Romani, Haseloff Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 26 January 2023, 12:15-13:45

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer

UserAnna-Luna Post (HPS, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

Genetics Seminar

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

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

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

UserSocial Gathering 🍾.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 December 2022, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insects in Flight

UserJohn Brackenbury.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 December 2022, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

UserProfessor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 01 December 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The status of 3D replicas of human bones and ethical considerations

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMudeuhrzsjE9A6AAjyZolY3T4c7dVV2FT7

UserDr Vanessa Campanacho.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600–1750

UserLucy Havard (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans

Host – Ritwick Sawarkar

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

UserProfessor Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The recently discovered ties between teeth and infants in human evolution

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpce-grT4tG93AfVcXL_rbGWU2AlEpF84e

UserDr Leslea Hlusko.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany

UserMadeline White (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Henrik Salje

UserProfessor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The molecular basis of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

UserDr Roman Kellenberger, Evolution and Development, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 17 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

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

Cabinet of Natural History

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

UserElisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserContributing Authors.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective

Host – Bianca De Sanctis

UserDr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

UserDr Edith Forestier, Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Inferring the evolution of skeletal gracility in hominins and extant mammals

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldO2hqjstH9zpVafHVA5N3h7VJUeQ0Otd

UserDr Habiba Chirchir.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

UserDr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies

UserFabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mosquitoes in the Cambridgeshire Fens: past, present and future

UserMark Welch, Natural History Museum.

HouseDepartment of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 November 2022, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion

Host - Marco Geymonat

UserDr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing Parasite-Resistant Systems in Tomatoes to Control Infestations of Cuscuta campestris

UserDr Min-Yao Jhu, Sustainable Crop Nutrition Group, Crop Science Centre.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 03 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Placental hormones and bacterias: partners in crime in the regulation of fetal growth

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvdeqhqT0rG9ck3KEPeMuQIMHgFVbfnK9F

UserDr Jorge Lopez-Tello.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tree islands enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in oil palm landscapes

UserClara Zemp.

HouseZoom only - contact organiser for link.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserHarriet Allen, President CNHS.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century

UserProfessor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Biological diversity among modern human populations

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ode6urzMqH9eGFEsF57KAtJyf4ISTTbFJ

UserDr Fernando Rozzi.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2022, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserGeorgie Bray, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

UserDr. Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Evolution & Development Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

ClockThursday 20 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Primate responses to death: insights into death awareness

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcOirpjwjEtPISEaorcLGNQgd0PnfMGVI

UserDr Alecia Carter, University College London .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG. .

ClockWednesday 19 October 2022, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels, Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions

UserEleanor Myerson (Parker Library, Corpus Christi College).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMonica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Lin Wang

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Protein import into chloroplasts and its regulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system

UserR. Paul Jarvis, Section of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford .

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices

UserAnnika Windahl-Pontén (Uppsala University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Exploring the origin of multicellularity in real time: what we've learned from 5,000 generations of laboratory evolution

Online talk - email organisers for a zoom link

UserWilliam Ratcliff, Georgia Tech.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockSaturday 08 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

UserStefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography).

ClockThursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?

Host - Frank Jiggins

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways

UserProfessor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 16 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

UserProfessor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

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

Genetics Seminar

Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability

Host - Cahir O’Kane

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis

UserDr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 09 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Pleasures and perils of family-based natural history in early modern Europe

UserAlix Cooper (SUNY-Stony Brook).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 30 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Small RNA-directed Reprogramming of Gene Expression During Host-bacteria Interactions

UserProfessor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

UserDr Dorit Hockman.

HouseZoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Whale-watching in the archives: methodological experimentation for more-than-human histories

UserAnna Guasco (Department of Geography).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur

Host: Frank Jiggins

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Belowground Microbial Community Responses to Climate Change: Resistance, Resilience, and Alternative States

UserProfessor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester.

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

UserDr Edwige Moyroud.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Root System Architecture Traits Supporting High Yielding Winter Wheat

UserEric Ober.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: NSP2 and the Regulation of the Symbiotically Permissive State

UserDarius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)

UserOsiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Marco Geymonat

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Stomatal evolution and using knowledge of stomatal function to breed more resilient crops

UserProfessor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol .

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

UserProf Gaspar Jékely.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

UserGuy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Caring only for canes? Botanical sociability in the Anglo-Caribbean in the age of revolution

UserJ'Nese Williams (University of Notre Dame).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes

Host - Carol Edwards

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

UserProfessor Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemas.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

UserDr Jordi Solana.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

UserProf Paola Oliveri.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genotypic variation in maize influences rates of soil organic matter mineralisation and gross nitrification

UserDr Lumbani Mwafulirwa, Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, NIAB.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Characterising the epistatic relationship between signalling pathways for AM symbiosis in rice

UserRaffy Hull, PhD student, Paszkowski group, Crop Science Centre.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Revealing the “box” code: the spatial and temporal regulation of plant-parasitic nematode pathogenicity

UserClement Pellegrin, Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow, Crop Science Centre.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Combining multi-scale phenotyping, AI-powered analysis with genetic mapping studies to connect lab-based plant research with in-field crop improvement

UserJi Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

UserUlf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Pre-breeding, food security and net zero: so much to do, so little time and money

UserPhil Howell, Head of Cereals Pre-Breeding, NIAB .

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Improving the mycorrhizal symbiosis in spring barley – lab and field studies

UserDr Tom Thirkell, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, CSC.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

DNA methylation changes at major animal evolutionary transition

UserAlexandre de Mendoza Soler.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMartin Davies.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

UserDr Kostya Kanyuka, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, NIAB.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The Amazon Third Way and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an attempt to overcome history through technology

UserEmiliano Cabrera Rocha (Department of Geography).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserRebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

UserDr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

UserProfessor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 10 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

Cabinet of Natural History

The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655–1659)

UserSvit Komel (University of Ljubljana).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lower Wood

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Who Cares About Hornworts?

UserDr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution, ecology, and genetics of live-bearing and egg-laying reproduction

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseZoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge

CANCELLED

UserHuiyi Wu (CNRS-Centre Alexandre Koyré).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Peatbogs

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality

Hosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mechano-eco-evo of the Common Dandelion: What the Notorious Weed Tells Us About Plant Dispersal Strategies

UserDr Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and Jackals

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserArik Kershenbaum.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

UserDr Indu Santhanagopalan, Physiological Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Fenland Flora

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserAnn Miles.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis

UserDr Pallavi Singh, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences .

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The brain-bone connections shaping skeletal form and function: can we use bone structure to study neural development in human evolution?

UserDr Jaap Saers, University of Cambridge.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2022, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800

UserSophia Spielmann (Technische Universität Berlin).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 07 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDaniel Field.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Genetics Seminar

Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.

Host: Elves Duarte

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Entangled Lives: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

UserDr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India

UserMinakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

** Audience Choice **

The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Steve Russell

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Uncovering Mechanisms of Cell-type-specific Gene Expression in Rice

UserDr Leonie Luginbuehl, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Birdwatching on a cosmic scale: The avian fossil record and the origin of modern bird diversity

UserDaniel Field (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories

UserDaniela Sclavo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution

UserDr Martha Munoz, Yale.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 14 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells

Host: Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology.

HouseTBC.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserEllie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

UserDr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 02 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Phylodynamic tools for quantitative palaeobiology

UserRachel Warnock, Geozentrum Nordbayern.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

ClockTuesday 30 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tender curiosities: natural history and gendered knowledge-craft at country houses, counting houses, and Royal African Company factories

Online only

UserElizabeth Yale (University of Iowa).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The launch of the online NatHistFest

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserCNHS Members.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

UserDr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The functional consequences of extinction and the evolution of gigantism

UserCatalina Pimiento, Swansea University.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

UserMarieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserApril Bagwill.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Cahir O'Kane

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Decoupling Photoprotective Roles of Carotenoids in the PSII Light Harvesting Complexes for Improved Plant Growth

UserDr Julia Walter, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Quantitative studies of rapid evolutionary adaptation

UserDmitri Petrov, Stanford University.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America

UserErnesto Schwartz-Marin (Exeter University).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserGwenda Kyd, Author.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

UserProfessor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human Evolution at the Crossroads

UserProfessor Katerina Harvati.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain

UserJoão Joaquim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDr Steve Boreham.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

UserDr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Is telomere length a useful biomarker in ecology and evolution?

UserDan Nussey, University of Edinburgh.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Remarks on Joachim Jungius's work method in botany: Ficus indica in his letters, notes, garden and Isagoge Phytoscopica

UserNiklaas Görsch (University of Lübeck).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants

UserDr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

UserMaree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

TBC

UserProfessor James O’Connell and Professor Kristen Hawkes.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2021, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genomic and developmental drivers of color pattern diversification

UserClaudius Kratochwil, University of Helsinki.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

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

Cabinet of Natural History

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

UserCharlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial condensates under stress

Host: Rosana Collepardo

UserProfessor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

UserDr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The honeybee waggle dance: evolutionary marvel but modern-day relic?

UserElli Leadbeater, Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771–1832

UserPatrick Anthony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees for Streets

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSimeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Genetics Seminar

Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair

Host: Hansong Ma

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

UserProfessor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Goodness Paradox: How self-domestication contributes to explaining the uniquely human combination of good and evil.

UserProfessor Richard Wrangham.

HouseLive on Zoom, link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2021, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Distribution and ecology of albatrosses and petrels; underlying drivers and implications for conservation

UserRichard Phillips, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 12 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: John Welch

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Richard Durbin

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

UserElla Larsson (University of Westminster).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 20 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland

UserFranziska Holt (University of York).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease

Host: Cahir O'Kane

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

UserChris Lambing, Henderson group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants

UserChristoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara

UserProfessor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

UserProf Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 06 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hearsay, gossip, misapprehension: Alfred Newton's second-hand histories of extinction

UserAmelia Urry (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 03 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Human Immunity – one cell at a time

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserDr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

UserKumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cross-Kingdom RNAi and extracellular vesicle-mediated small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

UserProf Hailing Jin, UCR Riverside.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800–1850

UserAndreas Weber (University of Twente).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

UserDr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Postponed - Protecting the Environment

Postponed for now. Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Nature’s information networks: from collective behavior to ecosystem dynamics

UserAndrew Hein - University of California.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

UserChris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

UserKrishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Hansong Ma

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

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 04 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Multiple determinants maintain diversity in nature

UserSwanne Gordon - Washington University.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

UserEdwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum

Now at 3pm

UserJohn Ferguson, Kromdijk group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Biotic Diversification in Southeast Asia and the Indonesian Archipelago in the Era of NGS

UserFrank Rheindt - National University of Singapore.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

UserKaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil fungi for us

NOTE TIME CHANGE

UserMaarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 18 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

Host: Frank Jiggins

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The links between sensory and motor systems: from cells to organisms

UserNatasha Mhatre - University of Western Ontario.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A natural history of evil

UserAlexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.

Host: Ben Steventon

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences

UserDr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A thorny question: tinkering to evolve a novel mode of plant stem cell arrest

UserVivian Irish, Yale University.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773–1779)

UserSarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges

Host: John Welch

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses

UserDr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Genetics Seminar

Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids

Host: Hansong Ma

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions

UserFrank C. Schroeder, Cornell University.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 21 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

CambPlants Hub

Celebrating the FAO International Year of Plant Health: A forward looking perspective on tackling the grand challenges in plant health to transform agriculture sustainably.

UserDr Richard Harrison - Director of Cambridge Crop Research, NIAB..

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

BioAnth Seminar Series PhD research presentations

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLive on Zoom, pre-registration essential here using link circulated by email.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Aylwyn Scally

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres

UserMatthew Naish, Henderson Group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Assessing the locomotor behaviour of early humans using biomechanical modelling

UserDr Ashleigh Wiseman (Royal Veterinary College).

HouseLive on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/2Gcbbou.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How a year-round breeding tropical songbird copes with seasonal aridity

UserChima Nwaogu (Fitzpatrick Inst).

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 24 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

UserMax Long (Faculty of History).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development

UserProf Siobhan Brady, UC Davis.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Assessing the double burden of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from the Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLive on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3n5e7E8.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations

UserJosh Firth (Oxford).

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

UserLeonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Translation research in plant breeding, can we finish the job!

UserAbdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud .

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bird migration: evolutionary genetics of migratory behaviour

UserMiriam Liedvogel (Max Planck).

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62

UserMiles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defying Mendel’s laws: epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum

UserClaudia Dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Multiple burdens of malnutrition among Maya families in Yucatan and how language (Spanish vs Mayan) impact health outcomes

UserDr Inês Varela-Silva (University of Loughborough), with Hugo Azcorra, Maria Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Sabine Little.

HouseLive on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/349mHZG.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Convergent Evolution of a Social Symbiosis

UserJoe Parker (Caltech).

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 03 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

UserChristopher Preston.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Does stress lead to wrinkles?. The case of petal cuticles

UserCarlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Communication, cooperation and culture in Shark Bay dolphins

UserStephanie King (University of Bristol).

HouseLive on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3ncLK75.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The late, great bilaterians: hunting down the first animals in the fossil record

UserGraham Budd (Uppsala).

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 27 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680–1830

UserDominik Hünniger (University of Hamburg).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 26 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.

Host: Marco Geymonat

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolutionary legacies on ecosystem function and implications for global change: new insights from spectral biology

UserJeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Do fish have necks? How fish use the axial muscles and skeleton to power suction feeding

UserAriel Camp (Liverpool).

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 20 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Death, decay, rot and ashes: the 'discovery' of the corpse flower and the politics of loss in colonial botany

UserElaine Ayers (New York University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 19 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A bipartite transcription factor module controls bundle sheath preferential expression in Arabidopsis

UserPatrick Dickinson, Hibberd group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.

Host: Ben Steventon

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Replaying the tape of life: how predictable is evolution?

UserKatie Peichel (Bern).

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 13 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips

UserCatarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bird migration: evolutionary genetics of migratory behaviour

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockSunday 11 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis

UserDr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 June 2020, 13:00-13:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Richard Durbin

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

HouseZoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis

UserJoiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the species barrier to allow hybridization of C3 and C4 cereals

UserGreg Reeves, Hibberd group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

TO BE ADJOURNED - AGM

AGM WILL BE ADJOURNED

UserAGM.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-19:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice

UserAn-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 30 April 2020, 13:00-13:30

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

UserLennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

CANCELLED

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 04 April 2020, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

CANCELLED

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 03 April 2020, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - A trillion trees – A trillion reasons to thrive!

CANCELLED

UserStuart Dainton, Head of Trillion Trees WWF-UK.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 26 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

UserPaul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering the Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA): Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and its Nutrient Regulation in Barley

UserDoris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Life-course health and disease: an evolutionary perspective

UserRihlat Said-Mohamed (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

CANCELLED

UserJ'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

UserMal Faloon.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Response of the human gut and saliva microbiome to urbanisation in Cameroon

UserLaure Segurel (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserMiltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

CANCELLED

UserChris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

UserSophia Upton.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

UserDr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

UserArtemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

TBA

UserInes Varela-Silva (Loughborough University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences

UserAnnette Fayet (Oxford).

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

ClockTuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

UserLaura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

UserPeter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

This talk has been cancelled

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

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cancelled: Understanding drivers and consequences of plant diversity across temporal and spatial scales in an era of rapid global change

This talk is cancelled

UserJeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Unrecorded history: what genomes tell us about ancestry and admixture

UserAylwyn Scally (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants.

UserPhyllis Lee (University of Stirling).

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

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

UserChris Manias (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

UserJonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lines in nature and the landscape

UserMartin Davies.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

UserKirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments

UserKarl Gotthard (Stockholm University).

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

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Harrold-Odell Country Park

UserRichard Dowsett.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Michael Imbeault

UserProfessor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

UserNick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

It's about time: The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms during infections

UserSarah Reece (University of Edinburgh).

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

ClockTuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

UserSarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

UserJames Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth

UserRichard Smith, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserJustin Crocker, EMBL.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A deeper take on our sexual nature: Importance of cellular sex and underlying mechanisms

UserBruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose).

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

ClockTuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

UserTamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

UserMark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development

UserTina Schreier, Hibberd group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Origins and extinctions of early vertebrates: a story of ecology, phylogeny, and the fossil record

UserRob Sansom (University of Manchester).

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

ClockTuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

UserPeter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserProfessor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbiosis through the Phanerozoic

UserKatie Field, University of Leeds.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Ode to the masalai: New Guinea as a crucible for evolution in plants and insects

UserSimon Segar (Harper Adams University).

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

ClockTuesday 14 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

UserMembers' Event.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Conserved defences underpin host responses to oomycete infection in liverworts

UserPhilip Carella, SLCU.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Members' enthusiasms

UserRod Mulvey - John O’Boyle - Ben Greig.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity

Host: Richard Durbin

UserProfessor Nick Lane, University College London .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering NLR immune receptors to combat rice blast disease

UserMark Banfield, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION: The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations

UserJosh Firth (Oxford).

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

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The short Arctic summer

UserRobert Burton.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

Host: Richard Durbin

UserDr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Post Doc invited speaker

UserJim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 November 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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking trade in underground symbioses

UserToby Kiers (VU Amsterdam).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

UserJoanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

User .

House(no venue).

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

UserJames Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Causes and consequences of social evolution in spiders

UserTrine Bilde (Aarhus University).

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

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur

UserMatt Holmes (CRASSH).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

An astronomer in Antarctica

UserJonathan Shanklin.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Tales of growth and buckling: Micro-pattern formation on petal surface cells

UserCarlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mid-Late Pleistocene human evolution in Eurasia

UserProfessor Chris Stringer (NHM).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking patterns and processes across scales: a case study with Andean hummingbirds

UserCatherine Graham (Swiss Federal Institute WSL).

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

ClockTuesday 05 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)

UserNathan Smith (Department of Zoology).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tasty Crafty Aliens - Making the best of a bad situation...

UserAbigail Stancliffe-Vaughan.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mechanisms conferring seasonal flowering responses in annual and perennial plants

Post Doc invited speaker

UserGeorge Coupland, Max Plank Institute.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 31 October 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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do organisms age? Beyond energy trade-offs

UserAlexei Maklakov (University of East Anglia).

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

ClockTuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Last Dog? Wolves in the Highlands of Ethiopia and elsewhere

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserKevin Hand.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 24 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains

UserHester Sheehan, Brockington group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 October 2019, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Phenotypic plasticity and the evolution of eusociality: How does the queen control reproduction in her workers?

UserElizabeth Duncan (Leeds University).

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

ClockTuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800

UserPaul Sampson (Rutgers University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Changes: the Bird Life of Cambridgeshire - for better or for worse?

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserBob Jarman.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Richard Durbin

UserProfessor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

21st Century Crop Science Wo(man)

UserAlison Bentley, NIAB.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Where The Wild Things Are: Investigating the spatial distribution patterns of highly mobile species

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

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

ClockWednesday 16 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Where The Wild Things Are: Investigating the spatial distribution patterns of highly mobile species

UserDr Charlotte Boyd, University of Washington, Seattle.

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

ClockWednesday 16 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How coordinated behaviour is achieved through selection, synchrony and sex

UserJames Herbert-Read (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis

UserKevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

(Re-)discovering Moths

UserAnnette Shelford.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 10 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain

Host: Michael Imbeault

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserProfessor Anthony Graham, King's College London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridge's Natural History - what do we know after three years of NatHistCam?

UserMark Hill.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 03 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

UserDuncan Mackay.

HouseMeet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge..

ClockSaturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The evolution of reproductive isolation: multiple hybrid zones in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

UserBoris Delahaie, Glover group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Escaping Mendel’s laws: Epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum.

UserClaudia dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England

UserJames Ryan (Victoria & Albert Museum/University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Dynamics in forest microclimates provide new insights into biodiversity responses to climate change

UserFlorian Zellweger, Coomes group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserProf Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867)

UserLuz Fernanda Azuela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Berta Verd

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function

UserCaroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 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

Cabinet of Natural History

When is a cow not a cow?

UserHarriet Ritvo (MIT).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Ben Steventon

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction

UserJulian Schroeder, UCSD.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The politics of the potato in the 19th century

UserRebecca Earle (University of Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

UserThe President and Officers.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 12 April 2019, 18:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 12 April 2019, 13:00-18:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

UserUlf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 04 April 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

UserCambridge Concert Orchestra.

HouseWesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

ClockSaturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservation

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserAbigail Burns.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

First Line of Defence: engaging communities in tackling illegal wildlife trade

UserDr Dilys Roe, IIED.

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

ClockWednesday 20 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserKevin Hand.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Antarctic snow algae blooms – analysing community function from microscopes to satellites

UserMatt Davey, Smith Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial evolution in the human gut

UserPauline Scanlan (University College Cork).

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

ClockTuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice

UserPatrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Parasitic plants

UserHelen Moore.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

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

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity

UserAlexandre Antonelli, Kew.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

A university role in fostering social change

UserProfessor Stephen Toope, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserDr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild

UserSusan Johnston (University of Edinburgh).

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

ClockTuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

UserAnna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

UserPaul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Host: Sam Lewis

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

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

CCI Conservation Seminars

Linking knowledge to action at scales that matter: lessons from the past, thoughts about the future

UserProfessor Pamela Matson, Stanford University.

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

ClockWednesday 27 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Homo sapiens evolution through the Asian lens

UserProfessor María Martinón-Torres, CENIEH.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

UserDr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking all the things: towards a biodiversity knowledge graph

UserRoderick Page (University of Glasgow).

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

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK

UserJohn Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

UserGreg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD

UserMike Blatt, Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Is the nutrition in our crops declining?

UserJames Wong, Botanist, science writer & broadcaster.

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

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

North American Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions: was it murder or climatic mayhem?

UserProfessor David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserDr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do females fight?

UserEleanor Bath (University of Oxford).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century

UserElena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cheetah conservation in Namibia

UserChris Heron.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Targeted grafts as a tool to enhance tomato preservation

UserSara Lopez-Gomollon, Baulcombe Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

New approaches to modeling technological evolution

UserDr. Erik Gjesfjeld, University of Cambridge .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserJocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Speciation, horizontal transfer and the evolutionary genomics of bdelloid rotifers

UserTim Barraclough (Imperial College London).

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

ClockTuesday 12 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe

UserSebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Venom

UserLeah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development

UserDominique Bergmann, Stanford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Saving the world’s biodiversity spreadsheet by spreadsheet

UserDr Stuart Butchart, BirdLife International.

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

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Tracking a killer: using ancient DNA to understand the evolutionary history of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

UserProfessor Anne Stone, Arizona State University.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Through a glass darkly - interpreting animal behaviour with the aid of machines

UserAlex Jordan (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology).

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

ClockTuesday 05 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire

UserEdwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sychronized cells as a model for the diel regulation of Rubisco-EPYC1 interactions in the Chlamydomonas CCM

UserIndu Santhanagopalan, Griffiths lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Folktales, languages and genes: the plot thickens

UserDr. Jamshid Tehrani, University of Durham.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserDr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

High-throughput synchrotron X-ray imaging of extant and fossil insects

UserThomas van de Kamp (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

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

ClockTuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies

UserGenie Yoo (Princeton University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines

Host: Jane Charlesworth

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From start to finish: Emerging functions of the N-end rule pathway of proteolysis in plants

UserDan Gibbs, Birmingham.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Climate resilience through science, practice, and public participation

UserProfessor Adina Merelender, University of California, Berkeley .

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

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The evolution of animal construction and why it matters to anthropologists

UserDr. Sally Street, University of Durham.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Pleiotropy, chance and predictability in the genetic paths of evolution

UserVirginie Courtier-Orgogozo (Institute Jacques Monod).

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

ClockTuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

UserJack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

HouseUniversity Museum of Zoology.

ClockMonday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

How to train your boyfriend: Integrating evolutionary psychology and behaviourist learning theory 

UserDr. Diana Fleischman, University of Portsmouth.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution

Host: Chris Illingworth

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

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination

UserAndy Tock, Henderson Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Digging ancient haplotypes out of modern human genomes

UserDr. Luca Pagani, University of Padova.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 16 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserDr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Alarm calls and interspecific eavesdropping

UserRobert Magrath (Australian National University).

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

ClockTuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

UserAnastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Apologies, due to flight cancellation this talk will be rescheduled

UserJim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Just because you’re small doesn’t mean biodiversity isn’t important! – Importance of phytoplankton diversity for the global carbon cycle

UserKatherine Richardson, Professor Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen.

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

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project

UserDr. Susana Carvalho.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution on the wing

UserOwen McMillan, STRI.

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

ClockTuesday 27 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle

UserMargot Lyautey (EHESS, Paris/Tübingen).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Discovering lichens

UserMark Powell.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How do betalains evolved? Consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales

UserSamuel Lopez, Brockington group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Josephine Joordens.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Social learning? So what! Looking for evolutionary consequences of social information use.

UserRose Thorogood (University of Cambridge and University of Helsinki).

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

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872

UserOscar Kent-Egan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wildlife photography

UserJoshua Harris, CU Nature Society.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserDr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

CCI Conservation Seminars

Sustainability through environmental liability: getting conservationists and political ecologists into the courtroom

UserDr Jacob Phelps, Lancaster University.

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

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Life History of Hunting Skill in 40 Human Societies

UserProfessor Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserDr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sexual conflict in ecological context

UserJen Perry (University of Oxford).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century

UserMarie de Rugy (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Getting to know British reptiles

UserTerry Moore.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Coordinated approaches to assess the effects of interacting global change drivers on forest composition and function

UserKris Verheyen, University of Ghent.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Erik Gjesfjeld.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The tension between generality and diversity: what makes biology so cool

UserHanna Kokko (University of Zurich).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century

UserMartha Homfray-Cooper (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

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

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

CCI Conservation Seminars

Forest conservation policy: from monitoring to design

UserAssociate Professor Guy Ziv, University of Leeds.

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

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Major Transitions in Evolution: When’s the Next One?

UserDr. Kit Opie (Bristol).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 31 October 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

Cabinet of Natural History

Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685

UserJustin Rivest (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserSam Buckton.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense

Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira

UserDr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How the nutrient status of the plant controls its engagement with microorganisms

UserGiles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Music first: hunter-gatherers and the evolution of language

UserDr. Jerome Lewis (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

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

Evolution of ant social chromosomes and bumblebee diversity

UserYannick Wurm (Queen Mary University of London).

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

ClockTuesday 23 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserChris Preston.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Developments in the measurement of natural capital to advance sustainability assessment

UserAssociate Professor Eli Fenichel, Yale University .

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

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar

The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation

Host: Frank Jiggins

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis

UserLeonie Luginbuehl, Hibberd group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-13:30

CCI Conservation Seminars

Do conservation efforts aimed at slowing deforestation and improving local wellbeing work - and how do we know?

UserProfessor Julia Jones, Bangor University .

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

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Nearly Naked Ape: Human Evolution Just Got Hairier

UserTina Lasisi (Penn State) .

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Epigenetics and social insects

UserEamonn Mallon (University of Leicester).

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

ClockTuesday 16 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency

UserEmma Spary (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A trip to the Galapagos islands

UserPaul Hoxey.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Cahir O’Kane

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

UserJane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Jason Hodgson (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Timing and pattern of tooth eruption – Investigation of their evolution in wild and domestic mammals

UserMadeleine Geiger (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 09 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The long-lost Paston Collection

UserSpike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Old specimens, new tricks? The Cambridge University Herbarium: what a million dead plants can tell us about the world today

Opening Autumn Lecture

UserLauren Gardiner.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 04 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Our Ways: Toolmaking and the Origins of Normative Cognition

UserProfessor Jonathan Birch (LSE).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry

UserDr Frank Hirth, King's College London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies

UserProfessor Urs Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What genes made us human, and how much did they cost?

UserJames Sikela, UC Denver.

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

ClockTuesday 04 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

THE CHEMICAL WARFARE BETWEEN PLANTS AND INSECTS: From pathway discovery to functional diversification of toxins

UserProfessor Søren Bak , University of Copenhagen.

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

ClockFriday 13 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The effectiveness of wooden spears as hunting weapons

UserAnnemieke Milks (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing and Funding a Global System for the Conservation of Crop Diversity in Genebanks

UserLuigi Guarino, Crop Trust.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Climate crises: their social, technological and demographic impact on the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Angkor

UserCharles Higham (University of Otago).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A Ser/Thr receptor-like kinase, Ark1, is required to maintain arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice

UserRonelle Roth, Paszkowski Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 31 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project

UserSusana Carvalho (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserZuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 May 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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics

Third "Enid MacRobbie Women in Science" lecture

UserAnne Osbourne, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Cultural evolution of kinship diversity: the micro and macro of talking about family

UserFiona Jordan (University of Bristol).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sexual selection and trait investment in a dynamic world

PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT VENUE

UserChristine Miller (University of Florida).

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

ClockTuesday 22 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869

UserDéborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multiple macroevolutionary routes to becoming a biodiversity hotspot

UserJavier Igea, Tanentzap Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

A reassessment of plant foods in Neanderthal diets

UserAmanda Henry (Leiden University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserNaoki Irie (University of Tokyo).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Illuminating the start of complex life: Spatial analysis of Ediacaran ecosystems

UserDr Emily Mitchell, Earth Sciences (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 15 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756)

UserLászló Kontler (Central European University, Budapest).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Alexis Braun

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Explosive seed dispersal

UserAngela Hay, Max Planck.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 10 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserTo be confirmed.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Fuxianhuiids and their exceptional contribution to the early evolution of Cambrian euarthropods

UserJavier Ortega Hernandez (Dept of Zoology, Cambridge).

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

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900)

UserMarine Bellégo (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 07 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulatory RNA

Host: Martyna Popis

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

UserSusana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Past, present, and future of orangutan conservation

UserSerge Wich (Liverpool John Moores University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserStephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 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

Cabinet of Natural History

Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade

UserKathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unlocking the secrets of medicinal crops: from artemisinin to morphine, why are plants still better than bugs at making these drugs?

UserIan Graham, University of York.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Is that really helping? Critical analysis of breastfeeding support in the UK from an evolutionary perspective

UserEmily Emmott (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

On the origin of human sociality: Ape minds and the evolution of Homo sapiens

UserChristopher Krupenye (University of St. Andrews).

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

ClockTuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

(Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape

Special Seminar

User Joe Ecker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological studies.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 07 April 2018, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 06 April 2018, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Land of Eagles - Albania: from closed nation to wildlife paradise - where next?

Preceded by the AGM, 18:00 to 18:30.

UserKevin Hand.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 22 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evolution’s Bite: Dental evidence for the diets of our distant ancestors

UserPeter S. Ungar (University of Arkansas).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Breckland, birds and conservation

UserRobert Hawkes.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Primate tourism: opportunities and challenges

UserLaetitia Marechal (University of Lincoln).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Canceled

UserJennifer Perry (University of Oxford).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks

CANCELLED

UserGenie Yoo (Princeton University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The importance of seed testing

UserPam Butler.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Protein targeting within the chloroplast: a cell-biological view of starch biosynthesis

UserSam Zeeman, ETH Zurich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Social support and breastfeeding in the UK: evolutionary perspectives and implications for public health

UserEmily Emmott (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserJordi Solana (Oxford Brookes University).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 March 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

Cabinet of Natural History

A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection

CANCELLED

UserSpike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Michaela Frye

UserDr Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

UserSusana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-13:30

CCI Conservation Seminars

National crises, viewed in the light of personal crises

UserJared Diamond, UCLA.

HouseThe Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site Pembroke Street , Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 17:15-18:15

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Ancient DNA studies of early modern humans and late Neanderthals

UserMateja Hajdinjak (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELED DUE TO USS PENSIONS STRIKE.

UserHelen Leggett (University of Cambridge).

HouseCanceled - apologies for any inconvenience caused.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge

CANCELLED

UserJustin Rivest (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

“This object has been temporarily removed”

UserLeah Fitzpatrick.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Eukaryotic cell division and its origins

Host: Alexis Braun

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

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

UserYadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

CCI Conservation Seminars

Saving our bumblebees

UserProfessor Dave Goulson, University of Sussex.

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

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Anthropological engineering and hominin dietary ecology

UserMichael Berthaume (Imperial College).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Modularity, criticality and evolvability of a developmental GRN

UserBerta Verd (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Cognition in the wild: foraging hummingbirds and building nests

UserSue Healy (University of St. Andrews).

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

ClockTuesday 20 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920s–1930s

UserCaterina Schürch (LMU München).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Smuts, bunts and ergots

UserSandra Chapman.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales

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

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phylogenetic hypothesis of the Oleeae tribe (Oleaceae)
 Diversification and molecular evolution patterns in plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA

UserLoubab Zedane, Brockington Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Diagnosing diseases of childhood: a bioarchaeological and palaeopathological perspective

UserCarolyn Rando (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Benefits of social relationships in carrion crows

UserClaudia Wascher (Anglia Ruskin University).

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

ClockTuesday 13 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees

UserPetter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exhibiting Ice Age Cambridge

UserDouglas Palmer.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development

Host: Alfonso Martinez Arias

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

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants Plant host-pathogen coevolution and exploring local adaptation of an Arabidopsis thaliana complex Resistance gene locus

UserJane Parker, MPI Cologne.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Climate change, species' abundance changes and protected areas

UserDr Aleksi Lehikoinen, Finnish Museum of Natural History .

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

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Anthropology, mass graves and the politics of the dead

UserConstantine Eliopoulos (Liverpool John Moores University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration

UserNadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution in island colonising birds: silvereyes of the south Pacific

UserSonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world

UserSimon Werrett (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Andreas Wagner, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From vesicles to responsive artificial tissues

UserEmma Talbot, Haseloff Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Prehistoric cannibalism: why such a fuss?

UserSilvia Bello (Natural History Museum).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates

UserShunsuke Sogabe (University of St Andrews).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Paleogenomics beyond humans

UserMichi Hofreiter (University of Pottsdam).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846–63

UserMeira Gold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis

Host: Eric Miska

UserDr Déborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie, Paris .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

UserJose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

How satellite imagery is transforming conservation science

UserDr Nathalie Pettorelli, Zoological Society of London.

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

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Knowledge on wild plants in BaYaka hunter-gatherers and its implications on cultural evolution and health

UserGul Deniz Salali (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain centers

UserGaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neural circuitry of a polycystin-mediated hydrodynamic startle response in Platynereis: from genes to ecology

UserGáspár Jékely (University of Exeter).

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

ClockTuesday 23 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century

UserÁdám Mézes (Central European University, Budapest).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using the auxin-inducible degron in yeast to understand the spliceosome cycle

UserGonzalo Mendoza, Smith Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The domestication of the seasons, a later critical stage in the transformation of cultivated plants

UserProfessor Martin Jones (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

UserJane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Towards understanding of photoacclimation in algal photosynthesis – regulation via redox and Ca2+

UserMichael Hippler, University of Munster.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Coral reefs and climate change: Ecological surprises from the epicentre of the 2015-2016 El Niño

UserDr Julia Baum, University of Victoria .

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

ClockWednesday 13 December 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

UserLouise Bacon.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing Crop Productivity Sustainably by Bioengineering Improved Photosynthetic Efficiency

UserStephen Long, University of Illinois.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Conservation 4.0 - Will robots take your job?

UserProfessor Kate Jones, UCL.

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

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Beyond recognition: The application of biological anthropology to identification of the more recently deceased

UserHeather Bonney (Natural History Museum).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Growing old yet staying young: do bats hold the secret of extended longevity?

UserEmma Teeling (University College Dublin).

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

ClockTuesday 28 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian

UserKatalin Pataki (Central European University, Budapest).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Amphibian conservation and midwife toads in Cambridge

UserSteven Allain.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of a suppressor of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis in rice

UserJeongmin Choi, Paszkowski Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

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

Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion

UserDaniel Jackson (University of Göttingen).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Parental Care

UserChris Cunningham (Swansea University).

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

ClockTuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism

UserAlex Aylward (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Origins of Mediterranean flora

UserHarriet Allen.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant intracellular immune receptors; diversity, deployment and dissection

UserJonathan Jones, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

The success and challenges of grassroots conservation initiatives in the Amazon

UserDr Judith Schleicher, University of Cambridge .

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Culture and the EEA: Origins of human social structure, cognition and language

UserLucio Vinicius (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neurophysiology in the field: What can it tell us about the ecology of acoustic communication?

UserHeinrich Römer (University of Graz).

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

ClockTuesday 14 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Iron holds the whale

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication

Host: Sudhakaran Prabakaran

UserDr Nancy R. Gough.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Shepreth Hedgehog Hospital

UserRobert Day.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro

Hosts: Alfonso Martinez-Arias & Shlomit Edri

UserDr Anestis Tsakiridis, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Not just a pretty flower- an ancestral function for LEAFY in shoot development of non-seed vascular plants

UserAndrew Plackett, Hibberd Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The ecology and evolutionary origins of Australopithecus

UserRené Bobe (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders

UserEmilia Santos (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Can social networks explain why females cheat?

UserJulia Schroeder (Imperial College London).

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

ClockTuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox)

UserCatarina Madruga (Universidade de Lisboa).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plants and their uses (medicinal & otherwise)

UserGwenda Kyd.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserDr Kirsten Bomblies, John Innes Centre, Norwich .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing the global land resource

UserPete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

The power of non-invasive approaches to conservation science

UserDr Sam Wasser, University of Washington .

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

What’s so social about primate sociability?

UserRobin Dunbar (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

When males lose their fathers genome: the why and how of a remarkable reproductive system

UserLaura Ross (University of Edinburgh).

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

ClockTuesday 31 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance

UserAndrew Lacey (Making & Knowing Project, Columbia University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sustainable bioenergy and biofuels from microalgae: a systems biology perspective

UserMaria Huete Ortega, Smith Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Morphological and palaeoecological perspectives on baboon evolution

UserSarah Elton (Durham University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Adaptive radiations and species(?) diversity

UserPer Lundberg (Lund University).

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

ClockTuesday 24 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost forests of Huntingdonshire

UserJason Peters.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 18:45-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”.

UserDr Cahir O’Kane, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Highlighting industry collaborations in Plant Sciences

This is a CAMBPLANTS Industrial Talk

UserCINTRIN.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Transformative transparency and a deforestation free economy: how supply chain information can improve supply chain governance and sustainability

UserDr Toby Gardner, Stockholm Environment Institute.

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

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Huns and Romans: relationships between pastoral and agricultural populations on the late Roman frontier

UserSusanne Hakenbeck (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Rapid host and pathogen co-evolution following a severe emerging infectious outbreak

UserCamille Bonneaud (University of Exeter).

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

ClockTuesday 17 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850

UserLachlan Fleetwood (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 16 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Britain's Hidden Marine Life

UserDr. Frances Dipper.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 12 October 2017, 18:45-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The surprising evolution of TTG1-WDR proteins

UserChiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Deciphering the enamel and dental development in hominins. The importance of the Atapuerca dental remains

UserMario Modesta Mata (CENIEH, Burgos).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array

UserMichael Bok (University of Bristol).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

You are what you eat? Gut bacteria and mating preferences in Drosophila

UserZenobia Lewis (University of Liverpool).

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

ClockTuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage

UserNicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function

Host: Chris Illingworth

UserProfessor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

UserJose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Stress and adaptation - a life history perspective using endurance sports

UserDaniel Longman (University of Cambridge).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Complex Homology and the Neuromolecular Evolution of Social Behavior

NOTE SPECIAL TIME

UserHans Hoffmann (University of Texas at Austin).

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

ClockTuesday 26 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Big Data Meets Geo-Computation: Combining Research Reproducibility and Processing Efficiency in High-performance Computing

PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME, AND LOCATION

UserGiuseppe Amatulli (Yale University).

HouseRayleigh room, Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE.

ClockFriday 08 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bringing Partula up to date: from Captain Cook to the 2017 search for lost snails.

UserDr. Justin Gerlach.

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

ClockTuesday 05 September 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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 17 June 2017, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 16 June 2017, 13:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Time and space in insect segmentation

UserErik Clark (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Is there anybody out there? Reconstructing large-scale prehistoric population dynamics and migration processes

UserIsabell Schmidt (University of Cologne).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2017, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Group living – causes and consequences: lessons from the biology of social spiders

UserProf Leticia Aviles (University of British Columbia).

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

ClockTuesday 06 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask

UserJames Delbourgo (Rutgers University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A synthetic biology approach to harness the regulatory potential of miRNAs in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

UserFrancisco J. Navarro, Baulcombe group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 June 2017, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Most Rational People in the World

UserJames Holland Jones (Stanford University & Imperial College).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton

UserDr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evolutionary perspectives on maternal investment - from conception (or not) onward

UserSarah Myers (University of Kent).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729)

UserKen McNamara (Sedgwick Museum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Towards a General Theory of Lorenz Ordering Applied to Ecological Domiance and Earth Observation Systems of Forest Ecosystems

UserRuben Valbuena, Coomes group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Bawls, balls and brains: primate vocal communication and the evolution of speech

UserJacob Dunn (Anglia Ruskin University).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783–4

UserChristina Skott (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CambPlants Industrial Talks

This is a CPPS sponsored seminar

UserDr Vitor Verdelo Viera, A4F and Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Aboriginal body shape and clothing, and the Tasmanian problem(s)

UserIan Gilligan (Department of Archaeology, University of Sidney).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly

UserMark Wormald (Pembroke College).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast

Host: Marco Geymonat

UserDr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evaluating ex-situ conservation of threatened plants in the botanic garden network

UserRoss Mounce, Brockington group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum

UserDr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals

UserJennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The genetic analysis of population-scale data

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Gil McVean, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Salicylic acid and its binding proteins at the crossroads of plant and human health

UserDan Klessig, Cornell University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Importance of Fluctuations in Light on Plant Photosynthetic Acclimation

UserSilvere Vialet-Chabrand, Griffiths group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 April 2017, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Travels of a botanist in search of mosses: Unst to Albania, then Cambridge

UserMark Hill.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies

UserNipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 06 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Endoplasmic reticulum hosts the activities of plant microRNAs

UserXuemei Chen, UC Riverside.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Adventures in the Arctic

UserDuncan Mackay.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using synthetic biology in algae for the production of designer lipids

UserKatrin Geisler, Smith Group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures

UserKathryn Kavanagh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

First Footsteps: the Colonisation of Land

UserKen McNamara.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 16 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Abundant phased siRNAs in plant reproductive organs

UserBlake Meyers, Donald Danforth Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Ecological and evolutionary responses of species to climate change

UserJane Hill, Department of Biology University of York.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

An ancient origin for contemporary chronic disease risk in South Asia?

UserEmma Pomeroy (Liverpool John Moores University).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes

UserIldiko Somorjai (University of St Andrews).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neural basis of mating behaviour

UserCarolina Rezaval (University of Oxford).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873)

UserJames Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Protecting trees in South Cambridgeshire

UserIan Lorman.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mathematical modelling of the citrus disease Huanglongbing

UserAndrew Craig, Gilligan Group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Fishermen, fossils and flints: varied approaches to targeting and investigating submerged Palaeolithic archaeology in the North Sea

UserRachel Bynoe (Natural History Museum, London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila

UserNicolas Gompel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

From collective animal behaviour to collective motion of football teams

UserDavid Sumpter (Uppsala University).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

James Cuninghame – 'a learned and most industrious promoter of natural philosophy'

UserCharlie Jarvis (Natural History Museum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk, clunch and life on the edge

UserChris Donnelly and Reg Nicholls.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Peter Keightley, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Physiology and Development From a Cut Flower Supplier Perspective

CambPlants Industrial Talk

UserMM Flowers and Beverley Glover.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Primate stone tool use for paleoanthropologists

UserMichael Haslam (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Global questions about parenting and movement ecology in the world’s biggest tern

UserDavid Craig (Willamette University).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history and the antiquarian

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria

Host: Chris Illingworth

UserDr Isabel Gordo, Evolutionary Biology Group, Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The role of forests in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from boreal freshwater ecosystems

UserErik Szkokan-Emilson, Tanentzap Group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 February 2017, 13:00-13:30

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Acheulean in East Africa: results of recent research

UserIgnacio de la Torre (Institute of Archaeology, University College London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton

UserKate Criswell (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history or psychology? Reading expressions and being read in Darwin's science of interdependence

UserBen Bradley (Charles Sturt University, NSW).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The cacti of Peru

UserPaul Hoxey.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 16 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Dynamic regulation of gibberellin gradients influencing plant growth patterning

UserAlexander Jones, SLCU.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Recent Investigations into the Stone Age site of Isimila, Tanzania

UserJames Cole (University of Brighton).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School

UserRichard Bellis (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Inter-group tolerance in humans and other primates

UserAnne Pisor (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

HouseDepartment of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

ClockMonday 13 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A review of 2016: wildlife and more - a personal perspective

UserBrian Eversham.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Genetics Seminar

Decoding transcriptional regulation.

Host: Alexis Braun

UserDr Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Is achieving no net loss of a globally rare species achievable for a mining project in the Caucasus global biodiversity hotspot possible?

UserPete Carey, Tanner Group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 13:00-13:30

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The genetic history of Papua New Guinea: 50,000 years of independent human evolution

UserChris Tyler-Smith (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution

UserNeal Anthwal (King's College London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The Endeavour journal and the natural historical working practices of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, 1768–1771

UserEdwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The environmental impacts of oil palm: good crop/bad crop?

UserEd Turner.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserProfessor Donal O’Carroll, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Climate Change and Nature Conservation

UserBrian Eversham, CEO, BCN Wildlife Trust.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

When does environmental science get used in policy and practice?

UserDavid Rose, Department of Geography University of Cambridge.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

What lies beneath? How microtomography is providing new insights into systematics and functional morphology in the human fossil record

UserMatthew Skinner (School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The Behavioural Ecology of Mosquitoes

UserLauren Cator (Imperial College London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Preparing for doomsday: vulnerability and the contemporary history of genebanking, 1970–2008

UserSara Peres (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier

Host: John Welch

UserDr Nicolas Galtier, University of Montpellier .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The role of Chrisanthemum virus B p12 in the regulation of plant transcription and supression of RNA silencing.

UserNina Lukhovitskaya, Carr Group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 13:00-13:30

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Communal breeding and life history trade-offs in Agta foragers

UserAbigail Page (Department of Anthropology, University College London).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning

UserSebastian Shimeld (University of Oxford).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Piety, diligence and learning: knowledge of American naturalia in Abraham Hill's commonplace books

UserKatrina Maydom (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The global movement of plant pests and pathogens: implications for food security

UserSarah Gurr, University of Exeter.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Can we infer patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data?

UserEnrico Crema (Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 18 January 2017, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Conservation ecology of West African's montane forest habitats - primary seed dispersers and their substitutes.

UserHazel Chapman (University of Canterbury).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Gene silencing in plant development and disease resistance: lessons from tomato

UserZhengming Wang, Baulcombe Group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 January 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light sensing in the Ocean: new perspectives from the study of the diatom photoreceptors

UserAngela Falciatore, CNRS Paris.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Renewed investigation of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene sequence from Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania, and the Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Eastern Africa

UserJason E. Lewis (Turkana Basin Institute & Stony Brook University).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 07 December 2016, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploiting natural variation to identify genes that impact nutritional seed traits

UserSabrina Gonzalez-Jorge, Henderson Group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

European large carnivores are coming back, but can we keep them?

UserGuillaume Chapron, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

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

ClockWednesday 30 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

European large carnivores are coming back, but can we keep them?

UserGuillaume Chapron, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

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

ClockWednesday 30 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Brains growing on the tree of life. A phylogenetic approach to brain structure & function

UserProf Dr Robert A. Barton, Institute of Advanced Study (Social Science & Health) & Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, Durham University.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Ethnographic collecting and the despotism of Joseph Banks

UserDaniel Simpson (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees, hedges and woodland management

UserSimon Damant, Forester at the National Trust Wimpole Hall estate.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Stem cell control in the Drosophila gut

Host: Alexis Braun

UserProfessor Bruce Edgar, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering Meiosis and Recombination to Unlock Genetic Diversity

CambPlants Industrial Talk

UserGiacomo Bastianelli, Meiogenix and Ian Henderson.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Unravelling the ecology of insect invasions : from individuals to communities in Britain and beyond

UserHelen Roy, NERC, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology .

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

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolutionary ecology of innovativeness and personality in the wild

UserJohn Quinn (Cork).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer

UserLisa Skogh (Victoria & Albert Museum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A bird's-eye view of the natural world: monitoring forests from aircraft

UserDavid Coomes, reader in Forest Ecology and Conservation.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Seed size and its rate of evolution correlate with species diversification across angiosperms

UserJavier Igea, Tanentzap Group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Cuckoos, swifts and nightingales: Tracking Afro-Palaearctic migrants to understand population declines

UserChris Hewson, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

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

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Cuckoos, swifts and nightingales: Tracking Afro-Palaearctic migrants to understand population declines

UserChris Hewson, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

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

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The role of climate in shaping human demography and migrations during the out-of-Africa expansion

UserDr. Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge University.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression of segment polarity genes in brachiopods supports a non-segmental ancestral role of engrailed for bilaterians

UserBruno Vellutini (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolutionary ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes

UserStephanie Carlson (Berkeley).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Conrad Gessner, the Zurich Lectorium, and the study of physics and medicine in the early modern world

UserAnja-Silvia Goeing (Visiting Fellow, Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Surveying marine biodiversity in the Staffa archipelago

UserNick Owens.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phytoplankton membrane transport: The big physiological and evolutionary secrets of small cells

UserColin Brownlee, Marine Biological Association .

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Information gaps in conservation science: from data collection to analysis and practices

UserTatsuya Amano, 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 09 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of the sexual genome

UserAlison Wright (UCL).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Learning to know: the educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot

UserDavid Harris Sacks (Reed College).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 07 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistCam

UserMark Hill.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Defining transcription units across the human genome.

Host: Michaela Frye

UserProfessor Nick Proudfoot, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Biotechnological Exploitation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

UserDoris Gangl, Smith group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Causes and mechanisms underlying changes in the migratory behaviour of birds

UserAldina Franco, School of Environmental Sciences, University East Anglia.

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

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The functional significance of facial differences among recent hominins

UserProf Dr Paul O'Higgins, Centre for Anatomical & Human Sciences, Department of Archaeology and Hull York Medical School, University of York.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in cartilaginous fishes - teeth, scales and the cartilaginous skeleton of the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula

UserMélanie Debiais-Thibaud (University of Montpellier).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling natures, 1787–1810

UserJordan Goodman (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 31 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Using experimental evolution to understand adaptation from standing genetic variation.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Christian Schlotterer, Institute of Population Genetics of Vetmeduni Vienna .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Correct behaviour: how plant cells respond appropriately to different symbiotic partners

UserMartin Parniske, University of Munich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 – Evolution of digit number through modification of embryonic Sonic hedgehog signalling

UserMegan Davey (University of Edinburgh).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Oral transfer of chemical cues, growth proteins and hormones: crowdsourcing development in social insects

UserAdria Le Boeuf, University of Lausanne.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridge University Botanic Garden: past, present and future

UserBeverley Glover, Director of the Botanic Garden.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Directing and shaping the inside-out axis of the vertebrate brain

Host: Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Jon Clarke, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Examining the molecular basis of speciation through flavonoid-tinted glasses

UserHester Sheehan, Brockington Group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Developing more systematic approaches for measuring, connecting and expanding the global conservation area network

UserBob Smith, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent.

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

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The complex origins of modern humans and their diversity

UserDr Marta Mirazón Lahr, LCHES, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

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

Genetics Seminar

Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeast

Host: Chris Illingworth

UserProfessor Frank Albert, University of Minnesota .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The natural history of the Napoleonic Wars: collecting at the East India Company c. 1798–1820

UserJessica Ratcliff (Cornell University and Yale-NUS College).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Once you get a taste for it...

UserLeah Fitzpatrick.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 13 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Plant Morphogenesis

UserEnrico Coen FRS, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Estimating conservation status of Grauer’s gorillas

UserAndrew Plumptre, Albertine Rift Program, Wildlife Conservation Society.

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

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of embryonic form: a genetic and cellular analysis of arthropod development

UserMatt Benton (University of Cologne).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

'Why do entomologists want a weekly newspaper?': periodicals and the practice of nineteenth-century natural history

UserMatthew Wale (University of Leicester).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Slugs and snails

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the local Wildlife Trust.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Genetics Seminar

Neural mechanisms of behavioral switches

Host: Liria Masuda-Nakagawa

UserDr. Arantza Barrios, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Maternal effects in Speckled Wood butterflies: an eco-evo-devo approach

UserCasper Breuker (Oxford-Brookes University).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A global perspective on conflict and cooperation in animal mating systems

UserSimon Griffith, Macquarie University, Sydney.

HouseFirst Floor Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 21 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 11 June 2016, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge's oldest celebration of citizen science!

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 10 June 2016, 13:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Flies, bees, aphids and frogs: what can this menagerie tell us about the evolution of developmental processes?

UserElizabeth Duncan (University of Leeds).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Meta-(DNA)barcoding & the ecology of coral-reef fish

UserMoshe Kiflawi (Ben Gurion University, Israel).

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

ClockTuesday 07 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolutionary and demographic genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in plants

UserSpencer Barrett FRS, University of Toronto.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic examination of heterosis in tomato

UserSebastian Müller, David Baulcombe Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 May 2016, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Local adaptation in humans: lessons from modern and ancient genomes

UserDr Aida Andrés, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The anatomy of touch: nature, knowledge and technologies of touch in the Renaissance

UserViktoria von Hoffmann (University of Liège / University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 May 2016, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

In vivo analysis of calcium dynamics in Arabidopsis: tools and applications

UserAlex Costa, University of Milan.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens

UserProf Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum, London.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Progress and future prospects of resolving the animal tree of life in the era of genomics

UserGonzalo Giribet (Harvard).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Antiquities, past, and present: the Tradescant Collection and its rarities

UserChris Hunt (University of Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 16 May 2016, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology

UserRalph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Plant Molecular Biology.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Sequencing archaic human genomes

UserDr Matthias Meyer, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of the Animal Face: from Principles to Mechanisms

UserArkhat Abzhanov (Imperial College London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): a Jesuit pharmacist in Manila at the borderlines of erudition and empiricism

UserSebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 May 2016, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Perturbation Analysis of LEAFY in the Floral Transition Network of Arabidopsis thaliana

UserGitanjali Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) New Delhi India.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Neanderthal interbreeding: fact or fiction?

UserProf Bill Amos, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Intelligible design: the origin and visualization of species

UserLeslie Atzmon (Eastern Michigan University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 May 2016, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Beyond the reference genome:  inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species.

Host: Chris Illingworth

UserDr Zamin Iqbal, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Pave the road to land: evolution of water-conducting cells in land plants

UserBo Xu, Sam Brockington Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Cultural transmission of tool selection in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)

UserDr Lydia Luncz, University of Oxford.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Change in the bryophyte flora of Cambridgeshire over 65 years of intensive recording

Please note earlier time, 6.30 for 7pm

UserMark Hill.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 19:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserProfessor Tomas Marques-Bonet, Institut Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CSIC), Barcelona.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The maize leaf – from development to environmental response

UserSarah Hake, Director USDA Gene Expression Center.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Field experiments reveal the scope of social learning in vervet monkeys

UserDr Erica van de Waal, University of Zurich.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TCF/Lef regulates the Gsx ParaHox gene in central nervous development in chordates.

UserMyles Garstang, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pearl mussels: ecology, threats and prospects

UserMike Norbury.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 April 2016, 19:30-21:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Kinship and sex-biased parental investment among the Mosuo of Southwest China

UserDr Siobhán M. Mattison, University of New MExico.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 13 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evolution and extinction in Western Australian trilobites

UserKen McNamara.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 April 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridgeshire butterflies

UserLouise Bacon.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 March 2016, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A three-dimensional approach to community turnover: Pleistocene extinctions, abrupt climate change, and (dis)equilibrium dynamics

UserJacquelyn Gill, University of Maine.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Camouflage in Aegean lizards

UserKate Marshall.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 March 2016, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Incorporating uncertainty into the optimal development of disease control measures

UserCiara Dangerfield, Chris Gilligan Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Impact Evaluation of Protected Areas: what do we know about impacts, moderators and mechanisms?

UserHumanitas Visiting Professor in Sustainability Studies, John Hopkins University.

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

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Behind every good man: women's production and reproduction in the Hadza hunter-gatherers

UserDr. Colette Berbesque.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Regulation in Spiders and Flies: Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts

UserAlistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A sting in the tail: evolutionary consequences of chemical anti-predator defence in animals

UserKevin Arbuckle, University of Liverpool.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The physician's Stammbuch: humanist cultures of medical networking

UserMaria Avxentevskaya (Freie Universität Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Learn to use a microscope

Booking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.

User..

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 18:30-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Gene and Genome Regulation in Early Fruit Fly Neurogenesis.

Host: Steve Russell

UserDr. Robert Zinzen, Max-Delbruck-Center Berlin.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Effects of fluctuating light on photosynthesis and stomatal behaviour: impacts on carbon gain and water use efficiency

UserTracy Lawson, Director of Plant Phenomics, University of Essex.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Hook, line and extinction: can science save albatrosses from fisheries?

UserRichard Philips, British Antarctic Survey.

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

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Studying culture in the laboratory in human and nonhuman primates

UserProf Christine Anna Caldwell, University of Stirling.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genome packaging: is that enough to explain the caste plasticity in social insects?

UserSolenn Patalano, Babraham Institute Cambridge .

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Locating indigenous knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648)

UserMariana Françozo (Leiden University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Integrating phylogenetics, ecology and evo-devo to understand the origin of plant species: the role of spur length evolution in speciation of the genus Linaria

UserMario Fernandez-Mazuecos, Beverley Glover Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Why are slow lorises venomous and will this help or hinder their conservation?

UserAnna Nekaris, Primate Conservation, Oxford Brookes University.

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

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Postnatal ontogeny of the cranial base in modern humans and chimpanzees

UserDr. Sandra Martelli, University College London.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of animal body axes: insights from the oral-aboral axis of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

UserChiara Sinigaglia.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Zebra stripes: testing old stories with new data

UserTim Caro, UC Davis.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Reviving the Royal Society in the early eighteenth century

UserAlice Marples (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Birdsong - what's all the noise about?

UserTony Fulford, Ely Wildspace, and Dept. of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Symmetry Matters in Gynoecium Development

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserLars Ostergaard, Head of Crop Genetics, JIC.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

Role of neuromesodermal progenitors in axial elongation.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Val Wilson, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Hot dogs: understanding climate change impacts in a tropical mammal

UserRosie Woodroffe, Institute of Zoology, London.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Chronology of the earliest prehistoric settlements in Europe. When did Homo reach Europe?

UserDr. Christophe Falguères, CNRS - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Does colour and colour change matter for thermoregulation in animals?

UserDevi Stuart-Fox, University of Melbourne.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Recontextualizing the George Brown Collection through creative ceramics

UserChristopher McHugh (University of Sunderland).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Managing Cherry Hinton Brook: balancing wildlife, recreation and public access

UserSue Wells and Monica Frisch.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Checkpoint and non-checkpoint functions of Drosophila Mad1 and RZZ.

Host: Yuu Kimata

UserProfessor Roger Karess, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A bird's-eye view of forest ecosystems

UserTommaso Jucker, David Coomes Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Bats and Emerging Infectious Diseases: conflicting priorities between conservation and public health?

UserJames Wood, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge .

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

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Cross-talk between cultural and genetic evolution in humans

UserProf Evelyne Heyer, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Far from the deafening crowd: the effects of noise pollution on songbirds

UserJohn Swaddle, University of Exeter and College of William & Mary.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

My Fisher: Memories of R.A. Fisher by his last student

UserAnthony Edwards, Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge.

HouseStatistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

ClockMonday 08 February 2016, 19:15-21:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Participating in Victorian natural history through the illustrated periodical

UserGeoffrey Belknap (University of Leicester).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Big data, local data and global change

UserPhilip Grime, University of Sheffield.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Towards the understanding of the genetic bases of complex adaptations in the human genome

UserProf Jaume Bertanpetit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative Analyses of Neuromesodermal Progenitor Dynamics in vivo

UserBen Steventon (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The Causes and Consequences of Selection at the Gametic Level in Animals

UserSimone Immler, Uppsala University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

John Ray and Francis Willughby herborising around the lighthouse in Genoa in March 1664

UserRaffaella Bruzzone (University of Nottingham).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserDr Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Inter-organellar interactions - known unknowns in metabolic engineering of membrane-spanning pathways in plants

UserPayam Mehrshahi, Alison Smith Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 January 2016, 13:00-13:30

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Linguistic laws in primate vocal communication

UserProf Stuart Semple, University of Roehampton.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Three phases of Wnt signaling define three phases of axis development in the hemichordate S. kowalevskii

UserJens Fritzenwanker (Stanford University).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What chickens and dogs can teach us about genetics and epigenetics of domesticated behaviour

UserPer Jensen, Linköping University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Invisible gardeners? The role of Scottish botanic gardeners in knowledge creation and exchange in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century

UserClare Hickman (University of Chester).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 January 2016, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

An experimental assay of the genotype to phenotype connection.

Host: John Welch

UserDr Fyodor Kondrashov, Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Development and evolution of land plant rooting systems

UserLiam Dolan, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Biodiversity conservation and the Green Economy: complementary or competing objectives? Can we have both, and what do we need to know?

UserKathy Willis Department of Zoology, Oxford University & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

You, tree, and me make me me: biotic environments and the expression of genetic variation

UserDarren Rebar, Zoology Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Improvement': British colonial settlement and the environment

UserAndrew Wear (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 January 2016, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Two Things Evolution Can Tell Us About Metabolic Engineering

UserSteven Burgess, Julian Hibberd Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 January 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Microbes play a central role in a plant's solutions to ecological problems

UserIan Baldwin, Max Planck Institute.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Competition and conjugation: the tale of antibiotic resistance spreading in three colours

UserPakpoom Subsoontorn, Jim Haseloff Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Natural History of Cambridge

UserMark Hill.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Discovery of methylation loci and analyses of differential methylation in Dicer-like mutants of Arabidopsis

UserThomas Hardcastle, David Baulcombe Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation impacts of a warming climate: changes in Massachusetts since the time of Thoreau (1817-1862)

UserRichard Primack, Biology Department, Boston University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetics and genomics of lifespan in the short-lived African turquoise killifish

UserDario Riccardo Valenzano, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' – the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886–1924

UserEmily Hayes (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenotyping is an F-word: crop research in Fields, on Farms, with Farmers

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserRoger Sylvester-Bradley, ADAS.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Social evolution in human and non-human primates

UserDr Kit Opie, University College London.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Artificial selection reveals the costs and benefits of large brain size

UserAlexander Kotrschal, Stockholm University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s

UserDorit Brixius (European University Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

The pleasures of fungal forays

UserBill Amos.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How social interactions shape the genome.

UserJenny Tung, Duke University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Genetics Seminar

Genomics approaches for the investigation of gene regulation.

Host: Steve Russell

UserDr Jim Hughes, Hughes Genome Biology Group, Oxford .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A pioneering imaging approach to arbuscule development in rice

UserRonelle Roth, Uta Paszkowski Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Endodermal contribution to orofacial structures in non-teleost fishes: How ancient is the pre-oral gut?

UserMartin Minařík (Charles University, Prague).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The valence of experience: learning and the directionality of preferences

UserMachteld Verzijden, Aarhus University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmaceutical horizons in 11th-century England

UserDebby Banham (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Agricultural trials and wildlife

UserBob Jarman.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserDr Ronald van Rij, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests

UserDavid Edwards, University of Sheffield.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Cultural transitions during the Iberomaurusian in Morocco

UserDr Louise Humphrey, Natural History Museum London.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Adaptive immunity of wild songbirds; how to handle pathogens and maximize fitness.

UserHelena Westerdahl, Lund University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Systems, synonyms and strife – the making of European entomology around 1800

UserDominik Huenniger (University of Göttingen).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wandlebury: People, Nature and Heritage

UserRobin Pellew.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genetic factors controlling meiotic crossover: Lessons from natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

UserPiotr Ziolkowski, Ian Henderson Group.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns: disease threats to Tasmanian Devils, frogs, koalas and woylies

UserHamish McCallum, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London .

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Legends of Facial Hollows - the science of inner space

UserDr Todd C. Rae, University of Roehampton.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Behavioral flexibility is not predicted by innovation or brain size in great-tailed grackles, New Caledonian crows, and Western scrub jays

UserCorina Logan, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Order and object: constructing collections in late 18th-century France

UserEmma Spary (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserDr Jacqueline Deschamps, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica’s climate history

UserJane Francis, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The challenge of feeding 9-10 billion people without losing most biodiversity

UserCharles Godfray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Papuan pasts: genetic evidence so far

UserDr Robert Attenborough, University of Cambridge.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of eye development in Astyanax blind cavefish

UserHélène Hinaux .

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

jjn1's list

Postcapitalism

UserPaul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News.

HouseRoom GR06/07 Faculty of English, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genomics of Recent, Rapid Evolution: Examining the Role of Behavioural Flexibility

UserNathan Bailey, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Non-Native Species: The good, the bad and the ugly

UserHelen Roy.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Targeting Polycomb repression to the genome.

Host: Steve Russell

UserDr Yuri Schwartz, Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Sweden .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How our Botanic Gardens Work (and how they can work for you)

UserDr Sam Brockington, Cambridge University Botanic Garden Curator.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Dawn of Technology: 3.3-million-year-old Stone Tools from Lake Turkana, Kenya

UserProf Sonia Harmand, Stony Brook University, New York.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of visual pigments in New and Old World warblers: from genes to function

UserNatasha Bloch, UCL.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Recovery after attack: 1960s radioecology and shifting conceptions of humans as agents of ecosystem change

UserLaura Jane Martin (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 October 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Title to be confirmed

UserJonathan Shanklin.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Intra-tumour heterogeneity and genomic rearrangements in solid cancers.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

UserDr Roland Schwarz, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

RNA viruses: comparative genomics and gene expression mechanisms

UserAndrew Firth, Dept of Pathology.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Clever frogs? Behavioural flexibility and strategic planning during parental care in a poison frog

UserEva Ringler, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Is it one's cup of tea? Early-modern experimentation on tea as materia medica

UserG.A. Cook (University of Hong Kong).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 13:00-14:15

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The origins of modern humans and Neandertals: the Atapuerca evidence

UserProf Juan Luis Arsuaga, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockFriday 09 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The history and management of Hayley Wood

UserRichard Dowsett.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Into the void: bridging the gap between risk genes and psychiatric phenotypes.

Host: Cahir O' Kane

UserDr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Learning from Students to Shape Plant Sciences Teaching for the 21st Century

UserKatherine Hubbard, Teaching Officer.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

UserKirsten Bomblies, Harvard University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Homo naledi, a new homini species from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa

UserProf. John Hawks, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockMonday 21 September 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Con Co Ngua: a c. 4,500 BC Complex Hunter-Gatherer Site in Northern Vietnam

UserDr Marc Oxenham and Anna Willis, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockFriday 18 September 2015, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The molecular basis of developmental buffering: a key to understanding the interface between environment and evolution?

UserDr Atsuko Sato (Ochanomizu University).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulation of PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR7 by photosynthetically derived sugars in Arabidopsis thaliana.

UserAlexander Frank, 3rd yr grad.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 July 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Role of phytic acid in plant defence responses

UserJacquelyne Poon, 3rd yr grad.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 July 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

UserNick Talbot, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 July 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Algal-bacterial consortia: towards the commercialisation of microalgae for industrial biotechnology

UserChristian Ridley, 3rd yr grad.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 June 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Beta oxidation in signalling and development. What plants can teach us about yeast and animals

UserAlison Baker, University of Leeds.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mapping shared markers for a childhood liver disease across a Polynesian population

UserSophia Cameron-Christie, University of Otago, New Zealand.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockMonday 15 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Inhibitory activities of short linear motifs underlie Hox interactome specificity in vivo.

Hosts: Steve Russell and Boris Adryan

UserDr Samir Merabet, IGFL France.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Effects of sugarcane on the Cerrado biodiversity: land use change, habitat loss and greenhouse gas emissions

UserJessica Fonseca Da Silva, 3rd yr grad.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome is compressible

UserSurge Biswas, 1st yr grad.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Long-distance wound signals in Arabidopsis leaves

UserEdward Farmer, University of Lausanne.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A vitamin B12 dependent mutualism between a microalga Lobomonas rostrata and a rhizobium – Mesorhizobium loti

UserVaibhav Bhardwaj, 3rd yr grad.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 May 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Optimize nutrients dynamic in litters to enhance yields and sustainability of traditional cocoa agroforests in a climate change context in Southern Bahia, Brazil

UserLauranne Gateau, 1st yr grad.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Genetics Seminar

Model systems to study embryonic patterning.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserDr Benoit Sorre, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Where the bee flies: and why it matters

UserJuliet Osborne, University of Exeter.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Evolution of Exaggerated Sexual Swellings in Female Non-Human Primates

UserGillian Brown and Sally Street (School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education

UserMelanie Keene (Homerton College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 May 2015, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular insights into the evolutionary history of plants in Antarctica

UserElise Biersma, 3rd yr grad.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Biodiversity conservation within a REDD+ framework: case of victoria-anepahan ranges in Palawan Islands, Philippines

UserMinerva (Jojo) Singh, 3rd yr grad.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Cognitive development assessed by object manipulation in great apes and humans

UserDr. Misato Hayashi (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates

UserAndrew Gillis (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier, images and overseas natural history in late-17th-century France

UserJosé Beltrán (European University Institute, Florence).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

New dimensions of antiviral immunity in insects.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserDr Maria Carla Saleh, Institut Pasteur, Paris .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding plant root developmental plasticity using cell type-specific genomics

UserMiriam Gifford, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees

UserDr. Cat Hobaiter (School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Improving the pollination of the field bean (Vicia faba L.)

UserEmily Bailes, 3rd yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 15:00-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserJuheon Lee, 3rd yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 14:30-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserPatrick Dickinson, 3rd yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 14:00-14:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Paramutation in tomato

UserQuentin Gouil, 3rd yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 12:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering riboswitches to enable rational control of transgene expression

UserChristopher Finch, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 11:30-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of effectors from Rhizophagus irregularis and their role in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis establishment.

UserClement Quan, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 11:00-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A forward genetic screen for Arabidopsis gene(s) that control meiotic recombination

UserDivyashree Nageswaran, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 10:00-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Risk of long-distance airborne spread of infectious plant diseases

UserMarcel Meyer, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 09:30-10:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserAlexander Blackwell, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 15:00-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs).

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Sebastian Kadener, University of Jerusalem.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular genetics of autistic: the arbuscular mycorrhizal mutant of maize

UserDarius Riahy, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Discovery of genetic elements determining the C4 photosynthetic phenotype using introgression lines from C3-C4 hybrids

UserGregory Reeves, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 14:00-14:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Fifty shapes of maize

UserRozi Vofely, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 12:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

~ From Carrots to Sticks ~ Conserving threatened avifauna with ecosystem management and market-based instruments

UserAlexandra Bell, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 11:30-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding morphogenesis and wall mechanics in brown algae

UserMarina Linardic, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 11:00-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mobilizing terrestrial primary production into aquatic food webs

UserChloe Orland, 1st year grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 10:00-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolution of plant breeding systems: Male form and function in the nightshade family.

UserGwendolyn Davis, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 09:30-10:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The History of Millet in Southern Caucasus: A Stable Isotope Perpsective

UserDr. Estelle Herrscher (Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LAMPEA - UMR 7269, France).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Genetic Perspectives on Indigenous Ancestry in the Caribbean

UserDr. Jada Benn Torres (Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, USA)..

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Exploring the genetic toolkit for pattern formation and diversification in butterfly wings

UserArnaud Martin (UC Berkley).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Sabrina Spencer, Meyer Lab, Stanford University Medical Center.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multiple mechanisms limit meiotic crossovers

UserRaphael Mercier, Versailles INRA.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address on “Garden ecology”, and AGM

Please note earlier start: 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm

UserMark Hill.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 16 April 2015, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

44 million of our birds are missing

UserNiki Williamson.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The mechanism by which calcium affects the circadian clock

UserCarmen Marti (Webb Lab).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The flora & lizards of the Canary Islands

UserPeter Payne.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An integrated structural biology approach to flower development

UserFrancois Parcy, Grenoble.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulatory Programme and Evolution Underlying the Development of Echinoderm Skelton

UserPaola Oliveri.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the O3-induced Ca2+ signalling pathway in Arabidopsis

UserKatie Wilkins (Davies Lab).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Biodiversity in a World of Human Dominance and Rapid Change – Anthropocene Challenges and Opportunities

UserProfessor Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Testosterone and Human Gender Development

UserProf Melissa Hine (Hormones and Behaviour Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Raising the shield: How cell migration changes got the turtle its shell (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME)

UserScott Gilbert.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution

UserPetter Hellström (Uppsala University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Scrub clearance and chalk grassland restoration

UserPeter Grubb.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing Innovation: an oxymoron?

CPPS Seminar

UserDavid Lawrence, Syngenta.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Mike Brockhurst, Department of Biology, University of York .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Trees, ‘tribes' and taboos: The political ecology of conservation and culture in Madagascar

UserDr Ivan Scales, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Experimental Studies of Social Intelligence in Chimpanzees

UserProf Satoshi Hirata (Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University, Japan).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The curious incident of the seal in the pond

UserJukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Social Learning Strategies & Cumulative Culture

UserDr Rachel Kendal, University of Durham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600–1800

UserMichael Bycroft (University of Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Causes and Consequences of New Mutations.

Host: Cahir O'Kane

UserDr Matthew Hurles, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Decreasing the oxygenase activity of Rubisco: a synthetic biology approach

UserMarek Szecowka (Hibberd Lab).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Science in a human-dominated world

UserProfessor Georgina Mace, UCL.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Tool Use by Capuchin Monkeys in Sierra da Capivara National Park (Brazil)

UserDr. Tiago Falotico (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Does swimming behind get you ahead?: The energetic benefits of moving in fish schools

UserDr Shaun Killen, University of Glasgow.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature

UserClaire Sabel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

African natural products

UserChiyedza Heri.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Reto Gassmann, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Portugal .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Can genomics impact forestry?

UserRichard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

REDD+ and Biodiversity Conservation: Are The Challenges What We Thought They Were?

UserDr Valerie Kapos, UNEP-WCMC.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

A Look Inside Hominins: New Insight on the Hobbit (LB1), Broken Hill and La Ferrassie

UserDr. Antoine Balzeau (CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR 7194).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

From species to individuals, a survey of variation in the immune function of birds.

UserDr Kevin Matson, University of Groningen.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650–1720

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Communities, conservation, and climate change in the Pacific Islands

UserPepe Clark.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserProfessor Chi Wai Eric So, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, Department of Haematological Medicine, King's College London .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolution of the miRNA-mediated RNA silencing pathway: the plant that wanted to be an animal

UserAdrian Valli (Baulcombe Lab).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Evaluating the social and ecological outcomes of conservation interventions: Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas

UserProfessor Katherine Homewood, UCL.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Population Genetics of Greenlanders Evolution and Genetic Adaptation to Climate

UserDr. Matteo Fumagalli (University College of London Genetics Institute, Division of Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The adaptive use of information within and across generations

UserDr Sinead English, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Genetics Seminar

Single cell transcriptomics.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserDr Steve Harvey, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821)

UserSophie Brockmann (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Putting the flowers of Fenland on the map

UserOwen Mountford.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response.

Host: Yuu Kimata

UserDr. Adrian Saurin, Division of Cancer Research, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Evolution of Imprinted Gene Expression in Cultivated Rice

UserDaniel ZIlberman, Berkeley.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Biodiversity and the feel good factor

UserDr Zoe Davies, University of Kent.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Human Pigmentation

UserDr. Sandra Beleza (Department of Genetics, University of Leicester).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of social behaviour in wild populations: European badgers & Seychelles warblers

UserDr Hannah Dugdale, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth

UserSophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Imaging gene activity in living cells.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Jonathan Chubb, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Carbon fluxes and biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes – modelling with airborne lidar

UserWill Simonson (Coomes Lab).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Where did plant diversity and sustainability begIn? Arboriculture in the ancient Roman world

UserDr Robyn Veal, Dept of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Fitness Meets Fitness: The Evolution and Genetics of Evolutionary and Physical Fitness in Humans

UserDr. Erik Postma (Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The earliest deuterostomes, or something else entirely?

UserSimon Conway Morris (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Cooperation under the bark: Understanding sociality and symbioses in ambrosia beetles

UserDr Peter Biedermann, Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Bringing ancient grains to life: Tutankhamen, Egyptomania and modernist enchantment in interwar Britain

UserAllegra Fryxell (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 January 2015, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts: centrosomes & mRNA.

Host: Yuu Kimata

UserDr Jens Januschke, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Future Directions of Rothamsted Research

UserAchim Dobermann, Rothamstead.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Is Evolution (Not) Working for Infected Amphibians?

UserDr Trent Garner, Zoological Society of London.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Revisting the Savanna Hypothesis

UserProf Julia Lee-Thorp (Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The development and evolution of vertebrate oxygen-sensing cells

UserDorit Hockman (University of Oxford).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Cabinets, eclipses and lightning rods: the role of curiosity in the perception of science in 18th-century Russia

UserAlexander Iosad (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:15

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Inferring a Deep Time Evolutionary Anatomical Context of Primates and Hominoids

UserDr. Jeroen Smaers (Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Using zebrafish models to identify novel alleles affecting human behaviour- a proof of principle study using smoking as an example.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Caroline Brennan, The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of London .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Inhospitable: early signalling events during cereal symbiosis

UserEnrico Gobbato (Paszkowski Lab).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetic, neuronal and experiential influences on olfactory perception in mice

UserDr Darren Logan ( Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Early events in Arabidopsis bud activation

UserMaddie Seale, Sainsbury Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 December 2014, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A physiological basis to agronomic development

UserCelestin Ukozehasi, Griffiths Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 December 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Potential effects of transposable element activation throughout tomato development

UserAlex Canto Pastor, Baulcombe Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 12 December 2014, 12:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Grip, Slip, petals and pollinators

UserJonathan Pattrick, Glover Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 12 December 2014, 11:30-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using metagenomics to identify emerging viral pathogens, and RNA silencing to combat them

UserLuke Braidwood, Baulcombe Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 12 December 2014, 11:00-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identifying microRNAs conditioning strong plant anti-aphid resistance

UserDeusa Abreu, Carr Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 12 December 2014, 10:00-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigation of natural modifiers of meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana

UserCatherine Griffin, Henderson Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 12 December 2014, 09:30-10:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Study and characterization of MET1 homologues in Arabidopsis thaliana

UserChristophe Buser, Sainsbury Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 12 December 2014, 09:00-09:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH DAY

UserVarious.

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 11 December 2014, 09:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Population genetics of host-parasite coevolution

UserProfessor Dieter Ebert, Universität Basel.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 09 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hunting for dinner in the ice age

UserSimon Parfitt.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 December 2014, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mixtures or Alternation? Assessing Fungicide Anti-Resistance Strategies

UserJames Elderfield, Cunniffe Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 December 2014, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating heat shock signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

UserDavid Schoepfer, Sainsbury Laboratory.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 December 2014, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Extending freshwater conservation beyond shorelines by linking aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

UserDr Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Osteoarchaeology in India: Present and Future Perspective

UserDr Veena Mushrif-Tripathy (Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, India).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Colony personalities and the importance of behavioral variance for insect societies

UserProf. Dr. Susanne Foitzik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz .

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jane Squire's early modern adventures: 'I see not why I should confine myself to needles, cards, and dice'

UserAlexi Baker (CRASSH and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sustainable Farming - making it happen. The Science, delivery and pitfalls of Integrated Farm Management

CPPS Seminar

UserCaroline Drummond MBE. LEAF Chief Executive.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

COMT: from single nucleotide polymorphism to whole brain function.

Host: Boris Adyran

UserDr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Extreme pattern of genetic diversity in humans

UserDr. Vincenza Colonna (Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Bdelloid rotifers: unveiling the mystery of an evolutionary scandal

UserChiara Boschetti (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Behavioural Ecology meets Chemical Ecology: The role of chemical communication in mate choice and family life

UserDr Sandra Steiger, University of Ulm.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'

UserVictoria Pickering (Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum, London).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

In search of the snow leopard in Ladakh, in winter

UserChristine Newell.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Large scale genomic analyses of complex traits in human populations.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

UserDr Nicole Soranzo, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Dealing with Sudden Oak Death in the UK

UserMatt Castle, Gilligan Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Principles of Functional Craniology in Paleoneurology and Evolutionary Neuroanatomy

UserDr. Emiliano Bruner (CNIEH, Burgos, Spain).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Of ducks and men – ecology and evolution of influenza A virus in waterfowl

UserDr Jonas Waldenström - Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy

UserEmma Pyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trapping Mink for Water Vole recovery in the upper Cam catchment

UserVince Lea.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

The memory of retinal stem cells?

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Jochen Wittbrodt, COS Heidelberg, Heidelberg University.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Elucidating stress signalling response pathways in Arabidopsis and crops

UserMarc Knight, Durham University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Environmental and Science Learning through Participation in Scientific Research: From Learning to Conservation Action

UserProfessor Heidi Ballard, UC Davis.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Neanderthal Pathology – Evidence of an Atypical Human Hunter-Gatherer?

UserDr Simon Underdown (Dept. of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University ).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Variation in the anti-predator defences of aposematic organisms

UserDr Bibiana Rojas Zuluaga, University of Jyvaskyla.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history on the move: John Ray's continental travels, 1663–1666

UserChristopher D. Preston (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Analysis of King Richard III

UserDr Piers Mitchell (Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockFriday 07 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tatous and Taiwan Devils: making sense of scaly mammals in the seventeenth century

UserNatalie Lawrence.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of Notch signalling by the endosomal pathway.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Dr. Thomas Klein, Institute of Genetics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Scum of the Earth?

UserMatt Davey, Smith Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

MPAs, mangroves and carpets: cause for #OceanOptimism?

UserDr Nick Hill, Zoological Society of London.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Competition, cooperation and the evolution of weapons

UserDr John Fitzpatrick, University of Manchester.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The role of instruments in exploration: the RGS and its explorers, c.1830–1900

UserJane Wess (University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Understanding mechanisms of long-range gene regulation.

Host: Boris Adyran

UserDr Greg Elgar, Systems Biology, MRC NIMR, London .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics in seasonal timing

Enid MacRobbie Woman in Science Lecture

UserCaroline Dean, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 October 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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Evolution of Culture

UserProf Kevin N. Laland (School of Biology, University of St Andrews).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How does a bird know what nest to build?

UserDr Sue Healy, University of St Andrews.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2014, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungal Foray

Admission free for CNHS members & Friends of CUBG. Garden entrance fee for others.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 13:30-16:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridgeshire orchards and their wildlife

UserVal Perrin.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 October 2014, 19:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserProfessor Nick Gilbert, MRC Human Genetics Unit, The University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Roles of splicing in plant reproductive development

UserChiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 October 2014, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

How do we know if we're making a difference? Finding solid ground in the shifting sands of conservation evaluation

UserProfessor E J Milner-Gulland, Imperial College Conservation Science.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Division of labour in European Prehistory: New insights from human skeletal remains

UserDr. Sébastien Villotte (PACEA, CNRS-Université Bordeaux 1).

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Morphogenesis and Molecular Regulation of Colour Patterning in Natural Populations

UserMarie Manceau (Collège de France).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Cultured Birds? Social networks, personality and social learning in parids.

UserDr Lucy Aplin, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Historical time, primitive peoples and the abyss of race: conceptions of temporality in German anthropology and folklore studies (1850s–1930s)

UserChristof Dejung (Faculty of History, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 October 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

The challenges of monitoring and evaluating a wetland restoration project in the UK

UserFrancine Hughes.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 19:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar

C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life.

Host: Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti

UserProfessor Alison Woollard, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mapping Gene Regulatory Networks in Arabidopsis and Tomato Roots

UserSiobahn Brady, UC Davis.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Ebola!

User Peter D. Walsh, Division of Biological Anthropology.

HouseSeminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wimpole Estate and its wildlife

UserSimon Damant.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 October 2014, 19:00-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Teaching: Inspiration, Innovation and Investigation

UserKatharine Hubbard, Teaching Associate.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 October 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Genetic Architecture of Natural Ionomic Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

UserDavid Salt, University of Aberdeen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

Genetics Seminar

The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserProfessor Giuseppe Gargiulo from Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, University of Bologna .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 12 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Understanding human life history variation: sleep patterns, personality traits, relationship status, and hormone

UserProf Dario Maestripieri, University of Chicago.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus: A laboratory surrogate of the ancestral chordate giving insights into vertebrate head origins

UserElia Benito Gutierrez (EMBL).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Industrial pollution and politics in France: the great shift, 1750–1830

UserThomas le Roux (Maison Française d'Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

(At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserProfessor Tom Gilbert from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Great Apes at the Interface: Chimpanzee Flexibility in Dynamic Anthropogenic Habitats

UserDr Kimberly Hockings, Oxford Brookes University.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Apollonian vision and polar projections: some reflections on cosmography, instruments and empire

UserMichael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of behavior through niche construction: architect crabs, cultured monkeys, and gossipy humans

UserMark Laidre (Dartmouth College).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr. Giorgos Pyrowolakis from BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies & Institute for Biology, University of Freiburg.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

RESCHEDULED - The Devil's in the Detail: Designing Instruments, Incentives and Institutions for Stewardship Initiatives on Private Land

rescheduled from end of 2013-14 series

UserDr Andrew Knight; Imperial College London.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental Constraints? Why blind cavefish still have eye at embryonic stage

UserYoshiyuki Yamamoto (University College London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Was the evolution of the modern human brain the result of social or environmental pressures?

UserDr Susanne Shultz.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Studied enchantment: the conjectural method in late Victorian scholarship

UserMimi Winick (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Molecular mechanisms of Mediator complex recruitment by transcription factors.

Hosts: Boris Adryan and Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserAlexis Verger from Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Université de Lille .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The use of conservation drines for monitoring wildlife and its habitat

UserProf Serge Wich, Liverpool John Moores University.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Using barcoding to understand British Collembola (Springtails)

UserPeter Shaw (University of Roehampton).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Between universalism and regionalism: Nakai Takenoshin's research on colonial Korean plants and Japanese universal systematics

UserLee Jung (Needham Research Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

From stripes to blood flow: cell fates of the lateral plate.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserProfessor Christian Mosimann from the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences (IMLS), University of Zürich.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Terrible teens: an osteological investigation of adolescence and health in medieval England

UserDr Mary Lewis, University of Reading.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

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

Cabinet of Natural History

William Courten (1642–1702) and natural history

UserSachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 April 2014, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Computational insights into stem cell differentiation using dynamic hybrid modelling.

Host: Steve Russell

UserDr Ben Hall from Microsoft Research, Cambridge .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 14:30-15:30

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address and AGM

Please note earlier than usual start time.

UserJonathan Shanklin, President, Cambridge Natural History Society.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The age of the collector: the founding and development of the Woodwardian and Sedgwick Museums

UserKen McNamara, Director of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 April 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insect biodiversity in Cambridge – rare species in our urban meadows

UserAlex Dittrich, Dept. of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 20 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Wheat breeding for sustainable productivity, an oxymoron waiting to happen?

This is a CPPS seminar - note the time change

UserRichard Summers (RAGT).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

From Individuals to Populations: Decision-making, Social Networks, and Population Processes in wild songbirds

UserDamien Farine - Oxford University, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Great Fen – out of the past and into the future

UserAlan Bowley, Natural England Senior Reserves Manager.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Message ends: How alternative polyadenylation of mRNAs affects plant gene expression and development

UserGordon Simpson (James Hutton Institute, Dundee).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Origin and evolution of novel microRNAs.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Antonio Marco, University of Essex.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Planetary Boundaries and Action2020: Innovations in corporate Sustainability

UserProfessor Gail Whiteman; Erasmus University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The expensive brain: when does natural selection favor increased brain size?

UserProf Carel van Schaik, University of Zurich.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The wandering Irish badger – contrasts with the GB stereotype

UserNicola Marples, Trinity College, Dublin.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

National types: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)

UserJames Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 March 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium, Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Booking in advance essential.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 19:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Julius Hafalla, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Immunology and Infection.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sympatric speciation on islands

This is a Sporne seminar. Venue = Sainsbury Lab

UserVincent Savolainen (Imperial College, London).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

A Drosophila resource to study human pathology.

Host: Sarah Bray, PDN (sjb32@cam.ac.uk)

UserDr Shinya Yamamoto, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 15:00-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of branching patterns in plants

UserJill Harrison (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Engineering flies.

Host: Cahir O'Kane (c.okane@gen.cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Hugo J Bellen, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What and where is the information on animal vocalisations?

UserArik Kershenbaum (NIMBS Tennessee).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Just how unique are humans anyway?

UserProf Alice Roberts, University of Birmingham.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

What counts as threatened? Population biology, objectivity and the sixth extinction

UserJon Agar (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 13:00-14:15

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Language in deep time

UserProf Klaus Zuberbuhler, St Andrews & Neuchatel.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies.

Hosts: John Welch and Ben Longdon

UserDr Daniel Streicker, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Genetic and Epigenetic Basis of Fruit Ripening – Science Discovery into Commercial Practice

UserGraham Seymour (University of Nottingham).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 February 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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Integration in Morphological Structures: how it affects evolution and how it evolves

UserChris Klingenberg (University of Manchester).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wild flowers and some wildlife of western Cyprus

UserMonica Frisch & Charles Turner.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Studying the invasive migration of Drosophila immune cells.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserProfessor Daria Siekhaus, IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulation of early receptor kinase-mediated innate immune signalling

Graduate-invited lecture

UserCyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Anthropological Engineering: The Interface of two Dissimilar Disciplines

UserDr Michael Berthaume, University of Massachusetts.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Family life: the evolution of social organisation and prosociality in primates and cetaceans

UserSusanne Shultz, University of Manchester.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

A brief history of fungi on plants

UserAli Ashby, Cambridge University Dept. of Plant Sciences.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Vaccinia virus has evolved the Bcl-2 family of proteins to thwart the host innate immune system.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Stephen Graham, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Planetary predictions from anywhere: Food, carbon, forests, biodiversity, plankton, roads...

Cancelled due to illness

UserMatt Smith (Microsoft Research, Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evidence for sedentism before the onset of agriculture during the Epipalaeolithic in Northwest Africa?

UserDr Isabel de Groote, Liverpool John Moores University.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Distributed Decisions: new insights from radio-tagged ants

UserElva Robinson, University of York.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Philology, mythology and geology in colonial India

UserJoydeep Sen (University of Kent).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Five weeks that changed the world: Darwin and the Galapagos

UserJohn Parker, ex-Director, Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Checks and Balances in Drosophila Muscle and Heart Differentiation Programs.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserDr Mike Taylor, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Striga, the scourge of Africa: Understanding the molecular basis of resistance in cereals to the parasitic witchweeds

This talk has been replaced

UserJulie Scholes (University of Sheffield).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Manipulating plant cell wall polysaccharide synthesis to understand cell wall architecture for biorefining and bioenergy

UserPaul Dupree, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Lessons from the conservation of Europe's Large Blue butterflies

UserProfessor Jeremy Thomas OBE; University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

On the antiquity of speech and language: did the Neandertals talk and why would it matter?

UserDr Dan Dediu, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Loud calls or big balls? Tradeoff between vocal tract and testes dimensions reflect different male reproductive strategies in howler monkeys, Alouatta spp.

UserJacob Dunn (Bioanthropology, University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The elephant in the room: historians and scientists working together

UserAnna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Deconstructing Greatwall Kinase.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Helfrid Hochegger, University of Sussex .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Circadian regulation of chloroplasts

UserAntony Dodd (University of Bristol).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Populations in statistical genetics: what are they, and how can we infer them from whole genome data?

UserDr Dan Lawson ().

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Begging, vigilance and interspecies interactions in pied babblers

UserAlex Thompson (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The atom as metaphor: responses to atomism in 17th-century English literature

UserCassandra Gorman (Faculty of English).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 January 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

A View from Nine Wells

UserSteve Boreham, Cambridge University Dept. of Geography.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance.

Host: Ian Furner

UserProfessor Jurek Paszkowski, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How biotrophic fungi manipulate their hosts: new functions of effectors

UserRegina Kahmann (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem services to environmental change

UserProfessor Adrian Newton; University of Bournemouth.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Family life of birds: sex, conflicts and cooperation

UserTamas Szekely (University of Bath).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Citizen Cuvier: radical appropriations of Georges Cuvier's law of correlation in Edinburgh and London, 1801–1837

UserGowan Dawson (University of Leicester).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr. A. Jeyaprakash Arulanandam, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance

UserJerzy Paszkowski (SLCU).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The endocrine organs of Drosophila as new model to study extreme evolutionary divergence and epithelial to mesenchymal transitions during development

UserJames Castelli-Gair Hombría (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Native oysters: conserving a commercially fished species

UserCass Bromley.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 December 2013, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding and manipulating antibiotic production in actinomycetes

UserMervyn Bibb (John Innes Centre, Norwich).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 December 2013, 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

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

CANCELLED

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Marc Dionne from the Peter Gorer Dept of Immunobiology, King's College London .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phylogenetic shadowing guided by the cycling transcriptomes of two distantly related Brassicaeae species reveals the atlas of cis-regulatory elements of daytime-specific and daytime-unspecific pathways

UserKorbinian Schneeberger (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Commercial Whaling:  Science, Society and International Relations

UserDr Simon Brockington, International Whaling Commission.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

RNA regulation during development and evolution

UserClaudio Alonso (University of Sussex).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Colour evolution in insects: from polymorphisms to speciation

UserErik Svensson (Lund University).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings

UserPaul Brakefield, Director of Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

UserProfessor Juan Pablo Couso, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular breeding of medicinal crops and discoveries along the way

UserIan Graham (University of York).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bacteria-phage interactions within their long-lived tree host

UserBritt Koskella, University of Exeter.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Dangerous and improper material': models, preparations and the relationship between object and user in 18th- and 19th-century anatomical collections

UserAnna Maerker (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams and their management

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Motors, rulers and clocks in chromosome segregation.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Helder Maiato from Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Recognition of "self": receptor-ligand interactions and signalling networks that trigger Programmed Cell Death in self-incompatible Papaver pollen

Enid MacRobbie Women in Science seminar

UserNoni Franklin-Tong (University of Birmingham).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Valuing nature for better environmental decision-making: A collaborative toolkit for real-world conservation

UserJenny Birch, Ecosystem Services Officer, BirdLife International.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deciphering the onychophoran ‘segmentation gene cascade’: inferences about the evolution of segmentation

UserRalf Janssen (Uppsala University).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Maternal and paternal effects on offspring behavior and survival

UserKatie McGhee, University of Illinois.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Willi Hennig and philosophy

UserCharissa Varma (Darwin Correspondence Project).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollution and wildlife – practical problems for nature conservation in England

UserAlastair Burn, Principal Specialist in environmental impacts for Natural England.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Strategies of microorganisms to conquer plant tissues

UserSebastian Schornack (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Predicting Amazonian deforestation and its biodiversity impacts

UserDr Rob Ewers, Reader in Ecology, Imperial College London.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Population divergence and reproductive isolation in an Anolis lizard

UserJessica Stapley, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hidden in plain sight: early ecology as visual science

UserDamian Hughes (De Montfort University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Addressing the wheat yield plateau

CPPS seminar to be held at 4pm, with tea-room networking afterwards.

UserTina Barsby (National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental Modularity, and Evolvability of the Head Skeleton

UserCharles Kimmel (University of Oregon).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

When the cat's away the mice will play, but what about the rats? Introduced mammal interactions on islands

UserJames Russell, University of Auckland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The House Sparrow survey of Cambridge

UserBob Jarman.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Global change and life on Earth: reciprocal effects in a walk from genes to biosphere

UserJosep Penuelas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Conflict, coadaptation, and the emergence of reproductive isolation in a placental fish

UserMatt Schrader, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Anthropological field work in 'mixed race' Aboriginal communities in Australia, 1940–65

UserKathryn Ticehurst (University of Sydney).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hardwick Wood, past and present

UserVince Lea, voluntary warden for Hardwick Wood.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The genotype-phenotype map in Arabidopsis

This event will be held in the Sainsbury Laboratory

UserMagnus Nordborg (The Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The illustration and publication of Robert Morison's History of Plants (1672–99)

UserScott Mandelbrote (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Saving Asia's vultures

UserKevin Hand, wildlife tour leader for ACE Cultural Tours.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal?

Host: Viji Draviam

UserProfessor Jakob Nilsson from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The Rhythm of Africa: how life history traits affect dynamics of a fruit-feeding butterfly community

UserFreerk Molleman - University of Rennes, France. WEBSITE:.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Episodic Memory and the Sense of Time: Some Conceptual and Empirical Constraints.

UserCarl Craver, Washingon University in St. Louis.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 02 August 2013, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing the molecular and cellular basis of developmental morphogenesis

UserTassos Pavlopoulos, Max Planck Institute at Dresden.

HousePart II Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 27 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

ClockSaturday 15 June 2013, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

ClockFriday 14 June 2013, 13:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Feedback control of the anaphase-telophase transition.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Helder Maiato, Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Sibling Rivalry and Stress Tolerance: the Single-Cell Biology of Mycobacteria.

Host: Viji Draviam

UserDr Bree Aldridge, Tufts University, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Boston .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila

UserChristen Mirth, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors

UserMelinda Modrell, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Anne Kathrin Classen, LMU Munich .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration

UserIldiko Somorjai, University of St Andrews, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

The evolutionary dynamics of unusual reproductive systems.

Hosts: Eli Vieira Araujo Jnr and John Welch

UserDr Laura Ross from the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford ..

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: stories from electric fish, scorpions and mice

UserHarold Zakon, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics.

Host: Frank Jiggins

UserDr Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mate choice, sexual selection, and the evolutionary dynamics of magic traits

UserEva Kisdi - University of Helsinki, Finland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockMonday 06 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The education of Francis Willughby: new philosophy and natural history in mid-17th-century Cambridge

UserRichard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Impressed upon the countenance: knowledge and visibility in Lavaterian physiognomy

UserStephanie O'Rourke (Columbia University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Sequence-based discovery of transcriptional targets.

Host: Boris Adryan

UserDr Stein Aerts, Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven University.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mate choice and visual illusions in great bowerbirds

UserLaura Kelley, Anglian Ruskin University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 23 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of left-right asymmetry in snails and other animals

UserMenno Schilthuizen - Naturalis NBC, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)

Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserTim Sparks.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium

Note: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding

Postponed from 4 March

UserDavid Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridge’s newest local nature reserve

UserGuy Belcher.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Tips at the Edge: Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics at the Cell Cortex.

UserProfessor Dr Anna Akhmanova from Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrech University .

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Membrane biology in plant-microbe interactions

UserSilke Robatek, JIC.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Re-wilding: putting natural processes back on track

**Last talk in Series!**

UserFrans Vera, Director, The Foundation of Natural Processes, The Netherlands.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

UserAndrew Balmford.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Molecular mechanisms that mediate the adaptation to hypoxia in Drosophila.

UserProfessor Pablo Wappner from Instituto Leloir, Argentina .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plastic Fantastic

UserSinead Collins, Edinburgh University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

From invasion to restoration: how enlightened are New Zealand's conservation policies?

UserDr David Coomes, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental, genetic, and adaptive bases of morphological evolution: the case of water-walking insects

UserAbderrahman Khila, Lyon, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Linking the mitotic spindle to the plasma membrane during cytokinesis.

UserDr. Mark Petronczki from Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

What can plants tell us about the evolution of sex chromosomes?

Note Venue

UserDeborah Charlesworth, Edinburgh University.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Making Poverty History – what role for biodiversity conservation?

UserDr Dilys Roe, International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental plasticity and life history evolution in amphibians

UserIvan Gomez-Mestre, Seville, Spain.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beefing up science: British Bovril, bulging biceps and nutrition science

UserLesley Steinitz (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 13:00-14:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum as a model to study the ancestral mechanisms of bilaterian metazoan development

Note unusual day and time

UserHiroki Oda, Osaka, Japan.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridgeshire's herpetofauna and its conservation

UserPaul Furnborough.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

How to maintain a stable genome: A Passenger Perspective.

UserDr Susanne Lens from University Medical Centre Utrecht.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Putting things in perspective: multiscale integration of stomatal development

UserDominique Bergmann, Stanford University and HHMI.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Expert judgements, Delphi groups, prediction markets: forecasting the future for conservation and national security

UserProfessor Mark Burgman, ACERA, University of Melbourn, Australia.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

UserSteffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How identification of the causative mutations illuminates our understanding of evolution: Drosophila pachea ecological specialization and other cases.

UserVirginie Orgogozo, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Romanticism, aesthetics and violence in natural history

UserPratik Chakrabarti (University of Kent).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Travels with research: baboons to earthquakes

UserHilary Conlan.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Linkages between plants, soil microbes, and the carbon cycle

CPPS seminar

UserRichard Bardgett, Lancaster Environment Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Fate

UserProfessor Margaret Buckingham from Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Rethinking the scope of REDD+ : Carbon stocks or triple wins?

UserDr Heike Schroeder, University of East Anglia (UEA).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Constraints on adaptations during the evolution of mammalian social systems

UserDieter Lukas - Cambridge University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

When the archaeologists are searching for a legend: the (re-)invention of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

UserMarie-Françoise Besnier (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Diseases of ash and other trees round the world

Note: This talk will be held in room MEL001 in the Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserOliver Rackham.

HouseMellish Clark Building (MEL 001), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Metabolomics- an update

UserAlisdair Fernie, Max-Planck-Institute, Golm.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation of migratory species: the importance of seasonal interactions

UserDr Jenny Gill, University of East Anglia (UEA).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Hydra, a model for deciphering the principles of stem cells and regeneration

UserBrigitte Galliot, Geneva, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Deconstructing visual signals in social butterflies

UserSusan Finkbeiner - University of California, Irvine, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'The man with the detective eye': observation in Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789)

UserAnne Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 February 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Cell specification in the mouse blastocyst inner cell mass: interplay between Nanog, Gata6 and the Fgf signalling pathway.

UserDr Claire Chazaud from Laboratoire GReD, France .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Turning over phytate: enzymic and structural perspectives

Note Venue

UserCharles Brearley, UEA.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation and climate change: how radical do we need to be?

UserProfessor Chris Thomas, University of York.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar

The mitotic checkpoint - a structural perspective.

UserDr. Victor Bolanos Garcia, Oxford Brookes University, UK .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 16:45-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Quantification and modeling of spindle positioning and size regulation in the C. elegans embryo

UserDr. Akatsuki Kimura, National Institute of Genetics, Japan .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 16:00-16:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The role of recombination and rearrangement in the diversity and evolution of Heliconius butterflies

UserJohn Davey - University of Cambridge, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Vivisection by storytelling: the experimental novel in the late 19th century

UserPaul White (Darwin Correspondence Project).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

Hox Control of a Drosophila Feeding Circuit.

UserProfessor Dr Ingrid Lohmann from The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The geometric basis of morphogenesis

UserPrzemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Molecular biology and sustainable agriculture

**First for Lent Term**

UserProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Inclusive fitness versus multi-level selection: equivalent approaches to social evolution?

UserSamir Okasha - University of Bristol, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Cabinet physics in 18th-century France: the case of the Iceland spar, 1710–1788

UserMichael Bycroft (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 13:00-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Fledging mass and survival in a wild bird population: contributions of multi-level processes and selection by a top predator

UserSandra Bouwhuis and Oscar Vedder - University of Oxford, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Genetics Seminar

Perspectives on Next Generation DNA Sequencing.

UserDr Harold Swerdlow from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

**last for Michaelmas Term**

UserProf. Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor & Australian Laureate, JCU, Australia.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Integrative evolutionary biology: a need for interdisciplinary studies of development, ecology and population genetics

UserRalf J. Sommer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of body axes in Eumetazoa: what can we learn from Cnidaria?

UserGrigory Genikhovich, University of Vienna, Austria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genetics of speciation in Petunia

UserCris Kuhlemeirer, Bern University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

'Prosuming' Conservation: interrogating the value of conservation in the web 2.0 age

UserProf. Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

UserSiegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Butterfly defense against predation

UserChrister Wiklund - Stockholm University, Sweden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Birds of paradise and collecting Eden: mythogenesis in Renaissance natural history

UserNatalie Lawrence (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

The National Ecosystem Assessment and its follow-on phase

UserLucy Simpson.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression during Development.

UserDr Barbara Jennings from the Transcriptional Regulation Group, UCL Cancer Institute .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chemical and Physical Signals Interact to Create Pattern in Plant Development

NOTE VENUE CHANGE

UserElliot Meyerowitz, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge University.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The state of the world's birds: how science underpins conservation and advocacy.

UserDr Stuart Butchart, Global Research and Indicators Co-ordinator, BirdLife International.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Body temperature regulation in passerines

UserJan-Åke Nilsson - University of Lund, Sweden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Camelopardalis Giraffa in 1830s London: polite spectacle at Regent's Park

UserMegan Barford (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Giving wildlife an edge on the Middle Level waterways

UserCliff Carson, Environment Officer, Middle Level Commissioners.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Systems-based, quantitative analyses of genomic function and variation.

UserDr Bart Deplancke from EPFL Lausanne .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The art and design of harmony - molecular genetics of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals

UserUta Paszkowski, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Shifting baselines and habitat restoration: Setting appropriate goals

UserDr Line zu Ermgassen, visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Control of segmentation clock period and segment number in the zebrafish

UserChristian Schroeter, University of Cambridge, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Phenology and evolution in the wild - lessons from long term studies

UserAnne Charmantier - CNRS Montpellier, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'The Age of Reptiles' and 'Memnonium or Head of Rameses': the frontispiece of George Fleming Richardson's Geology for Beginners (1842 and 1843)

UserAllison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Dung pats, flies and farmers

UserOlwen Williams.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model.

UserDr Pavel Tomancak from MPI for Cell Biology, Dresden .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The deep evolutionary origins of stomata and stomatal physiology

UserDavid Beerling, Sheffield University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Smarter ways to monitor wildlife

UserProf Kate Jones, Joint UCL and ZSL Chair, Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Zoology, ZSL.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

UserKristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Inference of population structure and admixture history using haplotype data in humans and other creatures

UserDaniel Falush.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Radiation and restoration: saving the American chestnut tree in the Atomic Age

UserHelen Curry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 November 2012, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar

PTEN phosphatase-independent maintenance of apical membrane integrity during colorectal glandular morphogenesis.

UserProfessor F. C. Campbell from the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Making new molecules

UserAnne Osbourn, JIC.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

How useful is local ecological knowledge for conservation management? Case studies from the EDGE

UserDr Samuel Turvey, Research Fellow, Institute of Zoology, ZSL..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Unraveling the role of natural selection and sexual selection in shaping in the color vision systems of mimetic butterflies

UserAdriana Briscoe, University of California at Irvine.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exotic mammals in the Antarctic region

UserBob Headland.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Provisional Title - A Life in Science : from academia to industry to political decision making and back

UserSr Peter Williams CBE FREng FRS (The Royal Society).

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

A life in science: from academia to industry and back.

UserSir Peter Williams from The Royal Society .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sequencing/genotyping the wheat genome

Note Venue

UserKeith Edwards, Bristol University.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Saving the Tasmanian devil from a transmissible cancer

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison, Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge & Research Fellow in Cancer Genetics & Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Ecological genetics of life history and host plant adaptation in the Glanville fritillary butterfly

PLEASE NOTICE CHANGE OF VENUE!!!

UserMaaike de Jong - University of Helsinki, Finland.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What is a fungal foray?

Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).

UserHélène Davies.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Alexander Aulehla - EMBL Heidelberg.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Phase-shifted gene-activity oscillations during embryo development - a real-time imaging approach.

UserDr Alexander Aulehla from EMBL Heidelberg .

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Implementation of analog arithmetic division for control of reserve utilization in plants

UserMartin Howard, JIC.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Tropical forests in the Anthropocene: what does this mean for conservation?

UserDr Simon Lewis, Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Markets, social opportunities, and the evolution of fairness

UserJean-Baptiste André - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!

UserNicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using maps and GPS

UserJean Sinclair.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genetic dissection of cell death and signalling between endosperm and embryo during seed development

UserJustin Goodrich, Edinburgh University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

How might we make space for nature in landscapes of the future?

** First talk of term **

UserDr Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

MAD World

PLEASE NOTICE CHANGE OF VENUE!!!

UserAlasdair Houston - University of Bristol, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin

UserJim Moore (Open University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Conserving the small things that run the world

UserEd Turner.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The role of avian vision in predator-prey interactions: integrating physiological and behavioural perspectives

UserEsteban Fernandez-Juricic - Purdue University, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 27 September 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Target-based systematic conservation planning and alternative strategies for conservation

UserAtte Moilanen - University of Helsinki, FInland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 25 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

ClockSaturday 16 June 2012, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

ClockFriday 15 June 2012, 13:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution

note unusual location

UserDetlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany..

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Rapid evolution of mammalian genomes and transcriptomes

UserChris Ponting, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System

note unusual location

UserJohannes Jaeger, CRG Barcelona.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci

note unusual location

UserMatthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Vampire excursions': making blood anthropological in the postwar era

UserJenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 13:00-14:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fitting pieces and further puzzles - What 'nobody' can tell about the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis

UserGeorg Brenneis, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'It is indeed a thing ominous for a Toad to be born of Woman': taking experimental frogs and toads seriously

UserCharlotte Sleigh (University of Kent).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 May 2012, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics and adaptive benefits of emergency and modular rearrangements of protein domains

UserProf. Erich Bornberg-Bauer PhD, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity School of Biol.Sciences, University of Muenster.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The lek paradox and gene-environment interactions

UserAndrew Cockburn - The Australian National University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

“New Insights into the Mechanisms and Selectivity of Protein Degradation by the Proteasome Pathway”

UserAlfred Lewis Goldberg - Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School ( guest of St Johns College).

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2012, 10:30-12:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Cancer, Development & Adult Tissue Maintenance

UserProf. Nicholas Hastie MRC HGU and the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

An apprenticeship in theory: rethinking Darwin's debt to Lyell

UserAlistair Sponsel (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly

UserScott Waddell Ph.D Professor of Neurobiology, University of Oxford.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate

note unusual time

UserSeb Shimeld, University of Oxford, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Target site recognition of Hox transcription factors by means of rapid, “trial-and-error” interactions with chromatin.”

UserDimitros Papdopoulos, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Exploring limits to adaptation in response to ecological change

UserJon Bridle, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Raiders of the lost ark: an introduction into the practical archaeology of knowledge at the collections of the University of Basel

UserFlavio Häner (Pharmacy Museum, University of Basel).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Forks and Factories: Coordination and control of mammalian DNA replication

UserDr Catherine Green, Department of Zoology.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 26 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address, and Annual General Meeting

Note earlier time.

UserInigo Everson.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 April 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

East Anglian orchard biodiversity

UserPaul Read.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How Can We Lose a Bus-Sized Fish? Exploring the Hidden Life of the Whale Shark

UserSimon Pierce - Marine Megafauna Association, Mozambique.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Note earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).

UserKen McNamara.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 March 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Myxomycetes: A life of slime

UserJohn Holden.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unraveling a Transcriptional Network Involved in Maize Domestication

This is a Kenneth Sporne Lecture

UserJohn Doebley, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Genome-wide RNAi and HCS Microscopy approaches to dissect membrane traffic pathways

UserProfessor Jez Simpson, University College Dublin.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

REDD: a good idea, impossible to implement?

Last in Series for 2012!

UserArild Angelsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

UserDiethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Unraveling the dynamics of rapid species diversification in Cymothoe butterflies

UserRobin van Velzen - Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Thomas Bewick, engraving the world

UserJenny Uglow.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Understanding landscapes: the challenge of East Anglia

UserPeter Friend.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Specification of pre-meiotic cells in maize anthers

Note venue

UserVirginia Walbot, Stanford University.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, Bateman Street.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

“The mosquito immune response against malaria parasites”

UserDr George K Christophides, Imperial College, London.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Geodiversity, geoconservation & geomorphological services: Challenges beyond 2012.

UserTom Spencer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genome evolution as seen from each of its genes: what "phylomes" can tell us about newly-sequenced species

UserToni Gabaldon, CRG, Barcelona.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

There and back again; the migration of the garden warbler

UserUlf Ottosson - A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Jos, Nigeria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe

Please note change of speaker and title

UserJosé Ramón Marcaida (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular tools for the macroalgae

UserJohn Bothwell, Queen's University Belfast.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

The development and structure of the insect cuticle

If you wish to talk to the speaker please contact the Host, Boris Adryan on b.adryan@gen.cam.ac.uk

UserBernard Moussian, University of Tubingen.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Why Monitoring Matters when designing payment for ecosystem services schemes.

UserJulia Jones, University of Bangor.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Morphological and molecular evolution of the arthropod nervous system: new insights from studies on the waterflea Daphnia magna

UserAngelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary, University of London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Avian Archimedes? How does the Eurasian Jay learn the Aesops Fable task, and how does this compare to Human Children?

UserLucy Cheke - University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany

UserCaroline Cornish (Royal Holloway).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

A living cemetery: the flora & fauna of Mill Road Cemetery

UserKeri Russell and Simon Ward.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular Pharming gets a green thumbs up

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserJulian Ma, St. George’s, University of London.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

The sperms’ hidden cargo; a distinctive epigenetic signature for the egg?

UserDr David Miller, University of Leeds.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Getting the measure of biodiversity: birds as indicators of environmental change.

UserRichard Gregory, RSPB.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

UserMandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How good is your molecular clock? - evidence for variation in evolutionary rate at many unexpected levels

UserWilliam Amos - University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900–06

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 13:00-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Climate-change velocity since the Last Glacial Maximum: Implications for modern distributions and communities

UserBrody Sandel - Aarhus University, Denmark.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Come and get me! How plants attract their pollinators.

UserClive Nuttman.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Hidden Signposts of Plant Development

UserEnrico Coen, JIC.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Molecular regulation of Wallerian axonal degeneration

UserDr Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Wombats, Weapons & Water: the making of international conservation treaties.

UserCatherine MacKenzie, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Life-history responses to environmental stress in butterflies

UserMarjo Saastamoinen - University of Helsinki, Finland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis

UserKarin Ekholm (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 February 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Keeping the skies alive with Swifts

UserDick Newell.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How plants survive the night

Note venue

UserAlison M. Smith, JIC.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, Bateman Street.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring the origin of leaves

UserDr Jill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

How high should Climate Change taxes be?

UserChris Hope, Cambridge Judge Business School.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Drosophila segmentation paradigm: A product of molecular co-option and the blind clock breaker?

UserAndrew Peel, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why are defensive toxins so variable?

UserJohanna Mappes - University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man

UserMiruna Achim (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

50 years of conservation

UserVince Lea, Louise Bacon, and Merlin Fox.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Drought and diversity in tropical rain forests

UserPatrick Meir, Edinburgh University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

The family of mitochondrial transport proteins

User Edmund R.S. Kunji - The Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Linking science, policy & practice for wildlife conservation on farmland.

UserLynn Dicks, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The gap junction protein Innexin7 is required for cellularization of the Tribolium blastoderm

UserMaurijn van der Zee, University of Leiden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The genetics of dispersal variation: integrating functional genomic insights from larvae and adults of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia)

UserChris Wheat - University of Helsinki, Finland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Agricultural science and the Development Commission: the Olby account revisited

UserDominic Berry (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 January 2012, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The control of flowering time

UserRichard Morris, JIC.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

iTrade Wildlife: detecting rare online behaviour

First in Lent Term's Series

UserDavid Roberts, DICE, University of Kent.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Freshwater fliers in changing landscapes: Diversity and evolution of African dragonflies and damselflies

UserKlaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra - NCB-Naturalis, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Creativity and the construction of fossils: 'The artist's piece is already in the stone'

UserCaitlin Wylie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Strigolactone signalling and the control of shoot branching

UserOttoline Leyser, SLCU.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring epistasis maps of cellular processes

UserProfessor Michael Boutros, DKFZ Heidelberg.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mycorrhizal fungal power- harnessing photosynthate and transforming the Earth

UserJonathon Leake, Sheffield.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Biodiversity offsets and the journey to No Net Loss.

Last talk of term

UserKerry ten Kate, BBOP Forest Trends.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

UserStefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The fate of Sundaland's degraded forests

UserDavid P Edwards - James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Continuities in Francis Crick's scientific life and the ethos of post-World War II Cambridge biophysics

UserChristine Aicardi (Wellcome Library and UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mammals and milk

UserHayley Frend, Department of Pathology.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The endodermis - a selective and protective interface between plant and soil

UserNiko Geldner, Lausanne.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Mechanisms and regulation of DNA recombination during meiosis

UserMatthew Neale - MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tackling big questions with meta-analysis: a case study of life-extension via dietary restriction

UserShinichi Nakagawa - Department of Zoology, University of Otago.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Getting real about Marine Protected Areas: pragmatism in design and implementation.

UserAmanda Vincent, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Axial homologies re-examined: a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa

UserHeather Marlow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Significance of the matriline for Mammalian Brain evolution

UserBarry Keverne - University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Percy Smith: the self-creation of an amateur scientist and filmmaker

UserTim Boon (Science Museum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

A botanist on Mull

UserLynne Farrell, Botanical Recorder for Mid-Ebudes.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Stomatal development and evolution

PLEASE NOTE VENUE

UserJulie Gray, Sheffield.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, Bateman Street.

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mapping Africa's natural capital: progress, problems, potential

UserRuth Swetnam, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila

UserAlistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Colours of speciation in fish and frogs

UserMartine Maan - University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Descriptions and disciplines in the ocean: defining the perspective of oceanography in the 1920s

UserKatey Anderson (York University, Toronto).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

The star-crossed stone

UserKen McNamara, Sedgwick Museum.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Armadillos to Abscisic Acid

UserJuliet Coates, Birmingham.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The Natural Way to Care: how exposure to natural environments shapes human relationships.

UserNetta Weinstein, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

UserEvelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Queens, workers, and working queens: morphological adaptations related to caste-specific behaviours in ants

UserRoberto A. Keller - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Domesticating the Victorian dog: a public life for a private animal

UserPhilip Howell (Department of Geography).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 07 November 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mapping the land use of Britain: 80 years of innovation

UserRuth Swetnam, Department of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Clone to Clinic- oilseed based bio-pharmaceutical production

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserMaurice Maloney, IACR Rothamstead.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Changes in cell and tissue architecture in early stages of colorectal cancer

UserProfessor Inke Näthke - Dundee Cancer Centre, University of Dundee.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Counting and Conserving the World's 'Missing' Species

UserLucas Joppa, CEES Microsoft Research.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

UserGregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Animal collective decision making in conflict situations

UserLarissa Conradt - University of Sussex.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Control of orientated cell division and cell expansion during plant development

UserSimon Turner, Manchester.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

The shape of things to come: from small G-proteins to cell polarity, cell-shape dynamics and cell-cell signalling

UserVeronica Grieneisen (The John Innes Centre, Norwich).

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conserving India's Forests: participation, forest rights and ecosystem services.

UserBhaskar Vira, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

(note unusual location)

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A bitter prey to swallow: investigating avian responses to bitter tastes and the implications for antipredator defences

UserHannah Rowland - University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cacti in Chile and in cultivation

UserClarke Brunt, British Cactus & Succulent Society.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolution of C4 grasses: from genes to globe

PLEASE NOTE VENUE

UserColin Osborne, Sheffield.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, Bateman Street.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Post-transcriptional regulation of human mitochondrial gene expression

UserMichal Minczuk - MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The Ecosystem Service Paradigm: progress towards a more sustainable future.

UserSteve Albon, Valuing Nature Network,The James Hutton Institute.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Magic traits, sensory drive and local adaptation: modelling the ecological context of divergent sexual selection

UserSander van Doorn - University of Bern.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900

UserA. Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Managing the River Cam: balancing the needs of river users and the environment

UserPhilippa Noon, Cam Conservancy.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chromosome structure in the establishment and divergence of polyploids

UserAndrew Leitch, QMUL.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

A genome-wide screen for developmental regulators of airway maturation regulators in Drosophila

UserProfessor Christos Samakovlis - The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Trade-offs, team work and the challenge of translating conservation science into policy: some lessons and thoughts from the Amazon.

UserDr Toby Gardner ( Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Life-history, group dynamics and intra-sexual competition in monogamous owl monkeys of Argentina

UserEduardo Fernandez-Duque, University of Pennsylvania.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Your observations and experiments are by far the best which have ever been made': the hidden world of women and science in Charles Darwin's private correspondence

UserPhilippa Hardman (Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Portholme Meadow, Brampton: history and natural history intertwined

UserPat Doody, ecologist.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Comparative genomics: lessons, rationales and perspectives

UserJerome Salse, INRA Versailles.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Integration of RNA- and ChIP-sequencing reveals two major gene expression levels in metazoa

UserDaniel Hebenstreit - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Butterflies on steroids: hormones, gene expression and how to deal with fluctuating environments

UserVicencio Oostra - Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Experimental and comparative studies of innovation in birds

UserProfessor Louis Lefebvre, McGill University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockMonday 15 August 2011, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

A Drosophila Model for the role of ApoE in Alzheimer’s Disease

UserPaul Hopkins, King’s College London.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 05 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Transthyretin and Alzheimer's amyloid beta peptide - do two wrongs make a right?

UserJoel Buxbaum, MD PhD, Scripps Research Institute.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 28 June 2011, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

ClockSaturday 18 June 2011, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User..

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

ClockFriday 17 June 2011, 13:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The gilded canopy: the botanical ceilings of the Natural History Museum

UserSandra Knapp (Natural History Museum, London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 June 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Victoria's secret: science and the monarchy

UserDonald Opitz (DePaul University, Chicago).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 May 2011, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

''Deciphering Mechanisms of Endoderm Development and Disease''

UserDr Heiko Lickert - Institute of Stem Cell Research, German Research Centre for Enviromental Health, Munich.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The fairy-tales of science

UserMelanie Keene (Homerton College).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

''How SUMO talks to ubiquitin''

UserProfessor Ron Hay - Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

''How Cells Defend Their Cytosol Against Bacterial Invasion''

UserDr Felix Randow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Weather, climate and ozone; an Antarctic perspective

UserJonathan Shanklin.

HouseMellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Stromatolites

UserKen McNamara.

HouseMellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Department of Zoology Seminar Day

UserVarious.

HouseFisher Building, St John's College.

ClockMonday 21 March 2011, 13:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploration and exploitation of the Arctic: hunters and trappers, whalers and sealers

UserBob Headland.

HouseMellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Polyploidy and epigenetics

UserProf. Jeffrey Chen, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Using Babylonian gods to sell cod liver oil: Henry Wellcome and medical interest in Assyriology around 1900

UserRuth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

CPERC, who we are, what we do and why it's important for local biodiversity

UserJohn Cornell.

HouseMellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic variation across generations: mechanisms and consequences of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

UserProf. Vincent Colot, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire des Organismes Photosynthétiques, ENS, France.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Many ways to make ends meet: orchestration of DNA double-strand break repair processes by the NHEJ pathway

UserProf. Aidan Doherty - Genome Damage & Stability Centre, University of Sussex..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Ecological changes in modified landscapes

UserDr. Rob Ewers, Imperial College, Silwood Park.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Map of Turkey, a flexible hat, pencils, and the Talbotype': travelling artists in mid-19th century archaeological expeditions to the Middle East

UserMirjam Brusius (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Studying the behaviour of Alpine Ibex

UserCatharina Karlsson.

HouseMellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Shaping the plant endomembrane system

UserProf. Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

UserDr Elizabeith Murchison - Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Coupled Dynamics of Populations and Phenotypic Traits in Changing Environments

UserArpat Ozgul, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Why study early land plants?

UserProf. Dianne Edwards, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Cardiff.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Gene Regulatory Networks for Vertebrate Mesoderm Specification

UserDr Matt Loose, School of Biology, University of Nottingham.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How does an individual’s early social environment influence their morphology and behaviour?

UserDr. Joah Madden, School of Psychology, University of Exeter.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The subjectivity of early modern knowledge in the Garden of Life

UserShana Worthen (University of Arkansas at Little Rock).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Madagascan vegetation: an introduction to its richness

UserPeter Grubb.

HouseMellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Is there a limit to tomato yield?

Cambridge Partnership in Plant Sciences Seminar

UserProf. Daniel Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Comparative logical models of signalling networks in normal and transformed hepatocytes

UserDr Julio Saez-Rodriguez - Group Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). joint appointment at EMBL-Heidelberg, Genome Biology Unit, Cambridge..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Can we have our tropical biodiversity and eat it too?

UserDr. Ben Phalan, Dept. Of Zoology, Cambridge University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya

UserRuth Prince (Cambridge Centre of African Studies).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Hayley Wood story up to date

UserOliver Rackham.

HouseMellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mating systems, hybridization, polyploidy, and continuing evolution in Senecio (ragworts) and Sorbus (whitebeams)

UserProf. Simon Hiscock, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic approaches to metabolic disease

UserDr Ines Barroso - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Mountainous effects: Alpine space and Victorian lady climbers

UserClare Roche (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lake Victoria, the people and their fisheries

UserInigo Everson.

HouseMellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

New Insights into Starch Metabolism in Arabidopsis and Other Plants

UserProf. Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Embryo environment restricts the developmental plasticity of epiblast precursors

UserDr Berenika Plusa - University of Manchester..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 03 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of culture

UserProf. Kevin Laland, University of St. Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history

UserSimon Schaffer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Environmental physiology

Blackman Lecture

UserProf. Bill Davies, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Predicting the Genetic, Phenotypic, life history and Demographic Consequences of Environmental Change for Yellowstone Wolves

UserProf. Tim Coulson, Imperial College London, Silwood Park.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The hungry cats of Pietro Antonio Michiel, or the fragile nature of Renaissance collecting

UserValentina Pugliano (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 January 2011, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Thermosensory mechanisms in plants

UserDr Phillip Wigge, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Integrating complex genomic datasets and high-throughput cancer cell line screens: linking drug response to molecular signatures

UserDr Ultan McDermott - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What drives the extraordinary diversification in lemurs ? - When ecology meets genetics

UserUte Radespiel, TiHo, Hannover.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 07 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular control of flowering-time and vernalization

UserProf. Caroline Dean, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of helpful wasps: comparing direct and indirect fitness benefits

UserDr. Elli Leadbeater, University of Sussex.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain

UserNils Guettler (Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development

This is a Cambridge Partnership in Plant Sciences Seminar

UserDr Lars Ostergaard, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

The 4-dimensional E.coli chromosome: how a temporal programme can be encoded in a 2D genetic map.

UserDr Andrew Travers - Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, Paris..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The long march of the human genes.

UserDr. Andrea Manica, Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape

UserHilary Powell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Structure and function of photosystem-I

UserProf. John Golbeck, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, USA.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Mind the Gap (phase): kinase signalling cascades in mitotic control in fission yeast.

UserProf. Iain Hagan - Paterson Institute, Manchester.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What can a computer tournament tell us about the evolution of human culture?

UserDr. Luke Rendell, University of St. Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The human automatism debate in the late 19th century

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant membrane transport

UserProf. Dale Sanders, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Post-translational regulation of division versus differentiation in the embryonic nervous system.

UserDr Anna Philpott - Hutchinson, MRC Cambridge..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Understanding Primate Signaling

UserJames Higham, University of Chicago.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Victorian palaeontology and serial publication

UserGowan Dawson (University of Leicester).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Design principles in energy and carbon metabolism

UserDr Ron Milo, Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Rab protein evolution and the history of the eukaryotic endomembrane system

UserProf. Mark Field - Dept of Pathology, Cambridge..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evidence of sexual selection on olfactive communication by means of male sex pheromone production in Bicyclus anynana

UserCaroline Nieberding, Académie Louvain (UCL).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Politeness and the ethical force of natural history

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From plant-pathogen interactions to plant-microbe communities

UserProf. Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Stars and sequences - Genomics as a public science

UserDr Simone Roedder, Institute of Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld, Germany.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The theory of signals selection as a distinct selection mechanism and its implications for altruism

UserAmotz Zahavi.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: UK Long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental

UserProf. Kathy Willis, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Single cell genomics reveals chromosome instability in human cleavage stage embryogenesis

UserDr Thierry Voet - Centre for Human Genetics, Leuven..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sympatric speciation on islands

UserVincent Savolainen, Imperial College London & Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Maya ruins, volcanoes and the colonial state in 18th-century Central America

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 October 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

UK Molecular plant-microbe-insect interactions

UserDr Saskia Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Dimming of the Garden State: An ecological unravelling

UserProfessor Ralph Mac Nally.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration

UserCarl Fisher (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Silencing chromosomes with Xist in embryonic and adult stem cells.

UserDr Anton Wutz - Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Getting a sense of time for massive radiations in Lepidoptera

UserNiklas Wahlberg, University of Turku.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 05 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

'The UK Ladybird Survey: A model citizen science project'

UserDr Remy Ware.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 July 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Epithelial morphogenesis: the role of polarity and adhesion during Drosophila tracheal system development"

UserDr Marta Llimargas.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The herbarium and the computer: investigating John Henslow's science

UserJohn Parker (Cambridge University Botanic Garden).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 May 2010, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

"Genetic analysis of organelle-specific unfolded protein responses".

UserProf. David Ron.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 14:30-15:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Nature teaching on the blackboard: visual learning in early twentieth-century English school science

UserCaitlin Wylie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 13:00-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of mutualism (between species) and the role of mutualism in evolution

UserEgbert Leigh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Experiments in description: Victorian physics and the natural history of electricity

UserChitra Ramalingam (CRASSH).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 May 2010, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

"Small RNA and epigenetics in plants"

UserProf. Sir David Baulcombe.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 May 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Finding the middle ground: achieving a perfect metaphase plate"

UserProf. Patrick Meraldi.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Dragons, insects and porcupines: locating the Victorian 'dinosaur'

UserRalph O'Connor (University of Aberdeen).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 April 2010, 13:00-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics and origins of industrial melanism in peppered moths

UserIlik Saccheri.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

English visitors to Vesuvius and Solfatara in the early seventeenth century

UserJackie Mountain (The London Consortium – Birkbeck).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genetic and environmental factors determine the stability of gene silencing in Arabidopsis

UserOrtrun Mittelsten Scheid,Gregor Mendel Institute.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Disentangling sexual behaviour to understand evolutionary patterns across populations and species

UserDr. Charlie Cornwallis, Oxford University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.

UserSebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm

UserDavid Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

' The mechanics of tissue morphogenesis '

UserDr Thomas Lecuit - Developmental Biology Institute, Marseilles..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserGraham Moore, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sperm, fertility and antlers: determinants of reproductive success in a polygynous ungulate

UserDr. Aurelio Malo, Imperial College, London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion

UserJim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) & Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Wood mechanics, allometry, and life-history variation in a tropical rain forest tree community

UserLourens Poorter, University of Wageningen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Genetics of common obesity - what have we learned from genome-wide association studies?"

UserDr Ruth Loos - MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Detecting social transmission of behaviour in the wild

UserDr William Hoppitt, University of St. Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Geology, caves, and original architecture: ideas of origins and early nineteenth-century geology

UserAllison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 February 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Evolution and Development of Leaves

UserJane Langdale, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

UserBarry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Interacting genotypes and the evolution of social environments

UserDr. Alastair Wilson, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Rethinking the synthesis period in evolutionary studies, 1930s and 1940s

UserJoe Cain (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 February 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using Pathogen Effectors to Investigate Host Plant Resistance Mechanisms

UserJonathan Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Stem Cells in Mammalian epidermis"

UserProf. Fiona Watt - Wellcome Trust for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Dispersal, kinship and cooperative breeding in long-tailed tits

UserDr. Stuart Sharp, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beale, Bennett, Scoresby (and Melville!): a 'natural' history of cetology

UserKelley Swain (Poet in Residence, Whipple Museum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 February 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Arabidopsis natural variation: QTL, genes and 'omics'

UserMaarten Koorneef, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne..

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Insights into the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington's disease"

UserProf. Gillian Bates - King's College London School of Medicine.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of determinism: an evolutionary history of mechanisms underlying insect wing patterning

UserRobert Ray, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Conflict and co-adaptation in the evolution of family life

UserProfessor Mathias Kölliker, University of Basel.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The lake as a microcosm: Otto Zacharias and the civic origins of limnology

UserRaf de Bont (Universities of Leuven & Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unwinding the circadian clock with systems biology

UserAndrew Millar, University of Edinburgh.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Organising microtubule organisers (and some new proteomics tools)

UserDr Ken Sawin, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Matthew Bell, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The curious case of the London Skull: the making of a British human ancestor

UserPeter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 January 2010, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Basal Sexual Strategies: Sexual differentiation, haploid-diploid transitions, and uniparental inheritance of organelle genome

This is a Sporne Lecture

UserUrsula Goodenough, University of Washington, St Louis.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

UserDavid Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

R.A. Fisher Exhibition

UserProf. AWF Edwards.

HouseLibrary, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2009, 09:30-16:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Long term drivers of aboveground-belowground linkages - evidence from invaders, islands and chronosequences

UserDavid Wardle, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

UserDorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

'Hookworm-driven selection on otariid haemostasis – getting to the bloody point

UserDr. Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse, Institute of Zoology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Reflections on re-treading Darwin's 'gigantic blunder' in Glen Roy

UserMartin Rudwick (University of California, San Diego).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Systems analysis of lateral root development: an emerging story…

UserMalcolm Bennet, Center for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Cell-Cell Communication during Fertilization in Arabidopsis: a Surprising Link to Disease Resistance

UserProf. Ueli Grossniklaus - Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fingers, fins and faces: the role of fossils in documenting the assembly of modern bodyplans

UserMatt Friedman, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mate choice, colouration and immunocompetence in the ostrich

UserProf. Michael Cherry, University of Stellenbosch.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Lyell's plots

UserAdelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Signalling pathways that establish symbiotic interactions in plants

UserGiles Oldroyd, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The MHC, sexual selection and parasites; insights from avian populations

UserDr. David Richardson, University of East Anglia.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Head gardeners: the forgotten heroes of horticulture

UserToby Musgrave.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The secrets of a plant killer: Evolutionary and functional dynamics of Phytophthora infestans effector genes

UserSophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systematics, homology and speciation in time and space.

UserJulie Hawkins, University of Reading.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Co-evolutionary interactions between cuckoos and their hosts

UserDr. Bård Stokke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

After the king of beasts: the embodied histories of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth century Ceylon

UserJamie Lorimer (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Coordination of homologous recombination the key to accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis in Arabidopsis

UserChris Franklin, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Cell fate specification and tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila mesoderm"

UserProf. Manfred Frasch - Developmental Biology, University of Erlangen - Nuremberg.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Cultural transmission in meerkat societies

UserDr. Alex Thornton, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Coming to attention: observing nature at the edges during the Napoleonic Wars

UserAnne Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Getting under the skin: How do plants generate and maintain an effective epidermis?

UserGwyneth Ingram, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Modelling human neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila"

UserDr Aaron Voigt.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Watch what you eat: the function of male aggression within pairs of cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus

UserDr. Nichola Raihani, Institute of Zoology, London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

What domestication missed: exploiting wild emmer to improve wheat

This is a CPPS seminar (http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/)

UserCristobal Uauy, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Initiation of Centrosome separation in G2 phase requires concerted actio of Plk1, Aurora A kinase and Eg5, but occurs independently of Cdk1

UserDr Helfrid Hochegger - Sussex centre for Genome damage and Stability.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

UserArtyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Botany of the air': experiments, airships and agriculture in 1930

UserRuth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Between a rock and a hard place - resistance evolution and genetic incompatibility in plants.

UserKirsten Bomblies, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early Drosophila embryos"

UserDr Benedicte Sanson - PDN.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sexual conflict over parental investment and the evolution of personality

UserDr. Nick Royle, University of Exeter.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Fungi in history

UserNick Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems Genetics of complex Traits in Drosophila"

Note unusual time - Seminar will be held at 16:00pm

UserProf. Trudy Mackay - NC State Univeristy.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 September 2009, 16:00-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Chromatin control in development and disease"

UserProf. Peter Verrijzer - Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 14:30-16:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Locating true North: a physiognomic analysis of Marianne North and the North Gallery at Kew

UserKatie Zimmerman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 May 2009, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Reality and representation: Mark Catesby's natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands and the epistemological limits of pictorial illustration

UserPhilip Kerrigan (University of York).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

"Watching transcription in living cells"

UserDr Jonathan Chubb - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 14:30-16:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardening like gentlemen? Constructing the nurseryman in early eighteenth-century London

UserRichard Coulton (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 May 2009, 13:00-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of mutualism and the role of mutualism in evolution

UserEgbert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 08 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Integrated analysis of memory phase dynamic in Drosophila

UserDr Thomas Preat - CNRS, Paris.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Biodiversity, pollination and biological control in changing landscapes

UserTeja Tschantka.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'It is to do one's best to look without laughing': the spectacle of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century London

UserChristopher Plumb (University of Manchester).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 May 2009, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Tales from Irish genetics: from Milesius to Niall of the Nine Hostages.

UserProf. Dan Bradley - Trinity College, Dublin.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserCharles Godfray, Department of Zoology, Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Founding the science of ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and his 'Researches into the physical history of man'

UserEfram Sera Shriar (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

"Evolution of embryonic pluripotency and the early lineages of the mammalian blastocyst".

UserDr Miguel Manzanares - CNIC, Madrid.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 14:30-16:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Popularizing evolution: biographies and books for children

UserBernard Lightman (York University, Canada).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 April 2009, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

What is Consciousness For?

UserProfessor Chris Frith, University College London.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits

UserProfessor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA.

HouseWilliam Harvey.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 16:45-17:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Identifying the Network of Selectively Vulnerable Neurons Associated With Symptom Onset in Alzheimer¹s Disease.

UserDr. Peter Nestor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 16:00-16:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Gambling and the Brain

UserDr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology..

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 15:30-16:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Glutamate, Spikes, and White Matter Disease

UserDr. Ragnhildur Káradóttir, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Soft Matters – Neuromechanics in Development and Disorders

UserDr. Jochen Guck, Department of Physics.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 12:30-13:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

What Can Worm Brains Tell Us About Big Brains?

UserDr. William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 12:00-12:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Visceral Neurons in Drosophila: What the Fly's Rear End Can Tell Us About the Brain

UserDr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Department of Zoology.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 11:30-12:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Processing and Storage Within Neurons

UserProfessor Jeff Magee, Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 10:05-10:50

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why is sex determination in reptiles so diverse?

UserTobias Uller, Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Between a rock and a hard place: metal nutrition in Chlamydomonas

UserProfessor Sabeeha Merchant - UCLA.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

UserRahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Distancing animals in medieval chronicles

UserBrigitte Resl (University of Liverpool).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants

UserProfessor George Coupland - MPI for Plant Breeding, Cologne.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

How does centralspindlin form microtubule bundles and accumulate on them during cytokinesis.

UserDr Masanori Mishima - Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Reproductive conflicts in social insects

UserAndrew Bourke, UEA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'The unrecovered country': the non-drainage of the Fens, 1619-20

UserEric Ash (Wayne State University, USA).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Intracellular metabolite transport in C3 and C4 plants

UserProfessor Andreas Weber - University of Düsseldorf.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Phospho-dependent Activation and Silencing of the Spindle Checkpoint"

UserDr Kevin Hardwick - WTC for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

UserCarsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sex differences in cognition

UserSue Healy, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Punishing bodies: image and ambiguity in the Lydian-Phrygian 'confession stelae'

UserJessica Hughes (Open University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 February 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

UserProfessor Nicholas Talbot - University of Exeter.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems biology of genetic interactions in yeast"

UserDr Balazs Papp - Biological Research Center, Szeged..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Protective coloration and avian vision

UserMartin Stevens, Department of Zoology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

JBS Haldane on the role of disease in evolution (1949): sickle cell anaemia, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and feeding the world

UserAndy Hammond (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 16 February 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory role of ribosomes in plant development

UserDr Mary Byrne - John Innes Centre, Norwich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Molecular mechanisms of microtubule associated protein tau and alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disease"

UserDr Richard Wade-Martins - University of Oxford..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sympatric Speciation

UserVincent Savolainen, Imperial College London, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth

UserBecky Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The European potential to produce Bio-energy: Miscanthus potential for current and future climates

This is a CPPS seminar http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/

UserMr Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

The interplay of Notch with Shh and Wnt signalling in mesoderm development.

UserDr Kim Dale - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Barriers to gene exchange in a field cricket hybrid zone

UserLuana Maroja, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The ends of the earth: rearticulating the image of the poles in the age of polar aviation

UserMarionne Cronin (Scott Polar Research Institute).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 February 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Pollen tube growth: of male gametophytes and the need for models

UserProfessor José Feijó - University of Lisbon.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Building bridges between genes, brains and language.

http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1512

UserDr Simon Fisher - WTC for Human Genetics, University of Oxford..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Experimental sexual selection, sexual conflict and reproductive isolation

UserRhonda Snook, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

RNA degradation and polyadenylation in Arabidopsis thaliana

UserDr Dominique Gagliardi - IBMP, Strasbourg.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Gene-lifestyle interaction in type 2 diabetes

UserProf. Nick Wareham - Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolutionary variability of avian eggshell colours

UserPhillip Cassey, Centre for Ornithology, University of Birmingham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Responding to Darwin: The Reverend Thomas Stebbing (1835-1926), clergyman, naturalist and apologist

UserAlison Wood (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Early farming pathways: recent work on the archaeology and genetics of barley and broomcorn millet

UserProfessor Martin Jones - Archeology, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Function of SRF and Mef2 transcription factors homologues during development of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum".

UserDr Leandro Sastre - CSIC/UAM, Madrid..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetics of Cooperation and Competition in Chimpanzees

UserLinda Vigilant, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The (micro)diversity of pollination systems in the genus Ceropegia (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae): biogeographic and phylogenetic perspectives

UserDr Jeff Ollerton, University of Northampton.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Investigating stem cell differentiation and positional signaling in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

UserAziz Aboobaker, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Food, fair weather and fields: fundamental change in Anglo-Saxon England

UserDebby Banham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 December 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Physical aspects of evolutionary transitions to multicellularity

UserProfessor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Lost connections: a tale of wandering centrosomes.

UserFanni Gergely, Cancer Research Uk Cambridge Research Institute..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Using Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) to study the evolution of flower development

UserSinead Drea, University of Leicester.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Diversity and diversification in the islands of the Macaronesian region

UserBrent Emerson, University of East Anglia.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A botanical tour in Paris: botany, amateurship and communities of knowledge

UserSarah Easterby-Smith (University of Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Biodiversity loss: Mechanisms and consequences

UserDr Andy Hector, ETH Zürich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Why equalising trade-offs aren't always neutral

UserDr Lindsay Turnbull, ETH Zürich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Mechanisms of synaptic communication: Vesicle traffic and Neuronal disease"

http://www.vib.be/Research/EN/Research+Departments/Department+of+Molecular+and+Developmental+Genetics/Patrik+Verstreken

UserDr Patrik Verstreken, Dept of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, K.U. Leuven..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mexican blind cavefish as a model system for micro evolutionary research

UserYoshiyuki Yamamoto, University College London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Heterozygosity and fitness in seals

UserJoe Hoffman, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?

UserAndrew Cunningham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Getting to the root of developmental networks

This is a Blackman Lecture

UserProfessor Philip Benfey, Duke University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"DNA repair in archaea: insights into mechanisms of homologous recombination"

www.nottingham.ac.uk/genetics/people/allers/index.php

UserDr Thorsten Allers, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Conserved regulatory networks in vertebrate development

UserGreg Elgar, University of London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Birdsong singing flexibility under noisy conditions

UserHans Slabbekoorn, Leiden University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

New manuscript evidence for medieval Latin bestiary ownership and use

UserTrish Stewart (University of St Andrews).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

So you want to be an environmental consultant?

UserDr Melissa Barrett (Arthur D. Little) and Dr Nick Betson (RPM).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Discovery and analysis of novel riboswitches

UserProfessor Ronald Breaker, Yale University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

'Intimate Encounters and Dangerous Liaisons: Spatial Organization of Transcription in the Mammalian Nucleus'

www.babraham.ac.uk/pjl_pages/osborne/osborne.html

UserCameron Osborne, Babraham Institute..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

UserAngela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution in the fast lane: the tempo of co-evolution in a male-killer/butterfly conflict revealed using museum specimens

UserEmily Hornett, University of Liverpool/University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The early Soviet project of hybridising humans and apes

UserAlexander Etkind (Department of Slavonic Studies).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 03 November 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

New Horizons of the Domestication of Crop Plants

This is a CPPS seminar

UserProfessor Wayne Powell, IBERS Aberystwyth.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Engineering Self-Orgonization and electical signaling in Bacteria using standardized Genetic Parts"

www.gen.cam.ac.uk/About/iGEM2008-Genetics.htm

UseriGem, International Genetically Engineered Machine, Cambridge Genetic Department..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Harmless nectar source or deadly trap - wetness-based activation of traps in carnivorous pitcher plants

UserUlrike Bauer, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cajal bodies, the nucleolus and fibrillarin are required for a plant virus systemic infection

UserDr Michael Taliansky, SCRI Dundee.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Transcriptional Silencing and lineage commitment in Pluripotent cells"

www.cscr.cam.ac.uk/research/bhendrich.html

UserDr Brian Hendrich, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Breeding ecology of the Spotted Barbtail (Premnoplex brunnescens): a journey into the unknown world of a tropical, understory furnariid

UserHarold Greeney, Yanayacu Biological Station, Ecuador.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Orford Ness: landscape of war and science

UserSophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Blue light sensing in plants and bacteria: all you need is a little LOV

UserDr John Christie, University of Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Worms on Prozac: A genetic dissection of neuronal signalling pathways"

www.ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/research-groups/nurrish.htm

UserDr Stephen Nurrish, MRC Lab of Molecular Cell Biology, University College, London..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

UserGáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Exploring evolution in morphospace for mycalesine butterflies

UserPaul Brakefield, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The evolution of wonder

UserPaul White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mutualistic mimicry drives ecological niche convergence in a butterfly community

UserMarianne Elias, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

UserJeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control"

UserProf. Don Ingber, Departments of Pathology and SurgeryChildren’s Hospital Harvard Medical School.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 08 September 2008, 15:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

“TGF-beta/Dpp signalling in epithelial morphogenesis and cell death”

UserChristian Dahmann – MPI-CBG Dresden.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 June 2008, 14:30-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mutualism and competition structure neotropical butterfly communities

CANCELLED

UserMarianne Elias, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 17 June 2008, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Delivering 'born-again' (Virus-Eliminated) sweet potato to half a million small holder farmers in Zimbabwe

UserDr Ian Robertson, University of Zimbabwe.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

"Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability".

UserProfessor David Pellman, Havard Medical School..

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)

Note changed location and time!!!

UserUrs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A..

HouseAustin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Knowledge-making in southern New Zealand

UserMichael Stevens (University of Otago).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 June 2008, 13:00-14:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The genetic loci underlying phenotypic evolution in animals and plants: from single case studies to general principles

Note changed location!

UserVigrinie Orgogozo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

HouseAustin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Triangulations: poetry, plants and politics in the late eighteenth century

UserPatricia Fara (Clare College and HPS).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 May 2008, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

“Switching and Interlocking: a computational look at genome regulation”

UserThomas down – Gurdon Institute.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms: the role of non-coding RNAs in Hox gene regulation

UserMatthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Slicing, Spreading and Copying Silent Heterochromatin with RNAi

UserRob Martienssen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 19 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Spaces of geography in early nineteenth-century Paris

UserRalph Kingston (Auburn University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 May 2008, 13:00-14:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in the tropics

UserCatherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability

Please note location and time!

UserAlexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Buffon and Martinet's Natural History of Birds (1765-1783): text, images and collections

UserStéphane Schmitt (Université Paris Diderot).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 13:00-14:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

UserAndreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“A cellular perspective on sensory-organ regeneration in the zebrafish”

UserHernan Lopez-Schier – Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

UserAdam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Mary Read and Anne Bonny: two eighteenth-century pirates

UserNeil Rennie (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 April 2008, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

“Love at First Light”

UserGero Miesenboeck – Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

UserJessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution, function and meaning of alarm communication in marmots

UserDan Blumstein, University of California Los Angeles.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 15 April 2008, 17:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"The love and hate affaire between Wingless and Notch in Drosophila wing development"

UserMarco Milan, ICREA and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB).

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 15 April 2008, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

To grow or not to grow

UserProfessor Nicholas Harberd, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Natural selection at SNP and Copy Number Variation in the human genome

UserChris Tyler-Smith, The Sanger Institute.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics. Please note this seminar is at 12:00 instead of 14:30.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 12:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

UserGerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Does limited dispersal favour cooperation?

UserStu West, Edinburgh University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Saved by servitude: the display of horses at the Natural History Museum in London

UserAllison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Everything you always wanted to know about potassium

UserDr Anna Amtmann, University of Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

'Cell fate decisions and establishment of pluripotency'

UserJennifer Nichols - Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 14:30-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of sinistral snails

UserAngus Davison, University of Nottingham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Locating species identity: towards a biogeography of transgenic life

UserGail Davies (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

First steps in manipulating cell wall polysaccharide synthesis: functional and industrial implications

UserDr Paul Dupree, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

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HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ecdysozoan phylogeny and the origins of crustacean complexity: new data from the Cambrian fossil record

UserTom Harvey, Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Induced epigenetic variation and its impact on Arabidopsis phenotype

UserDr Brande B H Wulff, Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas Cuidad Politecnica de la Innovacion Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 10:00-11:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sperm competition and speciation in mammals

UserMontserrat Gomendio, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Insect Pest Control: overcoming the problems?

UserProfessor Lin Field, Head of Insect Molecular Biology, Rothamsted Research.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project

UserIris Montero Sobrevilla (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Building plant bodies from hair

UserProfessor Liam Dolan, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic Dissection of the Homeostatic Signaling: Systems that Stabilize Neural Function

UserGraeme Davis, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics - UCSF.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

UserJordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Monkeys seeing red: Signal content of red coloration in mandrills

UserJo Setchell, Durham University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Distancing animals in medieval chronicles

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserBrigitte Resl (University of Liverpool).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Towards an interdisciplinary view of shoot apical meristem function

UserProfessor Jan Traas, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

What drives recombination hotspots in humans?

UserGil McVean, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Recapitulating ancestral mammalian incisor dentitions through disruption of NF-kB and Wnt signalling in the mouse

UserJim Blackburn, Dept of Craniofacial Development, Kings College London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The link between melanism and immunity in insects

UserSheena Cotter, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Gideon Mantell, Thomas Hardy, and the politics of geological knowledge

UserAdelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How repeatable is evolution? The genetics of parallel architectural evolution in Brassicaceae

UserProfessor David Baum, University of Wisconsin.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Genome Instability and Cancer: lessons from analysis of Bloom's syndrome

UserIan Hickson, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Transgenic and transgenomic strategies for studying the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution: prospects and pitfalls

UserDavid Baum, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The importance of individual differences in the interaction between animals

UserJohn McNamara, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Cartographies of a scientific county: mapping Cornwall

UserSimon Naylor (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Recent dynamics and biomass carbon balance in the Amazon forests - what on earth is going on?

UserProfessor O.P. Phillips, University of Leeds.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Genomic imprinting: a model for the epigenetic control of genome function

UserAnne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 14:30-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The peppered moth: The proof of Darwinian evolution

UserMike Majerus, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Skulls, science and the spoils of war: frontier violence and the creation of the US Army Medical Museum’s cranial collection, 1869-1900

UserElise Juzda (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 January 2008, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Improving wheat for processing and nutrition

This CPPS Seminar is followed by drinks in the tea room

UserProfessor Peter Shewry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

The role of miRNAs and piRNAs in C.elegans development

UserEric Miska, Gurdon Institute.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 14:30-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Synergistic food and predator effects on demography: working backwards from population to individual

UserLiana Zanette, University of Western Ontario.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

‘What is meant by this system?’ Charles Darwin and the visual re-ordering of nature

UserNicola Gauld (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 January 2008, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic studies in Drosophila identify a novel pathologic mechanism for Parkinson disease.

UserAlex Whitworth, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The centipede tree: an evolutionary framework for segmentation studies

UserGreg Edgecombe, Natural History Museum, London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Functional genomics of salinity tolerance in plants

UserProf Mark Tester, University of Adelaide, Australia.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 17 December 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

UserAndreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The private life of malaria parasites: reproductive decisions and mating strategies

UserSarah Reece, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 December 2007, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Testing hypotheses about sexual selection and species recognition in Australian Bowerbirds using principles from sensory ecology

UserJohn Endler, University of California, Santa Barbara (TBC).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 17:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Small open reading frames: new, abundant, important

UserJuan Pablo Couso.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 14:30-16:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant water-use efficiency and optimisation: From minutes to millennia

UserDr Peter J. Franks.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Capturing the super-organism

UserAndy Gardner, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages

UserKathleen Walker-Meikle (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic asymmetry in plant gametes

UserDr Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, HRI Warwick.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Great Divide: Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition

UserNick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Life history strategies in free ranging ungulates

UserKelly Moyes, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The hunter's gaze: establishing a 'period eye' in Charles Darwin's scientific methodology

UserDavid Allan Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 November 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cell-to-cell transport of PVX involves novel features of the endomembrane network

UserProfessor Jeanmarie Verchot Lubicz, Oklahoma State University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

UserGuillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Global patterns of diversity in birds

UserIan Owens, Imperial College London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Ecological reconnaissance': expert visitors to Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s

UserLawrence Dritsas (University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 November 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genome- and species-wide analysis of sequence variation and its functional consequences

UserProfessor Detlef Weigel, MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Toxin-antitoxin pairs in biotechnology and therapy

UserGuillermo de la Cueva Mendez - MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

UserBenoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Baboon Metaphysics

UserDorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Practice and technique in the twentieth-century natural history museum

UserSam Alberti (Manchester Museum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 November 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Asking the plant about what's important in plant-herbivore interactions

UserProfessor Ian T. Baldwin, MPI for Chemical Biology, Jena.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic variation in Salmonella Typhi

UserJohn Wain- Molecular Microbiology, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 14:30-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why are extreme sex ratios so rare?

UserIdo Pen, University of Groningen..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Peripheral vision': science and Creole patriotism in eighteenth-century Spanish America

UserHelen Cowie (University of Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 October 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

21st century crop science man

UserProfessor Andy Greenland, NIAB.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Mechanism of epidermal maintenance of mice and men

UserBen Simons - Cavendish Laboratory, TCM, Cambridge.

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

UserTom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Distributed intelligence in ants: how information is regulated through quorum sensing and teaching with evaluation.

UserNigel Franks, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Community assembly and phylogenies in tropical forest trees

UserDr Jérôme Chave, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Do hawk cuckoo chicks simulate larger broods?

UserDr Keita Tanaka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain

UserCarlos López Beltrán (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 October 2007, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungi and Woodland History

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham.

HouseDavid Building, Anglia-Ruskin University.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Biogenesis and regulation of the photosynthetic apparatus

UserProfessor Jean-David Rochaix, University of Geneva.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

UserMarcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Objects, images, books'. Networks of validation in mid-nineteenth-century geology: Italy, France, England

UserPietro Corsi (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 October 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Green light effects on plant growth and development

UserProfessor Kevin Folta, University of Florida.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Impact of genetic factors on extinction risk and implications for conservation management in New Zealand.

Note unusual day

UserIan Jamieson, University of Otago, NZ.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 02 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Dynamics of ecological speciation: case studies and mathematical models

UserSergey Gavrilets, University of Tennessee.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 25 September 2007, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

UserAnjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Alternative splicing in the human transcriptome: Functional and structural influence on proteins

ECTOPIC SEMINAR

UserDr. Kei Yura, Quantum Bioinformatics Team, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto, Japan.

HouseBateson Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

Please note unusual time!

UserAlistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders

Please note location and time!

UserWim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 26 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra

Please note location and time!

UserAlexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 19 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

Please note different location!

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HouseAustin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

fabulous careers in cornwall

User.

HouseTBC.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms

Please note different location!

UserPeter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseAustin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Getting more from your markers; statistical cleaning of genetic data

UserJérôme Goudet, Department of Ecology & Evolution, LAUSANNE, Switzerland.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 17 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Setting eyes on the holy: the description of sacred sites in accounts of pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the medieval school of seeing, 12th-15th century

UserSusanne Pickert (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 May 2007, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Glial cell differentiation and function in Drosophila

UserChristian Klämbt, Institut für Neurobiologie, Badestr. 9, D-48149 Münster, Germany.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 10 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene Networks and Natural Selection

UserAndreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Made in the shade: light signals, phytochromes and plant development

Re-scheduled from 8 February 2007

UserProfessor Garry Whitelam, University of Leicester.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gilding the Lily: The Evolution and Development of Specialized Petal Cell Types

UserBeverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Anatomist holds model embryo: interpreting a marble portrait from 1900

UserNick Hopwood (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 April 2007, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Growth regulation of ribosome biogenesis in yeast: what's inside the black box?

UserDavid Shore, Department of Molecular Biology and NCCR Program "Frontiers in Genetics", University of Geneva.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 26 April 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Sex Determination in Musca domestica, a Prime Example of Evolutionary Plasticity in Development

UserDaniel Bopp, Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The legume toolbox for the Rhizobium root nodule symbiosis

UserProfessor Ton Bisseling, Wageningen University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

The antigenic and genetic evolution of influenza viruses

UserDerek Smith, University of Cambridge (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

UserAleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

"Linnaean traditions? School botany and biological recording"

UserJenny Beckman (University of Uppsala, Stockholm).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 March 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Natural variation in Antirrhinum and Arabidopsis

UserDr Andrew Hudson, University of Edinburgh.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Mineralogy, Stratigraphy and Practical Geology: Shifting tensions in the Geological Society of London, 1807-1840

UserLeucha Veneer (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 March 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Are treelines responding to climate change?

UserProfessor Emeritus Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Can systems biology be useful, an ascidian perspective

NOTE CHANGE IN TIME - APOLOGIES FOR SHORT NOTICE

UserPatrick Lemaire, University of Marseille (F).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 12:00-13:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Embryos and Ancestors

UserPhil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Earl of Oxford's stud at Welbeck in the 1720s

UserPeter Edwards (Roehampton University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 February 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The role of fungi in self-organisation of the soil-microbe complex

UserProfessor John Crawford, University of Abertay, Dundee.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

The regulatory origin of repeated evolution of Drosophila pigmentation patterns

UserNicolas Gompel, University of Cambridge (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

UserPauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

"Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated His Idol"

UserJoe Cain (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 19 February 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

About the importance of molybdenum for life

UserDr Florian Bittner, Technische Universität Braunschweig.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neanderthal Genomics

Please note different location and time!

UserSvante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

HouseSeminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Alchemy and natural history

UserJenny Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans

UserManolis Dermitzakis, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 08 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Amphioxus Model in Evo-Devo/Neofunctionalization of Retinoic Acid Receptors in Vertebrates

UserHector Escrivà, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Amateurs and pros(e): growing pains in twentieth century natural history publishing

UserPeter Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 February 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The first cyanobacterium. A redox switch hypothesis for the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis.

UserProfessor John Allen, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Conquering the world through plants: kings and botany in the Graeco-Roman world

UserLaurence Totelin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 January 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploiting Cowpea mosaic virus in bio- and nano-technology: 101 things to do with a plant virus

UserDr George Lomonossoff, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Size and Shape in Drosophila wing morphogenesis

UserAntonio Garcia Bellido, CSIC Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Spain.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Tweaking the Hinge and Caps: Testing a Model of the Organization of the Gnathostome Skull

UserMichael Depew, King's College, London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Geological deluge and snowball Earth

UserMartin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 January 2007, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Grasses bite back: Silica as an anti-herbivore defence

UserProfessor Susan Hartley, University of Sussex.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century British natural history

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Hormonal control of shoot branching

UserProfessor Ottoline Leyser, University of York.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Interactions between Polymorphic Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors and Polymorphic MHC class I ligands

UserPeter Parham, Stanford University (USA).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Divine design arguments in the eighteenth century

UserNiall O'Flaherty.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 November 2006, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chloroplast DNA - the case of the vanishing genome

UserProfessor Chris Howe, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Speciation and genomic diversity of Drosophila species: based on microarray and genome analyses

** Ectopic Seminar **

UserDr. Atsushi Ogura, Department of developmental biology and neuroscience, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Speciation and genomic diversity of Drosophila species: based on microarray and genome analyses

** Ectopic Seminar **

UserDr. Atsushi Ogura, Department of developmental biology and neuroscience, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Sexual selection and sexual conflict

UserDavid Hosken, University of Exeter (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

More like apes than angels: natural history and the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith

UserMargaret Schabas (University of British Columbia).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 November 2006, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Small RNA-directed pathways in plants

UserProfessor Jim Carrington, Oregon State University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Distinct roles for Tcf/Lef genes in mediating tissue-specific Wnt/beta-catenin signalling in Xenopus mesoderm development.

UserStefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

R.A. Fisher: a faith fit for eugenics

UserJim Moore (Open University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockMonday 06 November 2006, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Getting to grips with the metabolic network of Arabidopsis

UserDr Lee Sweetlove, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Vertebrate Limb Patterning and Morphogenesis

UserMiguel Torres, Universidad Autónoma Madrid (Spain).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 02 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950

Note: This seminar will start at 12.30

UserJasper Heinzen (Darwin College).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 12:30-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Population structure and evolution of virulence in plant viruses

UserProfessor Fernando García-Arenal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

Wiring the worm: global functional and genetic networks for a multicellular animal

UserAndrew Fraser, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Advantages of travelling by tube - explorations of fungal networks

UserProfessor Lynne Boddy, Cardiff University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

*** POSTPONED *** - Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans

UserManolis Dermitzakis, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Botany, empire, religion and collecting in early nineteenth-century north India

UserSujit Sivasundaram (Gonville and Caius College).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 16 October 2006, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Metal cofactor assembly in chloroplasts

UserDr Marinus Pilon, Colorado State University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The strange tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hunter: the social and professional life of naturalist John Hunter (1728-1793)

UserSimon Chaplin (Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 October 2006, 13:00-14:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Why do research?

UserPeter Lawrence, MRC lab, Cambridge (UK).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserWilliam Adams, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 June 2006, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's "Natural History and Theory of the Heavens"

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserAnna Mrker, Max Planck Institute, Berlin.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserBenjamin Wardhaugh, University of Oxford.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

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