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Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Hannah Hasenberger

UserDr Hannah Hasenberger, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Natural and forced behaviour of the Pacific Walker Circulation over the past 800 years

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserGeorgina Falster, Australian National University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 17:30-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution of multisensory integration in plants

UserProf. Miguel A. Blázquez - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV).

House47 Bateman Street .

ClockWednesday 27 March 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

UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 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

UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The making and breaking of regulatory space: post Brexit economic geographies in the UK

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Sarah Hall

UserProfessor Sarah Hall, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

UserJiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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

UserRosemary Fricker.

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

50,000 years of turnover and extinction in high-latitude megafauna communities

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAlistair Monteath, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Chromosome dynamics during the cell cycle

UserDaniel Gerlich, IMBA, University of Vienna.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Linking histone H1 to Polycomb repression

UserIva Tchasovnikarova (University of Cambridge).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

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UserPeter Pilbeam.

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

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Marc Macias-Fauria

UserProfessor Marc Macias-Fauria, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Dr Angela Hay - Creating an Explosion

UserDr Angela Hay.

House47 Baterman Street .

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

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UserOlwen Williams.

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Microplastics from geologists' perspective

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserSaija Saarni, University of Turku.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level in the last interglacial

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserEric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences, and the WACSWAIN team.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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UserMorag Hunter.

Housevia zoom .

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Pantastic archaeology in the northern Namib Sand Sea

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAbi Stone, University of Manchester.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Health of the Cam

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

UserStephen Tomkins.

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

UserProfessor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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UserPaul Krusic.

Housevia zoom .

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Greenland Speleothem Record of Past Hydroclimate and Vegetation Changes

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserGina Moseley, University of Innsbruck.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Biodiverse City

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

UserGuy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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

UserLiam Saddington.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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

UserWill Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

People Power for Nature

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

UserPete Exley, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Pleistocene Evolution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: An Interglacial Perspective

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAidan Starr, Department of Geography.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Regulation of mRNA translation and decay

UserDavid Bartel, Whitehead Institute.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 16 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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

UserMark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Vacuuming the Atlantic, Paepalology and getting things ‘wrong, wrong, wrong!’ – pollen tales from the archives

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserKevin J. Edwards, SPRI, McDonald Institute & University of Aberdeen.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Understanding Aboriginal-constructed landscapes in SE Australia, the impact of colonisation, and implications for land management under changing climate

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserMatthew Adeleye, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2023, 17:30-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

UserDr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

HouseOnline.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

UserDr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

HouseOnline.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Human brain chimeroids as avatars to study inter-individual variation in brain development and disease

To receive the link please email communications@gurdon.cam.ac.uk

UserDr Paola Arlotta, Harvard, USA.

HouseWebinar.

ClockTuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Squaring the circle: a coherent reconstruction of past species responses from multiple lines of evidence

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAndrea Manica, Department of Zoology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

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

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserPoppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

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

HouseOnline.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signaling dynamics in the epithelium

UserProfessor Olivier Pertz, University of Bern, Switzerland.

HouseGurdon Institute Tearoom.

ClockTuesday 25 April 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signalling dynamics in the epithelium

UserProfessor Maddy Parsons, King’s College, London.

HouseGurdon Institute.

ClockTuesday 04 April 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cool as a caterpillar

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

UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

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

UserKevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

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

UserTatiana Bebchuk.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

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

UserJonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

Housevia zoom .

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserLauren Davies, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

The evolution of mammalian X-inactivation

UserJames Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 06 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

UserDr Marie Manceau (College De France).

HouseOnline.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Physics of morphogenesis

To join online, please email events@gurdon.cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Stephan Grill, Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development

UserProfessor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

HouseCANCELLED.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

North-West Saharan Holocene rainfall driven by interhemispheric temperature differences (with climatic and archaeological considerations)

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserChris Day, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

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

UserJoshua Pike.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserWillem van der Bilt, University of Bergen.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

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

UserBrett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Chromosome-end protection in pre-implantation development

UserJérôme Déjardin, Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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

UserMike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil microbiomes and one Health

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

HouseOnline only.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Taking it up a Notch, building the body plan

UserProfessor Kim Dale, University of Dundee.

HouseIn Person.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

UserProfessor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserMarco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserProf Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

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

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

UserProfessor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

You get a methylation, and you get a methylation, everybody gets a methylation

Host: GIPA, Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association

UserDr Pedro J Batista, NIH, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MC, USA.

HouseVirtual.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

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

UserBethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

When did humans first alter atmospheric CO2? Constraining the Holocene CO2 conundrum with new ice core data

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserThomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

UserRenske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

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

UserContributing Authors.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserMarkus Jochum, University of Copenhagen.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Embryonic and adult neural stem cells- what underlies their difference

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova and Sumru Bayin

UserDr Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan.

HouseVirtual.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2022, 09:00-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Active Matter and Transport in Living Cells

UserMichael Shelley (Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

ClockMonday 31 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

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

UserHarriet Allen, President CNHS.

Housevia zoom .

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding genome regulation during seed germination

UserMathew G. Lewsey (Centre for AgriBioscience at La Trobe University).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserProf Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

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

UserGeorgie Bray, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

How high and how fast? Improving future predictions of long-term sea-level rise through studying the Last Interglacial

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAmy McGuire, University of Leeds.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

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

UserMonica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserKatrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

UserStefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Unravelling the legacy of 7000 years of metal pollution in south-eastern Europe

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue

UserDaniel Veres, Romanian Academy, Cluj.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Examining glacial-interglacial climate changes by water isotope modelling efforts

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may be unable to access the venue

UserMartin Werner, Palaeoclimate Dynamics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Decoding transcriptional regulation

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova & Julie Ahringer

UserAlexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room AND on Zoom.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2022, 11:30-12:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

UserDr Dorit Hockman.

HouseZoom.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted: Ben Simons

UserWolf Reik, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

HouseTo be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

UserDarius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

UserGuy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

HouseOnline.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Hematopoietic Malignancies

Hosted by: Andrea Brand & John Gurdon

UserProf Robert G Roeder, The Rockefeller University, New York.

HouseWebinar.

ClockMonday 09 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

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

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Interaction between Planetary Wave and Gravity Waves in the Middle Atmosphere

UserProfessor Hye-Yeong Chun, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockThursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Daniel St Johnston & Andrea Brand

UserAnne-Kathrin Classen, University of Freiburg, Germany.

HouseLive Zoom Seminar.

ClockTuesday 12 April 2022, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Early Careers Symposium

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDAMTP, Mathematics.

ClockThursday 07 April 2022, 13:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

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

UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Machine learning workshop

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

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

UserMartin Davies.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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

UserRebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

UserProfessor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lower Wood

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

UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Who Cares About Hornworts?

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Peatbogs

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

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

Housevia zoom .

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A stylish story of carpel evolution.

UserCristina Ferrandiz, Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: David Fernandez-Antoran & Emma Rawlins

UserMaria Pilar Alcolea, Wellcome-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseTo be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2022, 12:15-13:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

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

UserArik Kershenbaum.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Fenland Flora

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

UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

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

UserAnn Miles.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis

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

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

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

UserDaniel Field.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

UserDr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

** Audience Choice **

The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Reconstructing CO2 change on 100 to 100 million year timescales

This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)

UserJames Rae, University of St. Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

UserMagdalena Götz, Director, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Center, Munich.

HouseWebinar.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 11:00-12:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Disentangling polar biogeochemistry through (silicon) isotope geochemistry

This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)

UserKate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 January 2022, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

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

UserEllie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

UserDr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The launch of the online NatHistFest

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

UserCNHS Members.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

UserDr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

HouseOnline.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Engineering epithelial organoid development

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

UserMatthias Lütolf, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

HouseWebinar.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

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

UserApril Bagwill.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

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

UserGwenda Kyd, Author.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

UserProfessor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

HouseOnline.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Signalling pathways regulating cell fate allocation in the early mouse embryo

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Julie Ahringer

UserElizabeth Robertson, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK.

HouseWebinar.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

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

UserDr Steve Boreham.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

UserDr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants

UserDr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOnline.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The 4th dimension of transcriptional networks: TIME

UserProfessor Gloria Coruzzi, Center for Genomics & Systems Biology (New York University).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

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

UserDr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

UserDr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Aurora Conference Room.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees for Streets

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

UserSimeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

Housevia zoom .

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

UserProfessor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

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

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

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Symmetry breaking in gastruloids development

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Jenny Gallop

UserPrisca Liberali, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland.

HouseWebinar.

ClockTuesday 05 October 2021, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mechanism and Models of Stomata/Mesophyll Form and Function

UserProfessor Andrew Fleming, Chair of Plant Science, University of Sheffield.

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

ClockMonday 23 August 2021, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Dicer dependent tRNA derived small RNAs promote nascent RNA silencing

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

UserMonika Gullerova, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK.

HouseWebinar.

ClockTuesday 29 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska

UserAnja Groth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

HouseWebinar.

ClockMonday 14 June 2021, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Using Fruit Flies to Understand Tissue Regeneration

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

UserRachel Smith-Bolton, Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois, USA.

HouseWebinar.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Homeoboxes build the nervous system

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer

UserOliver Hobert, Columbia University, USA.

HouseWebinar.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 20 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

UserChris Lambing, Henderson group.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

UserProf Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

UserKumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adding a piece to the leaf epidermis puzzle: towards a better understanding of cell shape acquisition

UserStéphanie Robert - Umea Plant Science Centre - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer

UserHoward Chang, Stanford University Medical Center, USA.

HouseWebinar.

ClockMonday 26 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Early Careers Event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 13 April 2021, 11:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Selective autophagy mediated cellular quality control in plants

UserYasin Dagdas - GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockWednesday 31 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS event on Climate, economics and policy

UserHector Pollitt (Cambridge Econometrics).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Postponed - Protecting the Environment

Postponed for now. Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

UserKrishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

UserEdwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Right ozone, wrong reasons

UserMat Evans - University of York.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum

Now at 3pm

UserJohn Ferguson, Kromdijk group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

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

UserKaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

HouseZoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil fungi for us

NOTE TIME CHANGE

UserMaarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences

UserDr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses

UserDr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions

UserFrank C. Schroeder, Cornell University.

HouseOnline.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolutionary dynamics of innovation

UserEnrico Colizzi (Origins Centre and Mathematical Institute Leiden University) .

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockFriday 15 January 2021, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Fourth Perspective: Evolution and Organismal Agency

UserJohannes Jaeger (D'Alembert Research Chair 2020/21, Institut d'Études Avancées (IEA) Paris; Associate Faculty, Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockMonday 14 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres

UserMatthew Naish, Henderson Group.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Impact of Covid19 on Climate

UserJames Weber, Sanna Markkanen, Paul Young.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2020, 13:30-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Mechanistic basis of epigenetic switching and memory

Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins

UserMartin Howard, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

HouseWebinar.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Extreme temperatures in the Antarctic

UserJohn Turner.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

UserAbdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud .

HouseOnline.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Jet Regimes and the Predictability of Euro-Atlantic Weather

UserKristian Strommen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

HouseZoom webinar - link to follow.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

UserCarlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event

UserAlison Ming (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom and Gather.town.

ClockFriday 16 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: How CST protects telomeres and double-strand breaks

Hosted by: Steve Jackson & Hansong Ma

UserTitia de Lange, Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

HouseWebinar.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Firing up the genome

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

UserNadine Vastenhouw, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany.

HouseWebinar.

ClockMonday 27 July 2020, 10:30-11:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Model-based explanation of cellular response

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

UserFabian Theis, Director, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany.

HouseWebinar.

ClockTuesday 30 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis

UserDr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group.

HouseOnline.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

UserHarmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis

UserJoiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

HouseOnline.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice

UserAn-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 30 April 2020, 13:00-13:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Fengzhu Xiong

UserAndy McMahon, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 03 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

UserPaul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

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

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

What's on in Plant Sciences

Cancelled-Cross-kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

CANCELLED due to travel restrictions by University of California

UserProf Hailing Jin (Professor and Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside, USA) .

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia

Cancelled due to strike action

UserDr Walter Immerzeel, Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

UserDr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

HousePart II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserSir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing

UserProfessor Dan Voytas (Minnesota State University). This seminar is organised on behalf of the Plant Sciences Department..

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 09:00-10:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Studies of virus diseases of cassava and maize lethal necrosis disease in Kenya

UserDr Paul Kuria, Kenya Agricultural Research Organisation .

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Robustness and scaling in early development: the “distal pinning” mechanism

Hosted by: Ben Simons

UserNaama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

What's on in Plant Sciences

Dr Fahim will be presenting a seminar on some of the work he has recently undertaken

UserDr Muhammad Fahim Associate Professor Director of the Centre for Omic Sciences, Islamia College University Peshawar, Pakistan.

HouseSeminar Room, Dept of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 31 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Cell competition during development and disease

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)

UserEduardo Moreno, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Stem Cells: It’s All About the Neighborhood

Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins

UserElaine Fuchs, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 1 of 2: Speleothem records of abrupt warming events during the last glacial period

This is part I of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives. Second talk is being given by Raimund Muscheler (Lund University): "Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives"

UserRussell Drysdale (University of Melbourne).

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

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

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

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 2 of 2: Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives

This is part 2 of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives

UserRaimund Muscheler (University of Lund).

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

ClockThursday 09 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

UserMembers' Event.

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Mechanistic insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery and DNA repair

Hosted by: Philip Zegerman

UserLori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Post Doc invited speaker

UserJim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

User .

House(no venue).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

UserJames Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Weddell Sea, Antarctica: modern science and the search for Shackleton’s Endurance

UserProfessor Julian Dowdeswell, Department of Geography & Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Aerosols and Ancient History in Arctic and Alpine Ice

UserJoe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, current "Shackleton visiting fellow" at Clare Hall.

HouseClare College (Latimer Room).

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Epigenetic memory over geological timescales

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

UserHiten Madhani, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Symposium on Polar Tropical Teleconnections

UserLesley Gray (University of Oxford), Matt Collins (University of Exeter), Liz Thomas (British Antarctic Survey), Andrew Turner (University of Reading).

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2019, 14:00-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event!

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building.

ClockSunday 06 October 2019, 14:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

UserDuncan Mackay.

HouseMeet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge..

ClockSaturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Symposium on CRISPR/CAS editing in crops

UserProfessor Kan Wang (Iowa State University), Prof Wendy Harwood (John Innes), Dr Emma Wallington (NIAB).

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 19 August 2019, 13:00-16:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Plants perceive quinones via receptor-like kinases

Please note change of time

UserDr. Anuphon Laohavisit, Plant Immunity Research Group, RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science, Kanagawa, Japan.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 05 July 2019, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Reprogramming plant cells for endosymbiotic infection

UserFernanda de Carvalho-Niebel (The Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, INRA-CNRS, Toulouse).

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

UserDr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

What's on in Plant Sciences

γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a plant signalling molecule

UserMatthew Gilliham, Professor of Crop Molecular Physiology, University of Adelaide, Australia.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Spatio-temporal dynamics of cell fate specification and differentiation in the zebrafish embryo

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Philip Zegerman

UserPhilip W Ingham, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore - Imperial College London.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

What's on in Plant Sciences

Delivering 'the promise' of plant science through translation

Seminars on Crop Science - 2 day series

UserLeon Terry, Cranfield University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2019, 11:00-11:50

What's on in Plant Sciences

Reducing agricultural reliance on inorganic fertilisers

Seminars on Crop Science - 2 day series

UserGiles Oldroyd, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2019, 10:00-10:50

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Transposable elements as catalysts of cellular innovation

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Hansong Ma

UserCédric Feschotte, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function

UserCaroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserProf Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: The blastocyst and its stem cells; from mouse to human relevance

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

UserJanet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A rule based approach to Development

UserKim Sneppen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen).

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 24 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

UserFree Public Exhibition.

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

ClockSaturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

UserCambridge Concert Orchestra.

HouseWesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

ClockSaturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

If walls could talk: the evolution and adaptations of plant and algal cell walls

UserDr Zoë Popper, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Environment, Marine and Energy, NUI Galway.

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserKevin Hand.

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

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

A university role in fostering social change

UserProfessor Stephen Toope, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Chemical regulation of functional RNAs

Special Seminar hosted by: Tony Kouzarides, Eric Miska & Cambridge RNA Club

UserYunsun Nam, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

UserPaul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

UserGreg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

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

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Is the nutrition in our crops declining?

UserJames Wong, Botanist, science writer & broadcaster.

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

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Venom

UserLeah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

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

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate change and water security in Africa

UserProfessor Declan Conway, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, The London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 16:15-18:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Climate resilience through science, practice, and public participation

UserProfessor Adina Merelender, University of California, Berkeley .

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

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Early Career Researcher Networking Event and Travel Showcase

Open to all University of Cambridge PhD students and post-docs with interests in global food security

User .

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 14 December 2018, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

UserAnastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

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

ClockThursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Apologies, due to flight cancellation this talk will be rescheduled

UserJim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Just because you’re small doesn’t mean biodiversity isn’t important! – Importance of phytoplankton diversity for the global carbon cycle

UserKatherine Richardson, Professor Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen.

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

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cellular Trajectories in Root Regeneration

UserProfessor Kenneth D. Birnbaum, New York University.

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Towards in vivo structural biology: solving protein structures using deep mutagenesis

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer

UserBen Lehner, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

What's on in Plant Sciences

The GMO Controversy

UserKate Creasey, Grow More Foundation.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 26 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Global Estimates of Marine Nitrogen Fixation based on a Non-Redfield Inverse Model

UserProf. Francois Primeau (University of California Irvine, USA).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Generating human kidney tissue from pluripotent stem cells

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons

UserMelissa Little, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Victoria, Australia.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 10:00-11:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Is sea level rise accelerating and what are the implications for coastal flooding?

UserDr Ivan Haigh, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Change and Technology

UserMyles Allen, Erwin Reisner, Corinne Le Quéré, Jerome Neufeld .

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 13:30-17:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Forest conservation policy: from monitoring to design

UserAssociate Professor Guy Ziv, University of Leeds.

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

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserSam Buckton.

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

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserChris Preston.

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

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology

UserProf. Ulf Buentgen (Department of Geography).

HouseCripps Auditorium, Magdalene College.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding the Evolution of Seed Plant Reproductive Adaptations Through a Fern

UserDr Andrew Plackett (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 02 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Balancing acts in the control of plant cell reprogramming

UserDr Momoko Ikeuchi (RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 25 September 2018, 15:15-16:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mechanics and dynamics of cell to cell adhesion in plants

UserDr Stéphane Verger (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 24 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Uncoupling the processes of development

UserDr Sarah Robinson (University of Bern) .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 14 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Role of H3K27me3-mediated genomic imprinting in development and somatic cell nuclear transfer reprogramming

Hosted by: Azim Surani

UserYi Zhang, Dept Genetics & Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 10 July 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

37th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserProfessor Kim Nasmyth; Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 02 July 2018, 18:00-19:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

A Sugar-based Shadow Detector for Optimal Photosynthesis Efficiency- A Role for the Plant Heterotrimeric G Protein Complex

UserAlan Jones, Kenan Distinguished Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 28 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Regulators of Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Function

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch

UserHelen Blau, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Regulatory principles in human development and evolution

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Emma Rawlins

UserJoanna Wysocka, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 05 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics

Third "Enid MacRobbie Women in Science" lecture

UserAnne Osbourne, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Epigenetics: One Genome, Multiple Phenotypes

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides & Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

UserDanny Reinberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NYU Langone School of Medicine at Smilow Research Center, New York, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Modified small RNA regulate chromosome dosage and segregation

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides

UserRob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Record of abrupt changes of last climate cycle in European glacial dust deposits

UserDenis-Didier Rousseau - Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique & CERES-ERTI.

HouseBawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Talks

Science editing for fun and profit

UserChris Surridge, Nature Plants Chief Editor.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 20 April 2018, 15:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Talks

What's the point of yet another journal?

UserChris Surridge, Nature Plants Chief Editor.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 20 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

(Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape

Special Seminar

User Joe Ecker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological studies.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Genomics and Evolutionary Genetics Club

Genomics and Evolutionary Genetics Club

UserSimon Harris (Sanger Institute) and Maanasa Raghavan (Dept Zoology).

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 12 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

On the function of PRDM15, a member of the PRDM family of transcriptional regulators, in development and lymphomagenesis

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch

UserErnesto Guccione, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Hess Center for Science and Medicine, New York, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 05 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The cellular phase of Alzheimer’s Disease

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

UserBart De Strooper, Director UK Dementia Research Institute, Professor at UCL, University of Leuven and VIB.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 29 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Smart light sheet microscopes for you and me

Hosted by: Alex Sossick & Emma Rawlins

UserJan Huisken, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 20 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Data Visualisation

UserProf. Ed Hawkins, University of Reading.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution and Engineering of Plant-Microbe Symbioses

UserJean-Michel Ané (University of Wisconsin - Madison).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing: Biology, Technology and Ethics

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Steve Jackson

UserJennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

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

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modeling and understanding of Quaternary climate cycles

Normal time and place

UserAndrey Ganopolski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

HouseLatimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

UserYadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

CCI Conservation Seminars

Saving our bumblebees

UserProfessor Dave Goulson, University of Sussex.

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

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

CCI Conservation Seminars

Climate change, species' abundance changes and protected areas

UserDr Aleksi Lehikoinen, Finnish Museum of Natural History .

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

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Regulation of progenitor cells in adult lung and in lung cancer

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Azim Surani

UserCarla F. Kim, Boston Children's Hospital, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

On the role of the Southern Ocean in modulating (past) climate variability

Please note different time/venue

UserSamuel Jaccard, University of Bern.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Immune evasion and metastasis in colorectal cancer

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons

UserEduard Batlle, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona, Spain .

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

CCI Conservation Seminars

How satellite imagery is transforming conservation science

UserDr Nathalie Pettorelli, Zoological Society of London.

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

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

UserHernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Imaging cancer invasion and pluripotency

Hosted by: Jenny Gallop & Steve Jackson

UserJohanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku, Finland.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 16 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

UserLouise Bacon.

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

ClockThursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Growth coordination in Drosophila

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Andrea Brand

UserPierre Léopold, Institute of Biology Valrose (iBV), Nice, France.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2017, 11:30-12:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Open City: its ethics and its design

UserProfessor Richard Sennett, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics .

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

UserMadeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Robustness and dynamics of natural direct reprogramming

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Julie Ahringer

UserSophie Jarriault, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cell Biology (IGBMC), Illkirch, France .

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

RNA Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Disease

Hosted by: Jenny Gallop & Rick Livesey

UserRon Vale, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 27 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Measuring landscape resilience: tephra, soil and spatial patterns

UserDr Richard Streeter, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

UserBrian Metscher (University of Vienna).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Culture and Climate Change: experiments in collaboration and engagement

UserProfessor Joe Smith, Department of Geography, The Open University and Dr. Renata Tyszczuk, University of Sheffield, School of Architecture.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Are RNA granules liquid organelles? Regulation of P granule dynamics by intrinsically-disordered proteins

Hosts: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska

UserGeraldine Seydoux, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol: past, present and future

UserDr Anya Schmidt, Department of Geography and Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing the global land resource

UserPete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Welcome Event 2017

Userseveral speakers -- see abstract.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 13:30-16:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Volcanic eruptions, climate and humans: How lessons from the past can help us to prepare for the future

UserMichael Sigl, Paul Scherrer Institut & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern.

HouseLatimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Under the Physical Geography Parasol: Climate and History

UserProfessor Christine Lane and Professor Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-18:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Shedding some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe: Ribozymes, Telomerase and Regulating Epigenetics

2017 Herchel Smith Lecture given by Nobel Laureate Professor Tom Cech

UserProfessor Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

ClockMonday 16 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Epigenetic regulation by histone acetylation

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides & Eric Miska

UserAsifa Akhtar, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 10 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Protecting Immortality: Germ line Development in Drosophila

Hosts: Daniel St Johnston & Julie Ahringer

UserRuth Lehmann, Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 26 September 2017, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Liver Regeneration in the Damaged Liver

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch

UserStuart J Forbes, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 25 August 2017, 10:45-11:45

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

UserAssociate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Histone variants are essential for transmission of epigenetic information

UserDr Frederic Berger, The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cellular Dynamics and Signaling Molecules in Pollen Tube Guidance

UserDr Tetsuya Higashiyama, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University Japan.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Talks

The Biomaker Challenge: an introduction for biologists

UserProf Jim Haseloff and Dr Jenny Molloy.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Bumps and Ramps in the Glacial CO2 Record

UserProfessor Wally Broecker (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.

HouseBMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2017, 17:00-19:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CambPlants Industrial Talks

This is a CPPS sponsored seminar

UserDr Vitor Verdelo Viera, A4F and Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to protein

Hosts: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch

UserSteven McKnight, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Multi-scale models of organogenesis: Limb bud development

Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Emma Rawlins

UserJames Sharpe, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Embracing Complexity: A Fly-to-Bedside Approach to Cancer Therapies

Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Steve Jackson

UserRoss Cagan, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 10 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

36th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Margaret Goodell; Prof. Paul Lehner.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Sex differences in organ size and plasticity

Hosts: Phil Zegerman & Andrea Brand

UserIrene Miguel-Aliaga, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS).

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Small RNAs as morphogen-like signals in plant development

UserProfessor Marja Timmermans (University of Tuebingen).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Warm periods of the past

UserSee abstract for programme.

HouseMR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00-17:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Critique of Punitive Reason

UserDidier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Public Presence of the Social Sciences

Distinguished Visitor lecture

UserDidier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 16:15-18:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modelling the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle: How sensitive are past climates?

UserPaul Valdes, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseLatimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Pathological Lives: on the cosmopolitics of losing self-assurance

UserProfessor Steve Hinchliffe, Geography and College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 16:15-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Climate Change and Nature Conservation

UserBrian Eversham, CEO, BCN Wildlife Trust.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphies from East African lakes

UserChristine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLatimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS poster session

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDepartment of Earth sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 14:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Measuring and Modeling the Dynamics of Developmental Decisions in Single Cells

Hosts: Rick Livesey & Ben Simons

UserSharad Ramanathan, Harvard University, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Cell biological mechanisms regulating vertebrate neurogenesis

Hosts: Daniel St Johnston & Rick Livesey

UserKate Storey, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee, Scotland.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees, hedges and woodland management

UserSimon Damant, Forester at the National Trust Wimpole Hall estate.

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

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering Meiosis and Recombination to Unlock Genetic Diversity

CambPlants Industrial Talk

UserGiacomo Bastianelli, Meiogenix and Ian Henderson.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Chaperone Machineries in RuBisCO Biogenesis and Metabolic Repair

UserProf. Manajit Hayer-Hartl. Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Imaging Cancer Invasion and Therapy Failure

Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Tony Kouzarides

UserErik Sahai, Crick Institute, London.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Deciphering the role of cell wall signalling in plant development

UserSebastian Wolf, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 10:00-11:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Cell polarity in lymphocytes

Hosts: Daniel St Johnston & Phil Zegerman

UserGillian Griffiths, CIMR, Cambridge.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

35th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Oliver Rando; Dr Francois Spitz.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockFriday 04 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The influence of flowering behaviour on plant architecture in perennials

UserMaria Albani, Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Beyond the rainbow: understanding the multiscale mechanisms of petal patterning

UserEdwige Moyroud, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Elucidating and re-wiring gene regulatory networks mediating plant defence

This talk is part of the Sainsbury Laboratory Seminar Series

UserProfessor Katherine Denby, University of York.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

34th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Todd MacFarlan (NIH); Dr Elizasbeth Bayne (Edinburgh).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Slugs and snails

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the local Wildlife Trust.

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

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

The functional study of P1/HC-Pro in the suppression of the miRNA pathway

UserDr. Shih-Shun Lin Associate Professor Head, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology & Virology Institute of Biotechnology National Taiwan University.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockMonday 25 July 2016, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

CANCELLED Circadian clock function and organisation in Arabidopsis thaliana

UserPaloma Mas, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG-CSIC).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 24 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Cheating your way to the top: rules and regulations

UserBoris Bongalov, Forest Ecology Group.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 17 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Talks

System-level mechanisms in plant development and plasticity: From regulatory networks and epigenetic landscapes to morphogenesis

UserElena R. Álvarez-Buylla (Instuto de Ecología & Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 17 June 2016, 13:00-13:50

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Reading and Writing Genomes in 3D: The CTCF code and how to hack it

Hosts: Tony Kouzarides & Julie Ahringer

UserErez Lieberman Aiden, Baylor College of Medicine & Rice University, Texas, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2016, 11:30-12:30

What's on in Plant Sciences

Fellowship application seminar

Open to postdocs and 3rd year PhD students (from Plant Sciences and SLCU). Registration required.

UserGraham Dransfield (Chem Eng); Renata Schaeffer (Research Office).

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 10 June 2016, 15:30-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Supergenes, Sex and Sociality

UserLaurent Keller, University of Lausanne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

33rd Epigenetics Club Seminar

Please note the new time and location

UserDr Peter Rugg-Gunn (The Babraham Institute); Dr Ross Waller (Department of Biochemistry).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Talks

Extending our view of morphogenesis

UserSarah Robinson (Cris Kuhlemeier group at the University of Bern).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 13:00-13:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

MscS-Like Mechanosensitive Ion Channels as Modular Sensors and Reporters of Membrane Tension

UserElizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis (SLCU Sabbatical Visitor).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Large CO2 emissions from pre-industrial land use change – Does the carbon budget add up?

UserBenjamin Stocker. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology

UserRalph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Plant Molecular Biology.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Understanding and manipulating cell fate

Hosts: Emma Rawlins & Azim Surani

UserKonrad Hochedlinger, Harvard University, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch

UserMike Walker, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, Trinity Saint David, University of Wales, Lampeter, and Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University.

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Perturbation Analysis of LEAFY in the Floral Transition Network of Arabidopsis thaliana

UserGitanjali Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) New Delhi India.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Metabolite damage and its repair or pre-emption

UserProf. Andrew Hanson, University of Florida.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Gene regulation by epigenetics and distance enhancers

UserDr Maike Stam, from the University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Talks

Modelling genetic control of insect pests

UserDr Nina Alphey from Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Guiding Principles of Selective Autophagy in Plants

UserDr Yasin Dagdas, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich .

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

Biophysical Seminars

Enhancing nanopore sensing with DNA nanotechnology

All welcome

UserUlrich F. Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2016, 10:30-11:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Principles of skin regeneration, repair and cancer by live imaging

Hosts: Ben Simons & Eugenia Piddini

UserValentina Greco, Yale University, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 19 April 2016, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mapping main and interacting QTLs within the arabidopsis multiparent RIL (AMPRIL) population

3CS: The Cambridge Centre for Crop Sciences Inaugural Seminar

UserDr Korbinian Schneeberger, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Learn to use a microscope

Booking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.

User..

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 18:30-20:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Genome regulation by Polycomb proteins, between epigenetic inheritance and dynamic gene regulation

Hosts: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska

UserGiacomo Cavalli, Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, Montpellier, France.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2016, 10:30-11:30

csl42's list

Green Labs Workshop @ Plant Sciences

User Martin Howes Department of Plant Sciences Energy Co-ordinator.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, Cambridge .

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 14:00-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Expression homeostasis during DNA replication

UserNaama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

32nd Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge); Dr Petra Hajkova (Imperial College, London).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Birdsong - what's all the noise about?

UserTony Fulford, Ely Wildspace, and Dept. of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Symmetry Matters in Gynoecium Development

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserLars Ostergaard, Head of Crop Genetics, JIC.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

FANcy nucleases that cut chromosome instability and disease

Hosts: Steve Jackson & Phil Zegerman

UserJohn Rouse, MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Scotland.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

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

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Remodeling root cells for AM symbiosis’

UserMaria Harrison, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

31st Epigenetics Club Seminar

User Prof. Antoine Peters (University of Basel, Switzerland); Dr Skirmantas Kriacionis (Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford).

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 16:30-17:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

UserHelen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate and Society: Examples of the climate impact on civilizations

UserSebastian Breitenbacher (Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 17:30-18:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Gene regulation from a distance

Hosts: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer

UserWendy Bickmore, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 11:30-12:30

Collaboration Skills Initiative

Selling for researchers

Numbers are limited. Please indicate your interest by emailing the organiser, Jo Griffiths (jg393@cam.ac.uk)

UserMarcel Dissel.

HouseMoller Centre, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 10:00-16:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Non-genetic inheritance of phenotype in mammals

UserAnne Ferguson-Smith (University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

30th Epigenetics Club Seminar

User Prof. Ryan Lister (The University of Western Australia); Prof. Doug Higgs (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University).

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Café Synthetique

RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Synthetic-Biology-Meetup/events/219672607/

UserVeronica Grieneisen (John Innes Centre), Lewis Tanner (Isomerase Therapeutics Ltd).

HousePanton Arms, 43 Panton St, CB2 1HL .

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 18:00-20:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Overcoming chemical betrayal: plant defensive signalling against pathogens

UserDr Josiah Mutuku, BioSciences East and Central Africa, Nairobi.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Using the Land-Ocean Transition to understand coastal landscapes

UserMark Bateman (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Talk Cancelled (was 'Synthetic Biology')

This talk is cancelled.

UserDr. Jim Haseloff - Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Understanding the Paris Climate Summit (COP21)

Open to all, but space is limited so please register in advance

UserEmily Shuckburgh, Prof. John Pyle, Sir David King, Prof. Sir Richard Friend.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 14:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Visiting African Fellows Research Showcase (in association with Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

UserFive researchers from Uganda and Ghana (see programme at http://africanshowcasenov11.eventbrite.co.uk).

HousePavillion Room, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 2EW.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 14:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical modelling of a cereal killer: Modelling plant cell invasion by the rice blast fungus

Coupling Geometric PDEs with Physics for Cell Morphology, Motility and Pattern Formation

UserStyles, V (University of Sussex).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

29th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserProf. Steven Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA); Prof. Craig Pikaard (Dept of Biology & Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA).

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Landscape Retreat and 'Jumping': Late Prehistoric Fenland Environmental Adaption/Response

UserChristopher Evans (Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 17:30-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

From bud set to bud break: molecular regulators of winter dormancy in trees

UserIsabel Marta Allona Alberich, Technical University of Madrid.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

eph25's list

Placental adaptation: the role of fetal nutrient demand

UserDr Mark Dilworth, University of Manchester.

HouseAddenbrooke's CS Seminar Room 6.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: water vapour and clouds in the climate system

Free Registration

UserLouise Sime, Chris Holloway, Constantino Listowski, Tamsin O'Connell, Jan Zika, Peter Haynes.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 14:00-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Coordinating growth and tissue organization during development

Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Emma Rawlins

UserHelen McNeill, Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, Canada.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How our Botanic Gardens Work (and how they can work for you)

UserDr Sam Brockington, Cambridge University Botanic Garden Curator.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Engaging stakeholders about the science of climate change

Free Registration

UserEric Wolff, Ailsa Benton, John Pyle, Neil Harris, Ian Ellison, David Webb, Linda Capper, Athena Dinar.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockMonday 19 October 2015, 14:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

UserProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The last 1000 years in East Antarctica: insights from a new temperature proxy.

UserAnais Orsi, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette (France).

HouseCripps Meeting Room 4, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Welcome Event

UserRepresentatives from each CCfCS department/institute .

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2015, 15:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology

Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics.

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

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

New insights into aneuploidy in mammalian oocytes

Hosts: Phil Zegerman & Meri Huch

UserMelina Schuh, Cell Biology Division, MRC LMB, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 06 October 2015, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Spatio-temporal organization of bacterial biofilms

UserDr Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Molecular control of cellular collectives

UserDr Hyun Youk (Delft University of Technology).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Henrik Jonsson (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 09:00-10:00

Plant Sciences Talks

“Chemical Arms Race at Sea”: The role of virally-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes in shaping the marine environment

UserAssaf Vardi. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockWednesday 26 August 2015, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cell-based patterning in developing tissues

UserProfessor Marta Ibanes (University of Barcelona).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 25 August 2015, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The emergence of positional information in ensembles of mouse ES cells

UserProfessor Alfonso Martinez Arias ( Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 24 August 2015, 15:30-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cell complexes: A general mathematical framework for modelling development in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions

UserProfessor Przemyslaw Prusinkiwicz (Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 24 August 2015, 14:30-15:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly)

UserFlorian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 08 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School

Ignite 2015

UserVarious speakers and contributors.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School.

ClockSunday 05 July 2015, 09:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Connecting Biology to Mathematics by way of Symbolic Computing

UserProfessor Eric Mjolsness, Leverhulme visiting Professor.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 17 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

28th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserProf. John Rinn; Dr Sarah Teichmann.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 16 June 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins

The Lecture will be preceded by a brief presentation by Bursary Student Siang Koh, entitled “It takes two to tango: Combination therapy in cancer”

UserDr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape

UserChristen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Imaging heart development and function in zebrafish

UserDidier Stainier, Max Planck Institute for Heart & Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany .

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 11:30-12:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Boron isotopes as pH proxy: a critical evaluation

UserDr. Sambuddha Misra (Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseCripps Meeting Room 3, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The first CCfCS student symposium

Registration by May 1st required

UserJenny Turton.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 09:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding plant root developmental plasticity using cell type-specific genomics

UserMiriam Gifford, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Life Study – identifying pathways to health in early life

UserProfessor Carol Dezateux, Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the Life Study, UCL Institute of Child Health.

HouseAddenbrooke’s Clinical School Seminar Room 3 please see http://www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/info/seminar.shtml for directions.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Food Futures in the World

Can GM crops help to feed the world?

Last talk of term!

UserProfessor Sir Brian Heap.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserJuheon Lee, 3rd yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 14:30-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserPatrick Dickinson, 3rd yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 14:00-14:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Paramutation in tomato

UserQuentin Gouil, 3rd yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 12:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserAlexander Blackwell, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 15:00-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Fifty shapes of maize

UserRozi Vofely, 1st yr grad.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 12:00-12:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The Tropical Tropopause Layer

UserStephan Borrmann (Mainz), Neil Harris (Cambridge), Alison Ming (Cambridge) and Amanda Maycock (Cambridge).

HouseMR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 21 April 2015, 14:30-17:30

Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Café Synthetique

Please RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Synthetic-Biology-Meetup/events/219670945/

UserSarah O'Connor and Stephanie Brown (John Innes Centre, Norwich), Pakpoom Subsoontorn (University of Cambridge).

HousePanton Arms, 43 Panton St, CB2 1HL .

ClockMonday 20 April 2015, 18:00-20:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Role of vascular growth factors in pre-eclampsia

UserProfessor David Bates, Division of Cancer and Stem Cells, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham .

HouseBryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Control of Arabidopsis Petal Growth

UserProfessor Vivian Irish, Yale University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 25 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Earth’s past, present, and future climate

UserProf Eric Wolff (Earth Sciences), Dr Emily Shuckburgh (BAS), Dr Amanda Maycock (Chemistry).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 18:00-19:30

Food Futures in the World

Resource competition: Supporting a growing population whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions

UserDr Astley Hastings, Research Fellow, The School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS poster session

UserCCfCS Members from across Cambridge.

HouseEarth Sciences.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 13:30-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet; landforms, sediments, dates and the BRITICE-CHRONO project

UserProf Chris D. Clark, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield (UK).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing Innovation: an oxymoron?

CPPS Seminar

UserDavid Lawrence, Syngenta.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Arctic Change meeting

UserJulienne Stroeve, Ed Hawkins, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Phil Wookey, Duncan Depledge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 14:00-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Bo Jacobsson, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Gotenburg Sweden.

HouseAddenbrooke’s F&G 5 please see http://www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/info/seminar.shtml for directions.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:00

Food Futures in the World

Food Wastage and Global Food Security

UserDr Tim Fox, Head of Energy and Environment, Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Neoliberalism and the environment revisited: The North American Free Trade Agreement and the US-Mexico border 20 years on

UserProfessor Diana Liverman Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Regents Professor of Geography and Development and Co-Director of the Institute of the Environment University of Arizona.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 16:15-18:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes

UserDr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Talks

How to build political will for a stable climate

UserJoe Robertson, Citizens' Climate Lobby.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 19:30-20:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New DNA approaches to understanding Late-Quaternary and recent biodiversity changes – potential and problems

UserProf Mary E. Edwards, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton (UK).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Can genomics impact forestry?

UserRichard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Food Futures in the World

Feeding the world without costing the earth

UserProfessor Andrew Balmford, Professor of Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Engineering complex metabolic feedback in Escherichia coli

UserDr Felix Moser, MIT Bioengineering & Broad Institute.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Biological insights into mutagenesis through modern sequencing technologies

UserSerena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Seasonal flowering in annual and perennial plants

UserProfessor George Coupland (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 26 January 2015, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Sustainable Intensification: An Oxymoron?

UserChair: Professor Howard Griffiths, University of Cambridge.

HouseCurtis Auditorium, Clare College, University of Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2015, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

27th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Sarah Elderkin; Dr Daniel Zilberman.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 13 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH DAY

UserVarious.

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 11 December 2014, 09:00-18:00

Caius MCR/SCR research talks

Sex and Death: Recombination and Immunity in Arabidopsis

UserDr Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge).

HouseSenior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 21:00-21:30

Plant Sciences Talks

Geneious R8

UserChristian Olsen & Claire Westwood, Biomatters.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

How bees find the right flowers

UserDr Gregory Sutton.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 18:15-19:15

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Fossil pollen and algae reveal Antarctica’s climate as the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserVanessa Bowman (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

26th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Déborah Bourc'his; Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 18:00-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How does an alga become a parasite?

UserEllen Nisbet (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Talks

Ensembl Plants: Visualising, mining and analysing crop genomics data

UserDan Bolser, Ensembl Plants Project Leader, EMBL-EBI .

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Exploring and Exploiting the RNA World in Plants and Animals

UserProf. David Baulcombe (Plant Sciences).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 18:15-19:15

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The North American deglaciation: linking rapid climate change, ice sheet retreat and sea level rises

UserDr Lauren Gregoire (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Preeclampsia research and follow-up in Utrecht

UserProfessor Arie Franx, Head of Obstetrics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands.

HouseBryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Science from a sheet of paper

UserDr Tadashi Tokieda, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle over the last 800,000 years - an ice core perspective

UserProf Dr Hubertus Fischer (Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Ad-ab boundaries: Organisers of plant development

UserDr Marcus Heisler, European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Dynamics of stem cell signalling pathways in plant meristems

UserProfessor Rüdiger Simon, Heinrich-Heine University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 10:00-10:45

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Discussion Meeting

UserProfessor Eric Wolff, Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown, Dr David Reiner, Professor David MacKay.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR2.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 14:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics in seasonal timing

Enid MacRobbie Woman in Science Lecture

UserCaroline Dean, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungal Foray

Admission free for CNHS members & Friends of CUBG. Garden entrance fee for others.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 13:30-16:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Top-down and bottom-up evidence for the early anthropogenic hypothesis

UserProf Bill Ruddiman (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, US).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Self organising developmental systems and evolution

UserDr Tom Bennett, Sainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

25th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Greg Hannon; Dr Michaela Frye.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Horizon 2020 Opportunities in Big Data

UserRenata Schaeffer, European Policy Manager, Research Operations Office.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 2, 8 Mill Lane .

ClockThursday 02 October 2014, 14:00-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant cell biology: endocytosis and cell signalling

UserDr Clara Sanchez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 01 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Dave Natale, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Calgary.

HouseBryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 15 September 2014, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deep Time and Modern Brains

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

UserProfessor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Direct Coupling Coherent Quantum Observer

Quantum Control Engineering: Mathematical Principles and Applications

UserPetersen, I (UNSW Canberra, at ADFA).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 05 August 2014, 09:45-10:25

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Planar and outer membrane polarity in the Arabidopsis root epidermis

UserMarkus Grebe, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 30 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetic control of cellular reprogramming in Arabidopsis

UserKeiko Sugimoto, Cell Function Research Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 16 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetic regulation by trxG and PcG in Arabidopsis

UserProfessor Zinmay Renee Sung, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 09 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Fracking the fjords: Earthquakes and glacial erosion, with some additional thoughts about stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

People should be aware that 7th July is Tour de France day, but we hope things will have become accessible by 5.00 pm.

UserProfessor Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geoscience, Penn State University, USA.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 07 July 2014, 17:00-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

License to kill: The acquisition of cell death competency during plant development

UserMoritz K. Nowack, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 02 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH

People and Plants: Material and Immaterial Transactions

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockThursday 26 June 2014, 09:00-18:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

IPCC Climate Change 2014: Key Findings on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in Asia and the Role of the Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=290&subid=7 note unusual venue

UserProf. Joy Pereira, Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Engineering crops for resistance to disease and tolerance of environmental stress

UserPamela C. Ronald, The Genome Center, University of California, Davis.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Modelling Workshop

Registration is required

UserModel users and developers across Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 14:00-17:00

Global Food Futures

Climate Change & Food Security Marketplace

UserDame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards College; Sir Jonathan Porritt, Founder of Forum for the Future.

HouseBuckingham House, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 09:00-15:30

Cambridge Global Food Security

Global Food Security - Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives

Attendance is free but registration is necessary

UserChair: Professor Chris Gilligan, Global Food Security Strategic Initiative.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 06 June 2014, 09:30-13:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Methane in the Earth System Symposium

UserJohn Burrows, Nic Gedney, Euan Nisbet, Matt Rigby, Philip Sargent .

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR2.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 14:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Microtubule array patterning in the axially growing hypocotyl cell

UserSidney Shaw, Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

RNA: self vs non-self

UserEric Miska, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences

UserHannah Long (University of Oxford).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Transformational Role of Plants in Meeting the Zero Hunger Challenge

This event is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from https://zero-hunger.eventbrite.co.uk

UserProfessor M S Swaminathan.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockSaturday 17 May 2014, 14:00-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Food Security, Biotechnology and Genetic Modification-A Mature Conversation

This event is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from http://food-security.eventbrite.co.uk

UserProfessor Ottoline Leyser (Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory) Professor Andy Stirling (Professor of Science and Technology Policy, University of Sussex) Doctor Emmanuel Okogbenin (Director of Technical Operations, African Agricultural Technology Founda.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution and development of early land plant rooting systems

UserProf Liam Dolan, Sherardian Professor of Botany, University of Oxford.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Sustainable Agriculture Development Seminar

This event is led by the Tropical Agriculture Association

UserDr Willem Stoop (University of Wageningen) and Dr Amir Kassam (FAO and Reading University) .

HouseHughes College, Pavilion Room, Cambridge CB1 2EW.

ClockMonday 12 May 2014, 14:00-18:30

Plant Sciences Talks

Plant Immune Signaling: The Roles of Calmodulin-Binding Proteins

UserJane Glazebrook, University of Minnesota, St Paul.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: Fluvio-centric Currents of River History: From the Mersey to the Po

We regret this seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

UserProfessor Peter Coates, University of Bristol.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Seeing the invisible - UV-B perception and signalling in plants

UserRoman Ulm, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

On the origins of mycorrhizal symbioses

UserMartin Bidartondo, Division of Biology, Imperial College London & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

ABC Transporters involved in phytohormone transport

UserEnrico Martinoia, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

To grow or not to grow - auxin-dependent differential growth regulation

UserJürgen Kleine-Vehn, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 16 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address and AGM

Please note earlier than usual start time.

UserJonathan Shanklin, President, Cambridge Natural History Society.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 19:00-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Talking with the neighbours: Understanding spatial accommodation in plant development

User Joop E.M. Vermeer, Department of Plant Molecular Biology (DBMV), University of Lausanne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 09 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding and engineering salinity tolerance in crop plants

UserMark Tester, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014. £10 but FULLY BOOKED!

UserLuke Webster.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 21 March 2014, 19:30-21:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Wheat breeding for sustainable productivity, an oxymoron waiting to happen?

This is a CPPS seminar - note the time change

UserRichard Summers (RAGT).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate Confusion: Lessons and Pitfalls in the Study of Climates Past

UserProfessor John Lowe, Emeritus Professor of Quaternary Science of the University of London, Gordon Manley Professor of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Floral quartets link flower development and evolution

UserGünter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Twenty-third Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Maria-Elena Torres Padilla, Dr Robert Schneider.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 18:00-19:00

Darwin Society

Quantum effects in biology and organic materials: photosynthesis, solar cells and nanomachines.

This talk is free and open to all, and will be followed by refreshments. No registration is necessary.

UserDr. Alex Chin, University of Cambridge.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 19:00-20:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sympatric speciation on islands

This is a Sporne seminar. Venue = Sainsbury Lab

UserVincent Savolainen (Imperial College, London).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Innovation Forum

Innovation Leaders Conference

UserInnovation Forum Cambridge.

HouseGillespie Centre, Claire College, Cambridge, UK.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 08:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

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

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulation of early receptor kinase-mediated innate immune signalling

Graduate-invited lecture

UserCyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Making similar embryos with divergent genomes

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

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

UserProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A brief history of fungi on plants

UserAli Ashby, Cambridge University Dept. of Plant Sciences.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

No Going Back: The Scientific and Political Ethics of Ecological Novelty

Paul Robbins is an International Visiting Fellow in Geography.

UserProfessor Paul Robbins, International Fellow, from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Global Food Futures

Hasn’t the time come for some brave new thinking on food management?

Please visit https://newthinkingonfoodmanagement.eventbrite.co.uk to register.

UserDr Andrew MacMillan, former Director of Field Operations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms (Room 4), University of Cambridge, 1 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB21.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 17:30-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Mechanisms of centriole assembly

UserPierre Gönczy, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cassandra's Climate

UserMichael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 13:10-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Ralf Dechend, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and the Charité Medical Faculty, Berlin.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cracking the code of crocodile skin

UserMichel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

A View from Nine Wells

UserSteve Boreham, Cambridge University Dept. of Geography.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

At Home in a Diaspora City: Urban Domesticities and Domestic Urbanism

Co-hosted with the University's ESRC Doctoral Training Centre

UserProfessor Alison Blunt, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How biotrophic fungi manipulate their hosts: new functions of effectors

UserRegina Kahmann (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Commercialisation Seminar Series

Commercialising your research via consultancy

Lunch will be provided. Please reply to tm487@cam.ac.uk to express your interest in attending so that we can estimate the numbers required for lunch by 15 Jan 2014.

UserCambridge Enterprise and Engineering Department.

HouseOatley Meeting Room, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 12:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Remodeling the prepartum cervix: do macrophages open the gate for parturition?

UserProfessor Steve Yellon Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor Centre for Reproductive Health University of Edinburgh, Professor of Physiology and Associate Director Center for Perinatal Biology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine .

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Stem cell dynamics during development, homeostasis and cancer

UserCédric Blanpain, WELBIO, Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRIBHM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2014, 11:00-12:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Making a fetus grow and the consequences of getting it wrong

UserDr Jacqueline Wallace Rowett Institute of Health and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen .

HouseATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant - microbe interactions: when evolution joins the party

UserPierre-Marc Delaux, University of Wisconsin, Madison; USA.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 03 December 2013, 11:00-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly

UserScott Waddell, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2013, 11:00-12:00

euroscicon

Applications for Synthetic Biology in Industrial Biotechnology

UserProfessor Robert Edwards , Chief Scientist, The Food and Environment Research Agency.

HouseCineworld: The O2, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 0DX.

ClockFriday 29 November 2013, 09:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Unravelling Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics in Central Asia Using Palaeoecology

UserProfessor Anson W. Mackay, Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Fat fish are a forest product

UserDr Andrew Tanentzap (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Benthic foraminiferal assemblages as proxies of paleoceanographic changes across Pleistocene glacial terminations in the NE Atlantic

CHANGE OF DATE: now on Wednesday Nov. 27th

UserDr. Patrick Grunert (U. of Graz, Austria).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Minimum Seeking for Unstable Unmodeled Systems

UserProfessor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Glaciers: from the Kilimanjaro ice fields to the IPCC

Please note the change in venue to the Main Lecture Theatre.

UserGeorg Kaser, Professor for Climate and Cryospheric Research, University of Innsbruck, Austria. IPCC Working Group 1 Lead Author in Assessment Report 4 and Assessment Report 5.

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

ClockFriday 22 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings

UserPaul Brakefield, Director of Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

UserGáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 14:30-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will start at 2.30pm and is held in LR4

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, University of Oxford.

HouseEngineering Department - **LR4**.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Recent advancements in global biodiversity scenarios

UserPiero Visconti (Microsoft Computational Ecology and Environmental Science).

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

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams and their management

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Drivers and biodiversity consequences of landscape-scale deforestation in the western Brazilian Amazon

UserJose Ochoa Quintero, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockFriday 08 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollution and wildlife – practical problems for nature conservation in England

UserAlastair Burn, Principal Specialist in environmental impacts for Natural England.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

UserProf. Eric Wolff (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Strategies of microorganisms to conquer plant tissues

UserSebastian Schornack (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

On time delivery - the challenge of intracellular transport logistics

UserAnja Geitmann, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montreal.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Plant Immune System and Root Microbiome

UserProf. Jeff L. Dangl.John N. Couch Professor.HHMI and Dept. of Biology.Carolina Center for Genome Sciences.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Open Microscope

UserChris McNicol, David Purdie, James Ritchie, Thomas Roddick and Marco Selvi.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 01 November 2013, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Addressing the wheat yield plateau

CPPS seminar to be held at 4pm, with tea-room networking afterwards.

UserTina Barsby (National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The paleoceanography frontier: proxies, new technologies and novel questions

Note unusual time

UserProf. Howard J. Spero (University of California).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 16:00-18:00

The Postdocs of Cambridge (PdOC) Society

Sustainable Energy - from academia to Whitehall

UserProf David MacKay ( Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change).

HouseAuditorium, Robinson College.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Light and hormonal control of plant development: Application of the knowledge gained in Arabidopsis to crops.

UserSalomé Prat Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hardwick Wood, past and present

UserVince Lea, voluntary warden for Hardwick Wood.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Taking a closer look at the last glacial sediments

Canceled

UserDr. Maryline Vautravers (Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The genotype-phenotype map in Arabidopsis

This event will be held in the Sainsbury Laboratory

UserMagnus Nordborg (The Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Saving Asia's vultures

UserKevin Hand, wildlife tour leader for ACE Cultural Tours.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: what have we learned, and where do we go next?

UserProf Mat Collins, Prof Gabi Hegerl, Prof Ted Shepherd, Prof David Vaughan.

HouseMcGrath Centre, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 14:00-18:00

Global Food Futures

Launch of the Global Food Futures Year

UserDr Camilla Toulmin, Director of the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge, Bateman Street.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2013, 18:00-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife

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

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Genetic control of vascular development in plants

UserProf Ykä Helariutta, Research Director, University of Helsinki .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 12 September 2013, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserEric Mijolsness, University of California Irvine.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 30 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Material properties and higher-order structure of the cell nucleus define new stem cell phenotypes

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserKevin Chalut, university of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 30 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The mechanics of growth in walled cell

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserKC Huang, Stanford University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 30 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Multiscale Cell Based Modelling of Tissues

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop.

UserJames Osborne, University of Oxford .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modelling multicellular mechanics in root growth

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserOliver Jensen, University of Manchester.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modeling the mechanics of cellular expansion

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop.

UserRosemary Dyson, University of Birmingham.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserJan Trass, ENS-Lyon/Christophe Godin INRIA.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Why are they fractal? The interplay between geometry and physics in the development of plant form

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserPrzemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, University of Calgary.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The groovy side of biomechanics

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserOlivier Hamant, ENS-Lyon.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Biomechanical analysis of stalk failure in maize

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserDouglas Cook, NYU Abu Dhabi.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 27 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modeling plant cells in 3D

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserRichard Smith, Max Planck Institute Cologne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 27 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The mechanical identity of stem cells in Arabidopsis

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserArezki Boudaoud, ENS-Lyon.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 27 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cytokinin signaling in shoot and root of Arabidopsis thaliana

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserChristian Fleck, Wageningen UR.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 26 August 2013, 15:30-16:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Vleaf plataform for modelling the molecular and mechanistic basis of organ growth regulation

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserGerrit Beemster, University of Antwerp.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 26 August 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The rewardsand pitfalls of computational modelling

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserGraeme Mitchison, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 23 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adding a dimension to embryogenesis: the role of auxin in cell division

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserPierre Barbier de Reuille, University of Bern.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 23 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Auxin signalling and transport in leaf venation

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserEnrico Scarpella University of Alberta.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 23 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant reprogramming using DNA binding domains with custom sequence specificity

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserSebastian Schornack (University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 22 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Programming languages for synthetic biological systems

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserAndrew Phillips, Microsoft Research .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 22 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modeling stem cell population dynamics in the C. elegans germline

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserHillel Kugler, Microsoft Research.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 22 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

An update model of the Arabidopsis circadian clock

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserCarl Troein, Lund University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Using large dataset analysis to reveal temperature and light dependent changes in clock network topology

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserAnthony Hall, University of Liverpool .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Reduced models of circadian clock networks

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserOzgur Akman, University of Exeter.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment: computational mdeling on the stochastic nature of cell fate decisions

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserJose Teles, University College London.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 20 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Compressible components reveal network architectures

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserSebastian Ahnert (University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 20 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Specificity and cross-talk in the cytokinin perception network

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserVijay Chickarmane, California Institute of Technology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 20 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserDavid Rand, University of Warkick.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 19 August 2013, 14:00-14:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding plant development - a computational morphodynamics approach

UserHenrik Jönsson, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics Lund University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 01 August 2013, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

OPDA perception and signalling - a novel plant regulatory network

UserDr Andrea Chini, Department of Plant Molecular Genetics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 17 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Structural variability in plant genomes. The case of Cucurbits.

UserProfessor Pere Puigdomènech. Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics. CSIC-IRTA-UAB_UB. Barcelona. Spain.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 10 July 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Bioimaging across scale: from cells to embryos

UserDr. Lars Hufnagel, European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The SnRK1 signaling pathway – connecting environmental stress and plant growth

UserDr Elena Baena González, Plant Stress Signaling, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Tipping Points in Social, Economic and Biological Systems

UserDr Philip Garnett, Tipping Points Project, Department of Anthropology, Durham University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Intracellular Protein Transport in Plants

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Michael Sauer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 16:30-17:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Unravelling the calcium machinery responsible for the nucleoplasmic calcium oscillation in legume symbioses

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Myriam Charpentier, John Innes Centre.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 15:50-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Morphogenetic mechanisms underlying germinal and somatic fate acquisition in maize anthers

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserTim Kelliher, Stanford University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 14:50-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Endodermal cell responses and size control regulate lateral root formation

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Joop Vermeer, University of Lausanne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 14:10-14:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Stochasticity and regulation in plant tissue growth

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Karen Alim, Harvard University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 13:30-14:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mechanical regulation of morphogenesis at the shoot apex

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Naomi Nakayama, ENS, Lyon.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 11:50-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Applying system metabolism to improve synthetic metabolism

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Arren Bar-Even, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 11:10-11:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Rewiring cell fate decisions to uncover MAPK specificity in the stomatal lineage

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Diego Wengier, Stanford University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 10:10-10:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Lucy Colwell, Harvard University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 09:30-10:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Shifting protein-protein interactions in the evolution of the grasses: when, how, and why?

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Madelaine Bartlett, Brigham Young University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 16:50-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Genome-wide association study of drought tolerance in A.thaliana

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Artur Korte, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 16:10-16:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The blossoms and the roots of developmental evolution in genotype-phenotype maps

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Ulises Rosas, New York University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 15:30-16:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adaptation and its genetic basis in plants

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Marco Todesco, University of British Columbia.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 14:30-15:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Uncovering the genomic landscape of speciation through population-level resequencing of two Aquilegia species

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Daniele Filiault, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 13:50-14:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The “Endless Forms”: Genetics, Development, and Evolution of Flower Colour and Shape

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Yaowu Yuan, University of Connecticut.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 13:10-13:50

Plant Sciences Talks

Evolution and function of DNA methylation in the context of chromatin

UserProf Daniel Zilberman (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Life on the edge: transcription factors that regulate organ boundaries in Arabidopsis

UserPatricia Springer, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance

Note unusual time

UserProf Jerzy Paszkowski, Laboratory of Plant Genetics, University of Geneva.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 16 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The plant circadian clock in the lab and the field

UserDr Seth Davis, Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 10 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)

Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserTim Sparks.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

All Welcome! Models and modelling approaches for pregnancy research

UserProfessor Michael Taggart, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University.

HouseHodgkin/Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Microbial pathogen effectors modulate plant development and plant-insect interactions

UserDr Saskia A. Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Beyond symmetry and asymmetry: Complexity and the stability of ecological networks

UserDr Anje-Margriet Neutel, Biosphere Complexity Analyst, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 27 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium

Note: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Spatial and temporal regulation of the DNA damage response

UserJiri Lukas, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 19 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Lent Symposium: Time scales in Climate Science.

UserProf. David Beerling, Dr. Pierre Dutrieux, Dr. Dan Lunt.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockFriday 15 March 2013, 14:20-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plastic Fantastic

UserSinead Collins, Edinburgh University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

ALL WELCOME! The placental renin-angiotensis system: an old system with a new look

UserProfessor Broughton Pipkin, Emeritus Professor of Perinatal Physiology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, City Hospital, Nottingham.

HouseAddenbrooke’s Seminar Room 8 (in the Clinical School).

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Mechanisms of Wnt signal transduction

UserChristof Niehrs, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, Germany.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

What can plants tell us about the evolution of sex chromosomes?

Note Venue

UserDeborah Charlesworth, Edinburgh University.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Controlling gene expression fluctuations during development

UserAlexander van Oudenaarden, Hubrecht Institute-KNAW & University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Mobile silencing RNAs

UserAttila Molnar, Gene Silencing.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 13:00-13:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Testing the Bytham river hypothesis

UserProf. Philip Gibbard (Dept. of Geography, U. of Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

UserSteffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Plant Sciences Talks

Modeling adaptive response of starch metabolism to various photoperiods

change of venue

UserAkiko Sakate, Hokkaido University.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Linkages between plants, soil microbes, and the carbon cycle

CPPS seminar

UserRichard Bardgett, Lancaster Environment Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Diseases of ash and other trees round the world

Note: This talk will be held in room MEL001 in the Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserOliver Rackham.

HouseMellish Clark Building (MEL 001), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Metabolomics- an update

UserAlisdair Fernie, Max-Planck-Institute, Golm.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Immune regulation of vertebrate regeneration

UserNadia Rosenthal, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London; Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University; EMBL Australia.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Big Trees for Big Problems

UserSam Brockington, Molecular Development.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Turning over phytate: enzymic and structural perspectives

Note Venue

UserCharles Brearley, UEA.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modern human adaptations to Pleistocene rainforest: the archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo

UserProf. Graeme Barker (McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, U. of Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The geometric basis of morphogenesis

UserPrzemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The release of d14 C and d18 O-depleted water from the Arctic Ocean upon glacial termination

UserDr. David Thornalley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 10 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

All-atom Monte Carlo approach to protein dynamics and interactions

UserSteffan Wallin, Assistant Professor Computational Biology and Biological Physics, Lund University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockThursday 13 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A novel regulator of shoot stem cell proliferation in Arabidopsis

UserDr Christoph Schuster, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockThursday 13 December 2012, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Regulation of cellulose synthesis - the cytoskeleton, trafficking and beyond

UserDr Staffan Persson, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Sixteenth Epigenetic Club Seminar

UserProf. Amanda Fisher; Dr Jonathan Mill.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 04 December 2012, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New estimates of tropical ice age temperature

UserDr Anna-Lena Grauel (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 30 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

UserSiegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Global Food Security

Feeding Seven Billion - Biotechnology, Intellectual Property and Twenty First Century Crops

Note venue and time

UserChair: Professor Christopher Gilligan, University of Cambridge; Speakers: Dr Derek Byerlee, Professor Ian Crute and Professor Jack Kloppenburg.

HouseKings Place, London.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chemical and Physical Signals Interact to Create Pattern in Plant Development

NOTE VENUE CHANGE

UserElliot Meyerowitz, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge University.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Characterising receptor complexes and endosomal proteomes during plant defence responses

UserDr Alex Jones,The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The LKB1-AMPK signalling pathway and the regulation of breathing by hypoxia: metabolic control at the whole body level?

UserProfessor A. Mark Evans, Centre for Integrative Physiology, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Giving wildlife an edge on the Middle Level waterways

UserCliff Carson, Environment Officer, Middle Level Commissioners.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

A comedy of the commons: Toward sustainable use of the Louisiana public oyster grounds

UserThomas M. Soniat, Department of Biological Sciences and Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans.

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

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Integrated Circuits in Plants

UserProf Ben J.G. Scheres, Plant Systems Biology Group, Wageningen University & Research Centre.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Recent advances in gestational trophoblastic disease

UserProf. Neil Sebire, Professor of Paediatric and Developmental Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital / Institute of Child Health.

HouseAddenbrooke's Seminar Room 7 (Clinical School).

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

UserKristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Lipoproteins and signaling lipids in the Hedgehog pathway

UserSuzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

C4 Rice: Pathways and prospects

UserSarah Covshoff, Molecular Physiology.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 02 November 2012, 13:00-13:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetic reprogramming during sexual reproduction in plants

UserFred Berger, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sequencing/genotyping the wheat genome

Note Venue

UserKeith Edwards, Bristol University.

HouseSainsbury Laboratory.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What is a fungal foray?

Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).

UserHélène Davies.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Challenges

UserProf. Rowan Suttion, University of Reading. Prof. Seymour Laxon, University College London. Dr Phillip Goodwin, University of Cambridge. Prof. David Fowler, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology..

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 14:00-17:30

British Antarctic Survey

Phase-synchronization of tropical variability in global climate model simulations of the recent past

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserScott Osprey (University of Oxford).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Chromosome aneuploidy in the human preimplantation embryo

UserPROFESSOR ALAN HANDYSIDE The London Bridge Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics Centre.

HouseATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Connecting sugar-sensing with Arabidopsis meristem activation

Tea and coffee will be served proceeding the seminar, starting at 15:30

UserProfessor Xuelin Wu, University of Southern California, LA.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Why changes in snow fall matter when interpreting temperature from polar ice cores

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Louise Sime, British Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Covert communication in insects

UserRichard Benton, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Parasite-induced swarming behaviour in Artemia spp.

UserNicolas Rode, Center for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology, Montpellier, France.

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

ClockThursday 04 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic and Arctic temperature trends

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserChristian Franzke (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserRay Goldstein, DAMTP, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 31 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJim Haseloff, Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 31 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserAlistair Middleton, Heidelberg.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 30 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserEric Mjolsness, UCI.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 30 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserRichard Smith, Bern.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 29 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserChristophe Godin, INRIA and Jan Traas, ENS-Lyon.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 29 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserOlivier Hamant, ENS-Lyon.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 28 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserPetros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 28 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJames Locke, SLCU, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockMonday 27 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserPhil Wigge, SLCU, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockMonday 27 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserPrzemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 24 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserEnrico Scarpella, U Alberta.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 24 August 2012, 09:00-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserMalcolm Bennett, Nottingham.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 23 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserRichard Morris, JIC.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 22 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJulio Saez-Rodriguez, EBI.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 22 August 2012, 09:00-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserVijay Chickarmane, Caltech.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 21 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 21 August 2012, 09:00-10:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Bioenergy Meeting

UserPaolo Bombelli (Biochemistry); Jerome Vaughan (Aragreen Ltd).

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 27 July 2012, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Towards a quantitative mechanical model of plant cells and tissues

UserRichard Smith, University of Bern Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 26 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Functions for some evolutionarily conserved transcription regulators in rice inflorescence and flower development

UserDr. Usha Vijayraghavan, Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockThursday 12 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Fourteenth Epigenetic Club Seminar

UserProf Wendy Bickmore (MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh); Dr Asifa Akhtar (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 July 2012, 18:00-19:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Leaf-like materials capable of SOLAR energy conversion by photosynthesis

UserBao-Lian Su, The University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 29 June 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Thirteenth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Richard Carthew (Northwestern University, USA); Prof. Olivier Voinnet (ETH Zurich, Switzerland).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 18:00-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The impact of heritable DNA methylation

UserSandra Cortijo, Université Paris Sud 11, V. Colot lab.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockMonday 18 June 2012, 14:30-15:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The role of temperature and HOS1 in seed dormancy control

UserSarah Kendall, University of Exeter, Penfield lab.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 14:30-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci

note unusual location

UserMatthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Scratching the surface: Evolutionary developmental genetics of the land plant cuticle

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Sam Brockington, University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 14:50-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The footprint of mating system shift and colonization on the genome of a young species

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Daniel Koenig, Max Planck Institute.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 14:10-14:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adaptation to the environment in Arabidopsis thaliana

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Angela Hancock, University of Vienna.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 13:30-14:10

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Understanding climate model biases in Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude variability.

NOTE - unusual time and venue

UserDr Isla Simpson, Department of Physics, University of Toronto.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Quantifying leaf morphology: perspectives on development, environmental regulation, and natural variation in leaf shape and size

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please seehttp://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Daniel Chitwood, University of California, Davis.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 12:00-12:40

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Hormonal networks in plant development: Fundamentally simple?

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Tom Bennett, University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 11:20-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Smoke and mirrors: The curious connection between post-fire germination and shoot branching regulation

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr David Nelson, University of Georgia.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 10:20-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A novel carotenoid-derived molecule functions in periodic root branching

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Jaimie van Norman, Duke University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 09:40-10:20

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Can we make Arabidopsis into Striga?

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Yuichiro Tsuchiya, University of Toronto.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 09:00-09:40

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Positional information by differential endocytosis splits auxin response to drive Arabidopsis root meristem growth

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Emanuele Scacchi, University of Lausanne.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 16:30-17:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant pathogen effectors as probes to elucidate plant processes

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Sebastian Schorack, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 15:50-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

DNA methylation dynamics during sexual reproduction in Arabidopsis thaliana

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Pauline Jullien, ETH Zürich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 14:50-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Finding love: Intercellular communication during plant reproduction

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Sharon Kessler, University of Zurich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 14:10-14:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

How cell walls mechanically control growth

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Siobhan Braybrook, University of Bern.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 13:30-14:10

Plant Sciences Talks

Plant power at the Botanic Garden

UserPlant scientists, biochemists, horticulturists and representatives from the plant science industries.

HouseCambridge Botanic Garden.

ClockSaturday 19 May 2012, 10:30-16:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Carbon isotopes and glacial-interglacial CO2: the curious case of Marine Isotope Stage 12

UserDr Natalia Vazquez-Riveiros (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Arabidopsis immune system and root microbiome

UserProfessor Jeff Dangl, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 12:15-13:15

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Easter Term Young Scientist Afternoon

UserYama Dixit, Emilie Capron, Zadie Stock, Jo Johnson, Steve Fuller, Scott Hosking.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 14:20-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A bipolar seesaw in Atlantic deep-water ventilation: Wally was right

UserDr Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Introduction to Metabolomics

UserDr Matthew Davey, Plant Metabolism Group, Department of Plant Sciences..

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 16:30-17:00

St John's College Larmor Society 2011-12

Global Challenges in Ex Situ Plant Conservation

UserProfessor Hugh Pritchard, Millenium Seed Bank Project, Kew Gardens, and University of Sussex.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 19:00-20:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant pathogen effectors as probes to elucidate plant processes

UserDr Sebastian Schornack, Sainsbury laboratory, John Innes Centre Norwich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Bioenergy Meeting

All welcome: please contact us if attending so we have an idea of numbers

UserDr Calliope Panoutsou; Dr Xiaoyu Yan.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockFriday 27 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Qualitative Analysis of Patterns Induced by Active Transport and Auxin

UserDr Etienne Farcot, CIRAD / UMR AGAP, Virtual Plants, Montpellier.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The genome-wide hunt for pre-eclampsia genes

UserDr Linda Morgan, Division of Clinical Medicine, University of Nottingham.

HouseATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 04 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

British Antarctic Survey

Symposium: “Joining up the atmos-spheres” organised by BAS and CCfCS

UserRichard Horne, Hua Lu, Howard Roscoe, Tom Bracegirdle and John Pyle.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockMonday 02 April 2012, 14:00-17:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Mapping plant diversity across the scales

UserLaurens Geffert, Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn.

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

ClockFriday 30 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Twelth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserProf. Azim Surani (The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge); Prof. Sir David Baulcombe (Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Note earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).

UserKen McNamara.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 March 2012, 19:00-21:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unraveling a Transcriptional Network Involved in Maize Domestication

This is a Kenneth Sporne Lecture

UserJohn Doebley, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

UserDiethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Biodiversity after forty years of human re-colonization in the Amazon forest

UserJose Manuel Ochoa-Qunintero, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Identification and Targeting of Hypoxia Tolerance Mechanisms - from Critters to Cancer

UserProfessor Thomas Gorr, Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

RNA Biology of Plant Embryos

UserDr Michael Nodine, Whitehead Institute, MIT.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Dosage compensation: An intertwined world of RNA and chromatin remodeling

UserAsifa Akhtar, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 11:45-12:45

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Do's and Don'ts in Chemistry-Climate Modelling

UserDr Peter Braesicke, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:15-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular tools for the macroalgae

UserJohn Bothwell, Queen's University Belfast.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Eleventh Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserProf. Robin Allshire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh); Prof. Jerzy Paszkowski (University of Geneva, Switzerland).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Lessons from the High Arctic: new results from late Quaternary studies in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

UserProf. Veli-Pekka Salonen (Dept. of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, and Visiting fellow at Clare Hall).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Predictive models in ecology: case studies of invasive fire ants and fire risks

UserYohay Carmel, Technion Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Israel.

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

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular Pharming gets a green thumbs up

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserJulian Ma, St. George’s, University of London.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Science Symposium II

UserProf Corinne Le Quéré, Prof Peter Cox and others.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 14:00-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Design of Light Perception Networks: Learning from Nature

UserDr Christian Fleck, University of Freiburg.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

UserMandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Dynamics of Dpp signaling and proliferation control

UserMarcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, Depts of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 11:45-12:45

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Post Grad/Post Doc Poster Afternoon

UserAround 25 post-grads and post-docs from CCfCS.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 16:15-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Trophoblast invasion and spiral artery transformation in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia

UserProfessor Fiona Lyall, Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health Institute of Medical Genetics Yorkhill Glasgow.

HouseAddenbrooke's ATC Seminar Room 3.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Hybrid networks in tomato

UserVera Pancaldi, Gene Silencing.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 13:00-13:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserSuzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 11:45-12:45

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Different types of El Niño and impact on Eurasian Climate

UserProf Hans Graf, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Tenth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Edith Heard (Institute Curie, Paris); Prof. Bas van Steensel (The Netherlands Cancer Institute).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 18:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Multiscale dynamics in zebrafish gastrulation

UserNadine Peyrieras, CNRS-NED, Institute of Neurobiology, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2012, 11:45-12:45

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Early embryo environment and implications for health into adulthood'

UserProfessor Tom Fleming, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton.

HouseATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 07 December 2011, 16:30-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

From cell-specific genome expression to specific cell fate determination

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

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 05 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Role of the Tropical Pacific in Millennial-Scale Climate Events

UserDr Aleksey Sadekov (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockFriday 02 December 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Brine Fluxes from Sea Ice

UserProf. Grae Worster, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 16:15-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

UserStefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

A geological perspective on climate change: forcings, feedbacks and tipping points.

UserDr Luke Skinner, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Science.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Irrigation Resurrected in South Thailand

UserJanice Stargardt, Professorial Research Fellow in Asian Historical Archaeology & Geography.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 12:30-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Traces of the Baltic Ice Lake drainage in the northern Baltic Sea and southern Finland

UserOuti Hyttinen (Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, FInland).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockFriday 18 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A botanist on Mull

UserLynne Farrell, Botanical Recorder for Mid-Ebudes.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The Recent Increase of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent

UserProf. John Turner, British Antarctic Survey.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Ice-atmosphere-ocean interactions around Greenland

(Please note unusual location)

UserDr Poul Christoffersen, University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 16:15-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

UserEvelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Guidance mechanisms in collective cell migration

UserPernille Rorth, Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology, Singapore.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evolution of ocean temperature and ice volume from the Mid Pleistocene Climate Transition

UserProfessor Harry Elderfield (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 04 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Clone to Clinic- oilseed based bio-pharmaceutical production

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserMaurice Maloney, IACR Rothamstead.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Science Symposium

(Note unusual time and location)

UserDr Andrew Friend, University of Cambridge, Prof. Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey and Prof. Julia Slingo, Met. Office..

HouseRiley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Memorial Court (off Queens Road), Clare College..

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 15:00-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

'Genome wide analysis of placental DNA and RNA in first trimester maternal plasma by massively parallel sequencing: current and future possibilities'

UserDr Cees Oudejans, Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

UserGregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New insights on old questions concerning Quaternary northern hemisphere glaciation

UserDr Ian Bailey (School of Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

(note unusual location)

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Festival of Ideas

Is the future of food GM?

Ages 14+ Pre book tel: 01223 766766 or visit: www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas

UserProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Regius Professor of Botany; David Nally, Department of Geography; Jack Stilgoe, University of Exeter.

HouseFaculty of Law, Sidgwick Site.

ClockSaturday 22 October 2011, 15:30-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Similarity measures, similarity searches, and network inferences on genome-wide datasets

UserDr Arcady Mushegian, Director of Bioinformatics Center, Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The genetics of cell competition and synthetic species

UserEduardo Moreno, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution of gene content in cellular organisms, viruses and in the Last Universal Common Ancestor

UserDr Arcady Mushegian, Director of Bioinformatics Center, Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Stochastic signal encoding strategies in cells

UserJames Locke, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Haploid Arabidopsis thaliana: power tools for plant genetics

UserProf Simon Chan (University of California, Davis).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Ninth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Gavin Kelsey (Babraham Institute, Cambridge); Dr Fred Berger, National University of Singapore).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockFriday 07 October 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Change -- A summary of latest IPCC results

UserProf John Pyle, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Chemistry.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 16:15-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Imaging in Preeclampsia

UserProfessor Basky Thilaganathan, Director, Fetal Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

HouseATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Real-time PCR Training Course

Registration required - email: Rowan.Gibson@lifetech.com

UserChris Maddren - LifeTech Field Application Scientist.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2011, 09:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Reproductive organ development in the mouse

UserRichard Behringer, Dept of Genetics, University of Texas, USA.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 04 October 2011, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Building a wall: Genetics of exine formation in Arabidopsis pollen

UserDr Anna Dobrista, University of Chicago, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 03 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Colony defense by post-reproductive adults and young nymphs in a social aphid

UserKeigo Uematsu. Department of General Systems Studies, University of Tokyo..

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

ClockFriday 30 September 2011, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

PINs and Knots: Auxin-transport mediated patterning in the grasses

UserDevin O’Connor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Developmental origins of obesity

UserProfessor Lucilla Poston, Director - Maternal and Fetal Research Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, King’s College London.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 September 2011, 16:30-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

3D and 4D Image Visualization & Analysis - Workshop with IMARIS

Contact Dr. Delisa Gracia (delisa.garcia@bitplane.com ) to book a place.

UserDr Delisa Gracia, Bitplane.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 August 2011, 10:00-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Chemical and Genetic Dissection of ABA Signaling

UserDr Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockFriday 19 August 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Imaging Structure and Function in Biological Systems

UserDr James A.J. Fitzpatrick, Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 August 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Specification of New Cell Populations in Arabidopsis Root

UserDr Miguel Moreno-Risueno - Duke University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 15 August 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Eigth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Jeannie Lee (Massachussetts General Hospital, USA); Dr Thomas Jenuwein (Max Plank Institute of Immunology and Epigenetics, Germany).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 19 July 2011, 18:00-19:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

The convoluted evolution of behavior: insights from bird eggs and songs

UserDavid C. Lahti, Department of Biology, Queens College, The City University of New York (CUNY).

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

ClockFriday 15 July 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Seventh Epigenetics Club Seminar

User Prof. Rob Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory); Prof. Tony Kouzarides (The Gurdon Institute).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2011, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A special set of QDG talks

UserDr Axel TImmermann (SOEST, University of Hawai'i, USA); Dr Jess Adkins (CALTECH, USA).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Is Heparin a placental anticoagulant?

UserProfessor John Kingdom, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

TEPUI: Biological islands lost in space and time. From origins to conservation

UserFabian Michelangeli, Simon Bolivar Professor, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge 2010-11.

HouseHardy Building 101, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 12:30-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Maternal signalling to the villous placenta

UserProfessor John Aplin, Maternal and Fetal Health Research Group, the University of Manchester.

HouseATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Mechanisms of genetic recombination in RNA viruses: the model case of brome mosaic bromovirus

UserProf. Jozef J. Bujarski, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Future of Plant Science

UserHeads of 5 Plant Research Institutes in East Anglia.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 14:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant Organs Regeneration: Measuring Self-Organisation

UserDr Giovanni Sena, New York University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 18 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Sixth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserWilliam Kelly (Emory University, USA); Alexei Aravin (California Institute of Technology, USA).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 April 2011, 18:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Aurora B kinase regulates chromosome architecture and chromosome segregation

UserYoshinori Watanabe, Laboratory of Chromosome Dynamics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 08 April 2011, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Polyploidy and epigenetics

UserProf. Jeffrey Chen, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic variation across generations: mechanisms and consequences of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

UserProf. Vincent Colot, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire des Organismes Photosynthétiques, ENS, France.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Shaping the plant endomembrane system

UserProf. Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Evolution of Placental Function?

UserProfessor Anthony Carter, Faculty of Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark.

HouseATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 17:00-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Modeling malignant growth in Drosophila

UserCayetano Gonzalez, Cell Division Laboratory, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 11:30-12:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Modelling the distribution of Freshwater Invasive Species across Europe

UserDr Belinda Gallardo, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge..

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

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Why study early land plants?

UserProf. Dianne Edwards, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Cardiff.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The timing of cell divisions underlies developmental patterning in Arabidopsis

UserDr Adrienne Roeder, California Institute of Technology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Is there a limit to tomato yield?

Cambridge Partnership in Plant Sciences Seminar

UserProf. Daniel Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Reprogramming the code of life

UserJason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 11:45-12:45

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Nuclear Renaissance

UserDr. William Nuttall, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Mechanisms of spiral artery remodelling

UserProfessor Guy Whitley, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, St George’s University of London.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Moving stem cell discoveries into translation

UserAlan Trounson, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, San Francisco, USA.

HouseGurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 10:00-10:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Environmental physiology

Blackman Lecture

UserProf. Bill Davies, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Thermosensory mechanisms in plants

UserDr Phillip Wigge, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Fifth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDuncan Odom (Cancer Research UK); Jeffrey Chen (University of Texas at Austin).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 18 January 2011, 18:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Special Lecture - note unusual day/time

UserMarc Kirschner, Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 08 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserSpeakers: Professor Jim Barber (Imperial), Professor John Gray, Professor Neil Greenham, Professor Gehan Amaratunga, Professor Chris Howe, Dr Adrian Fisher, Dr Richard Douthwaite (York). Organisers: Professor Alison Smith and Professor Archie Howie.

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

ClockTuesday 07 December 2010, 09:00-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular control of flowering-time and vernalization

UserProf. Caroline Dean, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

From Stromatolites to Pre-eclampsia

UserProfessor Eric Jauniaux, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College London.

HouseATC Seminar rooms 6A&B, Addenbrooke’s (refreshments 4.30pm, talk at 5.00pm).

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Fourth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDavid Allis (Rockefeller Univ.); Barbara Meyer (Univ. California).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 18:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

TBA

UserYohanns Bellaiche (Institut Curie, Paris, France).

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development

This is a Cambridge Partnership in Plant Sciences Seminar

UserDr Lars Ostergaard, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

To be connected or not? Floodplain restoration and aquatic diversity

UserDr Amael Paillex, Aquatic Ecology and Biology Lab, University of Geneva.

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

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Structure and function of photosystem-I

UserProf. John Golbeck, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, USA.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant membrane transport

UserProf. Dale Sanders, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Human disease in a dish: modelling premature aging and neurological disorders using induced pluripotent stem cells

UserAlan Colman (Stem Cell Research, King’s College London, UK, Singapore Stem Cell Consortium and A*Star Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore).

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The Perennial Plant Clock: Implications for Growth and Winter Survival

UserMaria Eriksson, Department of Plant physiology - Umea University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 05 November 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Design principles in energy and carbon metabolism

UserDr Ron Milo, Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Placental Physiology: Coming of Age

UserProfessor Colin Sibley, Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Natural Resource Management - An Ecologist's Perspective

UserDr. Martyn Murray, MGM Environmental Solutions / University of Edinburgh.

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

ClockFriday 29 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

There's no Business Like Flow Business

UserRachael Walker, Stem Cell research department Flow cytometry specialist.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 29 October 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From plant-pathogen interactions to plant-microbe communities

UserProf. Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Phylogenomic analysis of tobacco; identifying the genes selected during domestication

UserKieron Edwards, Applied Molecular Breeding manager of Advance Technologies.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 13:00-13:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Setting meaningful restoration goals for a globally imperiled habitat

UserPhiline zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: UK Long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental

UserProf. Kathy Willis, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Using switchable genetically engineered mice to model cancer therapies

UserGerard Evan (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK).

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Third Epigenetics club seminar

UserProf. Anne Ferguson-Smith (PDN) and Dr Peter Fraser (Babraham Inst.).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockMonday 18 October 2010, 18:00-19:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

UK Molecular plant-microbe-insect interactions

UserDr Saskia Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Placental microparticles and exosomes: their role in pre-eclampsia

UserProfessor Ian Sargent, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford.

HouseATC Seminar rooms 6A&B, Addenbrooke’s (refreshments 4.30pm, talk at 5.00pm).

ClockWednesday 06 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Cities and the ethic of care among strangers

UserProfessor Ash Amin, Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University.

HouseDepartment of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 21 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Understanding meiotic progression in plants

UserMohan Prem Anand Marimuthu, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 09 August 2010, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Second Epigenetics club seminar

UserProf Julian Sale and Prof Amanda Fisher, MRC.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 13 July 2010, 18:00-19:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Dual-function microRNA genes in plants

UserDr Hailing Jin, University of California at Riverside.

HouseTom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockMonday 05 July 2010, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The History of Quaternary Research at Cambridge University

UserRichard West (Professor emeritus, Cambridge University, Clare College).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 11 June 2010, 17:00-18:30

Plant Sciences Talks

Epigenetics and nuclear organization

UserProfessor Eric Richards, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockWednesday 09 June 2010, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

The inaugural meeting of the Cambridge Epigenetics Club

UserProf. Caroline Dean (John Innes Institute, Norwich) & Prof. Adrian Bird (University of Edinburgh).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2010, 18:00-19:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Placental metabolism in early and late onset pre-eclampsia

Refreshments at 16.30, presentation commences at 17.00

UserMatts Olovsson, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden.

HouseSeminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge..

ClockMonday 24 May 2010, 16:30-18:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Functional role of uterine NK cells in early pregnancy

UserDr Judith Bulmer, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University.

HouseATC Seminar rooms 6A&B, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 16:00-17:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Remodeling the nucleus through development

UserSusan Gasser (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland).

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The role of cyclic decidualization of human endometrium in determining pregnancy outcome

UserProfessor Jan Brosens, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 April 2010, 16:00-17:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Cell cycle machinery in mouse development and in cancer

UserPeter Sicinski (Harvard Medical School Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Boston, USA).

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 23 March 2010, 11:30-12:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The regulation of protein synthesis in health and disease

UserProfessor Chris Proud, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton.

HouseATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 16:00-17:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

TBA

UserAndrew Lumsden (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology King's College London UK).

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2010, 11:30-12:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.

UserSebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat

This is a CPPS Seminar

UserGraham Moore, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cellular redox homeostasis and regulation in the cell proliferation in relation to stress tolerance

UserChristine H. Foyer, Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Leeds.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

UserBarry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Mitotic entry following a DNA damage-induced arrest

UserRene Medema (Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, UMC Utrecht The Netherlands).

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 11:30-12:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Why (and how) did the amino acid cross the placenta?

UserDr Rohan Lewis, Institute of Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Arabidopsis natural variation: QTL, genes and 'omics'

UserMaarten Koorneef, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne..

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Global Models of Mammal Distribution

UserDr Carlo Rondinini, Sapienza University of Rome.

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

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Feedback control of mitosis

UserAndrea Musacchio (Department of Experimental Oncology, IFOM-IEO Milan, Italy).

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 11:30-12:30

What's on in Plant Sciences

Calcium compartmentation in leaves, WHERE, HOW, AND WHY?

UserDr Matthew Gilliham, University of Adelaide.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Closing for Christmas until 4th January

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences.

ClockThursday 24 December 2009, 09:00-10:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Plant Sciences Christmas Lunch

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCrowne Plaza Hotel.

ClockThursday 17 December 2009, 12:30-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

UserDavid Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

UserDorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Eric Jauniaux, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College London.

HouseATC Seminar rooms A&B, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 16:30-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Systems analysis of lateral root development: an emerging story…

UserMalcolm Bennet, Center for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Baulcombe Beer Hour

UserA Beer.

HousePlant Sciences Tea Room.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 17:30-19:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Signalling pathways that establish symbiotic interactions in plants

UserGiles Oldroyd, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Friday 13th Beer Hour

UserHosted by lab M2.

HousePlant Sciences Tea Room.

ClockFriday 13 November 2009, 17:30-19:30

FEAR HOUR - The Hallowe'en themed beer hour!

Everybody is welcome, costumes are encouraged - there may even be an award for the most creative/humorous/scary costume on the night!

UserAfter the Poster session on Friday, the Part IIs will be transforming the tea room into the tea tomb ready for....

HousePlant Sciences Tea Room.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 17:30-19:30

What's on in Plant Sciences

FEAR HOUR - The Hallowe'en themed beer hour!

Get ready to eat, drink and be scary!

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HousePlant Sciences Tea Room.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 17:30-19:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Getting under the skin: How do plants generate and maintain an effective epidermis?

UserGwyneth Ingram, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cambridge iGEM 2009

NOTE: This talk is on a Thursday

UserJim Ajioka, James Brown, Tom Ellis, Jim Haseloff, Gos Micklem, Duncan Rowe Cambridge iGEM Advisors.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

What domestication missed: exploiting wild emmer to improve wheat

This is a CPPS seminar (http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/)

UserCristobal Uauy, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

UserArtyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Between a rock and a hard place - resistance evolution and genetic incompatibility in plants.

UserKirsten Bomblies, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

When satellites help predicting animal distribution, movement and performance

UserDr. Nathalie Pettorelli, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London.

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

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Coping with rice disease in a dynamic physical and social environment.

UserDr Bob Zeigler, International Rice Research Institute.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockMonday 21 September 2009, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

“Colour vision in flies”

UserClaude Desplan, Department of Biology, New York University.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Talks

Comparative floral Development

UserDr Angela Hay, Oxford University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2009, 11:30-12:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Host-parasite arms races in bird colour space

UserDr Martin Stevens and Dr Claire Spottiswoode, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 11 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Healthy Country, Healthy People

UserJonathan Kingsley (Visiting Scholar Cambridge/Deakin).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits

UserProfessor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA.

HouseWilliam Harvey.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 16:45-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

UserRahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Parental care in burying beetles

UserSheena Cotter, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Behavioural Ecology Group.

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

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants

UserProfessor George Coupland - MPI for Plant Breeding, Cologne.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

From hops biotechnology to the study of conical cells

UserDr Ruben Alvarez-Fernandez, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 27 February 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Intracellular metabolite transport in C3 and C4 plants

UserProfessor Andreas Weber - University of Düsseldorf.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

UserCarsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Ecology and Conservation of the Lesser Kestrel in Portugal

UserInes Catry, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Conservation Science Group.

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

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Chlorophyll Degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana

UserDr Sylvain Aubry, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 13:00-13:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Evolution of Bird Colour in a Tetrahedral Colour Space

UserCassie Stoddard, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Behavioural Ecology Group.

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

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The European potential to produce Bio-energy: Miscanthus potential for current and future climates

This is a CPPS seminar http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/

UserMr Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The carbon cycle during the Pleistocene

UserPeter Koehler (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany).

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues

UserBen Simons, The Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics Cambridge, UK.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2008, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Physical aspects of evolutionary transitions to multicellularity

UserProfessor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Protected Areas - title TBC

UserIan Craigie, Conservation Science Group.

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

ClockFriday 14 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Getting to the root of developmental networks

This is a Blackman Lecture

UserProfessor Philip Benfey, Duke University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The asymmetric dance of the microtubules at the end of mitosis

UserFrançois Nédélec, Structural & Computational Biology Unit, EMBL.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

So you want to be an environmental consultant?

UserDr Melissa Barrett (Arthur D. Little) and Dr Nick Betson (RPM).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

UserAngela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

New Horizons of the Domestication of Crop Plants

This is a CPPS seminar

UserProfessor Wayne Powell, IBERS Aberystwyth.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

UserGáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Origins and organization of synapse complexity

UserSeth Grant, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

UserJeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Distribution, Function and Regulation of Stromules in Wheat

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserDan Shaw, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 11 July 2008, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cytokinins and Potato Tuber Dormancy

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserJenny Bromley, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 11 July 2008, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Role of sugar in Ca2+ signalling pathways in the Arabidopsis circadian clock

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserLeon Baek, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 04 July 2008, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Phytate mediated basal resistance in plants

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserBettina Otto, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 27 June 2008, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cell division and elongation in Arabidopsis root

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserFernan Federici, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 20 June 2008, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The role of pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase in remobilisation of nitrogen from senescing leaves

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserLucy Taylor, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 20 June 2008, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Characterisation of the GUN1 plastid-to-nucleus signalling pathway in Arabidopsis

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserLinh Tran, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 13 June 2008, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Virus accumulation and movement in non-transgenic and transgenic Nicotiana species

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserWing-Sham Lee, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 06 June 2008, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)

Note changed location and time!!!

UserUrs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A..

HouseAustin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Demographic analyses of New Zealand forests

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserDavid Wright, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 30 May 2008, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Calcium-permeable cation channel formation by plant annexins

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserAnuphon Laohavisit, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 30 May 2008, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Modelling the interactions of circadian clocks with physiology in plants

Part of the Third Year Graduate Seminar Series 2008

UserNeil Dalchau (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 23 May 2008, 13:00-13:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

How can we save the endangered Giant Ibis?

**Please note change in location**

UserOmaliss Keo, Conservation Science Group.

HouseFirst Floor Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 23 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in the tropics

UserCatherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability

Please note location and time!

UserAlexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Are coral reef fishes at risk or resilient to climate change?

**Please Note Change in Day**

UserDr. Morgan Pratchett, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

UserAndreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

UserAdam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

UserJessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserEricka Havecker, Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 11 April 2008, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserFernan Federici and James Brown, Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 04 April 2008, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserRaffaele Lafortezza, Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 28 March 2008, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

To grow or not to grow

UserProfessor Nicholas Harberd, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Respiratory Responses To Temperature By Ectomycorrhizal Fungi

UserDr. Glenna M. Malcolm, Pennsylvania State University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

UserGerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Theories in alien invasions: Resistance vs. Meltdown

UserPhiline zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Induced epigenetic variation and its impact on Arabidopsis phenotype

UserDr Brande B H Wulff, Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas Cuidad Politecnica de la Innovacion Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 10:00-11:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Insect Pest Control: overcoming the problems?

UserProfessor Lin Field, Head of Insect Molecular Biology, Rothamsted Research.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Building plant bodies from hair

UserProfessor Liam Dolan, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

UserJordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Breaking Abbe's barrier: diffraction-unlimited resolution in far-field optical microscopy

UserProfessor Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

The impacts of climate change on Indian Ocean coral reef biodiversity

UserProfessor Charles Sheppard, University of Warwick.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 08 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Mapping European Seabed Habitats

UserSarah Young, Marine Ecologist, Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Improving wheat for processing and nutrition

This CPPS Seminar is followed by drinks in the tea room

UserProfessor Peter Shewry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Free-loading, racketeering and murder: a day in the life of cowbirds

UserProfessor Mike Clinchy, University of Western Ontario.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Functional genomics of salinity tolerance in plants

UserProf Mark Tester, University of Adelaide, Australia.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 17 December 2007, 11:00-12:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Locomotion and adhesion: tarsal attachment control in ants

UserThomas Endlein, Insect Biomechanics Workgroup, Zoology Department.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 13 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

UserAndreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Mathematical Models of Microcolony Formation in Bacteria

UserDr. Leah Johnson, National Centre for Statistical Ecology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 07 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Aquatic Alien Invasions: Teleportation or Transportation?

UserPhiline zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 30 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic asymmetry in plant gametes

UserDr Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, HRI Warwick.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

UserGuillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Birds and People

UserDr Nigel Collar, BirdLife International.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 09 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

UserBenoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

A Bird in the Hand: Stone Curlew Conservation

UserAlison Johnston, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 02 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

UserTom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Economic Epidemiology

UserMartial Ndeffo Mbah, Plant Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 19 October 2007, 13:00-13:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Locomotion in Australian Monitor Lizards: Ecomorphological and Ecophysiological Considerations

UserDr. Chris Clemente, Insect Biomechanics Workgroup, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 19 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Community assembly and phylogenies in tropical forest trees

UserDr Jérôme Chave, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungi and Woodland History

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham.

HouseDavid Building, Anglia-Ruskin University.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Happiness, Global Catastrophe, and the National Assembly for Wales

UserGareth Clubb, Senior Research Officer, National Assembly of Wales.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

UserMarcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

UserAnjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

Please note unusual time!

UserAlistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders

Please note location and time!

UserWim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 26 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra

Please note location and time!

UserAlexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 19 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserLaura Spence, Cons & Com Ecology.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 06 July 2007, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserKazunari Yasuhara, Mol Development.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 June 2007, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserKaushik Saha, Plant Metabolism.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 15 June 2007, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

Please note different location!

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HouseAustin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserDiana Marshall, Mol Physiology.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 08 June 2007, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms

Please note different location!

UserPeter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseAustin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserNadexda Bystriakova, Cons & Com Ecology.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 01 June 2007, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserKatharine Hubbard, Signal Transduction.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 25 May 2007, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene Networks and Natural Selection

UserAndreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Made in the shade: light signals, phytochromes and plant development

Re-scheduled from 8 February 2007

UserProfessor Garry Whitelam, University of Leicester.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserNeil Macpherson, Ion Transport.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 27 April 2007, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserDiane Lister, Photosyn & Mol Evolution.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 20 April 2007, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserChristine Newell, Mol Biology.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 23 March 2007, 13:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

UserAleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Are treelines responding to climate change?

UserProfessor Emeritus Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Embryos and Ancestors

UserPhil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

UserPauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserBeatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Photosyn & Mol Evolution.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 16 February 2007, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

About the importance of molybdenum for life

UserDr Florian Bittner, Technische Universität Braunschweig.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neanderthal Genomics

Please note different location and time!

UserSvante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

HouseSeminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserAntony Dodd, Signal Transduction.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 09 February 2007, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserEllen Nisbet, Photosyn & Mol Evolution.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 02 February 2007, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserThilo Weimar, Cell Walls and Trafficking.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 February 2007, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserKatrine Bych, Plant Biochemistry.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 26 January 2007, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserMike Webb, Plant Metabolism.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 19 January 2007, 13:00-13:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Demarcating Boundaries. Geopolitical, Legal and Ethical Considerations in the Construction of an Israeli-Palestinian Border

UserProfessor David Newman (Dept of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University, Israel and Visiting Leverhulme Professor, University of Bristol 2006-2007).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Hormonal control of shoot branching

UserProfessor Ottoline Leyser, University of York.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Small RNA-directed pathways in plants

UserProfessor Jim Carrington, Oregon State University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Population structure and evolution of virulence in plant viruses

UserProfessor Fernando García-Arenal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Protecting the Environment: Criminal Law and the European Union

UserMrs Nicky Padfield, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 16:15-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Metal cofactor assembly in chloroplasts

UserDr Marinus Pilon, Colorado State University.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The ABC of auxin transport

UserAngus Murphy (Purdue University).

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 September 2006, 13:00-13:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 14 February 2000, 10:01-10:01

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