Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Dynamical systems approaches to climate response and climate tipping

Anna von der Heydt, Utrecht University.

MR2.

Friday 14 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Dispersion of active particles in steady and oscillatory flows

Bohan Wang, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Quantity and Quality: Mechanisms of Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number and Integrity Control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Professor Dr Christof Osman, Biocenter of the LMU, Germany.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neural basis of decision making

Guillaume Hennequin ( University of Cambridge); Robert Crossen.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 13:15-12:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Particle-driven flows in planetary interiors

Quentin Kriaa, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Friday 07 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A Highly Efficient Machine Learning-Based Ozone Parameterization for Climate Sensitivity Simulations

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZjExMGZiMDktODQ1Ni00NzRkLWI5MmYtZjYyYjNhNGIyYmY3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Yiling Ma, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Revealing the artists’ secrets: combining humanities with science

Professor Erma Hermens, Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation; Fitzwilliam Museum.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 03 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mesoscale swimming – dynamics and crowds of living critters

Matilda Backholm, Aalto University.

MR2.

Friday 31 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 30 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

From Data to Models to Understanding: Evaluating Neural Latents and Finding Decision Boundaries in Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)

Kabir Dabholkar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 29 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Boundary layers in high-Rayleigh-number turbulent convection

Jörg Schumacher, Technische Universität Ilmenau.

MR2.

Friday 24 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Honmiao Hu (Postdoc, MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK), Larry Melidis (Postdoc, CRUK, Cambridge, UK).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 16:30-18:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Thalamocortical Interactions for Flexible Cognition

Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 13:15-12:45

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Emerging importance of chemistry-climate coupling on weather to climate timescales

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2VhNTk0OWMtNDc4Mi00YzVjLTkzYTUtNGM3MjU4OTYzMTJl%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Prof Michaela I. Hegglin, Director at the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems of the Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany).

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy

Professor Raj Jena, Clinical Professor, Data Science & Machine Learning in Radiotherapy, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 20 October 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins using neural networks

Nicholas Polizzi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 October 2025, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Some open problems in solid-Earth dynamics associated with the fluid outer core and oceans

David Al-Attar, DES, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Friday 17 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Application of Open Quantum System Concepts to Internal Wave / Planetary Wave Coupling and consequences for Earth System Behaviour

Kurt Polzin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

MR2.

Friday 10 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemistry–climate feedback of atmospheric methane in a methane-emission-flux-driven chemistry–climate model

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZGNkNTEzOTQtNjllNy00ODNjLWFhM2UtZjQyNGFiYTFlZmVi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Dr Laura Stecher, University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 07 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The sex and geometry of inter-organ communication

Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, The Francis Crick Institute.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cells, Tissues & Organs: assembling the Human Cell Atlas

Professor Sarah Teichmann - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 September 2025, 12:30-13:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The role of mitochondrial transcriptional processes in modulating human health and disease

Dr Alan Hodgkinson, King's College London.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 24 September 2025, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Cerebellum Computation

Carl Ashworth; Youjing Yu.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 23 September 2025, 13:15-12:45

Computational Neuroscience

The Fruit Fly Connectome and Beyond

Yijie Yin; Saeyeon Kwon.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 16 September 2025, 13:15-12:45

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Multi-modal modeling in precision medicine: from data imputation to synthetic data​

Dr. Olivier Gevaert​ -​ Associate Professor, Depts of Medicine & Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University​ ​.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Dr. Daniela Palacios (PI, National Research Council, Rome, IT), Dr. Arash Latifkar (Postdoc, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA), TBA.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 July 2025, 17:00-19:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Mathematical Modelling of diffusive filaments: from active colloids to microplastic fibre pollutant release dynamics

Panayiota Katsamba (The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Hydro-chemical interactions of swimming droplets

Sébastien Michelin (LadHyX -- Ecole Polytechnique).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The statistical challenges in tackling persistent climate model uncertainty through model-observation comparisons.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OWJjY2ViNjktOWZjMS00NGJmLWI5MTUtNTYxM2E5MTgyMTQ1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Dr Jill S Johnson; School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Tsveta Kamenova (PhD student, Miska Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK) Dr. Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 17:00-19:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Simulation of Drug Absorption in Airway Surface Liquid

Mohammad Hadi Sedaghat (University of Cyprus).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Metabolic control of myeloid cell function

Professor David Sancho Madrid, Spanish Center for Cardiovascular Research.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Multitasking and compositionality in brain and in neural networks

Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 16 June 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Thermal vortex rings: the vortex dynamics

Dr Jun-Ichi Yano, University of Reading.

MR2.

Friday 13 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Global modelling of ice-nucleating particles and their impact on cirrus clouds and the climate system

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MmUxMWIxYTgtZDM3OS00MTYzLTg1NGQtYzEzNWZhZDRhNDlh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Dr. Christof Beer.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Context, Computation, and Continuity: Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Decision-Making

Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Context, Computation, and Continuity: Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Decision-Making

Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Numerical simulations of multiphase flows with various complexities

Prof Omar Matar, Imperial College London.

https://cassyni.com/s/fmws.

Friday 06 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Discovering reward-guided learning strategies from large-scale datasets

Kimberly Stachenfeld (DeepMind, Columbia).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

PhD Students' talks

Speakers listed in abstract in due course.

MR3.

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ian Swinburne, UC Berkeley.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

When fire plumes glow in the dark: Tracing organic aerosol chemical regime dominance clues via light-absorbing species

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MWYzYmRiMDctNzNkNi00N2JmLTk4NDUtYzBiMDM4YjgyNjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Dr. Eleni Dovrou, Technical University of Crete.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Dendrites, Synaptic Plasticity and Hippocampal Place Fields​

Carl Ashworth; Saeyeon Kwon.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00-12:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From Wall-Climbing Active Colloids to self-assembly of Magnetotactic Bacteria

Prof Cottin-Bizonne, Université Lyon.

MR2.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Paul Donlin-Asp (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK), Dr. Aikaterini Gatsiou (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Can AI weather and climate emulators predict out-of-distribution gray swan extreme events?

Prof Pedram Hassanzedeh, University of Chicago.

MR2.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Cellular Responses to Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Professor Anna Wredenberg, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

MRC MBU, Level 3 Seminar, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Friday 16 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Connectome-based Echo State Networks

James McAllister (Ulster).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-14:45

Computational Neuroscience

Quantifying individuality in neural circuit representations

Alex Williams (NYU).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Alex Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interpreting multimodel ensembles

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTFiNjIwOTctZGZmNC00MDk3LWEyMDAtZTVmMGZkYmU1NTg2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Prof Richard Chandler, UCL.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bioelectronic Medicine

Professor George Malliaras FRS, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Metastability Properties of the Earth's Climate: a Multiscale Viewpoint

Prof Valerio Lucarini, University of Leicester.

MR2.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

The successor representation, its neural substrate, and behavioural consequences.

Puria Radmard; Daniel Kornai.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 15:00-16:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Instabilities in viscoelastic fluids: a long story

Prof Helen Wilson, University College London.

MR2.

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Accurate Diffusion Estimation From Simulation and the Impacts on Temperature Dependent Modelling

Dr Andrew McCluskey (University of Bristol).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Meritxell Huch, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa

Dr Mara Lawniczak, Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 28 April 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Proline metabolism and the tumour microenvironment – essential lessons from a non-essential amino acid

Professor Daniel Tennant, University of Birmingham, UK.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

In-Context Learning

Yashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Dr. Adam Cawte (University of Oxford, UK), Dr. Isaia Barbieri (University of Turin, IT).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 10 April 2025, 17:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

DAMTP BioLunch

Recreational Biology: Topological puzzles hiding in cell biology

Prof Manu Prakash, Stanford University.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Mechanically-Grown Morphogenesis of Voronoi-Type Materials

Zahra Hooshmand Ahoor (University of Cambridge, Dept. of Engineering).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Nonmonotonic flow curves and shear banding in granular flows

Dr Christopher Ness, University of Edinburgh.

MR2.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Alessandro Bonetti (Director of Neuroscience, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Kevin Weeks (PI, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA).

Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 17:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Alex Joyner, Sloan Kettering Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Could stratospheric aerosol injection produce meaningful global cooling without novel aircraft?

Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Njk5ZjBhMmUtMmIwMS00YjNkLWE4N2QtOTYwN2EyZGRhMzI5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

Alistair Duffey PhD Student at University College London, Earth Sciences.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent zonal jets: self-organization and wave-mean flow interactions

Dr Daphné Lemasquerier, University of St Andrews.

MR2.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

A general role of mechanical pre-patterning in tissue shape formation in embryos

Fengzhu Xiong (University of Cambridge, Gurdon Institute).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Integrating Random Memory Patterns and Spatial Maps in Food-Caching Birds

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

Professor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 10 March 2025, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The mathematics and physics of wound healing

Professor Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol.

MR2.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

The Continual Learning (CL) Theory

Sasha Rivkind; Nicolas Anguita.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

High-Resolution PM2.5 Mapping Across Malaysia Using Multi-Satellite Data and Machine Learning Techniques

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTQ5N2Q5ZDYtODRmYi00MzJhLTg0ZjctNjc2NGVlZDUzYmUx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Kasturi Kanniah, Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fast flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a slowly varying contraction

Professor John Hinch, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

The ups and downs of budding yeast's transport of glucose

Peter Swain (University of Edinburgh).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 24 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations

Mohammad Lotfollahi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Post-doc talks

Post-doc talks, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Sonia Garcia-Ruiz (Postdoc, UK Dementia Research Institute, Dept. Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Vanessa Loiacono (PI, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam Brandenburg, GE).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Hydrodynamic Hamiltonians of active two-dimensional fluids

Naomi Oppenheimer (Tel Aviv University).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Hopfield Networks: From Neuroscience to Machine Learning and Back

Youjing Yu; Tim Lin.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Searching for Life in Stranger Seas

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2YxZjU5NTgtYzIwNi00MTY2LThkY2ItZjQyMTJmNjdkMWQw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

William Bains.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Synchronization in Navier-Stokes turbulence and its role in data-driven modeling

Professor Masanobu Inubushi, Tokyo University of Science.

MR2.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Dynamical Complexity in Living Active Matter

Praneet Prakash (University of Cambridge, DAMTP).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks.

Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience

Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:45-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:00-15:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

Professor Sander L. van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 10 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Bubble dynamics in complex fluids

Professor Valeria Garbin, Delft University of Technology.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Why Don’t Trees Lean South

Christophe Eloy (Centrale Marseille).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Planetary uprising: Climate colonialism, Extinction Rebellion and the transformation of global politics

Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2VlZmM3OTgtOTQwNS00ZTcxLTk5ZGEtZWZiMzU4NTdiMGY1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

Tobias Müller, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Cracking the capillary code: towards mesoscopic self-assembly and functional micromachines

Professor Nicolas Vandewalle, University of Liège.

MR2.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Muzlifah Haniffa, Sanger Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing

Dr Sam Grimshaw, The Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 January 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Towards asymptotic models and minimal seeds for the geodynamo

Professor Steven Tobias, University of Leeds.

MR2.

Friday 24 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Dr. Anton Petrov (Director, Riboscope Ltd, Cambridge, UK), Dr. Oguzhan Begik (Senior Postdoc, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 23 January 2025, 17:00-19:00

Computational Neuroscience

Data-driven models of neural and behavioural learning

N Alex Cayco Gajic, École Normale Supérieure.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 15:00-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The State of Wildfires

Doulgas Kelley UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Hydrodynamic singularities in soft matter flows

Vatsal Sanjay (University of Twente).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Evaluating dynamical systems hypotheses for pattern generation in motor cortex

Lea Duncker, Columbia.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 January 2025, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Modelling C. elegans pharynx

Dana Sherman, Weizmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 January 2025, 11:00-11:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

Dr. Iddo Magen (Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL), Dr. Krasikova Alla (Department of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, RU).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 December 2024, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 12 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Neurogenesis Under Stress

Dr Alex Gould.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How to Fold Every Protein: (Mission Accomplished?)

Stephen D Fried, John Hopkins University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ina Sonnen, Hubrecht Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 10 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Wetting and swelling of elastic fibers

Professor Suzie Protière, Sorbonne Université.

MR2.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Molecular determinants of inhibition of the Mitochondrial Uncoupling Protein 1­mediated respiratory uncoupling

Dr Bruno Miroux.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

New mitochondrial mechanisms of degenerative diseases

Professor Anu Suomalainen.

The Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networks

Brent Doiron, University of Chicago.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Come rain or snow: extreme precipitation in Antarctica

Dr Ella Gilbert, British Antarctic Survey (PolarRES project).

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy.

Professor Neil Hyatt is Chief Scientific Adviser to Nuclear Waste Services, Aegis Professor of Deep Time at The University of Bristol.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 02 December 2024, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Plankton Blinders: navigating turbulence with limited information

Professor Christophe Eloy, Centrale Marseille.

MR2.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Power analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Exploring an unchartered route across the inner mitochondrial membrane

Dr Thomas MacVicar, Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute - University of Glasgow.

MRC MBU, Level 3 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

State space models (as alternatives to Transformers)

Yashar Ahmadian; Qingyun Chen.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein Evolution in Sequence Landscapes - From Data to Models and Back

Professor Martin Weigt, Institute of Biology, Paris.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 November 2024, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Markus Hoepfler (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK), Dr. Murat Sunbul (Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, GE).

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Writing Computational Models that are FAIR and VRAI

Dr Dominic Orchard; Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge, and University of Kent.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish?

Dr. Claire Barlow, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 18 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The frozen frontiers of our solar system

Dr Nicole Shibley, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 15 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Ising spin model for directional decision-making on the move

Prof. Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute .

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondrial DNA mutations in cancer – passive bystanders or active participants?

Professor Laura Greaves, University of Newcastle.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Geometry of neural representations

Carl Ashworth; Ishan Kalburge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

OpenFOAM: Numerical Simulation in Computational Continuum Mechanics

Professor Hrvoje Jasak, The Cavendish Laboratory.

MR2.

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric Heterogeneous Chemistry after the 2019–2020 Australian Wildfires

Dr. Kane Stone, Research Scientist, Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Next Gen asset tracking using battery-free Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan OBE, PervasID Ltd., St. Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 04 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Puncture mechanics of soft solids: A theoretical perspective

Prof. Mattia Bacca, UBC.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Sunday 03 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Generalised Lagrangian Mean: formulation and computation

Professor Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 01 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Categorical Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Sensory prediction errors in thalamocortical circuits

Daniel Kornai; Máté Lengyel.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:30-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Marine emissions of methanethiol increase aerosol cooling in the Southern Ocean

Dr Charel Wohl University of East Anglia.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Observed delayed onset of turbulence due to shear instability in the ocean

Professor Matthew Alford, University of California San Diego.

MR2.

Friday 25 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Exploring the role of immune system as a primary driver of pathology in the mitochondrial disease Leigh syndrome

Professor Simon Johnson (University of Northumbria).

MRC MBU, Level 3 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Fascinating World of Lightning Research

Dr Daniel Mitchard, Senior Lecturer Lightning Laboratory, Cardiff University.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Celebrating the contribution of viral sequencing to the COVID-19 pandemic response.

Professor Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Cambridge; Director and Chair of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 21 October 2024, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The role of surface tension in hydrodynamics: a new perspective

Dr Rajesh Bhagat, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 18 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

Dr. Emilia Arguello (Postdoc, Borodavka Lab, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Dr. Andres Ramos (PI, Ramos Lab, University College London, London, UK)).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Simple and multiple linear regression

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Geometry of population coding in large and transcriptomically-identified cortical populations

Ken Harris, University College London.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Friday 11 October 2024, 17:00-18:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Responsive Hydrogels: perspectives, modelling, and ongoing efforts

Professor Tom Montenegro-Johnson, University of Warwick.

MR2.

Friday 11 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Exploratory Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ensembling climate models with Gaussian processes to better characterise future extremes

Note unusual time

Kenza Tazi (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey).

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein genetic architecture is simple, and epistasis can facilitate the evolution of new functions

Assistant Professor Brian Metzger, Purdue University .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

**Seminar cancelled**

Dr Mohammed Lotfollahi, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 30 September 2024, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Life without HOX

Olivier Pourquié, Harvard Medical School.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Friday 20 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - July session ON ZOOM

Dr. John LaCava (University Medical Center, Groningen, NL), Dr. Alzbeta Chabronova (Institute of Life Course and Medical Science, University of Liverpool, UK).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 July 2024, 17:00-18:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid mechanics of splat painting

Roberto Zenit, Brown University.

MR13.

Thursday 04 July 2024, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Evaporation dynamics of respiratory-like droplets and their implications on virus infectivity

Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez, Carlos III University of Madrid.

MR13.

Monday 01 July 2024, 13:30-14:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Digital Cancer Twins: From Mechanistic Insights to Therapeutic Applications

Professor Jasmin Fisher, UCL Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 01 July 2024, 12:30-13:30

DAMTP BioLunch

Deformable bodies in anisotropic fluids: from activity to elasticity

Thomas Chandler.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Causal inference during motion perception, and its neural basis

Ralf Haefner, Department for Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Monday 24 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - June session IN PERSON

Dr. Damiano Mangoni (Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, IT), Dr. Susanne Bornelov (Senior Research Associate, CRUCK, University of Cambridge, UK).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 20 June 2024, 17:00-18:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Mechanics of asymmetric cell division

Alexander Mietke, University of Oxford.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Dynamic Interplay: Coordinating stem cell fate and states through niche interactions

Dr Joo-Hyeon Lee, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Thursday 20 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Control of cell fate specification and physiological maturation in the human brain by the lipid phosphatase OCRL

Prof Raghu Padinjat, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Learning Bayesian inference models of cortical visual processing

Rodrigo Echeveste, sinc(i), Santa Fe, Argentina.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Entrainment across a turbulent/turbulent interface

Oliver Buxton, Imperial College London.

MR2.

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

The chiral core of the collagen microfibril

Mitya Pushkin, University of York.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Segmenting the biological causes of hearing loss

Professor Karen P. Steel PhD, FMedSci, FRS, Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 10 June 2024, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Quantum computing of fluid dynamics

Yue Yang, Peking University.

MR2.

Friday 07 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Drug discovery of neurological mitochondrial diseases with patient-specific brain organoids

Professor Dr. Alessandro Prigione.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 14:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Aerosols and clouds in the UKCA across time and space

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89998723970?pwd=ekw0Q3RqaUVFU3NaT3J1djlHTytiQT09

Daniel Grosvenor, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS), University of Leeds,.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 04 June 2024, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Enhancing confidence in volcanic ash forecasts

Helen Dacre, University of Reading.

MR2.

Friday 31 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Systematic design and control of biochemical reaction networks

Tomislav Plesa, University of Cambridge.

MR20, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Physics IS Enhancing Machine Learning

Dr Alice Cicirello, Data, Vibration and Uncertainty Group, Department of Engineering.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 May 2024, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Biomedical Fluid Mechanics: applications in urology and regenerative medicine

Sarah Waters, University of Oxford.

MR2.

Friday 24 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Circuit for memory-based action selection

Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Friday 24 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - May session IN PERSON

Dr. Joanna Krupka (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) and Dr. Jeremy Sanford (UC Santa Cruz, USA).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

RNA Collaborative Seminar Series special event

Dr. Ana Tufegdžić Vidaković (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge), Dr. Kostas Tzelepis (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, University of Cambridge) .

Online (ZOOM) - registration required https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eaqHg_fsRg2TKgTXLT2Akw.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Epistemic Exclusion in Climate Science: Why We Grow the Wrong Trees in the Wrong Places

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88161587298?pwd=U0I2ejRHTXROQmhiNHo2OTF6NE1kZz09

Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya, The George Washington University.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Integrated Spin model with global inhibition for decision making

Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute of Science.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Monday 20 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

PhD students' talks

Speakers listed in abstract.

MR2.

Friday 17 May 2024, 14:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Self-assembled active actomyosin gels spontaneously curve and wrinkle similar to biological cells and tissues

Anne Bernheim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Creating brain organoids to uncover what makes us human.

Dr. Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 May 2024, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems

Igor Mezic, UC Santa Barbara.

MR2.

Friday 10 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

3D modelling of intracellular active fibre networks for understanding plant development

Tamsin Spelman.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Non-uniform regulation of epigenetic marks via metabolism in a developing tissue

Professor Dr Aurelio Teleman.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive maps

James Whittington, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University & Oxford University.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 12:15-13:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The role of methane for chemistry-climate interactions: rapid radiative adjustments and climate feedbacks

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89826306833?pwd=cnNHSG9OWHRjVngzMGVMc2F0NnA4dz09

Laura Stecher, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (Engl: German Aerospace Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics).

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The scaling of the drag force on an accelerating plate

Jerry Westerweel, TU Delft.

MR2.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

How does a plant grow? A story across the scales!

Euan Smithers, University of Cambridge.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia, Youjing Yu.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

Professor Jonathan Cullen, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 29 April 2024, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Programmed evolution: Using asexual gene drives to sculpt tumor populations and combat genetic diversity

Justin Pritchard, Penn State College of Engineering.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 April 2024, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mathematical Models for Evaporating Sessile Droplets

Stephen Wilson, University of Strathclyde.

MR2.

Friday 26 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Sticky feet: biophysical models for cell adhesion

Maria Tatulea-Codrean, University of Cambridge.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - April session ON ZOOM

Jasper Verwilt, Ghent University, Ghent (BE) and Dr. Jon Price, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK).

Online (Zoom), https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84799950172?pwd=ZUZjK3JnSmhucm9oZEZjbnZLSmZlUT09.

Thursday 18 April 2024, 17:00-18:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The ins and outs of mitochondrial protein quality control

Professor Dr Christian Münch.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 10 April 2024, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - March session IN PERSON

Dr. Bastian Fromm, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø (NW) and Dr. Miguel Vasconcelos Almeida, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)..

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 28 March 2024, 17:00-18:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Active mixing in laminar flows: How is a swimming microbe like a forest fire?

Tom Solomon, Bucknell University.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Targeting liver mitochondria to treat MASLD/MASH and cardiometabolic disease

Professor Gerald Shulman.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Our first choices: decoding cellular signals during developmental transitions

Silvia Santos, Francis Crick Institute.

The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for subcortical routing of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition

Seán Froudist-Walsh, U Bristol.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Undulatory swimmers – a tail of two tails

Lisa Fauci.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Screening Approaches for the Identification of Covalent Peptide Inhibitors

Scott Lovell, University of Bath.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 March 2024, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Flow and transport in the human placenta: a story with a twist

Igor Chernyavsky, University of Manchester.

MR2.

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Dynamic Density Functional Theory: A Tool for Mathematical Biology?

Benjamin Goddard, University of Edinburgh.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Toward understanding iodine and sulfur secondary aerosol formation in marine atmosphere

Xu-Cheng He - University of Helsinki/University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Postdoc the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

Jonathan Tsay - Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and currently postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Transport, aggregation and wetting of assemblies of soft fibres

Camille Duprat, LadHyX, École Polytechnique.

MR2.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mathematical modelling to develop insights into cancer evolution

Dr Weini Huang.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

Professor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing of drops

Detlef Lohse, University of Twente.

MR2.

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Ciliary coordination in marine invertebrate larvae

Rebecca Poon, University of Exeter.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Title to be confirmed

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia

Andy Chan - Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89826306833?pwd=cnNHSG9OWHRjVngzMGVMc2F0NnA4dz09

Prof Andy Chan, Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell size - A new hallmark of aging?

Jette Lengefeld, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 26 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Slippery flows in nature and industry

Katarzyna Kowal, University of Glasgow.

MR2.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mapping DNA replication stress in cancer cells and parasites with long-read sequencing and AI

Dr Michael Boemo.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Title to be confirmed

Alexander Mietke, University of Oxford.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic Devices

Dr. Simon Thomas, Paragraf Ltd..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 19 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

Postdoc talks, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 16 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Modelling Blood Cell Development across Molecular and Tissue Scales

Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Self-organized patterning in complex fluids

Giulia Celora, UCL.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Changmin Yu ( Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

Craik Club

Competition between predictive processes and prefrontal cortex functions: from non-invasive brain stimulation to local sleep

Dezső Németh (Chaire Professeur, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM, France).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemical transport modelling to support the UNECE Air Convention

David Simpson - EMEP MSC-W, Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Lahars and Huaycos: modelling erosive flash floods

Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol.

MR2.

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Horizonal gene transfer in transmissible cancers

Prof. Elizabeth Murchison.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Motility-induced patterning in signalling bacteria

Wesley Ridgway, University of Oxford.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Unravelling the impact of membrane transporters in cancer drug uptake and efficacy

Dr Louise Fets MRC Investigator CRUK Career Establishment Awardee Drug Transport and Tumour Metabolism Lab Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS).

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC

Professor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 05 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editing

Dr Francisco J Sanchez-Rivera, Koch Institute at MIT.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent-laminar patterns

Laurette Tuckerman, ESPCI Paris.

MR2.

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

majb4's list

What can we learn from simulations of the dust intensification over Greenland during the last ice-age?

Peter Hopcroft, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK..

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Celestial fluid mechanics: the nonlinear gas dynamics of discs around stars and black holes

Gordon Ogilvie, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Locomotion through viscoplastic fluids

Duncan Hewitt, University of Cambridge.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder.

Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research .

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 22 January 2024, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The elephant in the room: fluid dynamics in the age of machine learning

Matthew Juniper, CUED.

MR2.

Friday 19 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Active Taylor dispersion with Fourier methods: biased swimming cells with absorbing boundaries

Hakan Galdag.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

An application of Fast FCM: swimming with emergent cilia coordination

Hang Su, Imperial College London.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Affinity maturation of antibodies targeting HIV spikes

Mehran Kardar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 December 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondria dynamics and metabolism regulate species-specific features of human brain development

Professor Pierre Vanderhaeghen | VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 13 December 2023, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Hydrogen – the second best option – taking a whole system view

To join this seminar in-person or online, please register for details by emailing njw44@cam.ac.uk.

Jon Saltmarsh, Energy Systems Catapult.

Chemistry Dept, Todd Hamied room and Zoom.

Monday 11 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP BioLunch

A hybrid computational approach for swimming in shear-thinning and viscoelastic fluids

Cara Neal, University of Liverpool.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Solution discovery in fluid dynamics using neural networks

Ching-Yau Lai, Stanford University.

MR2.

Friday 01 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Undulatory Swimming in Suspensions and Networks of Flexible Filaments

Adam Townsend, Durham University.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Fishy fluid mechanics and impossible ecologies

Pierre Haas, Max Planck Institute of Complex Systems, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Coordination of cell states and tissue architecture by mechanical forces

Sara Wickström, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster.

Wellcome Trust /CRUK Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB21QN.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases.

Dr. Daniel Ives, Shift Bioscience.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Exploring cell heterogeneity in health and disease using single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics

Erwin Schoof, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Visualising fluid mechanics phenomena via quasi-bases

Catherine Drysdale, University of Birmingham.

MR2.

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

To stick or to swim: phenotypic plasticity in biofilms and its role in evolutionary rescue

Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Evaluation of 14CO as a Tracer of OH in a Global Model

Last talk of term

Liam Blyth – Imperial College London.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

APS-DFD - no seminar

None.

MR2.

Friday 17 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Practice Session for DFD Talks

DFD Speakers.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Focusing on mitochondria with super-resolution microscopy

Professor Stefan Jakobs | Max Planck Institute, Germany.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The (in)fidelity of human mitochondrial gene expression

Professor Brendan Battersby, University of Helsinki, Finland.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS Reflectometry

Dr Martin Unwin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Calcium signalling and mechanochemical modelling in fertilization and embryogenesis

Katerina Kaouri, Cardiff University.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 13 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Culinary fluid mechanics

Maciej Lisicki, University of Warsaw.

MR2.

Friday 10 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Two emergent biophysical phenomena motivated by Turing and Jeffery

Mohit Dalwadi, University College London.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Chaos in confinement: how to make shear-thinning fluids flow thicken

Sujit Datta, Princeton University .

MR2.

Friday 03 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Multiscale methods and microswimmer models

Ben Walker, University of Bath.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Biological energy transduction in action - deciphering the molecular mechanism of the remarkable Complex I

Professor Ville Kaila | Stockholm University.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Social prescribing - beyond pills

Professor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Understanding wildfire propagation: an experimental study of parameters affecting Firebrand Transport

Jeffrey R. Koseff, Stanford University.

MR2.

Friday 27 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Swimming loops and swelling beads: designing microscale functionality through fluid-structure interactions

Matthew Butler, University College London.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Comparison of methods to estimate aerosol effective radiative forcings in climate models

Note unusual time and location

Mark Zelinka; PCMDI | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

U202 Meeting room, Department of Chemistry and Zoom.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia, Edward Young.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Fernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

CRUK CI.

Monday 23 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Stuck in the mud? Channelling, clogging and burrowing in plastic fluids

Duncan R Hewitt, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Friday 20 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

How do RNAs fold, dynamically?

Julius Lucks, Northwestern University.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondrial fusion in neural stem cell differentiation in Drosophila development

Professor Richa Rikhy, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: FlexEnable: Taking Organic Electronics from Lab to Fab

Dr. Mike Banach, FlexEnable Technology Ltd., Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 16 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

It’s sink or skim: when solid bodies meet liquid layers

Ryan Palmer, University of Bristol.

MR2.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

A new look at eye design

Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Active Caustics

Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ozone Secrets: Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Martian Atmosphere

Megan Brown, The Open University and University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Spreading of yield-stress fluids

Jean-François Joanny, Curie Institute.

MR2.

Friday 06 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Some consequences of phenotypic heterogeneity in living active matter

Philip Pearce, University College London.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Selective autophagy as a mechanism of oxidative stress response

Dr Viktor Korolchuk | Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Structured recognition for generative models with explaining away

Changmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Monday 02 October 2023, 13:30-14:30

Craik Club

A new approach to understanding eye design

Professor Simon Laughlin (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 02 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Snap, crack and pop: The dynamics of elastic instability

Dominic Vella, University of Oxford.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Chemical gardens in horizontal confined geometry: diffusion-controlled growth and osmotic lysis

Mingchuan Zheng.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Self-organized flight formations disrupted by self-amplifying waves

Leif Ristroph, New York University.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

From Bench to Patients; Decanoic/Octanoic Acid & Brain Energy Metabolism

Professor Simon Heales | University College London .

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 13 September 2023, 15:00-16:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Multiscale liquid crystal order in biological tissues

Luca Giomi.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPases

Pau Castel, NYU School of Medicine.

CRUK CI.

Tuesday 04 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Active Solids

Jack Binysh, University of Bath.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 29 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Unbiased Genetic Screening to find Modifiers of Mitochondria in Neurons

Dr Gaynor Smith | Cardiff Univeristy.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Synthetic ex utero embryogenesis: from naive pluripotent stem cells to human and mouse bona fide embryo-models

Professor Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 27 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Weakly nonlinear dynamics of self-propelling active droplets

Gunnar Peng, Imperial College London.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian and Puria Radmard.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Frictional fluid dynamics and viscously stable pattern formation

Bjornar Sandnes, Swansea University.

MR2.

Friday 16 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Bifurcation Analysis of Active Filament Models

Bethany Clarke, Imperial College London.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

Professor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 12 June 2023, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Physics-aware data-driven approaches for time prediction

Luca Magri, Imperial College London.

MR2.

Friday 09 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Snowpack nitrate photolysis drives the summertime atmospheric nitrous acid (HONO) budget in coastal Antarctica

Millie Bond, British Antarctic Survey.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81374421855?pwd=bHdnVmxxTUlyL3lzTlpiVTRmZWtIQT09.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia and David Lui.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Tumor cell metastasis: Modeling the long and treacherous journey in the circulation and escape at the metastatic site

Roger D Kamm, MIT.

MR2 (also broadcast as JFM webinar).

Friday 02 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

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

Dr Paola Arlotta, Harvard, USA.

Webinar.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Will Greedy, University of Bristol.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Unsung Heroes of the Discovery of the Double Helix

Professor Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 29 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid dynamics of disease transmission: bubbles, droplets, and microorganisms (GK Batchelor Lecture)

Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR2.

Friday 26 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling marine aerosol, airborne microplastics and rocket launches

Associate Professor Laura Revell, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87388257085?pwd=Ylh5RjVpRGZuWURoaVBab2ljcEY2QT09.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Changing reference frame: insights from unsteady fragmentation

Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR5.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

OpenFold: Lessons learned and insights gained from rebuilding and retraining AlphaFold2.

On Zoom Only

Mohammed AlQuarishi, Columbia University.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94647233365?pwd=SGlubDdCL2ZSTWJvNHNjV0NiWHM5dz09.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd year PhD student talks - speakers listed below

DAMTP PhD students.

MR2.

Friday 19 May 2023, 15:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium

multiple.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 09:45-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens

Prof. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 15 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From neurons and sunflowers to elephant trunks: the fascinating dynamics of smart active filaments

Alain Goriely, University of Oxford.

MR2.

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Signal Switches at the Mitochondrial Import Machinery

Professor Chris Meisinger | Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Towards emulated Lagrangian particle dispersion model footprints for satellite observations

Dr Elena Fillola Mayoral, University of Bristol.

Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87824253668?pwd=eHpVZ1VwemkxbTY1a1ZYdmlUZS9Pdz09.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Active matter in inhomogeneous environments

Gwynn Elfring, University of British Columbia.

MR2 (also broadcast as JFM webinar).

Friday 05 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Subcellular renovation: shaping of the mitochondrial inner-membrane

Professor Luke Chao | Havard Medical School.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: Dispatchable Green Energy from Space

Ian Cash, M.Eng, International Electric Company.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 01 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

New perspectives on ocean interior turbulent mixing

Ali Mashayek, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Friday 28 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Curbing mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration: lessons from neurogenetics

Dr Derek Narendra | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signaling dynamics in the epithelium

Professor Olivier Pertz, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Gurdon Institute Tearoom.

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Remodeling of Mitochondria during Microbial Infection

Dr Lena Pernas | MPI, Cologne.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signalling dynamics in the epithelium

Professor Maddy Parsons, King’s College, London.

Gurdon Institute.

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

DAMTP BioLunch

Improving Scientific Publishing

Dr Alessio Bolognesi.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 12:30-13:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel (CBL), Guillaume Hennequin (CBL), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud).

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Being a Good Neighbour: Cell Cycle, Metabolism and Cell Fate in the Drosophila Testis.

Dr Marc Amoyel, UCL.

Gurdon Institute Tearoom.

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

Jason Sheltzer, Yale School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemical modelling of (exo)planetary atmospheres: some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it mild but old

Last talk of term

Dr Éric Hébrard, University of Exeter.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever and Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84554294579?pwd=Und2Zkd3MHBZRG1GbHROeWNjQ2Ivdz09 .

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

On the creation and evolution of quantum knots and links

Renzo Ricca, U. Milano-Bicocca.

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

Friday 17 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Improving Scientific Publishing

Dr Alessio Bolognesi (eLife).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 March 2023, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Finding Target-Disease-Drug evidences from Literature and supporting curators. Please note: the details of this talk have changed

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Matthew Jeffryes and Santosh Tirunagari, EMBL-EBI.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Utilising probability distributions in Earth observations

B.B. Cael, Nat. Oceanography Centre.

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

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Katherine Lawler, Research Associate Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 06 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulence-mean-flow interactions: lessons from local 2D turbulence

Anna Frishman, Technion.

Webinar.

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

ER stress and mitochondria 

Professor Giovanna Mallucci | Founding Principal Investigator, Altos Labs Cambridge Institute of Science, Cambridge UK.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational Biology in Drug Discovery

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Philippe Sanseau, GSK Senior Fellow, Head In Silico Target Biology, Computational Biology, Genomic Sciences.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Physics of morphogenesis

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

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

Online.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Hydrodynamic Black Holes

Silke Weinfurtner, U. Nottingham.

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

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Seeing the Unseen

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Jordan P. Skittrall, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Virology and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Virology, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Luke Johnston, Wayne Soo.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are there solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space?

Professor Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 20 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Heterogenous Chemistry and The Possibility for Life in the Clouds of Venus

Paul Rimmer, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Scientific Uses of Automatic Differentiation

Michael Brenner, Harvard U..

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

Friday 17 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

From sinking spheroids to chemotactic collapse: Continuum modelling of dilute active Brownian particle suspension

Dr Lloyd Fung, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:30-13:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The Wonders of Small Molecule Transport

Professor David Drew | Stockholm University .

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mapping DNA replication stress in parasites and cancer cells with long-read sequencing and AI

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Dr. Michael A. Boemo, Research Group Leader, Department of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Puria Radmard and David Liu.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mammalian Synthetic Biology – Biomolecular Circuits as Medicine

Xiaojing Gao, Stanford University.

CRUK CI.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Horizontal film drainage: soap film elasticity, lubrication equation, line tension and instability

Isabelle Cantat, U. Rennes.

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

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Life as plankton: When fluid mechanics really matters

Prof. Christophe Eloy, IRPHE Marseille.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Research in the Goldman group: pandemic-scale phylogenetics, and optimizing new sequencing technologies

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Nick Goldman and Nicola De Maio, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

The unbreakable lightness of single neuron non-linearities in learning

Yasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

Professor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 06 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Unsteady aerodynamics in large-disturbance flows: Gust encounters and maneuvering wings

Anya Jones, U. Maryland.

Webinar -(see abstract for link).

Friday 03 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Model of inverse bleb growth explains giant vacuole dynamics during cell mechanoadaptation

Dr Andrea Cairoli, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Does computational biology explain Fibonacci numbers in plants?

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Jonathan Swinton.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chlorine activation and enhanced ozone depletion induced by wildfire aerosol

Prof. Susan Solomon (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88479554336.

Monday 30 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Theory of bubble tips in strong viscous flows

Jens Eggers, U. Bristol.

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

Friday 27 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Ben Schreiber, Image Analysis Team, Dept of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Taking it up a Notch, building the body plan

Professor Kim Dale, University of Dundee.

In Person.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour?

Professor Timothy Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 January 2023, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Algal Phototaxis and the Evolution of Multicellularity

Ray Goldstein, DAMTP.

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

Friday 20 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics

Dan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine.

CRUK CI.

Monday 09 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated

Cynthia Rudin, Duke University.

Zoom.

Monday 12 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Patterns underlying the mitochondrial life cycle

Professor Sulina Manley, Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics - EPFL .

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Invisible Ship Tracks: What can we learn about the aerosol effect on clouds and climate from previously unseen ship-polluted clouds?

Peter Manshausen (University of Oxford).

Unilever Lecture Hall (and zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86500676542?pwd=NTFuNnpJQ1orMzZtem10cFNySjJiZz09 )).

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Edward Young, Zahara Girones.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle and its modelled effect on the oceans

Prof. Manoj Joshi.

Unilever Lecture Hall (and zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84313398848?pwd=b1RaNGV5cm1jQ1hIOXBLd1hQRzdGQT09 ).

Monday 05 December 2022, 14:30-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Living Droplets Get to Work

Eric Dufresne, ETH Zurich.

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

Friday 02 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The 8th Annual Sir John Walker Lecture

Nikolaus Pfanner - Professor and Chair of Biochemistry Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany.

The Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Recording now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZjee3EwGU

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP BioLunch

A hidden hydrodynamic phenomenon prevents collective motion of spontaneously spinning particles

Dr. Debasish Das, University of Strathclyde.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Motile behaviour and evolution of bacteria in antibiotic landscapes

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Nuno Miguel Oliveira, DPhil, BBSRC Discovery Fellow & Teaching Bye-Fellow in Zoology (Christ's College).

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviour

Juan Alvaro Gallego.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer

Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre.

Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Motile bacteria in giant unilamellar vesicles: A cautionary tale

Wilson Poon, U. Edinburgh.

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

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

How is mtDNA transcription regulated?

Professor Nils-Göran Larsson, Karolinska Institute .

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Single cell-resolved topological defects of bacterial nematic phases in extreme confinement

Dr. Iago Grobas, University of Oxford.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Rescuing mitochondria in peril under oxidative stress

Professor Kostas Tokatlidis | University of Glasgow.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

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

Host: GIPA, Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association

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

Virtual.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia and Mate Lengyel.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Assessment of Major Air Pollutants in the Tropical Urban Environment of Kuala Lumpur

Prof. Mohd Talib Latif (University Kebangsaan Malaysia).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88446733633?pwd=UVZDWjZJaVg1UHZwS2tlRFpyTm5IZz09.

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

APS DFD - no seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Fluid mechanics and development of mosaic ciliated tissues

Francesco Boselli, University of Cambridge.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Dual transport function of mitochondrial uncoupling proteins

Professor Elena Pohl | University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna .

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Knowledge Graphs for Precision Oncology

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Krishna C Bulusu Director, Early Data Science Oncology Data Science, Oncology R&D AstraZeneca.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion for a Clean Aviation Future

Dr. Sergey Kiselev, Zeroavia.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 14 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The precessing vortex core instability in swirled jets

Santosh Hemchandra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

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

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

DFD Practice Talks

Maria Tatulea-Codrean, Steven Htet, Weida Liao.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics

Steve Brunton, U. Washington.

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

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions on the distribution of micro-swimmers in channel flow

Smitha Maretvadakethope, University of Liverpool.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Michele Vendruscolo, Co-Director, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Dr Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Virtual.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain

Prof. Usha Goswami, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 31 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The Parkinson’s disease protein LRRK2 regulates the transition from innate to adaptive immunity by modulating the unfolded protein response

Professor Michel Desjardins, University of Montreal.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Monday 31 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From Olympic rowing to gunwale bobbing: Wave drag and wave thrust phenomena

Graham Benham, U. Oxford.

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

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Micro-locomotion near interfaces: studies on the motion of model micro-swimmers around obstacles and under confinement

Dr. Nikhil Desai (University of Cambridge).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Buffering genetic variation in populations

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology Unit.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud and David Liu.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TALK POSTPONED

Francesca Buffa.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Random walks, self-reinforcement and neurons

Daniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 .

Monday 24 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Instability to elastic turbulence; freezing soft particles; confined viscous flows

Miguel Beneitez, Pallav Kant, Ashleigh Hutchinson - DAMTP.

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

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

A semantics knowledge commons for climate change

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Peter Murray-Rust, Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?

Prof. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Instability, mixing and fragmentation in planetary collisions

Maylis Landeau, IPGP.

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

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Stable infinite-dimensional dynamical systems

Anand Srinivasan.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

An introduction to counts-of-counts data

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Simon Tavaré PhD Herbert and Florence Irving Director Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences Columbia University.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Identifying the network of bactericidal interactions between mycobacterial respiratory chain complexes to develop fast-acting drugs for tuberculosis

Professor Gregory M. Cook, University of Otago, New Zealand.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The dynamics of super-absorbent hydrogels

Grae Worster, DAMTP.

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

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

POSTPONED - Cdk12 maintains the axon initial segment through actin remodelling

POSTPONED - new date tbc

Dr Gaynor Smith | Cardiff University.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 05 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Does mitochondria metabolism regulate apoptosis?

Professor Atan Gross, Weizmann Institute.

Contact organiser for details.

Wednesday 03 August 2022, 15:00-16:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics of Shape-shifting Multicellular Choanoflagellates

Adam Konkol (DAMTP) and Dr Lloyd Fung (DAMTP).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 July 2022, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Navigating the maze: transport through intracellular tubule networks

Prof Elena Koslover, UC San Diego.

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

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 15:00-16:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Covariant Hydrodynamics of Membranes and Nematic Surfaces

Dr. Sami Al-Izzi (Postdoctoral Fellow, EMBL-Australia Node in Single Molecule Science and School of Physics, UNSW).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 July 2022, 13:00-14:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Phenotype-based approaches to rare disease diagnostics and discovery in the 100,000 Genomes Project & Whole genome sequencing in suspected mitochondrial disorders

Professor Damian Smedley & Dr Katherine Schon.

Contact organiser for details.

Wednesday 13 July 2022, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Combining multi-omics and biological knowledge to extract disease mechanisms

Please contact Ciara for further details

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine and Group Leader at the EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU).

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 11 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondrial Na+ import by the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger NCLX regulates the electron transport chain and ROS production

Dr Antonio Martínez-Ruiz, Hospital Univ. Santa Cristina, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS Princesa), Madrid.

Contact organiser for details.

Tuesday 05 July 2022, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

A system-wide quantitative map of RNA subcellular re-localization in response to UPR activation

Tom Smith, Research Fellow, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondria: portrait of an inflammatory killer

Professor Stephen Tait | Beatson Institute.

Online (Zoom) - contact organiser for details.

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deciphering Shared Intratumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity of Human Tumors

Valentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric ozone and stratosphere-troposphere exchange in the Last Glacial Maximum

Qiang Fu (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington and Leverhulme Visiting Professor in DAMPT, Cambridge University).

Todd-Hamied room, Chemistry Department (and on zoom).

Monday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Excluded volume and order in a system of Brownian needles

Maria Bruna, DAMTP.

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

Friday 17 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jakub Onysk and Yul Kang.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Are we alone?

Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 June 2022, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A new approach to Coupled Data Assimilation and Earth System Reanalysis – climate science for the decades ahead":

Prof. Detlef Stammer, University of Hamburg.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89859792053?pwd=M1dIZFd5NlNwRVdBV2RKZWJpV1pGUT09 .

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Translating aerodynamic features from insects and birds to bioinspired aircraft

Richard Bomphrey, The Royal Veterinary College.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Decoding transcriptional regulation

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova & Julie Ahringer

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

Gurdon Institute Tea Room AND on Zoom.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Wayne Soo.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

Professor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd year PhD student talks

James Cummins, Tom Daggitt, William Oxley, Alistair Hales, Jenny Dingwall, Matt Davison, Elvinas Ribinskas, James Mason, Joseph Webber.

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

Friday 27 May 2022, 14:45-17:01

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochatting - new insights into mitochondrial contact sites uncovered from systematic analysis of contact site proteomes

Professor Maya Schuldiner | Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel.

Online (Zoom) - contact organiser for details.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted: Ben Simons

Wolf Reik, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

To be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Projectile Fusion A new challenge in applied computational science and engineering

Dr. Nathan Joiner, First Light Fusion, Yarnton, Oxfordshire.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Genomic Evolution of Cancer

David Wedge, University of Manchester.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Sinking droplet durotaxis, engulfment and yield phenomena

Anne Juel, University of Manchester.

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

Friday 20 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Unlocking lncRNA functions using an arrayed CRISPRi screening platform with cellular and molecular phenotyping

Fien Gysens, PhD student, OncoRNA lab, Ghent University, Belgium.

Online.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Hacking the germline : how paralogs bend the rules of gene expression

Peter Andersen, Group Leader, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Online.

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

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2022

Various.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

How a recurrent circuit of Poisson spiking neurons is able to implement sampling-based inference

Wen-Hao Zhang.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The role of chemistry and oxidants on the forcing from vegetation emissions and the next steps for understanding the atmospheric composition changes and forcing from widespread tree planting

Dr James Weber (The University of Sheffield).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88391274319?pwd=ZzhVaGtkYUtBTWdsQUR4dm5IWnprZz09.

Monday 16 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mixed active-passive suspensions: from particle entrainment to demixing

Marco Polin, University of Warwick.

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

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Hematopoietic Malignancies

Hosted by: Andrea Brand & John Gurdon

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

Webinar.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Some like it hot, but not icebergs

Claudia Cenedese, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

How mycobacteria subvert mitochondrial biology to casue TB

Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology .

Online (Zoom) - contact organiser for details.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Coupling rheology and segregation in granular flows

Nico Gray, University of Manchester.

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

Friday 29 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Transposons and evolutionary novelties of a symbiotic genome

Alexandra Dallaire, Future Leader Fellow, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew; Gurdon Institute; Darwin Tree of Life UK.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

RNA Length has a non-trivial effect in the stability of biomoelecular condensates formed by RNA-binding proteins

Ignacio Sanchez-Burgos, PhD student, Collepardo Lab, Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Drug response and tolerance in normal and cancer cells

Klaas Mulder, Molecular Developmental Biology, Radboud University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Building a Culture of Research Integrity

Dr Rhys Morgan | Head of Research Policy, Governance and Integrity, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

RNA Collaborative Seminar Series special event

Kathryn Lilley; Alex Borodovka.

Online.

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 15:00-17:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Daniel St Johnston & Andrea Brand

Anne-Kathrin Classen, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Live Zoom Seminar.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

David Liu and Edward Young.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 13:30-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Causality, Perturbations, Gene Regulation, and Drug Repurposing

Caroline Uhler, Co-Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Zoom.

Monday 28 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Robust tuning of epigenetic memory by resource competition

Omer Karin, Postdoc, Simons lab, Gurdon Institute.

Online.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

LINE1 biology and its interactome dynamics after drug treatment

Samira Hozeifi, Postdoc, LaCava lab, ERIBA, Netherlands.

Online.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Protein self-assembly - From fundamentals to applications in materials and drug discovery

Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, U. of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 21 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Bifurcations and control of bubbles in Hele-Shaw channels

Alice Thompson, University of Manchester.

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

Friday 18 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Control, coordination, and computation in ciliated critters

Kirsty Wan, University of Exeter.

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

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Exploring the role of mitochondria in Parkinson’s disease

Professor Sonia Gandhi | UCL.

Online (Zoom).

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Flavia Mancini and Finn Ashley.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

Professor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Unsteadiness of Shock Wave / Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions

Noel Clemens, University of Texas at Austin.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 04 March 2022, 16:00-17:00