Life Sciences

Crop Science Seminar: Root System Architecture Traits Supporting High Yielding Winter Wheat

User Eric Ober.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Crop Science Seminar: NSP2 and the Regulation of the Symbiotically Permissive State

User Darius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

T cells in the brain

User Professor Adrian Liston.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Dr Edwige Moyroud.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

Genome-led vaccine target discovery for parasitic infections

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Professor Gavin Wright (University of York).

House Marjory Stephenson Seminar Room, Hopkins Building, Dept of Biochemistry.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Cancer resistance in the naked mole-rat, a tale of transformation

User Prof Ewan St John Smith; Dept of Pathology.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 09:30-10:30

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

Cell Plasticity and Lineage Commitment in Liver Tumorigenesis

User Lars Zender, University Hospital Tuebingen.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Belowground Microbial Community Responses to Climate Change: Resistance, Resilience, and Alternative States

User Professor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Attachment, Uptake and Cytosol Penetration: How non-enveloped viruses enter the cell

User Prof. Stephen Harrison.

House CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research), Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Virtual Seminar: “Group Testing in Structured and Dynamic Networks”

This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960970204?pwd=dnVyWUFTSkM1bjJkWGMvc0ViLzA2Zz09

User Batuhan Arasli, University of Maryland.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor William Sullivan, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Unlocking lncRNA functions using an arrayed CRISPRi screening platform with cellular and molecular phenotyping

User Fien Gysens, PhD student, OncoRNA lab, Ghent University, Belgium.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Hacking the germline : how paralogs bend the rules of gene expression

User Peter Andersen, Group Leader, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00

GRAND ROUNDS: Fad diets and broken hearts: the link between diet and DCM in dogs

User Cat Partington, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

House LT2.

Friday 20 May 2022, 08:45-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Aaron Klug Memorial Symposium

User Various - see Further Information.

House Registration via https://www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/sites/klug/.

Friday 20 May 2022, 09:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancer

User Roberta Azzarelli Wellcome, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Genomic Evolution of Cancer

User David Wedge, University of Manchester.

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Monday 23 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Control limited perceptual decision making

User Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal.

House Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 23 May 2022, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Projectile Fusion A new challenge in applied computational science and engineering

User Dr. Nathan Joiner, First Light Fusion, Yarnton, Oxfordshire.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted: Ben Simons

User Wolf Reik, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

House To be confirmed.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Regulation of innate immune activation during viral infections

User Ian Humphreys.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

User Dr Dorit Hockman.

House Zoom.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Understanding Myc Transcription

User Dr Cathy Wilson, Department of Pharmacology.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 09:30-10:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar - Using connectomes to accelerate studies of the neuronal control of behavior in Drosophila

User Gerald M. Rubin, Senior Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, LMB Fellow.

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91661708050?pwd=WS9Ua0czQm9FaC9qaWk3S2VQMjE5dz09.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Simone Reber, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings

User Joel Voss (University of Chicago) .

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House LT2.

Friday 27 May 2022, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Friday 27 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

User Professor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Can viral infections exacerbate the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease?

User Mathew Clement.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova & Julie Ahringer

User Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria.

House To be confirmed.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 11:30-12:30

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Therapeutic targeting of recurrently mutated driver oncogenes using TCR gene therapy

User Chris Klebanoff.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The role of ocean heat transport from the Atlantic into the Arctic Ocean on sea ice variability

User David Schroeder, University of Reading.

House https://ukri.zoom.us/j/98387914302; BAS seminar room 1.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Hh signalling and the anti-tumour immune response: biology and new treatment opportunities

User Dr Maike de La Roche, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

CpG Enrichment as a Vaccine Strategy for Influenza A Virus

User Dr Elly Gaunt, The University of Edinburgh.

House CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research), Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control

User Sven Bestmann (UCL).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Coupled ice-ocean modelling of the Amundsen Sea glaciers

User Jan De Rydt, Northumbria university.

House https://ukri.zoom.us/j/92941632380; BAS seminar room 1.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-14:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

On the stability of Antarctic grounding lines

User Ronja Reese, Northumbria University.

House https://ukri.zoom.us/j/92941632380; BAS seminar room 1.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:30-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House LT2.

Friday 10 June 2022, 08:45-10:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level

User Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Friday 10 June 2022, 13:15-14:00

Parasitology Seminars

TBC

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Dr Roz Laing (University of Glasgow).

House Department of Pathology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Misinformation: Subjective beliefs, Source credibility, and Social Networks

User Jens Koed Madsen, London School of Economics.

House Psychology Department Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

The impact of environmental factors on cancer

User Dr Elisabete Silva, Brunel University London.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Professor Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Mapping the consequences of peripheral nerve injury on brain organisation and hand function

User Ken Valyear (Bangor University).

Thursday 16 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Valentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

Monday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Cell differentiation and tumour initiation - two sides of the coin

User Dr Walid Khaled Dept of Pharmacology/ Cambridge Stem Cell Institute .

Thursday 23 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Kidney cancer: The most lethal urological malignancy

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

Thursday 30 June 2022, 09:30-10:30

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies

User Karen Campbell (Brock University).

Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Pancreatic Cancer: Challenges, Models and Therapeutic Opportunities

User Dr Giulia Biffi; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 07 July 2022, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Julio Saez-Rodriquez, Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine and Group Leader at the EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU).

Monday 11 July 2022, 14:00-15:00