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This is a superlist combining all talks (from those lists on talks.cam) of interest to researchers in the School of Biological Sciences as well as the Clinical School. It also includes some occasional talks from other departments which have a strong Biological, Biochemical, Biophysics or Biomedical interest. This list is syndicated elsewhere within the University.

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Genetics Seminar

Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare

Host - Cahir O'Kane

UserProfessor Sir Mark Caulfield, Vice Principal for Health, Queen Mary University of London and Director of the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserDr. Anton Petrov (Director, Riboscope Ltd, Cambridge, UK), Dr. Oguzhan Begik (Senior Postdoc, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES).

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 23 January 2025, 17:00-19:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

UserDr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling sea ice dynamics using brittle dynamics: impact in pack ice and marginal ice zones

UserGuillaume Boutin (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center).

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1; .

ClockWednesday 29 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserMuzlifah Haniffa, Sanger Institute.

HouseThe Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

ClockThursday 30 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Genetics Seminar

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?

Host - Kate Baker

UserDr John Lees from EMBL – EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

BOAS, the canine 'obstructive sleep apnoea' effect on the brain - The BBB study'

UserSusana Monforte Monteiro, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 31 January 2025, 08:45-10:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

User Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Principles of learning in distributed neural networks

UserAndrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 03 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Genetics Seminar

Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour

Host - Erik Clark

UserDr Justin Crocker from EMBL Heidelberg .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Neurology

Usertbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 07 February 2025, 08:45-10:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

ANNUAL LECTURE: Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment

UserBotond Roska, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland .

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

ClockMonday 10 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

UserProfessor Sander L. van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 10 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserDamer Blake, Royal Veterinary College.

HouseSeminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

ClockWednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development

Host - Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University .

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Ancestral Sight

UserRiccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 17 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

UserAlmog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

UserMohammad Lotfollahi.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserChristiaan van Ooij, Keele University.

HouseSeminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

ClockWednesday 26 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

UserAllan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserMark Taylor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

HouseSeminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

ClockWednesday 05 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

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

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - QICG

UserAlison Hayes, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

UserMáté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge .

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Intelligent manufacturing - TBC

UserProfessor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Unraveling Its Variability, Mimics, and Predictors

UserJose Novo Matos, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

UserSonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

UserAlex Joyner, Sloan Kettering Institute.

HouseThe Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

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

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

Seminars in Cancer

UserGeorge Vassiliou, CSCI Cambridge.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

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

UserJim Woodhouse, CNHS President; Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics.

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

UserJesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserTBA.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

UserOliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

HouseThe Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserAlex Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

HouseThe Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

UserMatthew Goldberg (Yale University).

HouseOnline.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

UserShohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

UserShohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

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

Seminars in Cancer

UserNixon Niyonzima, Uganda Cancer Institute.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserJean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute.

HouseThe Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN.

ClockTuesday 24 June 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**

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

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

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

Seminars in Cancer

UserAndrea Sottoriva, Human Technopole.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

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