Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division

Dr Emmanuel Derivery.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

Dr Laurent Gatto (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

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

Towards cancer screening using circulating DNA

Y M Dennis Lo, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Genetics Seminar

Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense

Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira

Dr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Uni-axial Negative Thermal Expansion in Layered Perovskites

Prof. Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakers

Kostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Constructing the mammalian embryo in vitro: from single stem cells to gastrulation

Berna Sozen, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

C++ (part 2) - Object-oriented C++

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 26 October 2018, 15:00-16:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Multivalent interactions as a source of specificity and regulation in RNP assembly

Professor Jernej Ule.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity

Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Personal Genomics

Dr Julian Gough (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Experimental and Computational Aspects of Structural Biology and Applications to Drug Discovery

Protein:protein recognition in the Ubiquitin Proteasome-degradation System (UPS) and Membrane Surface Complexes from the Ras-family

Dr Andrew Byrd (Head of Macromolecular NMR, National Cancer Institute, Maryland).

Perham Seminar Room, Sanger Biochemistry Building.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Second-Principles DFT methods and current applications

Dr Pablo García Fernández, University of Cantabria.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Time to wake up: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Reactivation

Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

C++ (part 3) - All the rest!

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 02 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set

Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Description: Mycobacterial structural biology and prospects for drug development in academia

Dr Lionel Mourey .

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

Dr Katherine Lawler (MRC Institute of Metabolic Science).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Markus Heyl, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale

Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division

Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Python - Supplementary info for beginners

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 09 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

39th Cambridge Epigenetics Seminar

Bas van Steensel; 2nd speaker to be confirmed.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Monday 12 November 2018, 18:00-19:30

Cell Biology in Medicine Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Host - Professor Paul Luzio

Dr Edmund Kunji MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's .

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Cell signalling by receptor tyrosine phosphatases

Dr Hayley Sharpe.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

How space constrains evolution: lessons from bacteria and bacteriophage

Dr Diana Fusco.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Generating human kidney tissue from pluripotent stem cells

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons

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

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 10:00-11:00

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

Genetics Seminar

Genomic history of human populations in Africa

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology

Room changed

Marcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Escape from pluripotency

Austin Smith, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

LaTeX for report-writing

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 16 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spagetti hoops

Professor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Prof Wojcieh Bal - Title tbc

Prof Wojcieh Bal .

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dissipative transition in synthetic matter

Prof. Rosario Fazio, ICTP.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Paula Czarnowska & Chris Davis, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt?

Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Revision control with git

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Annual Hopkins Seminar 2018 - title tbc

Dr A Krainer .

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Monday 26 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Towards in vivo structural biology: solving protein structures using deep mutagenesis

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer

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

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

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

Experimental and Computational Aspects of Structural Biology and Applications to Drug Discovery

TBC

Dr Tim Stevens (Cell Biology Division, LMB).

Perham Seminar Room, Sanger Biochemistry Building.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 10:15-11:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Zlatko Papić, University of Leeds.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Experimental and Computational Aspects of Structural Biology and Applications to Drug Discovery

A Saposin-lipoprotein nanoparticle system for membrane proteins

Dr Jens Frauenfeld (CEO Salipro Biotech, Sweden).

Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre, Sanger Biochemistry Building.

Monday 03 December 2018, 15:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

40th Cambridge Epigenetics Seminar

Speakers to be confirmed.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Monday 03 December 2018, 18:00-19:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Insights into the secretion machine of virulence factors in apicomplexan parasites

Dr Maryse Lebrun.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Molecular Sex - How Sperm Binds to the Egg at the Atomic Level

Luca Jovine, Professor of Structural Biology & EMBO, Karolinska Institute.

Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building, Stephenson Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cell Biology in Medicine Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Host - Professor Paul Luzio

Dr Julien Prudent MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's .

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Description:Novel functions of the C-terminal domain of PTCH1: a platform for non-canonical Hedgehog signalling

Dr Natalia Riobo-Del Gardo.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Chris Illingworth

Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Elena Cannuccia, University of Rome.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Karina Vold, Centre for the Future of Intelligence / Faculty of Philosophy.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Jane Charlesworth

Dr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Ben Simons

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

To be confirmed.

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

Cell Biology in Medicine Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Host - Professor Paul Luzio

Professor Ewa Paluch UCL.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's .

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Ana Pombo, MDC Berlin.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Berta Verd

Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. David Khmelnitskii, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. John Chalker, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Richard Durbin

Professor Molly Przeworski from Columbia University, New York .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Claudio Attaccalite, CNRS.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Emily Bernstein, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Sam Lewis

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Martin Hemberg

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

To be confirmed.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Tak Mak, UHN, Toronto.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Mark Spencer Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Alexis Braun

Professor Elly Tanaka from IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese, UCLouvain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Azim Surani

Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University, NY, USA.

To be confirmed.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Chris Sander, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Valerie M Weaver, University of California, San Francisco.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Amos Tanay, Weitzmann Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00