Graduate-Seminars

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

Decoding bivalency: Mechanisms of poising at developmental gene promoters

User Philipp Voigt, Babraham Institute.

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

House ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Memorization as a Feature, Not a Bug

User Jing Huang (Stanford University).

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Songs We Grow By

User Dr Ibrahim Baltagi, Lebanese American University.

Friday 06 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Postponed: How Mechanics Made Archaea Multicellular

User Postponed: Alex Bisson, Department of Biology, Indiana University .

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Monday 09 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

BSU Seminar: "Genomic newborn screening, and how to evaluate it"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/0erNJSr0T2OKXJE4uYYgHQ

User Ellen Thomas, Genomics England.

House Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Adventures in Molecular recognition: from one happy accident to another

User Professor Jeremy Sanders.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

A Gentle Introduction to Quantum Computational ElectroMagnetics

User Professor Gabriele Gradoni - Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Where do we stand on the origin of eukaryotic cells?

Host – Antoine Hocher

User Dr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Lineage architecture of the human and avian spinal cord revealed by single cell genomic barcoding

User Giulia Boezio, Francis Crick Institute.

Friday 13 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

House ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Title to be confirmed

User Atticus Geiger (Goodfire) .

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Song in the Ancient World: Echoes of Religion and Resistance

User Dr Matthew Gordley, Carlow University.

Friday 13 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Spontaneous shape transformations of active surfaces

User Alexander Mietke, University of Oxford.

Monday 16 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Electrons to Empires: A First-principles View on Science, Technology, and Politics in a Materials World

User Professor Nicola Marzari.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Geometric Gaussian Processes

User Dr Viacheslav Borovitskiy - School of Informatics Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh .

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

House FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Title to be confirmed

User Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

Friday 20 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900

User Dr Carola Darwin, Royal College of Music.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Friday 20 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

The role of Selenoprotein O in mitochondrial signaling

User Anju Sreelatha Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research.

Monday 23 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Marc Trani Bustos: Building the mammalian embryo body: tissue surface mechanics constrains proliferation-driven forces to guide axial elongation; Denis Krndija-“Cracking” the Gut Epithelium: How Goblet Cells Mechanically Disrupt the Gut Barrier.

User Marc Trani Bustos, Denis Krndija.

Monday 23 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Reading your DNA

User Sir Shankar Balasubramanian.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The Cybersecurity Awareness Experience: A Masterclass in Social Engineering, Behavioral Psychology, and Digital Self-Defense

User Paul Draper.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Ashani T. Weeraratna, PhD, John Hopkins.

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Thursday 26 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

BSU Seminar: "New Bayesian methods and tools to address health challenges"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/7KTIPoNBSVuPXcFtZh8MiQ

User Dr Raiha Browning, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

House Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

House FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

What Happens When They're Smarter Than Us?

User Dr Konstantinos Voudouris (UK AI Security Institute).

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

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

To divide or differentiate, that is the question

User Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Songs of the Stars: unravelling stellar music with asteroseismology

User Professor Conny Aerts, KU Leuven.

Friday 27 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

House in person at Level 2 meeting room, Gurdon Institute and online.

Feline Lindhount: Linking human neurodevelopmental timing and evolution

User Feline Lindhount, James Fitzsimmons.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

From Glycogen to Ubiquitin and back again

User Sir Philip Cohen.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 15:05-15:55

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Professor Katrina Lythgoe from Department of Biology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

House FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Title to be confirmed

User Mario Giulianelli (UCL).

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

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

Inter-Organ Communication and Metabolic Regulation in Drosophila

User Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948

User Professor Issa Boulos, University of Chicago.

Friday 06 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Deciphering the principles of epithelial tissue organization

User Delphine Delacour.

Monday 09 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Resolving the Ediacaran enigma: Unravelling the fossil record of early animal evolution

User Professor Alex Liu.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Rika Antonova - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 15:05-15:55

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

House ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Title to be confirmed

User Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST).

Friday 13 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

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

Illuminating mechanisms of PGC migration in the early mouse embryo

User Kate McDole (LMB).

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song

User Richard Morrison, The Times.

Friday 13 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Are Airborne Ultrafine Particles the Next Frontier in Air Pollution Research?

User Professor Roy Harrison.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

House FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Representational Geometry of Language Models

User Matthieu Téhénan (University of Cambridge).

Friday 20 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

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

Aneuploidy and its impact on human embryo development

User Marta Shahbazi.

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Antoine Molaro, iGReD.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

Title to be confirmed

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

House FW11 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Understanding the Interplay between LLMs' Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge

User Prof Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

Friday 01 May 2026, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Simon Moore - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Cristina David - School of Computer Science, University of Bristol.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Francisco X. Real, CNIO, Madrid.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture theatre tbc and Zoom.

Title to be confirmed

Hosts – Alex Cagan, Elena Scarpa and Ben Steventon

User Professor Richard White from Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Tom Stafford - School of Psychology, Universitry of Sheffield.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Professor David Kotz - Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Hana Aliee - Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 03 June 2026, 15:05-15:55

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Tyler Jacks, PhD, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology.