Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell-of-origin of prostate cancer and clinical heterogeneity

Dr Esther Baena from CRUK Manchester Institute .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The integrated approach to the diagnosis of haematological malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Mike Scott, Department of Haematology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 03 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 11 January 2019, 08:45-10:00

ARClub Talks

Exploring self-injury in autism spectrum conditions

Rachel Moseley, Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic Anticancer Therapy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Bristi Basu, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination

Andy Tock, Henderson Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Craik Club

Visual categorization of simple stimuli

Professor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Neural progenitors and neural tube defects.

Andy Copp, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Edyth Parker, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 18 January 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Cassia Hare, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 18 January 2019, 08:45-10:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

Bob Carlyon (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “How to obtain valid tests and confidence intervals for treatment effects after confounder selection”

Dr Oliver Dukes, Ghent University .

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s

Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Immunology in Pathology

Title to be confirmed

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Daniel Hodson, Department of Haematology.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational approaches to Immuno-Oncology drug development

Dr Ben Sidders (Astrazeneca).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Parasitology Seminars

Cell surface profiling reveals the what, where and how of a host-parasite interface

Dr Catarina Gadelha, University of Nottingham.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunotherapy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Christine Parkinson, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From start to finish: Emerging functions of the N-end rule pathway of proteolysis in plants

Jan Dan Gibbs, Birmingham.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Marta Matuszewska, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 25 January 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Liane Ziliotto, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 25 January 2019, 08:45-10:00

Immunology in Pathology

Title to be confirmed

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Francisco Lobo, Belo Horizonte.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 25 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies

Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Past, present and future of Drosophila Research

Cambridge Fly Symposium.

Wolfson College.

Monday 28 January 2019, 12:00-22:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Probabilistic approaches for optimal sequential feature acquisition"

Dr Christopher Yau, University of Birmingham and The Alan Turing Institute.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational Models—who needs them?

Dennis Norris (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Monday 28 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Sarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

Immunology in Pathology

Title to be confirmed

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Andrea Ablasser, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Replacing pathologists with next generation diagnostics: use of artificial intelligence to analyse image and DNA sequencing data

Dr Elizabeth Sollieux (Dept of Pathology).

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Survivorship

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar and Dr Helen Hatcher, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Viruses and the circadian clock: Rhythms, replication and pathogenesis

Rachel Edgar, Imperial College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sychronized cells as a model for the diel regulation of Rubisco-EPYC1 interactions in the Chlamydomonas CCM

Indu Santhanagopalan, Griffiths lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Genetics Seminar

A new force awakens: Evolution of tissue morphogenesis in early development of insects

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

Foster Talks

The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation

James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds

TBC, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 01 February 2019, 08:45-10:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How does functional neuroimaging inform cognitive theory?

Rik Henson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Monday 04 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Inflamed Depression

Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

Louisa Bellis (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development

Dominique Bergmann, Stanford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Prof Mihaela van der Schaar from Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write good papers

Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Monday 11 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy museum on the move

Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sudhakaran Prabakaran (Dept of Genetics).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Parasitology Seminars

Developing new genetic tools to unravel Cryptosporidium transmission

Dr Mattie Pawlowi, University of Dundee.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

RNA-binding proteins step into the host-virus battlefront

Alfredo Castello, University of Oxford.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Targeted grafts as a tool to enhance tomato preservation

Sara Lopez-Gomollon, Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-13:30

Genetics Seminar

An evolutionary perspective on meiotic recombination in vertebrates

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

Foster Talks

Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing

Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Alessandrra da Silva, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 15 February 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 15 February 2019, 08:45-10:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancers and the tumour microenvironment

Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Andrew Firth (Dept of Pathology).

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Parasitology Seminars

Deciphering the regulation of Plasmodium falciparum replication

Dr Markus Ganter, Heidelberg University Hospital .

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD

Mike Blatt, Glasgow.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Sample size considerations for the design clinical trials – quantifying the target difference and the target no-difference”

Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Livestock Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA MRSA ST398) in Relation to Pig Farming in the UK

Rhiannon Wood, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 22 February 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Thippesh Sannasiddappa, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 22 February 2019, 08:45-10:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Using Chemican and Biological Data for Drug Design

Dr Andreas Bender (Dept of Chemistry).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Liquid biopsy biomarkers for early detection; general principles and specific examples

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Charlie Massie, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Spatiotemporal regulation of host immune defences to HSV-1 infection

Chris Boutell, University of Glasgow.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic inheritance: mechanism and function of genomic imprinting

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

Paul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis

Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 01 March 2019, 08:45-10:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

Matt Lambon Ralph (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor

Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Chemical regulation of functional RNAs

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides, Eric Miska & Cambridge RNA Club

Yunsun Nam, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Immunology in Pathology

Title to be confirmed

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Ingo Ringshausen, Department of Haematology.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Oscar Rueda (CRUK - CI).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Parasitology Seminars

Systematic strategies for proteome mining and antimicrobial discovery

Dr Matthew Child, Imperial College London.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity

Alexandre Antonelli, Kew.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Chioma Achi, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 08 March 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Canine intervertebral disc disease: evidence based or defensive medicine

Paul Freeman, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 08 March 2019, 08:45-10:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write a Fellowship proposal

Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 11 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Immunology in Pathology

Title to be confirmed

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Tim Halim, CRUK.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Towards the high-level sequence code of gene regulation

Dr Aleksandr Sahakyan (MRC WIMM, Oxford).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

Lecture Cancelled.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

'Hitchin' a ride: how herpesviruses modulate host-cell membrane trafficking

Dr Stephen Graham (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering medicinal compound production in microalgae

Payam Mehrshahi, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-13:30

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Michael Kenny - Title TBC

Professor Michael Kenny, Director of Bennett Institute of Public Policy.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Isabelle Tardieux, Universite ́ Grenoble.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, Diagnosis and Treatment Pathways in Haematological Malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Foster Talks

Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour

Steve Wilson, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Professor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 25 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Gloria Rudenko, Imperial College London.

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Bluetongue virus structure and replication

Polly Roy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Foster Talks

Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis

Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Parasitology Seminars

Epigenetics and schistosome development and infection success

Prof Christoph Granau, University of Perpignan via Domitia.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 17 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Charlotte Coles (University of Cambridge) Breast Cancer Programme and Hilary Stobart.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 18 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Dr Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

'Thoughts on discussing clinical ethics with students during rotations

Dr Peter Fordyce, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 26 April 2019, 08:45-10:00

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

Title to be confirmed

**Please note that this talk is on a Friday**

Thea Tlsty, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 26 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

Janet Rossant, University of Toronto, Canada.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Professor Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

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 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Karl Hoffmann, Aberystwyth University.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend

Dr Grant Stewart, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Helen Price, Keele University.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Azim Surani

Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University, NY, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 10:30-11:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anna Obenauf from Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 16 September 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

Judith Campisi, The Buck Institute for Research on Ageing .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 November 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