Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jean-Pascal Pfister and Xizi Li.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

ARClub Talks

(At least) 10 things we learned from autistic girls and women in the past 10 years

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST

Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai, University of Toronto.

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

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 15:30-16:30

Early Science and Medicine

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

Monique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Constraining water mass transformation and overflow dynamics on the Arctic shelves

Elizabeth Yankovsky (New York University).

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

Dr Suzanne Turner, Dept of Pathology, Cambridge University.

Online - Google Meet as below.

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

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

Quality control of proteins orphaned in the cytosol

Ramanujan S Hegde, MRC LMB.

https://zoom.us/j/96287903585?pwd=TTdwcEg4VkU0ZjQyTUVka2dDendjUT09 Meeting ID: 962 8790 3585 Passcode: 571491.

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

Chaucer Club

How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention

Mariam Aly (Columbia University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: 'Probabilistic models of transcriptomic dysregulation in human genetic disease'

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

Prof David Knowles, Columbia University.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Junior Clinical Training Scholar talks

Emmeline Robinson, Perrine Henry, Jad Abouzeid, JCTSs, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

From Signals to Chromatin: Germ layer specification in mouse

Sebastian Arnold, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Homeoboxes build the nervous system

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer

Oliver Hobert, Columbia University, USA.

Webinar.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Systemic regulation of brain aging and function

Tony Wyss-Coray, D. H. Chen Professor II, Stanford University, USA.

Webinar - Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91691820397?pwd=aUNFUFFib1V5S2V4RUswRmlhN0pRQT09.

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

Immunology in Pathology

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

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

Dr Masahiro Ono, Imperial College London.

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in paediatric tumours

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

Online - Google Meet.

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

Chaucer Club

Carving the world into useful task representations

Yael Niv (Princeton University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments’

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

Dr Vitor Hadad, Stanford University.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host – Richard Durbin

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Gene expression changes in prion-diseased transgenic Drosophila

Andrew Smith, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Longitudinal Study on HiC Data in Pig Farms

Ruchita Balasubramanian, Dept of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function

Snezhana Oliferenko, The Francis Crick Institute.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

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

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and clinical features of high grade serous ovarian cancer

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Online - Google Meet.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds

Speaker to be confirmed.

LT2.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Replication control during the cell cycle and development

Philip Zegerman, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 04 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: The Adolescent Brain

Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

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

Webinar.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Understanding Myc transcription

Dr Cathy Wilson, Department of Pharmacology.

Online - Google Meet.

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

Chaucer Club

A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression

Jonathan Roiser (UCL).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

The relationship between calcification and intervertebral disc disease in chondrodystrophic dogs

Theresa Yenen, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

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

Dey Tarusikirwa, Dept of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genetic and developmental basis of morphological variation in cichlid fishes

Emília Santos, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska

Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Webinar.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

Ali Mashayekhi (Imperial College London).

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

Ali Mashayekhi (Imperial College London).

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

Mr Raaj Praseedom, Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team.

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 09:30-10:30

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

Cancelled

***Please note due to travel restrictions this seminar has been rescheduled to 2022***

Marcia Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Chaucer Club

Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research?

Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Nanomanufacturing, batteries and the energy transition.

Professor Michael de Volder, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic cancer: challenges, models and therapeutic opportunities

Dr Giulia Biffi; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 24 June 2021, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

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

Webinar.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Senthil Muthaswamy, Harvard.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Jenny Gallop

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

Webinar.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Elizabeth M Jaffee, John Hopkins.

On Zoom.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Jim Norman, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Andy Minn, University of Pennsylvania.

Zoom.

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