Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Research in the Goldman group: pandemic-scale phylogenetics, and optimizing new sequencing technologies

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

Nick Goldman and Nicola De Maio, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming

Ada Gjermundsen (Norweigian Met. Office).

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-13:00

Parasitology Seminars

Can small RNAs help address the big issues in helminth parasite control?

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details.

Dr Paul McVeigh (Queen's University, Belfast).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Dr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Chaucer Club

Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice

Helen Barron (U. of Oxford).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

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

Brett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

via zoom .

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

"Immune therapies for targeting cancers that express LGR5”

Marc de la Roche.

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

Friday 10 February 2023, 15:00-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mammalian Synthetic Biology – Biomolecular Circuits as Medicine

Xiaojing Gao, Stanford University.

CRUK CI.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Visual information processing in mice – from the retina to cortex

Katrin Franke, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, U.S.A.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 13 February 2023, 16:15-18:00

Tea Club Seminars

Next generation approaches to understanding the regulation of steroid hormone response

Andrew Holding .

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

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 12:30-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of a sexually selected syndrome in Mediterranean wall lizards

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

Dr Nathalie Feiner, Lund University.

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

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'From Data to Decisions: Causal Inference Motivated by Policy Questions'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodOytqjItGNL_he9tZXSxmdT7KTWWQRgF

Prof Mats Stensrud, EPFL.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine

Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta).

Zoom.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity – Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

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

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

Dr. Michael A. Boemo, Research Group Leader, Department of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early cancer detection

Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Cancer Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Identification and expression of putative antimicrobial molecules from gastrointestinal nematode excretory-secretory products

James Rooney,Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 17 February 2023, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Clinical reasoning in spinal patients

Bruno Scalia, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 17 February 2023, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

New tricks for Rac and Rho, even after 30 years

Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara, US.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 17 February 2023, 13:15-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

Marko Hyvonen.

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

Friday 17 February 2023, 15:00-16:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

ADRIAN LECTURE: Region-selective hippocampus contributions to altered cognition in aging

Carol Barnes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A..

Physiology Lecture Theatre + Zoom.

Monday 20 February 2023, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are the solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space?

Professor Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 20 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Steve Kerrigan, RCSI, Dublin.

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

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 12:30-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian Covariance Structure Modelling of Clinical Trial Data'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpf-uvrDMiGtLpMKemoVfOPmiD91Ju0-Xq

Stef Baas, University of Twente.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Subglacial freshwater drainage increases modelled basal melt of the Totten ice shelf

David Gwyther (UNSW).

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 10:00-11:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Seeing the Unseen (TBC)

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

Jordan P. Skittrall, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Virology and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Virology, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Experimental cancer genetics

Dr David Adams, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Using cryo-EM to unravel bunyavirus native RNPs and endosomal K+ requirement during entry

Dr Juan Fontana Jordán de Urriés. University of Leeds.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Circadian regulation of sunflower development

Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Tumor genomes shed light into somatic mutational processes and cancer vulnerabilities

Nuria Lopez-Bigas.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

Mechanism of neural differentiation

Host – Lara Busby

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

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Chaucer Club

Changes in the functional organisation of somatosensory cortex following surgical repair of the major nerves of the hand

Ken Valyear (Bangor University).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Transmission history of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer

Katriina Willgert, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 24 February 2023, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

A genome-wide association study for paroxysmal dyskinesia in the Norwich Terrier breed of dog

Chris Jenkins, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 24 February 2023, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Encoding and decoding morphogen gradients

Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 February 2023, 13:15-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

Svetlana Khoronenkova.

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

Friday 24 February 2023, 15:00-16:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Myelin plasticity - a mechanism for learning and repair?

Thora Karadottir, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 27 February 2023, 16:15-18:00

Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Nick Lane.

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

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 12:30-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

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

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

Karma Nanglu, Harvard University.

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

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

Early Science and Medicine

Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elizabeth Moreau (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

Dr Marie Manceau (College De France).

Online.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Computational Biology in Drug Discovery

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

Philippe Sanseau, GSK Senior Fellow, Head In Silico Target Biology, Computational Biology, Genomic Sciences.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Parasitology Seminars

Epigenetic memoirs of a parasite

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details.

Dr Richard Bartfai (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands) .

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Hh signalling and the anti-tumour immune response: biology and new treatment opportunities

Dr Maike de La Roche, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome

Host - Erik Clark

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

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Chaucer Club

Hierarchical processing across dual stream architecture in the primate cortex

Henry Kennedy (U. of Lyon/INSERM) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Campylobacter and Host Interactions in West Africa

Lauren Jacocks, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 03 March 2023, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Analysing the immunity profile of group A meningococcus in Ghana

Mark Owusu, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 03 March 2023, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiation

Walid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 03 March 2023, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

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

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

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

Tea Club Seminars

Non-cell-autonomous regulation of cell reprogramming: how to be an active bystander

Maria Christophorou.

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

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Birds on a tree: Progress and challenges of whole-genome phylogenomics

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

Josefin Stiller, University of Copenhagen.

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

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Methods for Bayesian optimal design of experiments, with application in biological science’

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrd-uoqjMiGN3f68WQc7zJQ7LmM4sZa2rx

Prof Dave Woods, University of Southampton.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960

Dora Yao (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

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

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

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

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

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Drug resistance in cancer treatment

Dr Jon Houseley, Babraham Institute.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Double-edged swords: innate and adaptive immune factors that inhibit or promote SARS-CoV-2 entry

Prof. Stuart Neil King's College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Professor Teresa Fitzpatrick, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Genetics Seminar

Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Parasitology Seminars

TBC

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

Dr Goylette Chami.

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Thursday 09 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Anaesthesia

Ian Self, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 10 March 2023, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Form and function during early heart development

Richard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 10 March 2023, 13:15-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

Nick Gay.

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

Friday 10 March 2023, 15:00-16:30

Tea Club Seminars

New insights into cerebellar disorders

Esther Becker.

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

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Freshwater salinization: From Ecology & Evolution to Real-World Solutions

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

Dr Rick Relyea, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

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

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

Early Science and Medicine

Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period

Tina Asmussen (Bergbaumuseum Bochum – Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

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

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

TBC

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

session by Mohab Helmy, EMBL-EBI Cambridge, cancelled. Details to follow .

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer immunology

Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

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

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Chaucer Club

“The role of the human insula in decision and response monitoring during working memory revealed by iEEG” and "Gender bias in academia: time for action”

(Please note later start time)

Anais Llorens (UC Berkeley) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 15:30-16:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Local and global aspects of sleep homeostasis

Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 20 March 2023, 16:15-18:00

Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Sarah Woodson.

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

Tuesday 21 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

TBC

Dr Bill Wickstead (University on Nottingham) .

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two hit hypothesis and other simple theories of cancer

Dr Jamie Blundell, Early Cancer Institute.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 23 March 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Human inborn errors of immunity: revealing key mechanisms of antiviral immunity

Dr Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu. Imperial College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 23 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Somatosensory participation in human motor learning

David Ostry (McGill University) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

Jenny Gallop.

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

Friday 24 March 2023, 15:00-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Jason Sheltzer, Yale School of Medicine.

CRUK CI.

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

Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Julie Aspden.

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

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Artificial Intelligence in Cancer

Dr Michael Boemo, Dept of Pathology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 09:30-10:30

Parasitology Seminars

TBC

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

Dr Roser Vento-Tormo (Wellcome Sanger Institute).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Abyssal ocean overturning slowdown and warming driven by Antarctic meltwater

Prof Matt England (UNSW).

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Susan Kaech.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Cardiology

Jose Novo Matos, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 21 April 2023, 08:45-10:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Francesca Buffa, Bocconi University.

CRUK CI.

Monday 24 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Machine learning: applications to cancer

Dr Mireia Crispin.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Cahir O'Kane

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Oded Rechavi Seminar.

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

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

TBC

Dr Antoine Claessens (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Professor Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Caroline Dive, CRUK Manchester Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Bing Ren.

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

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Sir John C. Kendrew

Professor Paul Wassarman, Mount Sinai, New York.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91598384955?pwd=RnE5M0p4bjU3bS8vMjFldHFadE9OZz09.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

TBC

Dr Vicky Hunt (University of Bath).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The physiology of mutagenesis

Prof Serena Nik-Zainal, Early Cancer Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Professor Zachary Lipmann, Cold Spring Harbour, USA.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Henrik Salje

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Oncology

Jane Dobson, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 12 May 2023, 08:45-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: TBC

Fei Chen.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93095291087?pwd=NGRzTnRJb3M0YWxqOC8xQXVNUXBmQT09.

Monday 15 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Optics and biomechanics of the developing and ageing eye - TBC

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

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

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

Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Mark Howarth.

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

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

TBC

Dr Jessica Bryant (Institut Pasteur, Paris) .

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Single cell RNA seq. and application in cancer research

Dr. Walid Khaled (Dept of Pathology, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute).

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Professor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute, Germany.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Title to be confirmed

Markus Zettl Seminar.

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

Thursday 18 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Polly Fordyce.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Richard Durbin

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

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Mohammed AlQuarishi, Columbia University.

CRUK CI.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Dr Cristina Sales, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Professor Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

JCTSs, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 02 June 2023, 08:45-10:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Dr Eva Herrero Serrano, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

JCTSs, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 09 June 2023, 08:45-10:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Nikolaus Rajewsky.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: TBC

Albert Heck.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92910980652?pwd=U2V6MGFOOU9kbmRnckNaU05HaXl4QT09.

Monday 19 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Pau Castel, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI.

Monday 26 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Jette Lengefeld, Univeristy of Helsinki.

CRUK CI.

Monday 31 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: TBC

Mikhail Shapiro.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94069360553?pwd=djJlT09ZOTlENzNJVzRYVnp6WWVZQT09.

Tuesday 12 September 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Serena Nik-Zainal.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

CRUK CI.

Monday 25 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: TBC

Hiroaki Suga.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94524239870?pwd=RjN1ZXhCZzNaaE1jWkdCcFgwbUFpZz0.

Monday 02 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

George Vassiliou, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: TBC

Matthieu Piel.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: .

Monday 16 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Fernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

CRUK CI.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: TBC

Jeff Kelly.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94698100541?pwd=L0RIZUcvY0dvYjhaRW5VU0pXNThKUT09.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Karen Vousden.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

Erwin Schoof, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

CRUK CI.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

John Brognard, NIH | NCI.

CRUK CI.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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