Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Use of the cytoskeleton to control Shigella infection

Serge Mostowy.

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

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

Alice Corbella, University of Warwick.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

Alice Corbella, University of Warwick.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience

Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics.

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

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Mingtian Zhang, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

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

Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

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

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

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

HDR UK Cambridge Seminar Series

Assessing socioeconomic biases and parental affected status in rare disease families

HDR UK Cambridge seminar series event; SIGN UP HERE: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-of-cambridge/assessing-socioeconomic-biases-and-parental-affected-status-in-rare-disease-families/2025-02-13/10:00/t-pqeojoo

Dr Sana Amanat Ali .

Heart and Lung Research Institute (R.101 and 102) or Virtually via Zoom: https://sanger.zoom.us/j/96837334177?pwd=nf2mHEZTOJ74akQjszz8NqkZbTK5Yx.1.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 10:00-11:00

RSE Seminars

Managing complexity of Weather and Climate Code with diversity of skills and workflows

Iva Kavcic - UK Met Office.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

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

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Introduction to G-Research, ML engineers and Quant Research

East 1/West Hub

Charles Martinez & Yousuf Mohamed-Ahmed /G-RESEARCH .

East 1 room - West Hub.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Languages, Values, & Attitudes: On Reflections of Culture in LLMs

Prof. Anne Lauscher, Hamburg.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Ellis Unit

Machine Learning is Linear Algebra

Andrew Gordon Wilson - New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81897609356?pwd=HqbUQWnASjpBBZdaZo9r43M9Gj4N3Q.1.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Metrized Deep Learning: Fast & Scalable Training

Jeremy Bernstein (MIT).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Roku: Beyond Generative AI: Achieving Complete Control in Synthesising Testing Data with Unreal Engine

Zukang Liao, Software Engineer and former intern at Roku.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:05-13:55

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

Surface colonization of a human pathogen revisited

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 III

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

What’s not an Autoregressive LLM?

Prof. Lingpeng Kong, HKU.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swedish NLP

Felix Morger (University of Gothenburg).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09..

Friday 21 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations

Mohammad Lotfollahi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Department of Biochemistry - Tea Club Seminars

BroadCASTing DNA in bacteria: Mechanisms of CRISPR-associated transposons

Irma Querques.

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

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

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Can kernel machines be a viable alternative to deep neural networks?

Dr Parthe Pandit, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

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

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

RSE Seminars

The Rise of Self-Driving Labs: Automation of Scientific Workflows with Agentic Artificial Intelligence

Boris Bolliet - Cavendish Laboratory & Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge.

West 2, West Hub.

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Ethics AI

East 1/West Hub

Thomas MEIER (LMU München).

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Vision: A Symphony of Physics and Intelligence

Lu Fang, Tsinghua University.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Ethics AI Part 2

Thomas MEIER (LMU München).

East 1/West Hub.

Friday 28 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language meets Control Theory

Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

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

Robotics Seminar Series

Learning to Interact in Real-World Multiagent Systems

Markus Wulfmeier, DeepMind.

Department of Computer Science and technology, FW26.

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

RSE Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jennifer Cobbe - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

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

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Complexity of real and artificial networks

East 1/West Hub

Dr. Gueorgui Mihaylov (Haleon.com).

East 1/West Hub.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Dr. Andrew Lampinen (Deepmind)

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Diversity in NLP: What, Why and a Way Forward

Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 07 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

MediaTek: Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:05-13:55

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

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 13 March 2025, 09:30-10:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof. Jessy Li

Speaker to be confirmed.

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

RSE Seminars

Project management by and for RSEs

Sarah Jaffa - RSE, University of Manchester.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

East 1/West Hub

Edmund.George & Mei Lin Gan .

East 1/West Hub.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape

Olga Zamaraeva (University of A Coruña).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Helsing: Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:05-13:55

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Similarity-based Methods for Language Model Analysis and Prediction

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

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

RSE Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Miles Cranmer - DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Prof. Paul Liang

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Zifeng Ding (University of Cambridge).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 21 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Revealing the Unseen: AI's Role in Novel Target Discovery for High Unmet Needs Areas Through Multi-Omics Integrationce for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities

Dr Namshik Han, Head of Computational Research & AI, Milner Therapeutics Institute.

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

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

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

Mutational signatures: From bytes to bedside

Professor Serena Nik-Zainal.

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Myc in Cancer and Regeneration

Dr Catherine Wilson, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Myc in Cancer and Regeneration

Dr Catherine Wilson, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 02 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

Prof Jamie Blundell.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

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

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of radiation in cancer care: a spotlight on cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck

Dr Gill Barnett and Dr Christopher Jones, Cambridge University Hospital & Dept of Oncology .

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

Thursday 12 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

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

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