Cabinet of Natural History

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

Benjamin Hegarty (Kirby Institute).

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Marine World

Frances Dipper.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?

Host - Kate Baker

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

Dr Sam Ellis, University of Exeter.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insect Conservation: conserving the little things that run the world

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

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare

Host - Cahir O'Kane

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

Dr Katharine Balolia (Australian National University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 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

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

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

Monday 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

Tiffany Ki, Henslow Research Fellow, Darwin College.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI

Host - Michael Boemo

Dr Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool from DeepMind, London .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Helminth parasites of humans: past, present and future

Dr Thomas Crellen (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 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

Jens Amborg (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 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

Laurie Friday, Cambridge Centre for Landscape Regeneration.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Alex Cagan

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

CANCELLED.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

William McMahon (Department of Earth Sciences).

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

Monday 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

Nathan Clark.

via zoom .

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

Genetics Seminar

Programmed DNA elimination in insects

Host – John Welch

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Are we the storytelling apes: great ape gesture and beyond

Prof Cat Hobaiter (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 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

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

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

London EvoDevo meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

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

Kathryn Bray, Senior Horticulturist, CU Botanic Garden.

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

Thursday 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

Professor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Intensive kinship and violence against women

Dr Olympia Campbell .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 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

Steve Allain, the Pop Punk Herpetologist, ARU .

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Denisovans, Dragon Man and more

Prof Chris Stringer.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Anna Simon-Stickley (Max Planck Institute).

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

Dr Katerina Douka, University of Vienna.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Friday 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

Colin and Christine Lang.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial evolution in the lung

Host – Kate Baker

Dr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evolving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity

Dr Adam Hunt (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

Monday 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

Conor Jameson, writer and naturalist.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

Monday 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

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

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

Thursday 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

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

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Xinnian Dong, Duke University, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise

Aisha Alowais Alshamsi (Warburg Institute).

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wicken Fen: 125 Years of Conservation

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

Ajay Tegala.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2024

The President and Officers.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS

Host - Cahir O'Kane

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Sheena McKeever (Department of History of Art).

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

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Richard Durbin

Professor Ben Lehner from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enid MacRobbie Women in Science Lecture

Philippa Borrill, John Innes Centre.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas

Host - Frank Jiggins

Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 2

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Saturday 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

Free Public Exhibition.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

E. coli and the Game of Clones

Host – Kate Baker

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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

Duncan Mackay.

via zoom .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What and Where I Record

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

Jonathan Shanklin.

via zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Jiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

Dr Julia Aramendi (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 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

Rosemary Fricker.

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

Thursday 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

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering the molecular basis of cell-surface immune signaling

Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

New insights into the social flexibility of chimpanzees and gorillas

Dr Jake Funkhouser (University of Zurich) .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe

Arrianna Dalla Costa (Warburg Institute).

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

Monday 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

Peter Pilbeam.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

Host - Erik Clark

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Rhett Harrison, CIFOR.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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

Dr Carla Figus (University of Bologna) .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 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

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

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

Monday 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

Olwen Williams.

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

Thursday 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

Sandy Hetherington, University of Edinburgh.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human Remains from Pompeii. Excavation, research and valorisation

Dr Valeria Amoretti (Archaeological Park of Pompeii).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 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

Mathias Grote (Universität Greifswald).

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

Monday 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

Esme Ashe-Jepson.

via zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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.

Dr Sera Young (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer

Amelia Hutchinson (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 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

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

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

Thursday 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

Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

FF Blackman Memorial Lecture in Plant Physiology

Alex Costa, University of Milan, Italy.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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

Dr Jeanne Bovet (Northumbria University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 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

Zara Kesterton (Faculty of History).

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic Inheritance

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Darwinian fitness

Prof Lloyd Demetrius (Harvard University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

Wednesday 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

Alex Aylward (University of Oxford).

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

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

Genetics Seminar

The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division

Host - Ben Steventon

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation

Luke Mackinder, University of York.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The human pelvis and childbirth: reframing 'normality'

Dr Lia Betti (University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

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

Genetics Seminar

Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision

Guillermo Willis (Warburg Institute).

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Ticketed Event

Annual Social Gathering.

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

Thursday 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

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

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

Morag Hunter.

via zoom .

Thursday 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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

PhD and post-doc speed talks

Various.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Why be a monk?

Prof Ruth Mace, UCL.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Monday 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

Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London).

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

Monday 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

Stephen Tomkins.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

Host - Ben Steventon

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

Professor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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)

Erica Fischer (King's College London).

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

Monday 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

Paul Krusic.

via zoom .

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

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of organs and cell types.

Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Professor Nokwanda Makunga, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes, University of Liverpool.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 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

Guy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

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

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 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

Rachel Feldberg (University of York).

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

Monday 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

Liam Saddington.

via zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human-wildlife cooperation: Honeyguides et al.

Dr Dominic Cram, University of Cambridge (Zoology).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

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

Monday 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

Will Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

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

Thursday 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

Dr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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

Dr Krishna Balasubramaniam, Anglia Ruskin University .

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

Wednesday 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

Daniel Gettings (University of Warwick).

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

Monday 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

Pete Exley, RSPB.

via zoom .

Thursday 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

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

Monday 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

Mark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

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

Thursday 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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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?

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

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation

Host - John Welch

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies

Host - Erik Clark

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Richard Durbin

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

TLWD scaffold proteins sustain circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis

Dr Eva Herrero Serrano, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

Online.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants

Professor Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

Online.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Lynn Berry (Open University).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rubisco activity and the response of crop leaf photosynthesis to shade

Dr Samuel Taylor, University of Lancaster.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Craig Martin (Ca' Foscari University).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Immunity activation and execution in plants: a biochemical perspective

Professor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute, Germany.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks

Host - Henrik Salje

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Circadian regulation of sunflower development

Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

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

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Cahir O'Kane

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

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

Online.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

Free Public Exhibition.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

The President and Officers.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Friday 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

Esme Ashe-Jepson.

via zoom .

Thursday 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

Kevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

via zoom .

Thursday 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

Tatiana Bebchuk.

via zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

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

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

Wednesday 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

Dr Rick Relyea, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

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

Tuesday 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

Max Long (History, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 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

Jonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

via zoom .

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

Genetics Seminar

Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Professor Teresa Fitzpatrick, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

Dr Vanessa Campanacho, BioantTalks.

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

Wednesday 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

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 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

Josefin Stiller, University of Copenhagen.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal

Francesco Bianchini (King's College, Cambridge).

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome

Host - Erik Clark

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

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

Dr Marie Manceau (College De France).

Online.

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

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

Karma Nanglu, Harvard University.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

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

Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

Mechanism of neural differentiation

Host – Lara Busby

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

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development

Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

CANCELLED.

Thursday 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

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

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish

Molly Schumer, Stanford.

online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish

Molly Schumer, Stanford.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

CANCELLED

Lynn Berry (Open University).

Zoom.

Monday 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

Joshua Pike.

via zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

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

Dr Nathalie Feiner, Lund University.

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

Tuesday 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

Taylor E. Dysart (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom.

Monday 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

Brett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

via zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Dr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Applications of X-ray imaging in Archaeology and palaeontology

Diamond Light Source  .

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

Wednesday 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

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

Jan Becker (European University Institute).

Zoom.

Monday 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

Mike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil microbiomes and one Health

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

Online only.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

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

Cait Newport, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 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

Frederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution

Host - Hansong Ma

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 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

Dr Martin D Brazeau, Imperial College London.

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

Tuesday 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

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

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

Monday 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

Jens Krause, IGB Berlin.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Social Gathering 🍾.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insects in Flight

John Brackenbury.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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

Dr Vanessa Campanacho.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Olfactory cues in a changing world

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

Jorg Hardege, University of Hull.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Lucy Havard (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 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

Speaker to be confirmed.

via zoom .

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

Genetics Seminar

Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans

Host – Ritwick Sawarkar

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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

Dr Leslea Hlusko.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The hidden depths of avian genomes

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

Alex Suh, UEA.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 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

Madeline White (University of Oxford).

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

Monday 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

Bethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

via zoom .

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Henrik Salje

Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

Monday 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

Contributing Authors.

via zoom .

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

Genetics Seminar

Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective

Host – Bianca De Sanctis

Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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

Dr Habiba Chirchir.

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

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

Christine W Miller, University of Florida.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 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

Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

Zoom.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mosquitoes in the Cambridgeshire Fens: past, present and future

Mark Welch, Natural History Museum.

Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Genetics Seminar

Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion

Host - Marco Geymonat

Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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

Dr Jorge Lopez-Tello.

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

Wednesday 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

Alex Dumbrell, University of Essex.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tree islands enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in oil palm landscapes

Clara Zemp.

Zoom only - contact organiser for link.

Tuesday 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

Harriet Allen, President CNHS.

via zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 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

Dr Fernando Rozzi.

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

Online.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

Monday 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

Georgie Bray, RSPB.

via zoom .

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Thursday 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

Dr Alecia Carter, University College London .

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

Wednesday 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

Robert Fletcher, University of Florida.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 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

Eleanor Myerson (Parker Library, Corpus Christi College).

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

Monday 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

Monica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

via zoom .

Thursday 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

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Thursday 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)

Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

Online.

Wednesday 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

Elizabeth Williams, University of Exeter.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices

Annika Windahl-Pontén (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 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

William Ratcliff, Georgia Tech.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

Stefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?

Host - Frank Jiggins

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways

Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

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

Genetics Seminar

Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability

Host - Cahir O’Kane

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis

Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Alix Cooper (SUNY-Stony Brook).

Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 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

Dr Dorit Hockman.

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Anna Guasco (Department of Geography).

Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur

Host: Frank Jiggins

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Professor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 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

Dr Edwige Moyroud.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Eric Ober.

Online.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Darius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Osiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

Zoom.

Monday 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

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Professor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol .

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 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

Prof Gaspar Jékely.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

Guy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

Online.

Wednesday 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

J'Nese Williams (University of Notre Dame).

Zoom.

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

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes

Host - Carol Edwards

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

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

Online.

Thursday 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

Dr Jordi Solana.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 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

Prof Paola Oliveri.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 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

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

Online.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Online.

Wednesday 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

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

Online.

Wednesday 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

Ji Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB.

Online.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 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

Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

via zoom .

Thursday 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

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

Online.

Wednesday 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

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

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

DNA methylation changes at major animal evolutionary transition

Alexandre de Mendoza Soler.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 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

Martin Davies.

via zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

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

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

An ancient DNA perspective on the Ice Age megafauna

Pete Heintzman (The Arctic University of Norway).

Zoom.

Tuesday 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

Emiliano Cabrera Rocha (Department of Geography).

Zoom.

Monday 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

Rebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

via zoom .

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

Genetics Seminar

Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris.

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

Online.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking oceanic sharks’ ups and downs in a changing world

David Sims (Marine Biological Association).

Zoom.

Tuesday 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)

Svit Komel (University of Ljubljana).

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

Monday 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

Duncan Mackay.

via zoom .

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

Genetics Seminar

Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Who Cares About Hornworts?

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

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

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

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Tuesday 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

Huiyi Wu (CNRS-Centre Alexandre Koyré).

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

Monday 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

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

via zoom .

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

Genetics Seminar

Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality

Hosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Dr Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Differentiation, Communication, and Collective Behavior in Ant Societies

Daniel Kronauer (The Rockefeller University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 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

Arik Kershenbaum.

via zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Liquid Brains: searching the cognition space

Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Zoom.

Tuesday 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

Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

via zoom .

Friday 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

Ann Miles.

via zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis

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

Online.

Thursday 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?

Dr Jaap Saers, University of Cambridge.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Using experimental evolution to tackle questions in speciation research

Isobel Eyres (University of Sheffield).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800

Sophia Spielmann (Technische Universität Berlin).

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

Monday 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

Daniel Field.

via zoom .

Thursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Genetics Seminar

Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.

Host: Elves Duarte

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Entangled Lives: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

Dr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar.

Online.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Impacts and mitigation of anthropogenic noise

Sophie Nedelec (University of Exeter).

Zoom.

Tuesday 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

Minakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Zoom.

Monday 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.

Jonathan Shanklin.

via zoom .

Thursday 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

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Uncovering Mechanisms of Cell-type-specific Gene Expression in Rice

Dr Leonie Luginbuehl, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 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

Daniel Field (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories

Daniela Sclavo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution

Dr Martha Munoz, Yale.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 14 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells

Host: Ben Steventon

Professor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology.

TBC.

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

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

Ellie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

via zoom .

Thursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

Dr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Phylodynamic tools for quantitative palaeobiology

Rachel Warnock, Geozentrum Nordbayern.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

Tuesday 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

Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa).

Zoom.

Monday 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

CNHS Members.

via zoom .

Thursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

Dr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

Online.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The functional consequences of extinction and the evolution of gigantism

Catalina Pimiento, Swansea University.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

Marieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

Zoom.

Monday 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

April Bagwill.

via zoom .

Thursday 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

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

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 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

Dr Julia Walter, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Quantitative studies of rapid evolutionary adaptation

Dmitri Petrov, Stanford University.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 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

Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Exeter University).

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

Monday 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

Gwenda Kyd, Author.

via zoom .

Thursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

Professor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

Online.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human Evolution at the Crossroads

Professor Katerina Harvati.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Y haplotype diversity and male phenotypes

Judith Mank, University of British Columbia.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 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

João Joaquim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 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

Dr Steve Boreham.

via zoom .

Thursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Is telomere length a useful biomarker in ecology and evolution?

Dan Nussey, University of Edinburgh.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

Tuesday 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

Niklaas Görsch (University of Lübeck).

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

Monday 01 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants

Dr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

Maree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

Zoom.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

TBC

Professor James O’Connell and Professor Kristen Hawkes.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genomic and developmental drivers of color pattern diversification

Claudius Kratochwil, University of Helsinki.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

Charlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

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

Monday 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

Dr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

via zoom .

Thursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial condensates under stress

Host: Rosana Collepardo

Professor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal.

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

Dr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

Online.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The honeybee waggle dance: evolutionary marvel but modern-day relic?

Elli Leadbeater, Royal Holloway University of London.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771–1832

Patrick Anthony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

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

Monday 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

Simeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

via zoom .

Thursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Genetics Seminar

Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair

Host: Hansong Ma

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

Professor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri.

Online.

Thursday 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.

Professor Richard Wrangham.

Live on Zoom, link circulated by email.

Wednesday 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

Richard Phillips, British Antarctic Survey.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Distribution and ecology of albatrosses and petrels; underlying drivers and implications for conservation

Richard Philips, British Antarctic Survey.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

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

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

Monday 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

Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.

via zoom .

Thursday 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

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Richard Durbin

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

Ella Larsson (University of Westminster).

Zoom.

Monday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online.

Thursday 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

Franziska Holt (University of York).

Zoom.

Monday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease

Host: Cahir O'Kane

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

Chris Lambing, Henderson group.

Online.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants

Christoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 10 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara

Professor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco.

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

Prof Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

Online.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hearsay, gossip, misapprehension: Alfred Newton's second-hand histories of extinction

Amelia Urry (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 03 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Human Immunity – one cell at a time

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

Kumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

Online.

Thursday 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

Prof Hailing Jin, UCR Riverside.

Online.

Thursday 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

Andreas Weber (University of Twente).

Zoom.

Monday 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

Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Postponed - Protecting the Environment

Postponed for now. Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Nature’s information networks: from collective behavior to ecosystem dynamics

Andrew Hein - University of California.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Hein - University of California.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

Chris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).

Zoom.

Monday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

Krishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

Online.

Thursday 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

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

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Multiple determinants maintain diversity in nature

Swanne Gordon - Washington University.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum

Now at 3pm

John Ferguson, Kromdijk group.

Online.

Thursday 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

Frank Rheindt - National University of Singapore.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

Kaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

Zoom.

Monday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil fungi for us

NOTE TIME CHANGE

Maarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia.

Online.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

Host: Frank Jiggins

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The links between sensory and motor systems: from cells to organisms

Natasha Mhatre - University of Western Ontario.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A natural history of evil

Alexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

Zoom.

Monday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.

Host: Ben Steventon

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences

Dr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning.

Online.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Problem solving in slime molds

Audrey Dussutour - Universite Paul Sabatier.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 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

Vivian Irish, Yale University.

Online.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Extreme Weapons: A Natural History

Doug Emlen - University of Montana.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 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)

Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews).

Zoom.

Monday 01 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges

Host: John Welch

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses

Dr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group.

Online.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The mind of the bee

Lars Chittka - Queen Mary University of London.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Genetics Seminar

Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids

Host: Hansong Ma

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions

Frank C. Schroeder, Cornell University.

Online.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genome duplication, gene dosage, and evolution

Aoife McLysaght - University of Dublin.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 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.

Dr Richard Harrison - Director of Cambridge Crop Research, NIAB..

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

BioAnth Seminar Series PhD research presentations

Speaker to be confirmed.

Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here using link circulated by email.

Wednesday 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

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres

Matthew Naish, Henderson Group.

Online.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Assessing the locomotor behaviour of early humans using biomechanical modelling

Dr Ashleigh Wiseman (Royal Veterinary College).

Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/2Gcbbou.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How a year-round breeding tropical songbird copes with seasonal aridity

Chima Nwaogu (Fitzpatrick Inst).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

Max Long (Faculty of History).

Zoom.

Monday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development

Prof Siobhan Brady, UC Davis.

Online.

Thursday 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

Speaker to be confirmed.

Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3n5e7E8.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations

Josh Firth (Oxford).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Translation research in plant breeding, can we finish the job!

Abdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud .

Online.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bird migration: evolutionary genetics of migratory behaviour

Miriam Liedvogel (Max Planck).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 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

Miles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Monday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defying Mendel’s laws: epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum

Claudia Dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Online.

Thursday 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

Dr Inês Varela-Silva (University of Loughborough), with Hugo Azcorra, Maria Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Sabine Little.

Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/349mHZG.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Convergent Evolution of a Social Symbiosis

Joe Parker (Caltech).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

Christopher Preston.

Zoom.

Monday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Does stress lead to wrinkles?. The case of petal cuticles

Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Online.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Communication, cooperation and culture in Shark Bay dolphins

Stephanie King (University of Bristol).

Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3ncLK75.

Wednesday 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

Graham Budd (Uppsala).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 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

Dominik Hünniger (University of Hamburg).

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.

Host: Marco Geymonat

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolutionary legacies on ecosystem function and implications for global change: new insights from spectral biology

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota.

Online.

Thursday 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

Ariel Camp (Liverpool).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 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

Elaine Ayers (New York University).

Zoom.

Monday 19 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A bipartite transcription factor module controls bundle sheath preferential expression in Arabidopsis

Patrick Dickinson, Hibberd group.

Online.

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

Genetics Seminar

Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.

Host: Ben Steventon

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Replaying the tape of life: how predictable is evolution?

Katie Peichel (Bern).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 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

Catarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

Zoom.

Monday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bird migration: evolutionary genetics of migratory behaviour

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Sunday 11 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis

Dr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group.

Online.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:00-13:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Richard Durbin

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis

Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

Online.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the species barrier to allow hybridization of C3 and C4 cereals

Greg Reeves, Hibberd group.

Online.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

TO BE ADJOURNED - AGM

AGM WILL BE ADJOURNED

AGM.

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

Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-19:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice

An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group.

Online.

Thursday 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

Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

CANCELLED

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Saturday 04 April 2020, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

CANCELLED

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Friday 03 April 2020, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - A trillion trees – A trillion reasons to thrive!

CANCELLED

Stuart Dainton, Head of Trillion Trees WWF-UK.

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

Thursday 26 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

Paul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

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

Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Matthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 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

Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Life-course health and disease: an evolutionary perspective

Rihlat Said-Mohamed (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

CANCELLED

J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

Mal Faloon.

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Response of the human gut and saliva microbiome to urbanisation in Cameroon

Laure Segurel (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle).

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

Wednesday 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]

Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

CANCELLED

Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

Sophia Upton.

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

TBA

Ines Varela-Silva (Loughborough University).

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences

Annette Fayet (Oxford).

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

Tuesday 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

Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

This talk has been cancelled

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

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

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

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Unrecorded history: what genomes tell us about ancestry and admixture

Aylwyn Scally (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants.

Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling).

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

Chris Manias (King's College London).

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

Monday 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

Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lines in nature and the landscape

Martin Davies.

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments

Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University).

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Harrold-Odell Country Park

Richard Dowsett.

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Michael Imbeault

Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

It's about time: The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms during infections

Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh).

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

James Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins.

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

Thursday 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

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth

Richard Smith, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Justin Crocker, EMBL.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A deeper take on our sexual nature: Importance of cellular sex and underlying mechanisms

Bruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose).

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

Tuesday 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

Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development

Tina Schreier, Hibberd group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 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

Rob Sansom (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

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

Thursday 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

Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbiosis through the Phanerozoic

Katie Field, University of Leeds.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 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

Simon Segar (Harper Adams University).

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

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

Members' Event.

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Conserved defences underpin host responses to oomycete infection in liverworts

Philip Carella, SLCU.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Members' enthusiasms

Rod Mulvey - John O’Boyle - Ben Greig.

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

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity

Host: Richard Durbin

Professor Nick Lane, University College London .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering NLR immune receptors to combat rice blast disease

Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 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

Josh Firth (Oxford).

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

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The short Arctic summer

Robert Burton.

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

Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

Host: Richard Durbin

Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Post Doc invited speaker

Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking trade in underground symbioses

Toby Kiers (VU Amsterdam).

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

.

(no venue).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Genetics Seminar

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Causes and consequences of social evolution in spiders

Trine Bilde (Aarhus University).

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

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur

Matt Holmes (CRASSH).

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

An astronomer in Antarctica

Jonathan Shanklin.

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

Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Tales of growth and buckling: Micro-pattern formation on petal surface cells

Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-13:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mid-Late Pleistocene human evolution in Eurasia

Professor Chris Stringer (NHM).

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

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking patterns and processes across scales: a case study with Andean hummingbirds

Catherine Graham (Swiss Federal Institute WSL).

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

Tuesday 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)

Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology).

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

Monday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tasty Crafty Aliens - Making the best of a bad situation...

Abigail Stancliffe-Vaughan.

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

Thursday 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

George Coupland, Max Plank Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 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

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do organisms age? Beyond energy trade-offs

Alexei Maklakov (University of East Anglia).

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

Tuesday 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

Kevin Hand.

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

Thursday 24 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains

Hester Sheehan, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 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?

Elizabeth Duncan (Leeds University).

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

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800

Paul Sampson (Rutgers University).

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

Monday 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

Bob Jarman.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 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

Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

21st Century Crop Science Wo(man)

Alison Bentley, NIAB.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Where The Wild Things Are: Investigating the spatial distribution patterns of highly mobile species

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Where The Wild Things Are: Investigating the spatial distribution patterns of highly mobile species

Dr Charlotte Boyd, University of Washington, Seattle.

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

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How coordinated behaviour is achieved through selection, synchrony and sex

James Herbert-Read (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis

Kevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen).

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

Monday 14 October 2019, 13:00-14:00