Life Sciences

Learning in pain: probabilistic inference and (mal)adaptive control.

User Dr Flavia Mancini, Engineering.

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Tuesday 20 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Digital Sea Ice Physics - A novel approach for computing and parametrising sea ice properties for geophysical applications

User Sønke Maus (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

User Professor Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 22 April 2021, 09:30-10:30

Psychedelics: brain mechanisms

Chair: Dr Graham Murray

User Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, Imperial College London.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Thursday 22 April 2021, 12:30-13:30

Statistical analysis and optimality of biological systems

User Prof Gasper Tkacik.

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Thursday 22 April 2021, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Michael Cohen, Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, Oregon Health and Science University.

House Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 22 April 2021, 17:00-18:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Michael Cohen, Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, Oregon Health and Science University.

House Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 22 April 2021, 17:00-18:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Multiple infectious diseases in an untravelled dog: True or False?

User Harriet Hall, Lorraine Peschard, Alex Draper, Samantha Loane, Daniel Castillo, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Friday 23 April 2021, 08:45-10:00

ARClub Talks

Health status and health care utilization among transition-age youth and adults on the autism spectrum

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST (due to daylight savings time change)

User Lisa Croen, Director Autism Research Program at Kaiser Permanente Northern California.

Monday 26 April 2021, 15:30-16:30

Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer

User Howard Chang, Stanford University Medical Center, USA.

Monday 26 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Unpacking Nature from Nurture: Understanding how Family Processes Affect Child and Adolescent Mental Health

User Professor Gordon Harold, Education.

House Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/92141784758?pwd=MC9UVVBLaUdkTkg4dDdJb2RRaGhmUT09.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz Lecture 2021: The coming of age of de novo protein design

User Professor David Baker, Director of the Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, USA .

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

House On Microsoft Teams (email ec682@cam.ac.uk for the link) .

The Marginal Zone B cell - T follicular helper cell connection.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug, ko256@cam.ac.uk

User Dr Meritxell Nus, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 12:30-13:30

The role of transcription factors in cancer

User Dr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Thursday 29 April 2021, 09:30-10:30

The suprachiasmatic body clock: circadian genes, cells and circuits

User Dr Michael Hastings, Division of Neurobiology, University of Cambridge.

House Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 29 April 2021, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Striatal dopamine computations in learning about agency

Chair: Prof Paul Fletcher

User Prof Michael Frank, Brown University.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Kumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Human Immunity – one cell at a time

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:30-14:30

Virtual Seminar: 'Statistical Inference with M-Estimators on Bandit Data’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

User Kelly Zhang, Harvard University.

House Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Regulation of stem cell fate by niche-derived factors and forces.

User Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki.

House Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Time-dependent rates of evolution in pathogens

User Tom McMahon, Dept of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 30 April 2021, 08:45-10:00

Ultrasonography and photogrammetry: new approaches to the study of manta rays ecology

User Niv Froman, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Friday 30 April 2021, 08:45-10:00

Can we repair the Parkinsonian brain?

User Professor Roger Barker, Clinical Neurosciences.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

House On Microsoft Teams (email ec682@cam.ac.uk for the link) .

Principles of squamocolumnar transition zone homeostasis: metaplasia, infections, and cancers.

Host: Margherita Turco, myt25@cam.ac.uk

User Dr Cindrilla Chumduri, University of Würzburg, Germany.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

User Hartmut Hellmer (Alfred Wegener Institute).

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities.

User Dr Namshik Han, Head of Computational Biology, Milner Therapeutics Institute.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 06 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

Challenges and Opportunities in Exploiting Reconsolidation to Treat Mental Health Disorders

Chair: Prof Jeff Dalley

User Dr Amy Milton, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Prof Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

House Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Human time vs. mouse time with recapitulated systems.

User Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separation

Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara

User Professor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Thursday 06 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

Defining candidate correlates of humoral immunity to COVID-19 using convalescent serum samples from hospitalised patients and NHS healthcare workers

User Javier Castillo-Olivares Pallardo, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 07 May 2021, 08:45-10:00

Vaccination against the brown stomach worm, Teladorsagia circumcincta, followed by parasite challenge, induces inconsistent modifications in gut microbiota composition of lambs

User James Rooney, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 07 May 2021, 08:45-10:00

CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics.

User Professor Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Co-director for the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, Cambridge University.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 10 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

Dr Lucy Cheke - Title TBC

User Dr Lucy Cheke, Psychology.

Computational and Systems Biology

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

CCBI Annual Symposium 2021

User Programme and registration: https://bit.ly/ccbisymp21.

House Online via zoom.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 09:00-17:00

House On Microsoft Teams (email ec682@cam.ac.uk for the link) .

Uncertainties around SARS-CoV-2 infection and immunity.

Host: Nick Holmes, nh106@cam.ac.uk

User Professor George Kassiotis, Francis Crick Institute.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Kidney cancer: The most lethal urological malignancy

NB this lecture will not be recorded.

User Prof Grant Stewart, Dept of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 13 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

What’s behind the trauma

Chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

User Prof Helen Minnis, University of Glasgow.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Chris Lambing, Henderson group.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease

Host: Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Thursday 13 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

Junior Clinical Training Scholar talks

User JCTSs, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 14 May 2021, 08:45-10:00

Dr Thóra Káradóttir - Title TBC

User Dr Thóra Káradóttir, WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute.

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Elizabeth Yankovsky (New York University).

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

User Dr Suzanne Turner, Dept of Pathology, Cambridge University.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 20 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

Clinical Neuroscience and the Heart-Brain Axis

Chair: Prof Paul Fletcher

User Prof Sarah Garfinkel, University College London.

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

Thursday 20 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Ramanujan S Hegde, MRC LMB.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Thursday 20 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Junior Clinical Training Scholar talks

User JCTSs, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 21 May 2021, 08:45-10:00

CSAR webinar: Ice templating for Regenerative Medicine - using ice to define cell-guiding frameworks for healing

User Professor Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 24 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

Homeoboxes build the nervous system

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Andrea Brand

User Oliver Hobert, Columbia University, USA.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Professor Zoe Kourtzi - Title TBC

User Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

House On Microsoft Teams (email ec682@cam.ac.uk for the link) .

Investigating thymic Treg selection and death by a transcriptional timer and single cell methods.

Host: Rahul Roychoudhuri, rr257@cam.ac.uk

User Dr Masahiro Ono, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

he promise of proton therapy in Paediatric tumours

User Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 27 May 2021, 09:30-10:30

Translational medicine in Alzheimer’s disease – taking the unfolded protein response as a therapeutic target in to clinical trials.

Chair: Prof John O'Brien

User Dr Ben Underwood, Deputy Medical Director CPFT.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure

Host – Richard Durbin

User Dr Karen Miga from Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Thursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

Gene expression changes in prion-diseased transgenic Drosophila

User Andrew Smith, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 28 May 2021, 08:45-10:00

Longitudinal Study on HiC Data in Pig Farms

User Ruchita Balasubramanian, Dept of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 28 May 2021, 08:45-10:00

Regenerative Neuroimmunology - new generation molecular approaches to restore maladaptive inflammatory responses in the persistently inflamed CNS

User Professor Stefano Pluchino, Clinical Neurosciences.

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Louis-Alexandre Couston (Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon).

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Biological and Clinical features of high grade serous ovarian cancer

User Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Thursday 03 June 2021, 09:30-10:30

Grand Rounds

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 04 June 2021, 08:45-10:00

CSAR webinar: The Teenage Mind

User Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 07 June 2021, 19:30-21:00

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

User Rachel Smith-Bolton, Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois, USA.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

The relationship between calcification and intervertebral disc disease in chondrodystrophic dogs

User Theresa Yenen, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 11 June 2021, 08:45-10:00

Seroprevalence of 3 abortion-causing agents in small ruminants and KAP survey on small ruminant husbandry in selected smallholder commercial farming areas of Zimbabwe

User Dey Tarusikirwa, Dept of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 11 June 2021, 08:45-10:00

Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska

User Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Monday 14 June 2021, 11:00-12:00

Rapid and slow responses of the climate system to ocean diapycnal turbulent mixing

User Ali Mashayekhi (Imperial College London).

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Rapid and slow responses of the climate system to ocean diapycnal turbulent mixing

User Ali Mashayekhi (Imperial College London).

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

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Marcia Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Thursday 17 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

CSAR webinar: Nanomanufacturing, batteries and the energy transition.

User Professor Michael de Volder, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 21 June 2021, 19:30-21:00

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

User Monika Gullerova, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK.

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

Tuesday 29 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin.

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

Thursday 02 September 2021, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Senthil Muthaswamy, Harvard.

Thursday 16 September 2021, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Jenny Gallop

User Prisca Liberali, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 05 October 2021, 11:00-12:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Meaghan Creed, Washington University.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Meaghan Creed.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Meaghan Creed.

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

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Elizabeth M Jaffee, John Hopkins.

House On Zoom.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Jim Norman, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute.

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

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science.