ME Seminar

Kekule Spirals in Twisted Graphene

User Steve Simon, Oxford.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:30

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

Why do some people remain cognitively able in old age? Investigating Cognitive Reserve in the CamCAN sample

User Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge).

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

Rotational orientation effects in gas-surface collisions

User Helen Chadwick, Department of Chemistry, The University of Swansea.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

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

CNHS Field Studies 2024

User Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

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

User Arran Smith, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

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

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

User Mahmoud Elgamal, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

User Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

The two-pole nature of the Lambda(1405) from lattice QCD

User John Bulava (Ruhr U., Bochum).

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

House 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.

LMB Seminar - Cryo-OrbiSIMS – high resolution mass spectrometry imaging in the native biological state

User Ian Gilmore, National Physical Laboratory.

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

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 Title tbc

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

User Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

House Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Monday 03 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

User Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

House Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Bound and Entangled: Adventures at the TTbar Threshold

User Ethan Simpson, University of Manchester.

House Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Cygnus X-3 in 2024: many giant radio flares!

User Prof. Dave Green (Cavendish Astrophysics).

House Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

The Continual Learning (CL) Theory

User Sasha Rivkind; Nicolas Anguita.

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

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

User Nick Manton (DAMTP).

House CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Concrescence in Mughal India: astronomical encounters at royal courts

User Anuj Misra (Freie Universität Berlin).

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

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

User Prof Thanh Nguyen.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

House Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Emergent phenomena in nanosculpted devices of quantum materials

User Max Birch - RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Parasitology Seminars

Do microbiomes of parasitic nematodes contribute to disease pathogenesis?

Host: Maria Duque-Correa

User Professor Mark Taylor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge).

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

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 2 Title tbc

Refreshments will be served after the lecture

User Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

House Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

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

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

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

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 3 Title tbc

User Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

House Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host - Aylwyn Scally

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

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

The Rise of Density Functional Theory......or.....Millions of Lucky Flukes (and counting)!

User Prof. Mike C. Payne, FRS (Cambridge).

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

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

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

User Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

Foster Talks

“Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments”

User Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

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

Foster Talks

“Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments”

User Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

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

Foster Talks

“Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments”

User Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

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

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

The History of Forests

User Charles Turner.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - QICG

User Alison Hayes, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

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

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

TBA

User Matthew Kirk (Durham U.).

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

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

LMB Seminar - One or two membranes? Investigating the transition between monoderm and diderm cell envelopes across the Tree of Bacteria - IN PERSON ONLY

User Simonetta Gribaldo, Intstitut Pasteur.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

User Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge .

House Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

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

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS

User Lars Henkelmann.

House Ryle Seminar Room.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

How TV made 'The Naked Ape'

User Miles Kempton (Christ's College).

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

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Black Holes & spin-offs

User Prof Katherine Blundell.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Spatio-temporal Melt and Basal Channel Evolution on Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf from CryoSat-2

User Katie Lowry, British Antarctic Survey.

House BAS Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Teatre, Ray Dolby Centre.

Coupling Light with Matter to Compute

User Natalia Berloff (DAMTP).

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:15-17:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

User Prof John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham).

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

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

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

User Nadine Dijkstra (UCL).

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

On the beamline: Studying surfaces at a 3rd generation synchrotron facility

User Fulden Eratam, Diamond Light Source, Harwell.

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

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

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

User Bob Jarman.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Unraveling Its Variability, Mimics, and Predictors

User Jose Novo Matos, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

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

Geospatial Analysis and Forecasting of Bacterial Meningitis Outbreaks in Africa

User Molly Cliff, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

TBA

User Mark Costantini (DAMTP).

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

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

User Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

House Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

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

The Anne McLaren Lecture

User Alex Joyner, Sloan Kettering Institute.

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

Early Science and Medicine

What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images

User Ruth Sargent-Noyes (National Museum of Denmark).

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

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

User Prof Maria Ubiali.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

House Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Title to be confirmed

User Marie-Aude Measson - CNRS Institut Neel.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Tipping points of the Ross and Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelves: how worried should we be?

User Kaitlin Naughten, British Antarctic Survey.

House BAS Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Parasitology Seminars

Structure-function studies of essential mitochondrial complexes of apicomplexan parasites

Host: Julian Rayner

User Professor Lilach Sheiner, University of Glasgow.

House 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

User Dr Siddhartha Kar, Early Cancer Institute .

House 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

User George Vassiliou, CSCI Cambridge.

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

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

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

User Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

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

House Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

User Dr. Alessandro Bonetti (Director of Neuroscience, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Kevin Weeks (PI, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA).

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

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

Annual General Meeting 2025

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

User The President and Officers.

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

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

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

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

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

User Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

TBA

User Juan Cruz-Martinez (CERN).

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

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

Max Perutz Lecture: Structural insights into the cascade of snRNP remodeling steps leading to the formation of a catalytically activated spliceosome - IN PERSON ONLY

User Reinhard Lührmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

User Gian Giacomo Navarra, Princeton University.

House BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

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

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Cecilie Glittum (Freie Universität Berlin).

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Thursday 27 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Mutational signatures: From bytes to bedside

User Professor Serena Nik-Zainal.

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

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

House 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.

LMB Seminar - Higher Order Transient structures and the principle of dynamic connectivity in membrane signaling

User Rod MacKinnon - Rockefeller University.

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

House 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.

LMB Seminar - How small molecules rescue a folding disease: principles learned from the ion channel CFTR

User Jue Chen - Rockefeller University.

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

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

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Virginia Man-Yee Lee, University of Pennsylvania.

Tuesday 08 April 2025, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

User Claire Parrott, University of British Columbia.

House BAS Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 09 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Myc in Cancer and Regeneration

User Dr Catherine Wilson, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Bruno Uchoa, University of Oklahoma.

Thursday 17 April 2025, 14:00-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

User TBA.

House Online (Zoom).

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

Title to be confirmed

User Yingpu Xiahou, University of Auckland.

House BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 23 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

House 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.

César Milstein Lecture: Title TBC

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

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

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Simon Powell, MSKCC.

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

Gibbs state preparation on digital quantum simulators

User Dominik Hahn, Oxford.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Thursday 24 April 2025, 14:00-15:30

QBS

User Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge).

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

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ross Waller

User Dr Corey Holt, University of Bath.

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

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Targeted Protein Degradation tools for novel therapeutic strategies in cancer

User Dr Catherine Lindon, Dept of Pharmacology.

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

Thursday 01 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci, FRS (Cambridge).

Thursday 01 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

The mechanical properties of wood at high rates of strain

User Stephen Walley, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

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

Title to be confirmed

User Simon Trebst (Cologne).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 16:15-17:15

Decoding genomic chaos - a pancancer compendium of chromosomal instability

User Professor Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 08 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Nikos Nikiforakis (Cambridge).

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Can we design fatigue-resistant alloys?

User Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

CSAR lecture: The transformative power of empathy for education: reflection and realisation for teaching and learning

User Dr Helen Demetriou, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Alex Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

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

House Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Title to be confirmed

User Sven Friedemann - University of Bristol.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

User Matthew Goldberg (Yale University).

House Online.

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

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

User Prof Jamie Blundell; Early Cancer Institute.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Antoine Molaro, iGReD.

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

Prediction and its application to mechanical properties

User Peter Gould.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

House 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.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User James Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

User David Savage, UC Berkeley.

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

Title to be confirmed

User Elisavet Baltas, University of Cambridge.

House BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Title to be confirmed

User Peter Littlewood (Chicago).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 16:15-17:15

Oncogene-induced senescence and tumour initiation

User Prof Masashi Narita, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

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

Thursday 22 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Walter Kohn: the theoretical physicist who created DFT and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

User Prof. Sir David Clary, FRS (University of Oxford).

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

A retelling of the Quantum Mechanics story

User John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

House Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

User TBA.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Ian Swinburne, UC Berkeley.

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

House Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Title to be confirmed

User Paul Goddard - University of Warwick.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford).

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

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

From lab to clinic: an introduction to translational research

User Dr James Jones; Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology .

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

Thursday 29 May 2025, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 16:15-17:15

Early cancer trials

User Dr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospitals, Dept of Oncology.

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

Thursday 05 June 2025, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Chris Hooley (Coventry).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

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

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

House 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

User Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

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

Title to be confirmed

User Vedika Khemani (Stanford).

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

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 16:15-17:15

Seminars in Cancer

User Nixon Niyonzima, Uganda Cancer Institute.

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Jörg Behler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

House Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

User TBA.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute.

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

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

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Joachim Frank, Columbia University.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 10:00-11:00

Title to be confirmed

User Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

House 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.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Andy Fire - Stanford University School of Medicine.

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

House 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.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Marileen Dogterom - TU Delft, Delft University of Technology.

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**

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

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

House 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.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Christian Haass - Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.

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

House 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.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego.

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

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99625598840?pwd=tiFsd5DQ5nqRyGefhp24MlXakfaa9L.1.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Alan Brown, Harvard Medical School.

Monday 15 September 2025, 11:00-12:00

House 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.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Nenad Ban - ETH Zurich.

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

House 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.

LMB Seminar - Title TBC

User Hiroaki Suga - The University of Tokyo.

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

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Steffi Oesterreich, University of Pittsburgh.

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

Thursday 16 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars in Cancer

User Andrea Sottoriva, Human Technopole.