Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 1

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

Free Public Exhibition.

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 19 April 2024, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 2

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

Free Public Exhibition.

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 20 April 2024, 10:00-17:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Handling missingness in cognitive variables using multiple imputation

Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 22 April 2024, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social and political change in diverse societies: Insights from largescale panel studies

Nikhil Sengupta (University of Kent).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas

Host - Frank Jiggins

Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Early phase neuroplasticity induced by transcranial ultrasound stimulation

Elsa Fouragnan (U. of Plymouth).

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

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Laura Machesky, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Face Learning in People with Developmental Prosopagnosia and “Super-Recognisers"

Professor Sarah Bate (Bournemouth University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Brain age prediction using diffusion MRI data

James Bacon (University of Cambridge).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 April 2024, 12:50-13:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Krause, Durham University.

Online.

Monday 29 April 2024, 14:30-15:30

Child Development Forum (CDF)

Child Development Forum Easter I

Kelsey Graber (Education), Eireann Attridge (Education), Jessica van de Grint (Psychology).

South Pole Large Meeting Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 09:30-11:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Brooke Rogers (King's College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Sebastian Lewandowski, Karolinska Institutet.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale

Host – Richard Durbin

Professor Ben Lehner from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Paranoia: My life understanding and treating extreme mistrust

Dan Freeman (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts

Dr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Julia Ebner (Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Recognition memory, its neural bases, and the role of ‘parietal’ attention allocation in its function

Daniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester).

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

Thursday 09 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS

Host - Cahir O'Kane

Professor Marc Freeman from The Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA.

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Foster Talks

Behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpin cell migration essential for mouse anterior patterning

Shankar Srinivas, Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics at the University of Oxford, based at the Institute for Developmental and Regenerative Medicine. .

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2024

The President and Officers.

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

Thursday 09 May 2024, 18:45-19:10

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wicken Fen: 125 Years of Conservation

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Ajay Tegala.

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

Thursday 09 May 2024, 19:15-21:00

Zangwill Club

Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders

Professor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Katja Roeper, University of Cambridge.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 13 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Chaucer Club

Sleep to forget unwanted memories

Scott Cairney (U. of York).

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

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The Cognitive Biology of Language

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

Professor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

ISMRM highlights

Multiple.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 May 2024, 12:30-13:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Amy Shyer, Alan Rodrigues, Rockefeller University.

Online.

Monday 20 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Brent Lee.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

How does the human brain recognize faces?

Bruno Rossion (U. of Lorraine).

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

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Stefanie Wculek, IRB (Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Shinuo Weng, Johns Hopkins University.

online TUESDAY.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Cambridge Overcoming Polarisation Initiative

Ceejay Hayes and Yara Kyrychenko (Cambridge) .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

The problem with mental health awareness

Lucy Foulkes (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 30 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Advances in fMRI Data Acquisition Techniques

Benedikt Poser (Maastricht University).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 June 2024, 12:30-13:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Wolfram Pönisch-Deciphering the role of noise in cell shape changes during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

Constance Le Gloanec and Wolfram Pönisch.

Online.

Monday 03 June 2024, 14:30-15:30

Chaucer Club

The evolution of Alzheimer’s disease in the aging brain

Bill Jagust (UC Berkeley).

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

Monday 03 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

The role of reward in language learning

Saloni Krishnan (Royal Holloway).

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

Thursday 06 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Colleen Deane, University of Southampton.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 06 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functions

Eva Deinum.

Online.

Monday 10 June 2024, 14:30-15:30

Child Development Forum (CDF)

Child Development Forum Easter II

Abigail Agyemang (Psychology), Irena Tetkovic (Psychiatry), Keith Liang (Psychology).

Old Cavendish Psychology Ground Floor Seminar Room.

Tuesday 11 June 2024, 09:30-11:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Michal Kosinski (Stanford University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

FSL-MRS as an alternative to MRspa for 1H MRS processing

Speaker to be confirmed.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 17 June 2024, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:30-18:00