Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 I

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systems immunology and variation in the human immune system

Professor Adrian Liston, Dept of Pathology.

Seminar Rooms 1+2 School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

How personalised is your immune system?

Host - Lin Wang

Professor Aleksandra Walczak from Laboratoire de physique, l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Biochemistry Seminar Series - External Speakers

Understanding how CpG islands regulate gene expression

Rob Klose, University of Oxford.

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

Thursday 22 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Jonathan Frazer

Jonathan Frazer, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

CodeSpeak: From Kotlin to CodeSpeak: Programming Languages and AI Coding Tools

Andrey Breslav.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:05-13:55

NLIP Seminar Series

Competence, Pain and the Geometry of Intelligence: Three Perspectives on Learning and Representation

Prof Milica Gasic (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 12:00-13:00

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 29 January 2026, 09:30-10:30

RSE Seminars

RO-Crate: Packaging research outputs with their metadata for reproducibility across domains

Eli Chadwick, Senior Research Software Engineer - eScience Lab, University of Manchester.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation

Host - Aylwyn Scally

Dr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Roku: Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:05-13:55

RSE Seminars

TBC: A researcher's perspective of using good SE practices

Thomas Daggitt - British Antarctic Survey.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Seminar Series - External Speakers

How to build a contact site? The molecular mechanism of on-demand sterol biosynthesis at organelle contact sites

Maya Schuldiner - Weizmann Institute.

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

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Roser Vento-Torno

Dr Roser Vento-Torno, Group Leader, Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Memorization as a Feature, Not a Bug

Jing Huang (Stanford University).

ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Ab Initio: Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:05-13:55

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

Prof John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

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

Thursday 12 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Phylogenomic insights into the origin of eukaryotes

Host – Antoine Hocher

Dr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

Making Gravity SWIFTer: GPU offloads for gravity in the SWIFT cosmology code

Sarah Johnston - Durham University.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Atticus Geiger (Goodfire) .

ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

TITLE: Evaluating machine learning models for prediction of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among autistic individuals using genetic data

Niran Okewole, Department of Psychiatry.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:00-12:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Is the Most Dangerous Thing a Woman Can Do? Weaponised Attachment and the Invisible Abuser

Mags Lesiak, Institute of Criminology.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:30-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Prof Suzanne Turner.

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

Thursday 19 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

Biochemistry Seminar Series - External Speakers

Deciphering disease mutations and gene regulation through massively parallel assays of variant effects.

Grzegorz Kudla- University of Edinburgh.

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

Thursday 19 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr HaDi MaBouDi

Dr HaDi MaBouDi, University of Sheffield.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Machine learning: applications to cancer

Dr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

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

Thursday 26 February 2026, 09:30-10:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Konstantinos Voudouris (UK AI Security Institute).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell; Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

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

Thursday 05 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

Professor Katrina Lythgoe from Department of Biology, University of Oxford.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Seminar Series - External Speakers

"Life-s first kiss – what do we miss?"

Andrea Pauli - IMP.

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

Thursday 05 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Aleksej Zelezniak

Dr Aleksej Zelezniak, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and King's College London.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Mario Giulianelli (UCL).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Targeted Protein Degradation tools for novel therapeutic strategies in cancer

Dr Catherine Lindon, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

Thursday 12 March 2026, 09:30-10:30

RSE Seminars

TBC: HPC, GPUs, and Julia

Mosè Giordano - UCL.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast

Host - Marco Geymonat

Dr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST).

ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 13 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Biochemistry Seminar Series - External Speakers

Drugging the Gut Microbiome: From Unintended Side Effects to Targeted Modulation

Prof. Dr. Lisa Maier- University Hospital Tübingen.

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

Thursday 19 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts – Alex Cagan, Elena Scarpa and Ben Steventon

Professor Richard White from Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford.

Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Positional encodings in LLMs

Valeria Ruscio.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 17:00-17:45