Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy

Prof Rahul Roychoudhuri, Dept of Pathology.

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

Thursday 23 January 2025, 09:30-10:30

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

Telomere to mitochondria signaling prevents age-associated cancer initiation

Jan Karlseder, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare

Host - Cahir O'Kane

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Chaucer Club

Cognitive influences on speech perception in noisy environments

Emma Holmes (UCL).

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

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

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

Online (Zoom).

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insect Conservation: conserving the little things that run the world

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

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

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

'Diagnostic challenges and outcome following splenectomy due to Polyclonal B-cell Lymphocytosis in an English Bulldog (PBLEB)

Morwenna Rodgers, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 24 January 2025, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Exploring the Impact of One Health Approaches on Canine Rabies Vaccination Efforts Globally

Charlotte Rendina, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 24 January 2025, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Investigating the role of sugar metabolism in controlling fate specification during gastrulation

Chaitanya Dingare - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - The immune system of bacteria - IN PERSON ONLY

Rotem Sorek, Weizmann Institute of Science.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 27 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle

Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 27 January 2025, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing

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

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

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

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Mikkel-Ole Skjodt.

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

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys

Prof Brian Cantor.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 18:00-19:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How do we protect the democratic information environment in an AI-powered world? Tackling online harms with computational social science and AI

Helen Margetts (University of Oxford).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling sea ice dynamics using brittle dynamics: impact in pack ice and marginal ice zones

Guillaume Boutin (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center).

BAS Seminar Room 1; .

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Steroid hormone regulation of cancer immunity

Dr Bidesh Mahata, Dept of Pathology.

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

Thursday 30 January 2025, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Muzlifah Haniffa, Sanger Institute.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?

Host - Kate Baker

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

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Chaucer Club

Brain and cognitive impairments in people with a new diagnosis of epilepsy

Simon Keller (U. of Liverpool).

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Marine World

Frances Dipper.

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

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

BOAS, the canine 'obstructive sleep apnoea' effect on the brain - The BBB study'

Susana Monforte Monteiro, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 31 January 2025, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

The MRC Toxicology Unit Histopathology Core Facility – resources and potential opportunities?”

Mark Southwood, MRC Toxicology Histology Core Facility .

LT2.

Friday 31 January 2025, 08:45-10:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

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

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Principles of learning in distributed neural networks

Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 03 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Andela Saric.

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

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nucleic-Acid based therapeutics: how to use mechanistic information to ensure "safe-by-design"

Prof Anne Willis.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships

Karen Douglas (University of Kent).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour

Host - Erik Clark

Dr Justin Crocker from EMBL Heidelberg .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving

John Duncan (MRC CBU).

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

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alice Hibbert-Ware: Nature Study and the Little Owl Food Enquiry (1936-7)

Max Long.

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

Thursday 06 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Neurology

tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 07 February 2025, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Warnings Unheeded: 25 Years of Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension

John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Maria Grazia Spillantini, University of Cambridge, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98728840077?pwd=Z0MZ2xWLsyUC6fI31cIklaUbSYALwy.1.

Monday 10 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

ANNUAL LECTURE: Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment

Botond Roska, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland .

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 10 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

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

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

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

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Serge Mostowy.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific

Prof Sonya Clegg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Damer Blake, Royal Veterinary College.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Prof Suzanne Turner; Dept of Pathology.

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

Thursday 13 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University .

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue

Tessa Dekker (UCL).

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

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Squirrels of the British Isles: Red, Grey, and Black!

Helen McRobie, Anglia Ruskin University.

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

Thursday 13 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Ancestral Sight

Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 17 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Urs Jenal.

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

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Strengthening control over stress: novel brain mechanisms and opportunities for intervention

Prof Jeffrey W. Dalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

The Francis Crick Lecture 2025 - The DNA Quadruplex Helix

Shankar Balasubramaniam, University of Cambridge.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93702571246?pwd=I6zsi0w8N5XcKg2gu0bac58rcyTfba.1.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 10:00-11:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Almog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev).

Online.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 20 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Great Fen: progress on the peat

Henry Stanier, Monitoring & Research Officer at the BCN Wildlife Trust.

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

Thursday 20 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Development of diagnostic assays using a surface plasmon resonance platform technology

Alex Currie, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Preparing for the next pandemic: a computationally designed, future-proofed pan-H5 haemagglutinin nanoparticle vaccine

Chloe Huang, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 08:45-10:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Mohammad Lotfollahi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

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

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Irma Querques.

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

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

Dr Josh Smalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Christiaan van Ooij, Keele University.

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

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systems immunology and variation in the human immune system

Professor Adrian Liston.

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

Thursday 27 February 2025, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2024

Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

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

Thursday 27 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Evaluation of fluorescence in situ hybridisation for the detection of bacterial pathogens in liver biopsy samples from dogs with idiopathic chronic hepatitis

Arran Smith, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 28 February 2025, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Investigating the role of Influenza virus neuraminidase activity on the host immune response

Mahmoud Elgamal, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 28 February 2025, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human intestinal epithelial organoids – translational tools to investigate epigenetic regulation in health, development and disease

Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Ian Gilmore, National Physical Laboratory.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92454273602?pwd=kKpRjV53ALrNtk3FXYDG1jqaNTjGa4.1.

Monday 03 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 03 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Prof Thanh Nguyen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Mark Taylor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

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

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

Dr Daniel Munoz Espin, Early Cancer Institute and Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 06 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology

Host - Aylwyn Scally

Professor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University.

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice?

Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Forests

Charles Turner.

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

Thursday 06 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - QICG

Alison Hayes, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 07 March 2025, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation

Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Simonetta Gribaldo, Intstitut Pasteur.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93131890304?pwd=5wJQaRCpTeWdDhK0bgmfZrXu2qFmLY.1.

Monday 10 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 10 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Intelligent manufacturing - TBC

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain

Nadine Dijkstra (UCL).

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Cambridgeshire Bird Club - 1925 to 2025: a century of bird watching

Bob Jarman.

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Unraveling Its Variability, Mimics, and Predictors

Jose Novo Matos, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 14 March 2025, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Geospatial Analysis and Forecasting of Bacterial Meningitis Outbreaks in Africa

Molly Cliff, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 14 March 2025, 08:45-10:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

How to overwrite an instinct: neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses

Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 17 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Alex Joyner, Sloan Kettering Institute.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

Prof Maria Ubiali.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Parasitology Seminars

Structure-function studies of essential mitochondrial complexes of apicomplexan parasites

Lilach Sheiner, University of Glasgow.

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

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and clinical insights from genome-wide association studies of cancer

Dr Siddhartha Kar, Early Cancer Institute .

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

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

Seminars in Cancer

George Vassiliou, CSCI Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Chaucer Club

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2025

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

The President and Officers.

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 18:30-18:55

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

Jim Woodhouse, CNHS President; Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics.

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

Thursday 20 March 2025, 19:00-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Max Perutz Lecture 2025: Title TBC

Reinhard Lührmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91444589642?pwd=jnwAAhDSdpwbVU89ouG9RenIhuXRDL.1.

Monday 24 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

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

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

TBC

Professor Serena Nik-Zainal.

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

Thursday 03 April 2025, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Rod MacKinnon - Rockefeller University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92311841585?pwd=auhAdp8eTD8Ca0xGZpaNlZrChEcHAr.1.

Monday 07 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Jue Chen - Rockefeller University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93491001276?pwd=2utwaSIeA0haHVdOuRkZlBlQq6wzLb.1.

Monday 07 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

TBA.

Online (Zoom).

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

César Milstein Lecture 2025: Title TBC

David Pellman - Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Harvard University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97042445746?pwd=rjwSiStXxjdk1Q2tPOdRnqr8aM3qwn.1.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 10:00-11:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

Simon Powell, MSKCC.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

John Kendrew Lecture 2025: Title TBC

Elena Conti - Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92203736389?pwd=68nPyr7JP1gZrsR4lgJKm1ad4idxyx.1.

Monday 28 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Edward Egelman .

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

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 12:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

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

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Peng Wu.

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

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Alex Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

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

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

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Roberto Bellelli .

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

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Goldberg (Yale University).

Online.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

Antoine Molaro, iGReD.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

James Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94132066038?pwd=OF2EjwrvRQxl0XgpGK0N5L4bDNaayi.1.

Monday 19 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ian Swinburne, UC Berkeley.

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

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

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Structures and Strategies for Assembly-Line Biosynthesis of Terpenoid Natural Products

David Christianson .

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

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Gabriel Walksman .

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

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

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

Seminars in Cancer

Nixon Niyonzima, Uganda Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

TBA.

Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute.

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Andy Fire - Stanford University School of Medicine.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93594800418?pwd=cAhtrP8MGG3FclWimSbLLwl9XhIHNX.1.

Monday 30 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Marileen Dogterom - TU Delft, Delft University of Technology.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95584842300?pwd=V2DAKEE0bQXA4bbbSUryiRPELlhmzP.1.

Monday 07 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

**Please note new date for this seminar**

Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Christian Haass - Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96372751903?pwd=C2hRQ8UF0B03vDp6IHGfWuTlsqzrTi.1.

Monday 14 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98880219442?pwd=2LiGulNdYohUjaMnbiN88kLpt3r8M9.1.

Monday 08 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Nenad Ban - ETH Zurich.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97937314535?pwd=SciQzQiuFkLGF3ERwcMiLLTEbryUxV.1.

Monday 22 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

Hiroaki Suga - The University of Tokyo.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96488916942?pwd=BpCGRwD8hD8ec89yfaJ0yKPmV3o6lv.1.

Monday 29 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

Andrea Sottoriva, Human Technopole.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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