Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2022

Various.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:00-17:00

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

Wheeler Lecture 2022

David Silver, Principal Research Scientist at DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 15:15-16:45

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Prof Ewan St John Smith; Dept of Pathology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Lars Zender, University Hospital Tuebingen.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - George Salmond

Meeting ID: 953 2306 3274 Passcode: 252g33MihX

Speaker to be confirmed.

Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 20 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Genomic Evolution of Cancer

David Wedge, University of Manchester.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Apathy and impulsivity in neurological disease – cause, effect and treatment

Professor James Rowe.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Babraham Seminar

Functional dissection of the genomic enhancer landscapes controlling pleiotropic gene expression and mammalian heart development

This webinar will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room

Dr Marco Osterwalder; Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern.

Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room .

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 13:30-14:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

AI Hardware and Real-World AI

Andrew Fitzgibbon - Distinguished Engineer, Graphcore.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 15:05-15:55

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Understanding Myc Transcription

Dr Cathy Wilson, Department of Pharmacology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Chaucer Club

Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings

Joel Voss (University of Chicago) .

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

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Chris Smith

Meeting ID: 925 5194 3600 Passcode: gf2rNvxpG0

Speaker to be confirmed.

Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 27 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

CEDSG-AI4ER

Skilful precipitation nowcasting using deep generative models of radar

Suman Ravuri, Google DeepMind.

Drum Building, Madingley Rise Site, West Cambridge.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Thomas Sauerwald - Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 15:05-15:55

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Kambo Wong (TBC)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 12:00-14:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Professor Sir Simon Baron Cohen - Title TBC

Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

Dr Maike de La Roche, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Chaucer Club

Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control

Sven Bestmann (UCL).

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

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Darerca Owen

Meeting ID: 919 1975 8672 Passcode: 1WMGiqg61s

Speaker to be confirmed.

Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 10 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The impact of environmental factors on cancer

Dr Elisabete Silva, Brunel University London.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Chaucer Club

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

Ken Valyear (Bangor University).

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

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Jussi Taipale

Meeting ID: 979 8470 1876 Passcode: W5S08q2quf

Speaker to be confirmed.

Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 17 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Valentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cell differentiation and tumour initiation - two sides of the coin

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Babraham Seminar

This Is My Life, surviving academia as a Black woman in Britain

This webinar will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room

Tomi Akingbade;University of Cambridge and the Founder of the Black Women in Science Network.

Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room .

Friday 24 June 2022, 13:30-14:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Ross Waller

Meeting ID: 993 1526 0508 Passcode: TAWdC8cqMD

Speaker to be confirmed.

Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 24 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: The most lethal urological malignancy

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

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Chaucer Club

Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies

Karen Campbell (Brock University).

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

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminars

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Martin Welch

Meeting ID: 999 5680 8169 Passcode: deMmtye1zg

Speaker to be confirmed.

Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 01 July 2022, 15:00-16:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic Cancer: Challenges, Models and Therapeutic Opportunities

Dr Giulia Biffi; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

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).

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

Dr Daniel Muñoz-Espin; Department of Oncology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 14 July 2022, 09:30-10:30

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

Title to be confirmed

**Please note change of time and date**

Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 July 2022, 12:00-13:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 September 2022, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Christopher Yau, University of Manchester.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 26 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Dr Deborah Vickers

Dr Deborah Vickers, Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Hans Reimer-Rodewald, DKFZ.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built

Professor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Hypothalamic episode generators underlying the neural control of fertility

Professor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Louis Chesler, ICR.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre.

Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 13:00-14:00