Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Regulators of Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Function

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch

Helen Blau, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

ARClub Talks

Self-Other Processes in ASD - the Case of Empathy

Dr Idalmis Santiesteban, ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow and Affiliate Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach

Mengya Zhang (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey

The effect of ice shelf dynamics on marine ice sheet stability

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Marianne Haseloff, University of Oxford.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Actomyosin driven tension at compartment boundaries orients cell divisions independently of cell shape in vivo

Elena Scarpa, PDN, Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Investigating the role of mitochondrial metabolism during central nervous system development

Jelle van den Ameele - Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 17:30-19:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond

Thomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 21 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

rv254's list

Neuron-glia signalling mechanisms regulating brain development, homeostasis and pathological cascades

Hardingham Giles - University of Edinburgh.

Institute of Public Health (IPH).

Thursday 21 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

How can we beat the government's 10% target for suicide prevention?

Professor Louis Appleby, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manchester; Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Global outbreaks: interferons as first responders

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Eleanor N Fish, University of Toronto.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

A longitudinal study on the effect of testosterone and estradiol on empathy and systemizing (EQ-SQ): from amniotic fluid to adolescence.

Tess Beking, PhD Student, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Antarctic sea-ice control on glacial and modern deep-ocean circulation and carbon storage

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

Alice Marzocchi, NOC.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Colorectal cancer. Part 1. Presentation, Diagnosis and Intervention. Part 2. Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them - a basic research perspective

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Simon Buczacki, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Dr Marc de la Roche, Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

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

Functional Genomics to Study Cancer

David Sabatini, Whitehead Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Steve Harrison.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

37th Epigenetics Club Seminar

Professor Kim Nasmyth; Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Monday 02 July 2018, 18:00-19:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Moving-mesh finite element modeling of ocean circulation near ice shelf grounding lines

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

Ben Yeager, Imperial College London.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models

George Tucker, Google Brain.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lung Cancer. Part 1. Patient pathway and Intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Robert Rintoul, CUH and Papworth NHS Foundation Trusts, and Dr Frank McCaughan, Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr James MacCabe, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Kings College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 July 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey

Title to be confirmed

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Agatha de Boer, Stockholm University.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Role of H3K27me3-mediated genomic imprinting in development and somatic cell nuclear transfer reprogramming

Hosted by: Azim Surani

Yi Zhang, Dept Genetics & Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 July 2018, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

**Please note this talk is on a Tuesday**

Cigall Kadoch, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 10 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Mechanistic insights from genome-wide association studies of reproductive traits

Professor Ken Ong, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 11 July 2018, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

Mr Raaj Praseedom, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

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TBC

Thomas Misgeld, Technical University of Munich.

TBC.

Thursday 12 July 2018, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Using Gaussian processes to model branching dynamics from single-cell data" (provisional)

Prof. Magnus Rattray, University of Manchester.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 17 July 2018, 14:30-15:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Research frontiers and new therapeutic strategies in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Tobias Janowitz, Department of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 19 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Matthew Murray, Department of Pathology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 26 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

rv254's list

TBC

Karen Horsburgh - University of Edinburgh.

TBC.

Monday 10 September 2018, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can 24 months of high dose minocycline change disease course in mild Alzheimer's disease?

Professor Rob Howard, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 20 September 2018, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Jordan Raff.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 20 September 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Ana Pombo, MDC Berlin.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Andrew Morris - Title TBC

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Andrew Morris, Farr Institute, Scotland.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 05 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

38th Cambridge Epigenetics Seminar

Speakers to be confirmed.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Monday 15 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Y M Dennis Lo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Joan Morris - Title TBC

Professor Joan Morris, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

39th Cambridge Epigenetics Seminar

Speakers to be confirmed.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Monday 12 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Sarah Teichmann.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons

Melissa Little, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Victoria, Australia.

To be confirmed.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Emily Hodges, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, USA.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Bradford Hill Seminar with Dr Richard Pebody - Title TBC

Dr Richard Pebody, Head of Respiratory Diseases, Public Health England.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska

Ben Lehner, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz Lecture- Title to be confirmed

Eric Gouaux.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Skeletal Muscle Development in the Zebrafish

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Phil Zegerman

Philip Ingham, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

40th Cambridge Epigenetics Seminar

Speakers to be confirmed.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Monday 10 December 2018, 18:00-19:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins

Bi-Sen Ding, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Michael Kenny - Title TBC

Professor Michael Kenny, Director of Bennett Institute of Public Policy.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska

Chris Burge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

Janet Rossant, University of Toronto, Canada.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30