Title to be confirmed

Prof. Philip Joris: University of Leuven.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Julie Kauer: Brown University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 11 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Carl Petersen: Lausanne.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 April 2009, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Bernd Nilius: University of Leuven.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. David Willshaw: University of Edinburgh.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 09 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jorn Hounsgaard: University of Copenhagen.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

"Personality and stress in shelter dogs"

Re-scheduled from 24th November

Jacqeline Stephen.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology.

Monday 26 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Karen Steele: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Endless Flies Most Beautiful

Michael Perkins Lecture 2009

Sean Carroll: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 17:15-18:15

"Loss and Gain of Function in the Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Pathway"

Dr Paul Yu: Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Lecture Theatre 2, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

IgH Class switching, Translocations, and Lymphoma

Please note change to usual time

Prof. Fred Alt: CBR Institute, Boston.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Monday 15 December 2008, 11:00-12:00

DNA sequence dynamics under nucleosome constrain: Form Follows Function Follows Form?

Please note change to usual time

Prof. Andrew Fire: Stanford University School of Medicine.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Friday 12 December 2008, 11:15-12:15

Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells

ONE-DAY MEETING

Speaker to be confirmed.

Fitzwilliam College Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

Friday 12 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

Love at first light

Prof. Gero Miesenbeck: University of Oxford.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Tuesday 09 December 2008, 16:15-17:15

Title to be confirmed

Magdalena Zernicka_Goetz.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Friday 05 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Top-down influences on visual processing studied with TMS and fMRI

Christian Ruff: University College London.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:15-17:15

The (micro)diversity of pollination systems in the genus Ceropegia (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae): biogeographic and phylogenetic perspectives

Dr Jeff Ollerton: University of Northampton.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Cardiovascular Proteomics"

Dr Manuel Mayr: King's College, London.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

"Bed and Beer - Domestic dwellings on the Giza plateau"

Dr Dan Hounsell.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Downing Street.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 19:30-20:30

Title to be confirmed

(Please note change to usual day)

Prof. John Danesh: Institute of Public Health, Cambridge University.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

Please note change to usual day

Prof. John Danesh: Cambridge University.

Seminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience."

Katja Guenther: Harvard University.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells

Prof. Alan Bradley: Director of Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

Department of Pathology, (Tennis Court Road), Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Delineating the Fanconi Anaemia DNA Repair Defect

Dr K J Patel: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 12:00-13:00

Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues

Ben Simons: The Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 11:30-12:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Heinz Waessle: Max-Planck-Institut, Frankfurt.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 01 December 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Parallel Processing in the Mammalian Retina"

Prof. Heinz Waessle: Max-Planck-Institut, Frankfurt.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (Physiology Building).

Monday 01 December 2008, 16:30-17:30

Food, fair weather and fields: fundamental change in Anglo-Saxon England

Debby Banham: HPS, Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Monday 01 December 2008, 13:15-14:15

"The Regression of Atherosclerosis Insights from Novel Mouse Models"

Prof. Edward Fisher: New York University School of Medicine.

Institute of Metabolic Science, Level 4 Seminar Rooms, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Monday 01 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

The cortico-cerebellar system: Anatomy, evolution and function

Dr Narender Ramnani: University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 28 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Transcriptional networks in vertebrate mesoderm formation

Fiona Wardle: University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 28 November 2008, 13:15-14:15

"Understanding Environmental Risk Perceptions: Climate Change, Energy Choices and Public Engagement with Science"

Please contact directorate@unep-wcmc.org to register

Prof. Nicholas Pidgeon: Cardiff University.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 17:15-18:15

Reward and choice

Ray Dolan: University College London.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical aspects of evolutionary transitions to multicellularity

Prof. Ray Goldstein: DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Complex mechanisms of simple memories: from miRNAs to (perhaps) attention

Mani Ramaswami: Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Saba and Aksum: Irrigation in the Histories of Adjacent Arabian and African Empires

LCHES Special Seminars in Human Evolution

Dr M. Harrower: University of California, Los Angeles.

LCHES seminar room, The Leverhulme Centre, The Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary

Evelyn Welch: Queen Mary, University of London.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Isoforms of PI 3-kinase: signalling and biological roles

Prof. Bart Vanhaesebroeck: Institute of cancer, Barts and the London School of Medicine.

Department of Pathology, (Tennis Court Road), Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

'Born Believers: The Naturalness of Childhood Theism'

Dr Justin Barrett: Oxford University.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmunds College.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Born Believers: The Naturalness of Childhood Theism

Dr Justin Barrett: University of Oxford.

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

The Role of Developmental Biology in Cancer Research

Anna Philpott and Shin-ichi Ohnuma: Dept. of Oncology, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 12:00-13:00

All celss are born equal, but some are more equal than others

Dr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz: Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, The Gurdon Institute.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Personality and stress in shelter dogs

Jacqueline Stephen: Royal Holloway, University of London.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Building neural representations of habits"

The Annual Adrian Lecture

Prof. Ann Graybiel: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Main Physiology Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Building neural representations of habits"

The Annual Adrian Lecture

Prof. Ann Graybiel: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 24 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Insights into mechanosensitive ion channels

Prof. Jim Naismith:University of St Andrews.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Monday 24 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

A botanical tour in Paris: botany, amateurship and communities of knowledge

Sarah Easterby-Smith: University of Warwick.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Monday 24 November 2008, 13:15-14:15

'in conversation' with Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar.

Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Monday 24 November 2008, 13:00-14:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Vinod Goel: University of Hull.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 21 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Transcriptional regulation by the Polycomb system

Dr Juerg Mueller: EMBL, Heidelberg.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Friday 21 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

In vivo analysis of morphogenesis in cultured imaginal discs: A new role for Myosin II

Luis M. Escudero: MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 21 November 2008, 13:15-14:15

Pleural Disease

Various.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Mirror-touch: A remarkable form of synaethesia

Jamie Ward: University of Sussex.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cancerous microRNAs and regulatory RNA binding proteins

Dr Reuven Agami: The Netherlands Cancer Institute.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Why equalising trade-offs aren't always neutral

Dr Lindsay Turnbull: ETH Zurich.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Biodiversity loss: Mechanisms and cosequences

Dr Andy Hector: ETH Zurich.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Disease, experiment and physiology

James Fitzsimons.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Measuring osmotic modulation of synaptic responses

Richard Dyball.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

"microRNA functions"

Stephen Cohen: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, (New building) Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

Conservation and Rehabilitation of the World's Freshwaters

St Catherine's College Amalgamated Societies Distinguished Lecture

Dr David Aldridge: St Catherine's College and Dept. of Zoology.

Ramsden Room, St Catherine's College, Trumpington Street.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 19:30-20:30

God, Providence, and the Evolutionary Phenomenon of Cooperation

Prof. Sarah Coakley: Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge.

Queen's Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark

Anne Lokke: University of Copenhagen.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Adam and the Apes?: European creationism and public understanding of human evolution

LCHES Special Seminars in Human Evolution

Peter C. Kjaergaard: University of Aarhus.

The Leverhulme Centre, The Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Transcriptional control of blood stem cell development

Dr Bertie Gottgens: Cambridge Institute of Medical Research.

Department of Pathology, (Tennis Court Road), Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Captive primate welfare, human interaction and positive reinforcement training

Hannah Buchanan-Smith: University of Stirling.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 17 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. James Hudspeth: Rockefeller University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 17 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?

Andrew Cunningham: HPS, Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Monday 17 November 2008, 13:15-14:15

What is smart thing like number doing in the dumb parietal cortex?

Prof. Vincent Walsh: University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 14 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

How to build a bridal chamber: development of the thalmus

Steffen Schlopp: King's College London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 14 November 2008, 13:15-14:15

Can we develop new drugs to treat infectious and neglected diseases?

Prof. Simon Croft: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge CB1 2EW.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cerebral signature for pain perception and its modulation in health and disease

Irene Tracy: University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Getting to the root of developmental networks

**Blackman Lecture**

Prof. Philip Benfey: Duke University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Making new motor neurons in the spinal cord of zebrafish

Catherine Becker: University of Edinburgh.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Application of Metabolomics to Diabetes, Obesity and Coronary Artery Disease"

Dr Jules Griffin: University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

The Editorial Process Demystified

Andrew Sugden: Science magazine.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

"Bending and filtering the truth: insights into communication in social groups from banded mongooses and pied babblers"

Matt Bell: University of Cambridge.

Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, High Street, Madingley.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 12:30-13:30

"'Der neue Trend - no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945-1975"

Rosemary Elliot: University of Glasgow.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

IL-25 (IL-17E) and IL-17A in the regulation of type-2 immunity and asthma

Dr Andrew McKenzie: MRC, Cambridge.

Department of Pathology, (Tennis Court Road), Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

'Eschatology and the Future of the Universe'

Revd Dr David Wilkinson: Durham University.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmunds College.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Eschatology and the Future of the Universe

Prof. David Wilkinson: University of Durham.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmunds College.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 12:30-13:30

Clinical potential of functional ion channel expression in cancer

CANCELLED

Mustafa Djamgoz: Imperial College London.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 12:00-13:00

The West Anglia CLRN, TCRNs and the Coordinated System for gaining NHS Permission - How is it all going to work?

Lena Pettersson:West Anglia NIHR CLRN.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 12:00-13:00

The asymmetric dance of the microtubules at the end of mitosis

Francois Nedelec: EMBL, Heidelberg.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals

Prof. David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Pig cognition

Don Broom: University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 10 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Is it time to re-evaluate fatty acids as biomarkers?"

Dr Leanne Hodson: Oxford University.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 10 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Is it time to re-evaluate fatty acids as biomarkers"

Dr Leanne Hodson: Oxford University.

Seminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 10 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

New manuscript evidence for medieval Latin bestiary ownership and use

Trish Stewart: University of St Andrews.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Monday 10 November 2008, 13:15-14:15

Rules, associations and inhibitory control: fMRI, patient and oculomotor studies of the frontal lobe

Dr Tim Hodgson: University of Exeter.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 07 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Non-catalytic roles for the maintenance methyltransferase, XDnmt1, in development and disease

Richard Meehan: Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 07 November 2008, 13:15-14:15

Neural mechanisms of sequence learning

Bruno Averbeck: University College London.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Thinking Small: Fragment-Based Drug Design

Dr Glyn Williams: Astex Therapeutics, Cambridge.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Discovery and analysis of novel riboswitches

Prof. Ronald Breaker: Yale University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Controlling neural stem cell fates in the Drosophila optic lobe

Boris Egger.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

Steve Edgley.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

"An international perspective on the 18th- and 19th-century British ceramics trade"

Dr Alasdair Brooks.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Downing Street.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 19:30-20:30

Who owns science?

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE

Prof. Sir John Sulston FRS.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Perceptions of health in Roman Spain: preliminary research on the archaeological material from the Province

Patty Baker: University of Kent.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

"Identification of 20 novel breast cancer fusion genes using genome-wide massively parallel paired-end sequencing"

Dr Philip Stephens: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Gene regulation and chromatin in ES cells

Prof. Niall Dillon: Imperial College London.

Department of Pathology, (Tennis Court Road), Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

"Regulation of Lung Epithelial Stem Cells by Stress-Activated Protein Kinases"

Juan-Jose Ventura: University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Effects of dietary fibre and the provision of a foraging substrate on the welfare of sows housed in different grouping systems

Charlotte Stewart: Moulton College.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

The early Soviet project of hybridising humans and apes

Alexander Etkind: Department of Slavonic Studies, Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Monday 03 November 2008, 13:15-14:15

The unbearable sameness of being: Categorical cognition, autobiographical recollection and emotional disorder

Dr Tim Dalgleish: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 31 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

G-protein mediated signalling in vascular physiology and pathology

Feldberg Foundation Lecture

Prof. Stefan Offermans: University of Heidelberg.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology.

Friday 31 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Wnt signalling and cell fate decisions in stem cell populations

Penny Hayward: University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 31 October 2008, 13:15-14:15

"The New Fod Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible?"

Prof. Tim Lang: Prof. of Food Policy, City University.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 17:15-18:15

Causal functional interactions between cortical areas

Wim Vanduffel: Catholic University of Leuven.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

New Horizons of the Domestication of Crop Plants

**CPPS Seminar**

Prof. Wayne Powell: IBERS Aberystwyth.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Axons, ions and injury: why synaptic machinery is present in your whitematter and what it means for your chances during stroke

Robert Fern: University of Leicester.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Nutritional Metabolomics - Making the pieces fit"

Please note change to usual time

Dr Don Otter.

Seminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys

Suzanne Anker: School of Visual Arts, New York.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Does Quantum Mechanics have any Relevance for Religious Belief?

Dr Peter Bussey: University of Glasgow.

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

The role of Fam38 in integrin activation and lung cancer

Tariq Sethi: University of Edinburgh.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 12:00-13:00

Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printing

Prof. Ian Hutchings FREng.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Replacing animal experiments: from concept to achievement

Gill Langley: Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 27 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Neurotransmitter signalling to oligodendrocytes and their precursors: its role in oligodendrocyte development and white matter disease"

Prof. David Attwell: University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Impulsive antisocial sensation seeking in healthy subjects: Effects on cognitive processes

Prof. Alan Pickering: University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 24 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Modelling the vertebrate melanocyte - how exactly do neural crest cells go black?

Robert Kelsh: University of Bath.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 24 October 2008, 13:15-14:15

Remapping attention

Patrick Cavanagh: Universite Paris Descartes.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cajal bodies, the nucleolus and fibrillarin are required for a plant virus systemic infection

Dr Michael Taliansky: SCRI Dundee.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Synaptic specificity in the visual system

Josh Sanes: Harvard University.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Albatrosses and Petrels: Research and Conservation

Dr Richard Phillips: British Antarctic Survey.

Cambridge University Veterinary School, Madingley Road, CB3 0ES.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 19:00-20:00

"The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain"

Elizabeth Toon: University of Manchester.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Development of memory T-lymphocytes

Prof. Philip Ashton-Rickhardt: Imperial College London.

Department of Pathology, (Tennis Court Road), Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Analysis of signal transduction pathways involved in cancer and control of blood pressure

Dario Alessi FRSE: University of Dundee.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

Mad, bad and barefoot - the welfare of leisure horses

Emma Creighton: University of Chester.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

The evolution of wonder

Paul White: HPS Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Monday 20 October 2008, 13:15-14:15

Comparative cognitive development in humans and chimpanzees

Prof. Tetsuro Matsuzawa: Kyoto University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 17 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Mechanisms controlling cell fate specification of pluripotent stem cells

Ludovic Vallier: University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 17 October 2008, 13:15-14:15

Perception and production of speech - a view from functional imaging

Sophie Scott: University College London.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Perception and production of speech - a view from functional imaging

Sophie Scott: University College London.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Blue light sensing in plants and bacteria: all you need is a little LOV

Dr John Christie: University of Glasgow.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Consider the mother as a pressure vessel: Adventures in Bioengineering and Obstetrics

Michell Oyen: Department of Engineering, Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Leukocyte recruitment to the advanced plaque"

Prof. Erik Biessen: Leiden University.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: plague in sixteenth century Italy

Samuel Cohn: University of Glasgow.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Protein quality control in stress management and cellular regulation

Prof. Randolph Hampton: University of California San Diego.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 13:15-14:15

'The Ethics of Human Enhancement'

Prof. Robin Gill: University of Kent.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmunds College.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

High-throughput cancer cell line screening: a tool for discovery

Ultan McDermott: Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center & Harvard Medical School.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 12:00-13:00

Origins and organization of synapse complexity

Seth Grant: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

LARMOR LECTURE

Prof. Jeremy J Baumberg: Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Motherhood and Apple Pie? Questioning the Ethical Regulation of Social Sciences and Humanitites Research

Cambridge Bioethics Forum

Prof. Robert Dingwall: University of Nottingham.

Downing College, Wilkins Room.

Monday 13 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Recent advances in the analysis of behavioural organisation and interpretation as indicators of animal welfare

Lucy Asher: Royal Veterinary College.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 13 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Grid cell and spatial representation in the entorhinal cortex"

Prof. May-Britt Moser: Kavli Institute, Trondheim.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre.

Monday 13 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

HPV Vaccines, Where are we now?

Prof. Margaret Stanley: Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Department of Pathology, (Tennis Court Road), Lecture Theatre.

Monday 13 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

The Spatial Foundations of the Conceptual System

Joint Zangwill-Bartlett seminar

Prof. Jean Mandler: University of California.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 10 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Tackling the old enemy: new ways to target RNA

Dr Gabriele Varani: University of Washington.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Friday 10 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Imaging the relationship between structure, function and behaviour in the human brain

Heidi Johansen-Berg: University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Mouse molecular genetic studies of axon degeneration

Michael Coleman: Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

To be announced

Robin Allshire: Institute of Cell Biology Edinburgh.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

eIF3a cooperates with sequences 5' of uORF1 to promote resumption of scanning by post-temination ribosomes for reinitiation on GCN4 mRNA

Dr Leos Valasek: Prague, Czech Republic.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Monday 06 October 2008, 17:15-18:15

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sebastien Farnaud: University of Westminster, London.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 06 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

eIF3a cooperates with sequences 5' of uORF1 to promote resumption of scanning by post-termination ribosomes for reinitiation on GCN4 mRNA

Dr Leos Valasek: Prague, Czech Republic.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Monday 06 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Conflict, competition and cognitive control

Nick Yeung: University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

"Nutrition and Immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis: iron bad, vitamin D good?"

Dr Adrian Martineau: Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 September 2008, 16:00-17:00

The Flora of the Fenland Ditches - an illustrated talk

Members £2.00. Non-members £3.00

Tim Pankhurst: Fenland Officer for Plantlife International.

St John's Church hall, Hills Road (opposite Homerton College).

Wednesday 24 September 2008, 19:30-20:30

Orphan/Genetic Lung Disease

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 September 2008, 18:00-19:00

Various

Respiratory Medicine Seminars

Various.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 September 2008, 13:00-14:00

The structure of tubulin and the control of microtubule assembly

Prof. Marcell Knossow.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road.

Tuesday 16 September 2008, 14:15-15:15

"The Use of Viruses to Modulate Cardiovascular Disease"

Prof. Andy Baker: University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 September 2008, 13:00-14:00

Connectomics in the developing nervous system

Prof. Jeff Lichtman: Harvard University.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 August 2008, 11:15-12:15

"Transcriptional regulatory networks controlling early blood and endothelial development"

Dr Bertie Gottgens: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 August 2008, 13:00-14:00

"Relevance of metals in the initiation of cardiovascular diseases"

Note: change to normal time and day

Dr David Bernhard: Innsbruck Medical University, Austria.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 August 2008, 12:30-13:30

Imaging Iysosome dynamics

Cambridge Cell Biology Seminars

Judith Klumperman: University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Monday 04 August 2008, 16:30-17:30

The influence of expectation on deciding where to look next

Dr Andrew Anderson: University of Melbourne.

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

Tuesday 15 July 2008, 13:00-14:00

"From the molecule to the neurosurgeon: quantum-dot and expression-probe based sensing of signal transduction in the research lab and the operating room"

Prof. Thomas Jovin: Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen.

Sanger Building, New Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 14 July 2008, 16:00-17:00

Novel molecular switches for optical research on living cells

Dr Gerard Marriott: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 July 2008, 16:15-17:15

"Arterial stiffness: importance and regulation"

Dr Ian Wilkinson: Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 July 2008, 13:00-14:00

"Inflammation and its impact on nutritional indices"

Prof. David Thurnham: University of Ulster.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 07 July 2008, 16:00-17:00

Understanding and controlling cell death

Prof. Jim Wells: UCSF, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Centre, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 July 2008, 16:15-17:15

Mechanisms of cold detection: Moving from cool to pain.

Prof Carlos Belmonte, Institute of Neurosciences, Alicante, Spain.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre..

Friday 04 July 2008, 16:00-17:00

The Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone - an open-and-shut case for treatment

Prof. Lawrence Pearl: Institute for Cancer Research, London.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 July 2008, 16:15-17:15

How Cells Sense And Respond to Their Environment

Gatsby Career Development Fellowship

Dr Miriam Gifford: New York University.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Tuesday 01 July 2008, 11:30-12:30

"Deep Questions of Cosmology: Did Something Happen before the Big Bang?"

Prof. Sir Roger Penrose FRS.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Friday 27 June 2008, 15:00-16:00

"Pathways to obesity: the role of psychology in identifying susceptibility and informing prevention"

Prof. Marion Hetherington: Glasgow Caledonian University.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Structural analysis of cells and viruses at molecular resolution with 3D electron microscopy

Dr Sriram Subramaniam: NCI, Bethesda, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 June 2008, 16:15-17:15

RNA guides for the plant epigenome

Gatsby Career Development Fellowship

Dr Ian Henderson: University of California, Los Angeles.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 26 June 2008, 11:30-12:30

Exploring the origin of leaves

Gatsby Career Development Fellowship

Dr Jill Harrison: University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wednesday 25 June 2008, 11:30-12:30

Auxin Transport and Primordium Development in Arabidopsis

Gatsby Career Development Fellowship

Dr Marcus Heisler: California Institute of Technology.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Tuesday 24 June 2008, 11:30-12:30

Alzheimer's Disease: the molecular dissection of an emerging threat to public health

2008 Sackler Distinguished Lecture

Prof. Peter St George-Hyslop, FRS: School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Monday 23 June 2008, 17:15-18:15

"Alzheimer's Disease: The molecular dissection of an emerging threat to public health"

Prof. Peter St George-Hyslop FRS.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Site.

Monday 23 June 2008, 17:15-18:15

"Impediments to stopping the obesity epidemic"

Prof. Joseph Proietto: University of Melbourne, Australia.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 23 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Ventilation Issues in COPD

CCCRR Respiratory Medicine Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre, Papworth Hospital.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 18:00-19:00

Spatial Representations in Numeral Cognition

Martin Fischer: University of Dundee.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:15-17:15

Associations and dissociations in prefrontal cortex

John Duncan: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 June 2008, 12:30-13:30

'Animal Behaviour and Human Morality in Historical Perspective'

Prof. Nicolaas Rupke: University of Goettingen, Germany.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmunds College.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Understanding the behaviour of ostriches - a tool to improve their management and welfare

Francisco Bernal: University of Brasilia, Brazil.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 09 June 2008, 16:30-17:30

"The Economy of the Mind"

This is a rescheduled talk postponed from March

Prof. Michael Platt: Duke University.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 June 2008, 16:30-17:30

Function of diverse transcriptional coactivators in animal cells

Prof Robert G. Roeder: The Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Monday 09 June 2008, 16:15-17:15

Genetic regulation of musculoskeletal development in zebrafish

Henry Roehl: Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 06 June 2008, 13:15-14:15

Simplicity & Complexity: Science, God and Dawkins

A panel discussion

Prof. Richard Swinburne and Prof. Colin Howson.

Queen's Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 17:30-18:30

Binding temporary information in working memory: A role for an episodic buffer?

Graham Hitch: University of York.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:15-17:15

"To Cross or Not To Cross? Transcriptional Control of Axonal Pathfinding Choices"

Dr Sara Wilson: Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Columbia University, New York.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Examining morphological processing in word recognition using MEG

Caroline Whiting: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 June 2008, 12:30-13:30

Dopaminergic modulation of executive function

Sean Fallon: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 June 2008, 12:30-13:30

"Where the wild things go: tracking the behaviour of small mobile animals"

Richard Holland: University of Leeds.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 04 June 2008, 12:30-13:30

Disease in the desert: Risks and realities of TB transmission between people and animals in the Kalahari, South Africa

Julian Drewe: University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 June 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Functions of Electrical Junctions in the Thalamocortical System"

Prof. Barry Connors: Brown University.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 02 June 2008, 16:30-17:30

"The new WHO growth charts: Implications for growth monitoring practice in the UK"

Prof. Tim Cole: UCL Institute of Child Health, London.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Pax genes and neurogenic placode identity

Clare Baker: PDN.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 30 May 2008, 13:15-14:15

Why does it hurt so much? Understanding the neurobiology of pain

Steve McMahon: King's College, London.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Interactions between memory, perception and semantics: Insights from amnesia and semantic dementia

Morgan Barense: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

How important is pain to a fish?

Please note change of day

Lynne Sneddon: University of Liverpool.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

'On the Care to be had of the Dead: Some Issues Arising from the Human Tissue Act'

Revd. Dr. Michael Banner: Dean, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmunds College.

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

"Relating Brain and Behaviour in Drosophila"

The Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Prof. Martin Heisenberg: University of Wuerzburg.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 26 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Social Comparison: experimental tests

Joint Zangwill Club/Bartlett talk

Prof. Aldo Rustichini: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 23 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Shin-ichi Ohnuma: Hurchinson/MRC Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 23 May 2008, 13:15-14:15

The mismatch negativity - new clinical perspectives

Risto Naatanen: University of Helsinki.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Sex & the Molecule: A first structural glimpse of mammalian fertilisation and the origin of species

Dr Luca Jovine: Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

The structure and function of cochlear hair cells

Michael Mason and Roger Thomas.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks

Luca Passamonti: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

"Right might be wrong where West is right: On great apes' capacity for relational thought and the impact of human culture"

Daniel Haun: University of Portsmouth.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

Not so clever canines

Daniel Mills: University of Lincoln.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 19 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Dendritic recordings in vivo - the role of inhibition in shaping dendritic activity"

The Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Prof. Matthew Larkum: University of Bern.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 19 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Community-based obesity and diabetes prevention Interventions - What do we know?"

Prof. Janice Thompson: University of Bristol.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 19 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Community-based obesity and diabetes prevention Interventions - What do we know?"

Prof. Janice Thompson: The University of Bristol.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 19 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Morphological decompositionbased on the analysis of orthography

Prof. Kathy Rastle: Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London.

Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 16 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Analysis of cell and tissue movements in early embryos

Benedicte Sanson: PDN.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 16 May 2008, 13:15-14:15

Human evolution and the environment of evolutionary adaptedness

Robert Foley: University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

The mammalian Y chromosome and infertility

Paul Burgoyne: NIMR, MRC, London.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Modelling bluetongue virus transmission between farms

Camille Szmaragd: Institute for Animal Health.

Meeting Room 5, Maths Department.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 15:50-17:00

"Evolutionary and developmental aspects of intersubjectivity"

Peter Gaerdnerfors: Lund University.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

'Science and Religion or Science and Theology?'

Michael Welker: University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmunds College.

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Assessing emotional states in rats

Olive Burman: University of Bristol.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 12 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Joint action: Bodies and Minds Acting Together

Joint presentation by Prof. Guenther Knoblich & Dr Natalie Sebanz: School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 09 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Cdc42 and Arp2/3 in the control of cell shape and the maintenance of epithelial organisation

Buzz Baum: MRC Laboratory for Cell Biology, UCL.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 09 May 2008, 13:15-14:15

Rapid loss of immunity in necessary to explain historical cholera epidemics

Ed Ionides: University of Michigan.

Meeting room 15, Maths Department.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:20-17:30

A Neural Mechanism of Decision Making, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bound

Michael Shalden: University of Washington Medical School, Seattle.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Imaging sub-cellular pH dynamics: from synapse to acinus

Christof Schwiening.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Analysis of cell movement in early embryos

Benedite Sanson.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Single molecule analysis in live and reconstituted cellular systems"

Prof. Petra Schwille: Technical University of Dresden, Germany.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

"A Potted History of Cambridgeshire in the 1st Millennium BC"

Matt Brudenell.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 19:30-20:30

Adaptation of Visual Cues to Social Attention

Rebecca Lawson: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

Response learning contributions to priming and repetition suppression

Aidan Horner: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

"Androgen and gender development"

Melissa Hines: University of Cambridge.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

"Policing the Immune System"

Linacre Lecture

Prof. Herman Waldman FRS: University of Oxford.

Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

Tuesday 06 May 2008, 17:00-18:00

The effect of positive human-animal interaction during rearing on the welfare and subsequent production of the dairy heifer

Please note change of day

Catherine Bertenshaw: Newcastle University.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Transcription factories and nuclear organization of the genome

Dr Peter Fraser: The Babraham Institute.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

"Learning to localize sound"

The Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Prof. Andrew King: University of Oxford.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 05 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

A role for hippocampal LTP in memory: it's not all associative!

Dr David Bannerman: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 02 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Correlating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics

Prof. Christopher Ehret: Department of History, UCLA.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street.

Friday 02 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Bcl-2: From Translocation to Therapy

The 2nd Annual MRC Cancer Cell Unit Lecture

Prof. Suzanne Cory: Director of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Addenbrooke's Hospital Site).

Friday 02 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

An ancient core in modern brains

Kristin Tessmar-Raible: EMBL, Heidelberg.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 02 May 2008, 13:15-14:15

"Biodiversity and Extinction in the Brave New Ocean"

Michael Perkins Lecture 2008

Prof. Jeremy Jackson: Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 17:00-18:00

International Environmental Governance

Prof. Bob Watson: Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

How to control pest insects such as mosquitoes by releasing lots more of them!

Nina Alphey: Zoology, Oxford.

Meeting room 15, Maths Department.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:20-17:30

A "molecular sled" activates the adenovirus proteinase ans carries it along tens of thousands of base pairs of viral DNA via one-dimensional diffusion to locate its substrates

Dr Walter F Mangel: Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Adaptive face-coding mechanisms in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder

Liz Pellicano: University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Stem cell renewal and lineage selection in mammalian epidermis

Fiona Watt: Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Reasearch, Cambridge.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics"

Sustainable Development Annual Lecture Series

Prof. Robert Watson: Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA.

Lecture Theatre O, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 18:00-19:00

Rhythm perception in musicians and non-musicians: auditory-motor network modulations

Jessica Grahn: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 12:30-13:30

"Vocal communication in chimpanzees: links to human language?"

Katie Slocombe: University of York.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 12:30-13:30

A forum: Interdisciplinarity in Science

Chair:- Quentin Cooper, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Material World.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 17:30-18:30

"Chilenje Infant Growth, Nutrition and Infection Study: a randomised controlled trial of complementary foods in Zambia"

Suzanne Filteau: University of London.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

'Science and Religion in the Life of Robert Boyle'

Prof. Ted Davis: Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmunds College.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

The effect of out-wintering pad design on dairy cow health and welfare

Keelin O'Driscoll: University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 28 April 2008, 16:30-17:30

Attentional bias and craving in substance use

Dr Matthew Field: School of Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 25 April 2008, 16:30-17:30

Graded signalling and the control of neural cell fate

James Briscoe: NIMR, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 25 April 2008, 13:15-14:15

The Great Fen Project - an Update

An illustrated talk. Members £2; non-members £3

Chris Gerrard: Project Manager, The Wildlife Trust.

Gilmour Building, C.U. Botanic Garden. Entrance behind 47 Bateman Street, NOT the Main Gate.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 19:30-20:30

Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem

Prof. Nick Owens: Director, British Antarctic Survey.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:30-17:30

The interplay between phosphorylation and polyubiquination in regulating the innate immune system

Prof. Sir Philip Cohen: School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:15-17:15

Pragmatic me, pragmatic you: the development of informativeness from a speaker's and a comprehender's perspective

Napoleon Katsos: University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:15-17:15

"Visualization of signalling across the plasma membrane in living cells using genetic encoded fluorescent sensors and multimode microscopy"

Prof. Theodorus Gadella: University of Amsterdam.

Sanger Building, New Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

EEG and MEG Correlates of Recollection, Familiarity, and Priming

Jason Taylor: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 12:30-13:30

"Moving towards automated analysis of complex patterns of behaviour"

Kostya Anokhin: Russian Academy of Medical Science, Moscow.

Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, High Street, Madingley.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street.

Friday 18 April 2008, 19:30-20:30

Cough

CCCRR Respiratory Medicine Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 April 2008, 18:00-19:00

"Pulmonary hypertension; what's so special about the lung?"

Paul McCloughlin: University College, Dublin.

Seminar Room 10, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

Mini-Symposium

Various.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (new building), Tennis Court Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 09:00-12:00

Early endosome trafficking in the model fungus Ustilago maydis

Gero Steinberg: School of Biosciences, University of Exeter.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Monday 14 April 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Using microfluidics to ask other peoples questions in biology"

Dr Mark Tracey: University of Hertfordshire.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Friday 11 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

"The organization and topology of the bacterial nucleoid: steps towards a holistic theory of transcriptional regulation"

Prof. Georgi Muskhelishvili: Jacobs University, Bremen.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

"Using Chemical Tools to Elucidate the Molecular Mechanism of Malaria Infection and Develop a Malaria Vaccine"

Please note change of time

Prof. Peter Seeberger: ETH, Zurich.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 April 2008, 10:30-11:30

"A glimpse into the atomic structure of plant photosystem I - 3.5 billion years of perfection"

Prof. Nathan Nelson: Department of Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 April 2008, 16:15-17:15

Title to be confirmed

Dr Nicola Lowe: University of Central Lancashire.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 31 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Comparative studies of diet and bone health in South Asian women in the UK and Pakistan"

Dr Nicola Lowe: University of Central Lancashire.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 31 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

JAK2 mutations and myeloproliferative disorders - gain of function, loss of control

Cambridge Seminars in Disease Mechanisms

Prof. Tony Green: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Department of Pathology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

"Tarketing the lipid kinases"

Dr Zachary Knight: Rockefeller University, New York.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

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

"Structure and Dynamics of the Human beta 2 Adrenergic Receptor"

Prof. Brian Kobilka: Stanford University.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

Insight, Attention and Error

Ian Robertson: Trinity College Dublin.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:15-17:15

Insight, Attention and Error

Ian Robertson: Trinity College Dublin.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:15-17:15

Insight, Attention and Error

Ian Robertson: Trinity College Dublin.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:15-17:15

To grow or not to grow

Prof. Nicholoas Harberd: University of Oxford.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis by N-cadherin: implications for atherosclerotic plaque stability"

Sarah George: Reader in Vascular Biology, Bristol Heart Institute.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

"THE NEURONAL CIRCUITS UNDERLYING THE ODOR PERCEPTION IN MICE"

Dr Alexander Fleischmann: Columbia University.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Technological evolution of early hominids

Prof. Helene Roche: Laboratoire d'Ecologie et de Zoologie de l'Universite Paris-Sud.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

"Great apes' performance in discriminating weight and colour"

Cornelia Schrauf: MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

Tamsin O'Connell.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:15-14:15

fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants

Alexandra Woolgar: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Stems and affixes on Polish non-fluent aphasia

Ola Jelowicka.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Rethinking market fundamentalism

Student Talks and Grand Discussion

Mishko Hansen: Ph.D. Student in Business.

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Monday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Money makes the university go round (the bend)?

Student Talks and Grand Discussion

Karin Doolan: Ph.D. Student in Education.

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Monday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Can the arts survive the 'pragmatisation' of education?

Student Talks and Grand Discussion

Antoine Panaioti: Ph.D. Student Oriental Studies.

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Monday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?

Professor David Baulcombe FRS.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Peroxisome maintenance in yeast

Ewald Hettema: University of Sheffield.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Monday 10 March 2008, 16:30-17:30

After the Act: whither animal welfare?

Mike Radford: University of Aberdeen.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 10 March 2008, 16:30-17:30

Understnding Humans - Serendipity & Anthropology

Richard Leakey: Stony Brook University, New York.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Friday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

"How do miRNAs silence gene expression?"

Dr Elisa Izaurralde: Max-Planck-Institute.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

'Gender and History'

Registration not mandatory but helpful. Email symposium@gender.cam.ac.uk

Various speakers.

The Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge.

Friday 07 March 2008, 10:00-17:15

Are academics intellectuals? A reading of Edward Said

Dr Priyamvada Gopal: Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies.

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Creating a Healthy Environment: challenges facing China

Prof. Sian Griffiths: Prof. of Public Health, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DF.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 17:15-18:15

"Centrosomal delivery of secretory granules"

Prof Gillian Griffiths: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:15-17:15

Everything you always wanted to know about potassium

Dr Anna Amtmann: University of Glasgow.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Computational modelling of structural and functional development of the visual system

Stephen Eglen: DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Science.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

"The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Westfield Farm and the Origins of Ely"

Richard Newman.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Downing Street.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Great ape origins of intentional understanding

Prof. Richard Byrne: School of Psychology, University of St Andrews.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

Great ape origins of intentional understanding

Prof. Richard Byrne: School of Psychology, University of St Andrews.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

"What new techniques for measuring behaviour would you die for"

Prof. Pat Bateson: University of Cambridge.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Archaeology, neuroscience, and the active nature material culture

Lambros Malafouris.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 13:15-14:15

Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks

Luca Passamonti: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture

Amanda Rees: University of York.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

'Biology, the Anthropic Principle and Natural Theology'

Prof. Alister McGrath: Oxford University.

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Socrates and the invention of philosophical conversation

Professor Malcolm Schofield: Professor of Ancient Philosophy.

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Monday 03 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Breeding horses: How management influences behaviour, welfare and reproductive success

Mark Kennedy: Anglia Ruskin University.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 March 2008, 16:30-17:30

"The Economy of the Mind"

CANCELLED

Prof. Michael Platt: Duke University.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 03 March 2008, 16:30-17:30

Cosmological Serendipity

Simon Singh: Author, Journalist, TV Producer.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Friday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

An ancient core in modern brains

Kristin Tessmar-Raible: EMBL, Heidelberg.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 29 February 2008, 13:15-14:15

The thought of poetry and its institutional discontent

Dr Drew Milne: Lecturer in Drama and Poetry.

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 19:30-20:30

Learning predictions and actions in the basal ganglia

Ben Seymour: Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL & Dept of Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

"Autophagy and neurodegenerative diseases"

Prof David Rubinsztein: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

First steps in manipulating cell wall polysaccharide synthesis: functional and industrial implications

Dr Paul Dupree: University of Cambridge.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

The role of Pax genes in neurogenic placode identity

Clare Baker.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

The lamprey locomotor network and functional recovery after spinal injury

David Parker.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Freedom, technology and terror

Professor Ross Anderson: Professor of Security Engineering.

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 18:00-19:00

Global health partnerships work together to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa

Prof. Alan Fenwick: Imperial College, London.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Global health partnerships work together to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa

Prof. Alan Fenwick: Imperial College, London.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Exploitation and Engagement: Reassessing the ancient Egyptian colonial town at Sesebi, Northern Sudan

Kate Spence.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 13:15-14:15

Follow your heart? Investigating the influence of bodily feedback on decision-making and emotion experience

Barney Dunn: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

What use is a college education?

Dr Don MacDonald: Department of Genetics.

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 19:30-20:30

Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders

Sasha Handley: University of Manchester.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

"The RNA world of germ cells"

CANCELLED

Prof. Geraldine Seydoux:Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Local protein synthesis at synapses

The Rosalind Franklin Seminar Series

Prof. Eric Schuman: California Institute of Technology, USA.

Biffen Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Unpredictability and chance in science and technology

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS FREng.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Can non-invasive glucocortoids be used to assess stress and welfare?

Julie Lane: Central Science Laboratory, York.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 25 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

"RNA catalysis: sophisticated biochemistry by a simple biopolymer"

Dr Adrian Ferre D'Amare: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Reasearch Center, Seattle.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Monday 25 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Coding and plasticity in an olfactory system

Gilles Laurent: Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Monday 25 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Serendipity as a Force in Physics

Richard Friend: University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

A clean start: the oocyte-to-embryo transition in C. elegans

Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar

Geraldine Seydoux: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 22 February 2008, 13:15-14:15

Cofilin actin'g up from growth cone guidance to synapse development

Prof. James Zheng: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA.

Biffen Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 February 2008, 13:15-14:15

Intestitial Lung Disease

CCCRR Respiratory Medicine Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 18:00-19:00

A cognitive neuropsychological account of antidepressant drug action

Catherine Harmer: University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Building plant bodies from hair

Prof. Liam Dolan: John Innes Centre, Norwich.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Early intracellular Abeta amyloid pathology and its relevance to Alzheimer's therapeutics

Claudio Cuello: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

The role of dopamine and serotonin in reinforcement - based learing and adaption

Roshan Cools: Radboud University of Nijmegen.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

"The invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis: a risk assessment for British species"

Dr Remy Ware: University of Cambridge.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages

William MacLehose: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

'Ethical Aspects of Science Policy'

Prof. John Wood: Imperial College, London.

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Skin, scales and fins: genetic analysis of the development of adult integumentary organs in the zebrafish

Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 18 February 2008, 20:00-21:00

Positive emotional states in marmosets: an autonomic, behavioural and neural analysis

Angela Roberts: University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Attentional modulation of visual motion processing; Space, feature and objects"

Prof. Stefan Treue: University of Guttingen.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 18 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

Serendipity in Political Life

Oliver Letwin: Member of Parliament.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Friday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

In vivo consequences of multiple centrosomes

Renata Basto: Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 15 February 2008, 13:15-14:15

The economics of climate change: governments, companies and households

Lord Adair Turner: former Director-General, CBI.

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

Thursday 14 February 2008, 17:15-18:15

Developmental impairments of attention and working memory: Same or different?

Sue Gathercole: University of York.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Towards an interdisciplinary view of shoot apical meristem function

Prof. Jan Traas: Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

The secret life of neural stem cells

Kojiro Yano.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Metabolic adaptation to high altitude hypoxia

Andrew Murray.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language

Dr Barry Bogin: Department of Human Sciences, University of Loughborough.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

From the Urals to China: the evolving role of the Horse in late prehistory

Marsha Levine.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 13:15-14:15

Biotrash: medical garbage in India

Sarah Hodges: University of Warwick.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Sundials and the calendar

Dr Frank King: Computer Laboratory.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Role of membrane trafficking in mammalian germline sex determination

Ian Adams: MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Monday 11 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

Fearsome adversary, mythical being, respected companion or a mere milk machine? Examining the changing role of, and perceptions of, the cow in human society and addressing the need to re-introduce her to modern consumers

Hannah Velten: East Sussex.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Iron Absorption in Health and Inflammatory Bowel Disease"

POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY 25TH FEBRUARY

Will Cook: MRC HNR.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life

Simon Wichester: Author of 'The Map That Changed The World'.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Friday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Glial cells generate neurons - mechanisms of neurogenesis and neuronal repair

Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar

Magdalena Gotz: Institute of Stem Cell Research, Neuherberg.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 08 February 2008, 13:15-14:15

Cognitive processes and molecular mechanisms

Seth Grant: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

"Towards in vivo molecular automata"

Dr Yaakov Benenson: Harvard University.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

How repeatable is evolution? The genetics of parallel architectural evolution in Brassicaceae

3rd Kenneth Sporne Lecture

Prof. David Baum: University of Wisconsin.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Cell therapies for Parkinson's disease - Hype or Hope?

Roger Barker: Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

"The Romantic History of Chocolate" (Death, Sex and Religion)

Joanna Crosby.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 19:00-20:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Kevin Kuykendall: Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

A place of history: the archaeology of Cidade Velha, Cape Verde

Chris Evans and Marie-Louise Sorensen.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 13:15-14:15

Does spatial attention modulate Mirror Neuron activation?

Karolina Moutsopoulou: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Cortical responses to object number during perception and visual short-term memory

Danny Mitchell.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

"Investigating the maintenance of traditions in free-living marmosets"

Mario Pesendorfer: University of Vienna, Austria.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Serving men, serving gods: doctors and musicians in the ancient Greek world

Natacha Massar: Free University of Brussels.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

"Can nutrient-gene interactions explain differences in clinical expression of Sickle Cell disease in Tanzania?"

Speaker to be confirmed.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

'The Future of the Science-Religion Debate'

Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS: University of Cambridge.

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Heart rate and behavioural monitoring during learning in dogs

Carla Torres-Pereira: University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 04 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

HIV and the Naked Ape

Prof. Robin A Weiss: University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Friday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Understanding limb development: upstream and downstream of Tbx5 and Tbx4

Malcolm Logan: NIMR London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 01 February 2008, 13:15-14:15

Climate Change: A burning issue?

Professor Robert S. White FRS: Professor of Geophysics, University of Cambridge.

Christ Church, Christchurch Street, Cambridge CB1 1HT.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 19:30-20:30

Cell recording and fMRI reveal a specialized system for processing faces in the temporal lobe

Doris Tsao: University of Bremen.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:15-17:15

"Formation of ribonucleoprotein particles and their nuclear export through nuclear pore complexes"

Feldberg Foundation Prize Lecture

Dr Ed Hunt: University of Heidelberg.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:15-17:15

Recent dynamics and biomass carbon balance in the Amazon forests - what on earth is going on?

Dr Oliver Phillips: University of Leeds.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Stem Cells, cancer and brain repair

Colin Watts: Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

High-resolution isotope analyses of hominin teeth: how do we interpret these new sources of data?

Prof. Julia Lee-Thorp: Department of Archaeological Science, University of Bradford.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Trang An Project, Vietnam: A preliminary report on the 2007 fieldwork

Ryan Rabett.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 13:15-14:15

Oxytocin and the nature of true love

Matthew Brett: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

"Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story"

Lynn Morgan: Mount Holyoke College.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 29 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

When is a structure a musical instrument? Percussion instruments and other musical oddities

G.I.Taylor Lecture

Professor Jim Woodhouse: Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

"Relating Brain and Behaviour in Drosophila"

The Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Prof. Martin Heisenberg: University of Wurzburg.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 28 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

The Stratigraphy of Serendipity

Susan Alcock: Brown University, USA.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Friday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Making neurons outside the stem cell niche

Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar

Sally Temple: N.Y. Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 25 January 2008, 13:15-14:15

Travelling 1st Class on the Titanic?

Barbara Young: Chief Executive of the Environment Agency.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DF.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 17:15-18:15

Competitor or parasite: choose your best enemy

Dr Olivier Restif: CIDC, Vet School.

Meeting Room 4, Maths Department.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

The neural architecture of social concepts and values: implications for neuropsychiatry

Roland Zahn: University of Manchester.

Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:15-17:15

Improving wheat for processing and nutrition

CPPS seminar

Prof. Peter Shewry: Rothamsted Research, Harpended.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Chromatin and pluripotency

Veronique Azuara: Imperial College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

"In-vivo non-linear spectral imaging"

Prof. Hans C. Gerritsen: Utrecht University.

Cancer Research UK, "Li Ka Shing Centre", Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

The struggle within: objects, subjects and multivocality on excavations in Scotland

Oliver Harris.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 13:15-14:15

Maturational aspects of auditory ERP

Oleg Korzyukov: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

"Hormonal control of resource-defense aggression in females. Sex-role reversed birds as model systems"

Dr Wolfgang Goymann: MPI for Ornithology, Germany.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

'Should the Word "Nature" be Eliminated? A Historical Survey'

Prof. John Hedley Brooke: Oxford University.

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 22 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

How important is pain to a fish?

Lynn Sneddon: University of Liverpool.

Seminar Room, Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 21 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy

Andy Fabian: University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Friday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how and why?

Joint Zangwill/Chaucer Seminar

Colin Blakemore: University of Oxford.

Department of Experimaental Psychology.

Friday 18 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

The role of local translation in axon guidance

Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar

Christine Holt: Dept. Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 18 January 2008, 13:15-14:15

Reward and uncertainty

Wolfram Schultz.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Horses for courses in intrauterine programmimg

Abby Fowden.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Prediction error, casual learning and the delusional state

Paul Fletcher: University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry, Brain Mapping Unit.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 January 2008, 17:00-18:00

Integration of ubiquitin and phosphoinositide signals by the ESCRT machinery

Roger Williams: MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Monday 14 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Physical activity and bone health"

Dr Katherine Brooke-Wavell: Loughborough University.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 14 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

"Individual variation in trace element requirements"

Prof. Sue Fairweather-Tait: Institute of Fod Research, Norwich.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 17 December 2007, 16:00-17:00

"Improving diet assessment with the use of digital imagery and mobile phones"

Please note change to usual day and time

Prof. Carol Boushey: Purdue University, USA.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Advances in the Remote Sensing of Forest Biodiversity and Carbon Dynamics

CCF Seminar

Dr Richard Lucas: University of Wales Aberystwyth.

UNEP-WCMC, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

"Turning LMB Science into a Half a Billion Dollar Business - The Story of Domantis"

Dr Ian Tomlinson: Dormantis, Cambridge.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 December 2007, 16:15-17:15

"Intranuclear processing of DNA damage: is there a nuclear apoptosome?"

Prof. Andrew Wylie: Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

"Children's self-report of dietary intake"

Please note change to usual day and time

Prof. Suzanne Domel Baxter, University of South Carolina.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 December 2007, 16:00-17:00

"ENCODE: Understanding our genome"

Dr Ewan Birney: European Bioinformatics Inst., Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge..

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 December 2007, 16:15-17:15

Interaction networks involving small silencing RNA molecules

David Baulcombe FRS: Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 December 2007, 11:30-12:30

"After Roman Britain: who were the early Anglo-Saxons?"

Helen Geake.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street.

Wednesday 05 December 2007, 19:30-20:30

"Regulatory T cell Immunity in Atherosclerosis"

Prof. Ziad Mallat: French National Institute of Health & Biomedical Research.

Lecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 December 2007, 15:00-16:00

The Mind of a Thief: Investigations into Animal Cognition Using the Western Scrub-Jay, Aphelocoma californica

Scott Stevens: University of Cambridge.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 03 December 2007, 16:30-17:30

Synthetic Biology - Molecular bioengineering for the 21st Century

ONE-DAY MEETING

Speaker to be confirmed.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 09:00-18:00

"Mathematical models of human metabolism and body composition regulation"

Please note the change of time

Dr Kevin Hall: National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Friday 30 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

'Regional economic evolution: creating a space for history in economic geography'

Prof. Ron Martin: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Sexual signals in male Sulawesi crested black macaques (Macaca nigra)

Dr Antje Engelhardt: Department of Reproductive Biology, Leibnitz Institute for Primate Research.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cognition and reward in Parkinson's Disease

James Rowe: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

"Henslow's legacy, Darwin's inheritance"

John Parker: University of Cambridge.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

Taxonomic diversity in African Plio-Pleistocene hominins - early Home in eastern and southern Africa

Frederick E. Grine: Leverhulme Visiting Professor at LCHES & Professor of Anthropology and Anatomy at SUNY, Stony Brook.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, The Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Values and Science Research - What is Science for?

Prof. Tom McLeish: Director, Polymer Interdisciplinary Research Centre, University of Leeds.

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

Genome surveillance pathways: emerging new players and their dynamic organization in the cell nucleus

Jiri Lukas: Danish Cancer Society Copnhagen.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

Hands-free writing

Prof David J C Mackay.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Veterinary Aspects of Great Ape Release - Practicalities and Constraints

Steve Unwin: Chester Zoo.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 26 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

"From Single Neuron Activity to Visual Cognition: A Bridge Too Far?"

The Annual Adrian Lecture in Neuroscience

Prof. Nikos Logothetis: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen.

Physiology Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 26 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Ian Goodyer: Foundation Prof. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 26 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Adjusting Network Dymanics to Cognitive Demands: Dopaminergic Control of Cortical Activity Regimes

Dr Daniel Durstewicz: University of Plymouth.

Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 23 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

"Microfluidics in Biology"

Dr Ronny van't Oever: Micronit Microfluidics BV, The Netherlands.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Friday 23 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Motor neurone disease; a big leap forward?

This seminar will be videoconferenced to Clinic 10 Outpatient Seminar Room, Addenbrooke's Hospital

Prof. Pamela Shaw: Prof. of Neurology, University of Sheffield.

Chest Medical Unit Seminar Room, Papworth Hospital.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 18:40-19:00

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the long view

This seminar will be videoconferenced to Clinic 10 Outpatient Seminar Room, Addenbrooke's Hospital

Dr Masood Ali: Research Fellow, RSSC Papworth.

Chest Medical Unit Seminar Room, Papworth Hospital.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 18:20-18:40

Surgery and the Respiratory Muscles

This seminar will be videoconferenced to Clinic 10 Outpatient Seminar Room, Addenbrooke's Hospital

Mr Aman Coonar: Consultant Thoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital.

Chest Medical Unit Seminar Room, Papworth Hospital.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 18:00-18:20

Title to be confirmed

Mani Ramaswami: Trinity College Inst. of Neuroscience, Dublin.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

The Homo Sapiens explosion: new archaeological and genetic perspectives

Nineteenth McDonald Lecture

Prof. Paul Mellars: University of Cambridge..

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Amazing puzzles: a preserved ability in Semantic Dementia?

Hilary Green: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

Juliane Kaminski: University of Cambridge.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

Diet and adaptation in Pliocene hominins

Eternal themes in human evolution - origins, adaptation and diversity

Frederick E. Grine: Levehulme Visiting Professor at LCHES & Professor of Anthropology and Anatomy at SUNY, Stony Brook.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, The Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

"The DNA damage problem and its impact on cancer and aging"

Dr Jan Hoeijmakers: Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

"Shear stress, inflammation and plaque composition"

Dr Bob Krams: Chair of Bioengineering, Imperial Collecge London.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

"Dynamics of cell polarization in the early C. elegans embryo"

Edwin Munro: Centre for Cell Dynamics, University of Washington.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Dog Ownership - a UK-wide Survey

Claire Brown: University of Lincoln.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 19 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Mike Mendl: Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol.

Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 16 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

'Crop yields, environmental crises and historical change: Britain and Ireland 1290-1380'

Prof. Bruce Campbell: Department of Geography, Queen's University of Belfast.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Pain processing - what the brain tells the spinal cord

Tony Dickenson; University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Ecomorphology Rekindled: bovids as palaeoecological indicators

Dr Fire Kovarovic: Department of Anthropology, University of London.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

"Fine-tuning Energy Metabolism Measurements in Clinical Investigations"

Dr Kong Chen: National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Putting emotions into context

Dean Mobbs.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

"Chimpanzees conflicts and cognition. Cross-sectioning chimpanzee conflict resolution"

Sonja Korski: University of Cambridge.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

Hofmeyr and modern human origins

Eternal themes in human evolution - origins, adaptation and diversity

Frederick E. Grine: Leverhulme Visiting Professor at LCHES & Professor of Anthropology and Anatomy at SUNY, Stony Brook.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, The Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

"Organisation of membrane transport by microtubule motors and plus end tracking proteins"

Dr Anna Akhmanova: Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

The Doctrine of the Fall and the Epistemological Foundations of Modern Science

Prof. Peter Harrison: Oxford University.

The Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Specification of area patterning of the mammalian neocortex

Denis O'Leary: The Salk Institute La Jolla.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)

Prof. Kevin Brindle: Department of Biochemistry & Cancer ResearchUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Piggin Good Welfare: How to Improve the Welfare of Growing Pigs through the Choice of Housing and Feeding Systems

Kamara Scott: University of Newcastle.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 12 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

Familiarity and recall in rats: Memory for objects and events

Dr Madeleine Eacott: Department of Psychology, University of Durham.

Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 09 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

Interneuron specification in the zebrafish spinal cord

Kate Lewis.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 08 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Mechanisms of Regulating Epidermal Stem Cell Fate

Michaela Frye.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 08 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

"A Redox Component of Insulin Action?"

Prof. Ken Siddle: Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

"Love's Farm, an Iron Age Community on the Cambridgeshire Claylands"

Mark Hinman.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 19:30-20:30

The physics of the Earth's interior

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE

Prof Dan McKenzie CH FRS: Department of Earth Sciences.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

From emotion in the control of action to emotional meaning - a suggested evolutionary trajectory

Phil Barnard: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

"Mimicry - Lamarck's revival?"

Wolfgang Wickler: MPI for Ornithology, Germany.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

The Multiverse, Ultimate Causation and God

The CiS-Faraday Lecture

Prof. George F. R. Ellis FRS: University of Capetown.

Queen's Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 06 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

"RNA Structure, Catalysis and the Origin of Life"

Dr Bill Scott: University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Early Human Handling and its Impact on Rabbit Welfare and Reproduction

Katalin Csatadi: Chester Zoo.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 05 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

"The Cambridge Baby Growth Study"

Dr Ken Ong: Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 05 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Androgen and gender development

Prof. Melissa Hines: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 02 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

'Water under ice: investigating the basal zone ice sheets and glaciers'

Dr Poul Christofferson: Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

"Structural basis of iterative fatty acid synthesis catalyzed by giant multienzyme complexes"

Dr Nenad Ban: ETH Zurich.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Teenagers: a Natural History

David Bainbridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Adapting a bacterial enzyme for gene therapy in the central nervous system

John Rogers.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

"Silence of the Genes: DNA methylation in cancer"

Dr Howard Cedar: Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 11:15-12:15

Finding our way in the world: the effect of landscape structure and wayfinding on the pattern of hominid dispersals.

Dr Ariane Burke: Dept. d'Anthropologie, Universite de Montreal.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Strategies of spatial listening for speech comprehension

Antje Ihlefeld: MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 31 October 2007, 12:30-13:30

"Between a rock and a soft place: do banded Mongooses understand the properties of objects?"

Alex Thornton: University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Wednesday 31 October 2007, 12:30-13:30

"Earthquakes and tsunamis in Indonesia and the Mediterranean"

Prof. James Jackson FRS.

Rushmore Room.

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 19:30-20:30

Three Meanings of Climate Change: presaging Apocalypse, constructing Babel, lamenting Eden

Prof. Mike Hulme: School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.

The Garden Room, Ground Floor, new Library Building.

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Gene regulation by histone H2A ubiquitylation

Neil Brockdorff: ICSM, Hammersmith Hospital London.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building.

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 11:30-12:30

Threats to Woodland: present and future

Prof. Oliver Rackham OBE, FBA: Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Peacocks: A Natural and Cultural History

Christine Jackson: Suffolk.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 29 October 2007, 16:30-17:30

Evolution of the membrane-trafficking system: Insights from protist genomics

Joel Dacks.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Monday 29 October 2007, 16:30-17:30

"What did prehistoric people eat? Assessing archaeological diets using light stable isotope analysis"

Dr Tamsin O'Connell: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

MRC Human Nutrition Research, The Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Investigating individual differences in outcomes for cochlear implantees

Prof. Colette McKay: School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.

Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 26 October 2007, 16:30-17:30

"Genomics: From Humans to the Environment"

Dr Craig Venter: Rockville, Maryland.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Friday 26 October 2007, 11:00-12:00

Sides, bottom and top; diverse mechanisms of cell adhesion

Nick Brown.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Mesoderm formation in vertebrates - Identifying transcriptional targets of No tail in zebrafish

Fiona Wardle.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (Old Physiology tea room on 'D' floor).

Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

What is the State?

The Dr Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture

Prof. Quentin Skinner FBA.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Awareness and Obligations to Animals

Don Broom: University of Cambridge.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 22 October 2007, 16:30-17:30