Plant Science related talks

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Natural and forced behaviour of the Pacific Walker Circulation over the past 800 years

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

User Georgina Falster, Australian National University.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

On using mathematical 'snakes' to study the effects of cell divisions on auxin patterning in plant roots

User Etienne Farcot- University of Nottingham.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

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

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 2

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

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

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

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 1

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

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

Evolution of multisensory integration in plants

User Prof. Miguel A. Blázquez - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV).

House 47 Bateman Street .

Wednesday 27 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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User Duncan Mackay.

Thursday 21 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

What and Where I Record

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User Jonathan Shanklin.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Branching Out Seminar Series - The curse of scale, more cells more rouges, and the impossibility of whales: somatic evolution across the tree of life

User Alex Cagan.

House 47 Bateman Street .

Thursday 14 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Jiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

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

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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User Rosemary Fricker.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 18:45-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Deciphering the molecular basis of cell-surface immune signaling

User Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

50,000 years of turnover and extinction in high-latitude megafauna communities

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User Alistair Monteath, British Antarctic Survey.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Chromosome dynamics during the cell cycle

User Daniel Gerlich, IMBA, University of Vienna.

Monday 04 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Mutate Everything: globally mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins

User Ben Lehner, Sanger Institute.

Monday 04 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Linking histone H1 to Polycomb repression

User Iva Tchasovnikarova (University of Cambridge).

Monday 04 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Meeting Room (Second Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

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User Peter Pilbeam.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Rhett Harrison, CIFOR.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

House 47 Baterman Street .

Dr Angela Hay - Creating an Explosion

User Dr Angela Hay.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

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

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

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User Olwen Williams.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

House 47 Baterman Street .

Branching Out Seminar Series: Darren Croft

User Darren Croft.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Kenneth Sporne Lecture: Uncovering the drivers of complexity in vascular plants, new insights from fossils and genes

User Sandy Hetherington, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Microplastics from geologists' perspective

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User Saija Saarni, University of Turku.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservation

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User Esme Ashe-Jepson.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

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

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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User Morgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

FF Blackman Memorial Lecture in Plant Physiology

User Alex Costa, University of Milan, Italy.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level in the last interglacial

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User Eric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences, and the WACSWAIN team.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

The secrets of human centromeres: from their epigenetic determination to the maintenance of their stability

User Daniele Fachinetti, Institut Curie.

Monday 05 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Uncovering how the genome directs development

User Julie Ahringer, Gurdon Institute.

Monday 05 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Branching Out Seminar Series: Lewis Dartnell - 'Astrobiology and Science Writing'

Please email events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for hybrid event details

User Lewis Dartnell.

Friday 26 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation

User Luke Mackinder, University of York.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Hybrid meeting. Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Understanding Transcription in Plants

User Professor Lucia Strader.

Wednesday 13 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

CNHS Seasonal Social

Ticketed Event

User Annual Social Gathering.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 18:30-20:30

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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User Morag Hunter.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Sleeping giant – opening access to the untapped scientific data held in the Cambridge University Herbarium

User Dr Anne Dubéarnès, Cambridge University Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Pantastic archaeology in the northern Namib Sand Sea

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

User Abi Stone, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

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

The Health of the Cam

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User Stephen Tomkins.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

User Professor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and Adventure

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User Paul Krusic.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Mining the medicinal plant treasures of a biodiversity hotspot using biotechnological tools

User Professor Nokwanda Makunga, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

The Greenland Speleothem Record of Past Hydroclimate and Vegetation Changes

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

User Gina Moseley, University of Innsbruck.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

The genetics of epigenetics: understanding H3K9me in C. elegans muscle development

User Susan Gasser, Fondation ISREC.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

KRAB zinc finger proteins expand the domestication potential of mobile elements

User Michael Imbeault.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

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

A Biodiverse City

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User Guy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Chasing the ghost behind germination and starvation: the unidentified hormone ‘KL’

User Dr Thomas Irving, Cereal Symbiosis Group, Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences..

Thursday 09 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Single-Cell and Spatial Dissection of Plant-Microbe Interactions

User Tatsuya Nobori, PhD Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Monday 06 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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User Liam Saddington.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

RR-Myb related transcription factors, novel regulators of chloroplast biogenesis

User Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

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

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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User Will Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

A symplastic, not a simplistic, path: new insights into the role and structural properties of the plasmodesmata cell wall

User Dr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

People Power for Nature

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User Pete Exley, RSPB.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling

User Dr Lee Cackett, Plant Physiology and Symbiosis Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

The Pleistocene Evolution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: An Interglacial Perspective

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

User Aidan Starr, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Regulation of mRNA translation and decay

User David Bartel, Whitehead Institute.

Monday 16 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Coevolution of transposable elements and small RNA defence mechanisms in mammals

User Eric Miska, Department of Biochemistry.

Monday 16 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

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

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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User Mark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Beyond Campus: Industry Expert Seminar - Enhancing the sustainability of the food system through SEEDesignTM

User Dr Mike Nuccio, Senior Director of AI at Inari, USA.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Not all that is repetitive is a clock; Elucidating early steps of lateral root formation

User Professor Kirsten ten Tusscher, Utrecht University, Netherland.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Vacuuming the Atlantic, Paepalology and getting things ‘wrong, wrong, wrong!’ – pollen tales from the archives

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User Kevin J. Edwards, SPRI, McDonald Institute & University of Aberdeen.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Ground rules for flexible leaf development

User Dominique Bergmann (Stanford University).

Tuesday 11 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Understanding Aboriginal-constructed landscapes in SE Australia, the impact of colonisation, and implications for land management under changing climate

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

User Matthew Adeleye, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

TLWD scaffold proteins sustain circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis

User Dr Eva Herrero Serrano, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants

User Professor Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, UK.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Decision Making in Plant Roots: a role for microtubules in sugar sensing and salt stress

User Geoffrey Wasteneys (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada).

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Rubisco activity and the response of crop leaf photosynthesis to shade

User Dr Samuel Taylor, University of Lancaster.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Immunity activation and execution in plants: a biochemical perspective

User Professor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute, Germany.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Squaring the circle: a coherent reconstruction of past species responses from multiple lines of evidence

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

User Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Circadian regulation of sunflower development

User Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

User Professor Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University London and Royal Botanic Garden Kews, UK.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia

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User Poppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

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

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

Saturday 15 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

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

Annual General Meeting

User The President and Officers.

Friday 14 April 2023, 18:00-19:00

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

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

Friday 14 April 2023, 13:00-18:00

Cool as a caterpillar

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User Esme Ashe-Jepson.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Exploring the regulatory universe of Retinoblastoma function in DNA damage response

User Arp Schnittger (University of Hamburg).

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

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User Kevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

Thursday 23 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

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User Tatiana Bebchuk.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Unraveling the molecular evolution of betalain-producing enzymes to boost their industrial application

User Dr Alejandra Guerrero Rubio, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

The Hominin Sites Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): applications and challenges of paleomagnetism in human evolutionary studies

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

User Mark Sier, CENIEH.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

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User Jonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

Thursday 09 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Considering B vitamin metabolism in plants, and for food and nutritional security

User Professor Teresa Fitzpatrick, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

User Lauren Davies, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

KRAB zinc finger proteins and the species-specificity of human biology, for better and for worse

User Didier Trono, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Monday 06 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

The evolution of mammalian X-inactivation

User James Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

Monday 06 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Auxin - an universal synchronizer in plants and beyond.

User Krzysztof Wabnik (UPM).

Friday 03 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

User Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 18:45-20:30

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Unravelling the molecular mechanism of petal spot initiation in sexually deceptive South African daisy Gorteria diffusa.

User Dr Udhaya Ponraj, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development

User Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

House CANCELLED.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

North-West Saharan Holocene rainfall driven by interhemispheric temperature differences (with climatic and archaeological considerations)

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User Chris Day, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Scaling the wall in leaf development: from structure to function

User Andrew Fleming (The University of Sheffield).

Friday 17 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

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User Joshua Pike.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Bumblebees' floral preferences are shaped by rapid valuation of sensory nectar properties

User Dr Fei Peng, Visiting Researcher, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia

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User Willem van der Bilt, University of Bergen.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

In Search of Wild Tulips

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User Brett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Molecular insights into abiotic and biotic factors shaping diatom ecophysiology and signalling

User Dr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Chromosome-end protection in pre-implantation development

User Jérôme Déjardin, Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier.

Monday 06 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Inheritance of H3-H4 and H2A-H2B modifications / variants across DNA replication and mitosis

User Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen.

Monday 06 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Publishing in Communications Biology and other journals in the Nature Portfolio

User David Favero, Nature Communications.

Monday 06 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Via Zoom, and in-person: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisis

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User Mike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 18:45-20:30

Soil microbiomes and one Health

User Professor Marcel van der Heijden, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

House Online only.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Plant development in complex environments

User Scott Hayes (Wageningen University & Research).

Friday 27 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Alternative meristems: mapping the expression landscape of transcription factor in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

User Dr Facundo Romani, Haseloff Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Should I stay or should I grow? Coordinating hormones to make decisions

User Annalisa Rizza (SLCU).

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Getting to the root of symbiotic nodule developments in legumes

User Katharina Schiessl (SLCU).

Friday 20 January 2023, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Deciphering Molecular and Cellular Dynamics of Invasive Growth Across Developmental Contexts

User Dorothee Stoeckle (University of Zurich).

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

How do Cell Walls Drive Growth and Development

User Henry Temple (University of Cambridge).

Monday 16 January 2023, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Arrested development. Stomatal patterning during embryogenesis and the developmental blocks that prevent progress.

User Margot Smit (Stanford, HHMI).

Tuesday 10 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

CNHS Seasonal Social

User Social Gathering 🍾.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 18:30-20:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Insects in Flight

User John Brackenbury.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 18:45-20:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

User Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

User Marco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Mechanisms of Chromatin Remodeling Machines: Different or the Same?

User Geeta Narlikar, UCSF.

Monday 28 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Mechanisms of zygotic genome activation and spatial chromatin organization in totipotent mouse embryos

User Kikue Tachibana, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Monday 28 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

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User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

User Professor Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Operation Turtle Dove

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User Bethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

The molecular basis of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

User Dr Roman Kellenberger, Evolution and Development, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

When did humans first alter atmospheric CO2? Constraining the Holocene CO2 conundrum with new ice core data

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

User Thomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

The Nature of Cambridge

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User Contributing Authors.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

User Dr Edith Forestier, Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Mosquitoes in the Cambridgeshire Fens: past, present and future

User Mark Welch, Natural History Museum.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 18:45-20:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Developing Parasite-Resistant Systems in Tomatoes to Control Infestations of Cuscuta campestris

User Dr Min-Yao Jhu, Sustainable Crop Nutrition Group, Crop Science Centre.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide

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User Markus Jochum, University of Copenhagen.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Genome evolution and the control of transposons during germline development in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Fluorogenetic interrogation of chromatin position effects

User Iva Tchasovnikarova, Gurdon Institute.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Active Matter and Transport in Living Cells

User Michael Shelley (Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute).

Monday 31 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Natural History from Above

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User Harriet Allen, President CNHS.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Understanding genome regulation during seed germination

User Mathew G. Lewsey (Centre for AgriBioscience at La Trobe University).

Thursday 27 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century

User Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

The End –– and the innumerable ways to reach it

User Yaowu Yuan, University of Connecticut.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

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User Georgie Bray, RSPB.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

User Dr. Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Evolution & Development Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

How high and how fast? Improving future predictions of long-term sea-level rise through studying the Last Interglacial

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User Amy McGuire, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 17:30-19:00

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

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User Monica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Protein import into chloroplasts and its regulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system

User R. Paul Jarvis, Section of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford .

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography).

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

User Stefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

Thursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

The Evo-Devo of Multicellularity.

User Karl Niklas (Cornell University).

Tuesday 13 September 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways

User Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Unravelling the legacy of 7000 years of metal pollution in south-eastern Europe

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User Daniel Veres, Romanian Academy, Cluj.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis

User Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Examining glacial-interglacial climate changes by water isotope modelling efforts

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User Martin Werner, Palaeoclimate Dynamics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Small RNA-directed Reprogramming of Gene Expression During Host-bacteria Interactions

User Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Middle Pleistocene Tephrochronology in the Ethiopian Rift: implications for the paleoanthropological and paleoclimatic records

User Céline Vidal, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 17:30-19:00

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

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 Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Stomatal evolution and using knowledge of stomatal function to breed more resilient crops

User Professor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol .

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

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

User Guy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

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

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

User Professor Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemas.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genotypic variation in maize influences rates of soil organic matter mineralisation and gross nitrification

User Dr Lumbani Mwafulirwa, Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, NIAB.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Characterising the epistatic relationship between signalling pathways for AM symbiosis in rice

User Raffy Hull, PhD student, Paszkowski group, Crop Science Centre.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Crop Science Seminar: Revealing the “box” code: the spatial and temporal regulation of plant-parasitic nematode pathogenicity

User Clement Pellegrin, Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow, Crop Science Centre.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Crop Science Seminar: Combining multi-scale phenotyping, AI-powered analysis with genetic mapping studies to connect lab-based plant research with in-field crop improvement

User Ji Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

User Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

Thursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

The dependence of plant cell wall assembly and function on polysaccharide structure

User Professor Paul Dupree (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 31 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fenland Flora

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User Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Crop Science Seminar: Pre-breeding, food security and net zero: so much to do, so little time and money

User Phil Howell, Head of Cereals Pre-Breeding, NIAB .

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Crop Science Seminar: Improving the mycorrhizal symbiosis in spring barley – lab and field studies

User Dr Tom Thirkell, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, CSC.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

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User Martin Davies.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

User Dr Kostya Kanyuka, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, NIAB.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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User Rebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

User Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Lower Wood

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User Duncan Mackay.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Who Cares About Hornworts?

User Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Peatbogs

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User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Mechano-eco-evo of the Common Dandelion: What the Notorious Weed Tells Us About Plant Dispersal Strategies

User Dr Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

A stylish story of carpel evolution.

User Cristina Ferrandiz, Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP).

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and Jackals

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User Arik Kershenbaum.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

User Dr Indu Santhanagopalan, Physiological Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

The Fenland Flora

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User Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Friday 11 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

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User Ann Miles.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis

User Dr Pallavi Singh, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences .

Thursday 10 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

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User Daniel Field.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Entangled Lives: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

User Dr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Audience Choice

The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

User Jonathan Shanklin.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Uncovering Mechanisms of Cell-type-specific Gene Expression in Rice

User Dr Leonie Luginbuehl, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

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User Ellie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

User Dr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

The launch of the online NatHistFest

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User CNHS Members.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

User Dr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

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User April Bagwill.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Decoupling Photoprotective Roles of Carotenoids in the PSII Light Harvesting Complexes for Improved Plant Growth

User Dr Julia Walter, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

How plant cells measure themselves, and why it matters

User Robert Sablowski (John Innes Centre).

Friday 12 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

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User Gwenda Kyd, Author.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

User Professor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Flattening the Curve: Mechanoperception in Plant Cell and Developmental Biology

User Elizabeth Haswell (Washington University in St. Louis).

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Predictive models of plant cell division and expansion

User Jacque Dumais (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez).

Monday 08 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

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User Dr Steve Boreham.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

User Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House You can sign up at https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/plantsci-bioinfo . Information about how to join will be sent to this list on the day of the meeting..

Gradual evolution in the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica

User Robin Burns.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants

User Dr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Cellular dynamics and regulation of cambium stem cells during plant secondary Growth

User Dongbo Shi, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

The 4th dimension of transcriptional networks: TIME

User Professor Gloria Coruzzi, Center for Genomics & Systems Biology (New York University).

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

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User Dr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

User Dr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

User Dr Xiaoqi Feng (JIC).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Anionic phospholipids across scales: from plasma membrane nanodomains to plant development

User Yvon Jaillais - ENS Lyon.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Trees for Streets

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User Simeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

User Professor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

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User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.

Thursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30

House You can sign up at https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/plantsci-bioinfo . Information about how to join will be sent to this list on the day of the meeting..

Epigenetics and hidden heritability in tomato

User Archana Singh.

Wednesday 06 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Mechanism and Models of Stomata/Mesophyll Form and Function

User Professor Andrew Fleming, Chair of Plant Science, University of Sheffield.

Monday 23 August 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Electrical signalling in a wounded plant

User Professor Edward Farmer (University of Lausanne).

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

House You can sign up at https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/plantsci-bioinfo . Zoom link will be sent to this list on the day of the meeting..

Towards a chromosome-level assembly of a non-model plant species

User Roman Kellenberger .

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

User Chris Lambing, Henderson group.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

User Prof Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

House You can sign up at https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/plantsci-bioinfo . Zoom link will be sent to this list on the day of the meeting..

Diversity and evolution of coding and non-coding transcriptomes in flowering plants

User Christoph Schuster.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

User Kumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Adding a piece to the leaf epidermis puzzle: towards a better understanding of cell shape acquisition

User Stéphanie Robert - Umea Plant Science Centre - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

House You can sign up at https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/plantsci-bioinfo . Zoom link will be sent to this list on the day of the meeting..

Non-parametric and Parametric Bootstrapping in Phylogeny

User N. Walker-Hale.

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Selective autophagy mediated cellular quality control in plants

User Yasin Dagdas - GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cross-Kingdom RNAi and extracellular vesicle-mediated small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

User Prof Hailing Jin, UCR Riverside.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Postponed - Protecting the Environment

Postponed for now. Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

User Krishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

House You can sign up at https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/plantsci-bioinfo . Zoom link will be sent to this list on the day of the meeting..

Characterisation of Arabidopsis centromere repeats from a new telomere-to-telomere assembly

User Piotr Wlodzimierz.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

User Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

House Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum

Now at 3pm

User John Ferguson, Kromdijk group.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Chemical-biology approaches to control small-molecules in plants

User Roy Weinstain (Tel Aviv University).

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

User Kaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

House Zoom.

Monday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Soil fungi for us

NOTE TIME CHANGE

User Maarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences

User Dr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning.

Pathology Microbiology Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

RNA structuromics: In vitro, in vivo and in silico

User Franz Narberhaus (Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany).

House Microsoft Teams (Please email npg22@cam.ac.uk for a link to the seminar).

Thursday 11 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

A thorny question: tinkering to evolve a novel mode of plant stem cell arrest

User Vivian Irish, Yale University.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

House You can sign up at https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/plantsci-bioinfo . Zoom link will be sent to this list on the day of the meeting..

Mapping B Vitamin biosynthesis pathways in novel lineages of the Stramenopiles

User Dominic Absolon.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses

User Dr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions

User Frank C. Schroeder, Cornell University.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Modelling the evolution of developmental processes

User Renske Vroomans (Utrecht University).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Molecular bonsai and synthetic virology: How a new class of RNA virus-based vectors can enable rapid reprogramming of plants

User Arjun Khakhar (University of Minnesota).

Tuesday 19 January 2021, 15:30-16:30

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Imaging of Clathrin Mediated Endocytosis Accessory Proteins in Arabidopsis

User Alex Johnson Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.

Monday 18 January 2021, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Evolutionary dynamics of innovation

User Enrico Colizzi (Origins Centre and Mathematical Institute Leiden University) .

Friday 15 January 2021, 10:00-11:00

House You can sign up at https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/plantsci-bioinfo . Zoom link will be sent to this list on the day of the meeting..

Trials and Tribulations of Centromeric Sequence Assembly

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

The Fourth Perspective: Evolution and Organismal Agency

User Johannes Jaeger (D'Alembert Research Chair 2020/21, Institut d'Études Avancées (IEA) Paris; Associate Faculty, Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna).

Monday 14 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Origin and evolution of the alternation of generations in land plants

User John Bowman (Monash University).

Friday 11 December 2020, 09:00-10:00

CambPlants Hub

Celebrating the FAO International Year of Plant Health: A forward looking perspective on tackling the grand challenges in plant health to transform agriculture sustainably.

User Dr Richard Harrison - Director of Cambridge Crop Research, NIAB..

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres

User Matthew Naish, Henderson Group.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Modelling GA dynamics in growing plant organs

User Leah Band (University of Nottingham) .

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Fighting climate change using plants: It takes a global village to solve a global problem

User Joanne Chory (Salk Institute for Biological Studies).

Monday 23 November 2020, 16:45-17:45

Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development

User Prof Siobhan Brady, UC Davis.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Translation research in plant breeding, can we finish the job!

User Abdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud .

Thursday 12 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Defying Mendel’s laws: epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum

User Claudia Dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Does stress lead to wrinkles?. The case of petal cuticles

User Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Evolutionary legacies on ecosystem function and implications for global change: new insights from spectral biology

User Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

A bipartite transcription factor module controls bundle sheath preferential expression in Arabidopsis

User Patrick Dickinson, Hibberd group.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

House You can sign up at https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/plantsci-bioinfo . Zoom link will be sent to this list on the day of the meeting..

Orthofinder and phylogenetics as a tool for comparative transcriptomics in arbuscular mycorrhizal research

User Mara Sgroi .

Wednesday 05 August 2020, 13:00-14:00

Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis

User Dr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:00-13:30

Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis

User Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Breaking the species barrier to allow hybridization of C3 and C4 cereals

User Greg Reeves, Hibberd group.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

TO BE ADJOURNED - AGM

AGM WILL BE ADJOURNED

User AGM.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-19:00

Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice

User An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 13:00-13:30

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

CANCELLED - NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

CANCELLED

User Free Public Exhibition.

Saturday 04 April 2020, 10:00-17:00

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

CANCELLED - NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

CANCELLED

User Free Public Exhibition.

Friday 03 April 2020, 13:00-18:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

CANCELLED - A trillion trees – A trillion reasons to thrive!

CANCELLED

User Stuart Dainton, Head of Trillion Trees WWF-UK.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

CANCELLED: Can cell wall polysaccharide structure influence plant development?

User Prof Paul Dupree (University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry).

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

User Paul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Cancelled-Cross-kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

CANCELLED due to travel restrictions by University of California

User Prof Hailing Jin (Professor and Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside, USA) .

Tuesday 17 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

How is vegetative maturation coordinated between the shoot apical meristem and leaf primordia?

User Dr Jim Fouracre, University of Pennsylvania.

Friday 13 March 2020, 10:00-11:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Matthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Reading Epigenetic Marks: Downstream of DNA Methylation and Beyond

User Dr Jake Harris, UCLA.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Engineering the Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA): Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and its Nutrient Regulation in Barley

User Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

User Mal Faloon.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Integrating northern and southern hemisphere stalagmites: what they can tell us about tropical climate dynamics and civilization collapse at the 4.2 kyr event

User Nick Scroxton (University College Dublin).

Thursday 05 March 2020, 17:30-19:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

User Sophia Upton.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Coordination of root development via shoot-derived light and temperature signals

User Dr Kasper van Gelderen (Utrecht University).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-16:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

User Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Adapting shoot morphology to seasons and climates

User Jo Hepworth (JIC).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Principles of biochemical computations at criticality

User Dr Aneta Koseska (Max Planck Institute).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

User Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Cancelled: Understanding drivers and consequences of plant diversity across temporal and spatial scales in an era of rapid global change

This talk is cancelled

User Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing

User Professor Dan Voytas (Minnesota State University). This seminar is organised on behalf of the Plant Sciences Department..

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 09:00-10:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

How do plants sense temperature?

User Dr Rea L. Antoniou-Kourounioti (JIC).

Monday 17 February 2020, 09:00-10:00

Studies of virus diseases of cassava and maize lethal necrosis disease in Kenya

User Dr Paul Kuria, Kenya Agricultural Research Organisation .

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Lines in nature and the landscape

User Martin Davies.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

User Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Harrold-Odell Country Park

User Richard Dowsett.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Abrupt CO2 release to the atmosphere under glacial and early interglacial climate conditions

User Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles (University of Cambridge/BAS).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 17:30-19:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

User Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room, Dept of Plant Sciences.

Dr Fahim will be presenting a seminar on some of the work he has recently undertaken

User Dr Muhammad Fahim Associate Professor Director of the Centre for Omic Sciences, Islamia College University Peshawar, Pakistan.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

User James Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth

User Richard Smith, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Rapid auxin responses get their due, and other hormone tales

User Professor Mark Estelle (University of California San Diego).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

User Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Talk 1 of 2: Speleothem records of abrupt warming events during the last glacial period

This is part I of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives. Second talk is being given by Raimund Muscheler (Lund University): "Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives"

User Russell Drysdale (University of Melbourne).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development

User Tina Schreier, Hibberd group.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Cryptic variation and evolvability in a simple molecular system

User Professor Andreas Wagner (University of Zurich).

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

User Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbiosis through the Phanerozoic

User Katie Field, University of Leeds.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Talk 2 of 2: Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives

This is part 2 of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives

User Raimund Muscheler (University of Lund).

Thursday 09 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Effect of elevated inorganic carbon on cytosolic anion homeostasis: nitrate efflux in seagrasses

User Prof. Lourdes Rubio, University of Malaga.

Thursday 19 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Engineering Nitrogen Storage Capacity of Plant to Improve Drought Tolerance

User Dr Rajeev Gupta, ICRISAT, India.

Friday 06 December 2019, 13:30-14:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

User Members' Event.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Conserved defences underpin host responses to oomycete infection in liverworts

User Philip Carella, SLCU.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Members' enthusiasms

User Rod Mulvey - John O’Boyle - Ben Greig.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Evading problems of IRD in palaeocurrent estimation: Glacial to Recent changes in flows around Greenland

User Nick McCave, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Engineering NLR immune receptors to combat rice blast disease

User Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Learning new biology from genome-wide maps of regulatory elements

User Shao-shan Carol Huang (New York University).

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

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The short Arctic summer

User Robert Burton.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Beyond mean climate change: Using paleoclimate archives to better constrain climate variability.

User Thomas Laepple, Alfred Wegener Institute.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Post Doc invited speaker

User Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

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

NO TALK

User .

House (no venue).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curve - composition and consequences

User Paula Reimer, Queens University Belfast.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

User James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

An astronomer in Antarctica

User Jonathan Shanklin.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Tales of growth and buckling: Micro-pattern formation on petal surface cells

User Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Tasty Crafty Aliens - Making the best of a bad situation...

User Abigail Stancliffe-Vaughan.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Aerosols and Ancient History in Arctic and Alpine Ice

User Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, current "Shackleton visiting fellow" at Clare Hall.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mechanisms conferring seasonal flowering responses in annual and perennial plants

Post Doc invited speaker

User George Coupland, Max Plank Institute.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing

User Prof Miltos Tsiantis (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research).

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

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The Last Dog? Wolves in the Highlands of Ethiopia and elsewhere

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Kevin Hand.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Does climate change really cause collapse? Insights from the Land, Water and Settlement and TwoRains projects

User Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains

User Hester Sheehan, Brockington group.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Changes: the Bird Life of Cambridgeshire - for better or for worse?

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Bob Jarman.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

21st Century Crop Science Wo(man)

User Alison Bentley, NIAB.

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

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Where The Wild Things Are: Investigating the spatial distribution patterns of highly mobile species

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Where The Wild Things Are: Investigating the spatial distribution patterns of highly mobile species

User Dr Charlotte Boyd, University of Washington, Seattle.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Retracing the evolution of stress tolerance in plants and animals

User Simon "Niels" Groen, New York.

Monday 14 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

(Re-)discovering Moths

User Annette Shelford.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Cambridge's Natural History - what do we know after three years of NatHistCam?

User Mark Hill.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Meet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge..

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

User Duncan Mackay.

Saturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Calculating Timescales in Evolution: Optimisation, Ergodicity and Genotype-Phenotype Maps

User Professor Thomas McLeish (University of York).

Wednesday 25 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Symposium on CRISPR/CAS editing in crops

User Professor Kan Wang (Iowa State University), Prof Wendy Harwood (John Innes), Dr Emma Wallington (NIAB).

Monday 19 August 2019, 13:00-16:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Swarm Engineering Across Scales: From Nanoparticles to Robots

User Dr Sabine Hauert, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 31 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Live imaging of nascent mesoderm across gastrulation highlights cell-environment interdependence

User Dr Isabelle Migeotte, IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Wednesday 24 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Tom ap Rees Lecture Theatre, Botany Building, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EA.

Pathways to Impact: Public Engagement Lunch

User Lucinda Spokes.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Plants perceive quinones via receptor-like kinases

Please note change of time

User Dr. Anuphon Laohavisit, Plant Immunity Research Group, RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science, Kanagawa, Japan.

Friday 05 July 2019, 10:00-11:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Host-induced gene silencing vs RNA silencing suppressors - another battleground in host-pathogen arms race

User Wenbo Ma (UC Riverside).

Wednesday 03 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The evolution of reproductive isolation: multiple hybrid zones in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

User Boris Delahaie, Glover group.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Are you ready for a food revolution?

User .

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 16:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Escaping Mendel’s laws: Epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum.

User Claudia dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Reprogramming plant cells for endosymbiotic infection

User Fernanda de Carvalho-Niebel (The Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, INRA-CNRS, Toulouse).

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a plant signalling molecule

User Matthew Gilliham, Professor of Crop Molecular Physiology, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Delivering 'the promise' of plant science through translation

Seminars on Crop Science - 2 day series

User Leon Terry, Cranfield University.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:00-11:50

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Reducing agricultural reliance on inorganic fertilisers

Seminars on Crop Science - 2 day series

User Giles Oldroyd, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 10:00-10:50

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Making fish oils in the field: metabolic engineering the omega-3 LC-PUFA pathway into transgenic plants for enhanced animal and human nutrition

Seminars on Crop Science - 2 day series

User Johnathan Napier, Rothamsted Research.

Monday 20 May 2019, 16:00-16:50

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Gene to landscape: cross-disciplinary and translational research to deliver higher crop yields with lower environmental impact

Seminars on Crop Science - 2 day series

User Geoffrey Gurr, Charles Sturt University.

Monday 20 May 2019, 15:00-13:50

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Dynamics in forest microclimates provide new insights into biodiversity responses to climate change

User Florian Zellweger, Coomes group.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function

User Caroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction

User Julian Schroeder, UCSD.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Exploiting the extracellular matrix to understand plant stress-adaptive responses

User Dr Stephen Chivasa, University of Durham.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

A rule based approach to Development

User Kim Sneppen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen).

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Increasing crop productivity by engineering an alternative photorespiration pathway

User Dr Amanda Cavanagh, Illinois.

Wednesday 17 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

User Free Public Exhibition.

Saturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

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

Annual General Meeting

User The President and Officers.

Friday 12 April 2019, 18:00-18:30

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

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

User Free Public Exhibition.

Friday 12 April 2019, 13:00-18:00

House Clare College, Cambridge.

Cambridge Global Food Security Symposium 2019: Generating Practical Solutions for India and Africa

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

User .

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 08:30-16:00

House Clare College, Cambridge.

Cambridge Global Food Security Symposium 2019: Generating Practical Solutions for India and Africa

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

User .

Monday 08 April 2019, 08:30-16:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

User Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Wesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

User Cambridge Concert Orchestra.

Saturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

If walls could talk: the evolution and adaptations of plant and algal cell walls

User Dr Zoë Popper, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Environment, Marine and Energy, NUI Galway.

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

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservation

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Abigail Burns.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

First Line of Defence: engaging communities in tackling illegal wildlife trade

User Dr Dilys Roe, IIED.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Mechanistic studies of purinergic signaling in plants

User Professor Gary Stacey, University of Missouri.

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

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Kevin Hand.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Antarctic snow algae blooms – analysing community function from microscopes to satellites

User Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

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

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Parasitic plants

User Helen Moore.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity

User Alexandre Antonelli, Kew.

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

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

A university role in fostering social change

User Professor Stephen Toope, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

User Paul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

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

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Linking knowledge to action at scales that matter: lessons from the past, thoughts about the future

User Professor Pamela Matson, Stanford University.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Root damage and immune responses at cellular resolution

User Niko Geldner (Université de Lausanne).

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

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Hyde Park: a history through trees

User Greg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD

User Mike Blatt, Glasgow.

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

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Is the nutrition in our crops declining?

User James Wong, Botanist, science writer & broadcaster.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Cheetah conservation in Namibia

User Chris Heron.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Targeted grafts as a tool to enhance tomato preservation

User Sara Lopez-Gomollon, Baulcombe Lab.

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

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Venom

User Leah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development

User Dominique Bergmann, Stanford.

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

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Saving the world’s biodiversity spreadsheet by spreadsheet

User Dr Stuart Butchart, BirdLife International.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Indu Santhanagopalan, Griffiths lab.

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

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

A resurrected scenario: single gain and massive loss of nitrogen-fixing root nodules

User Dr ir. René Geurts, Wageningen University & Research.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Dan Gibbs, Birmingham.

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

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Climate resilience through science, practice, and public participation

User Professor Adina Merelender, University of California, Berkeley .

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination

User Andy Tock, Henderson Lab.

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

A DNA methylation reader complex that enhances gene transcription

User Jake Harris, UCLA.

Monday 07 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Early Career Researcher Networking Event and Travel Showcase

Open to all University of Cambridge PhD students and post-docs with interests in global food security

User .

Friday 14 December 2018, 16:00-18:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

User Anastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

40th Cambridge Epigenetics Seminar

User Speakers to be confirmed.

Monday 03 December 2018, 18:00-19:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Apologies, due to flight cancellation this talk will be rescheduled

User Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Just because you’re small doesn’t mean biodiversity isn’t important! – Importance of phytoplankton diversity for the global carbon cycle

User Katherine Richardson, Professor Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Cellular Trajectories in Root Regeneration

User Professor Kenneth D. Birnbaum, New York University.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The GMO Controversy

User Kate Creasey, Grow More Foundation.

Monday 26 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Discovering lichens

User Mark Powell.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Latimer Room, Clare College.

Global Estimates of Marine Nitrogen Fixation based on a Non-Redfield Inverse Model

User Prof. Francois Primeau (University of California Irvine, USA).

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How do betalains evolved? Consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales

User Samuel Lopez, Brockington group.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Wildlife photography

User Joshua Harris, CU Nature Society.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Sustainability through environmental liability: getting conservationists and political ecologists into the courtroom

User Dr Jacob Phelps, Lancaster University.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

39th Cambridge Epigenetics Seminar

User Paola Scaffidi; Bas van Steensel.

Monday 12 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Getting to know British reptiles

User Terry Moore.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Coordinated approaches to assess the effects of interacting global change drivers on forest composition and function

User Kris Verheyen, University of Ghent.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Cripps Meeting Room 3, Magdalene College.

A comprehensive climate history of the last 800,000 years and its application to ecological modelling

User Dr Mario Krapp (Department of Zoology).

Thursday 01 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Forest conservation policy: from monitoring to design

User Associate Professor Guy Ziv, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Thermomorphogenesis signaling - Translation of temperature stimuli into plant growth

User Dr Marcel Quint (MLU Halle-Wittenberg).

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Sam Buckton.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How the nutrient status of the plant controls its engagement with microorganisms

User Giles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Chris Preston.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Cripps Auditorium, Magdalene College.

Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology

User Prof. Ulf Buentgen (Department of Geography).

Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Developments in the measurement of natural capital to advance sustainability assessment

User Associate Professor Eli Fenichel, Yale University .

Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis

User Leonie Luginbuehl, Hibberd group.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Do conservation efforts aimed at slowing deforestation and improving local wellbeing work - and how do we know?

User Professor Julia Jones, Bangor University .

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

38th Cambridge Epigenetics Seminar

User Raphael Margueron; Caroline Dean.

Monday 15 October 2018, 18:00-19:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

A trip to the Galapagos islands

User Paul Hoxey.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

User Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Old specimens, new tricks? The Cambridge University Herbarium: what a million dead plants can tell us about the world today

Opening Autumn Lecture

User Lauren Gardiner.

Thursday 04 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Understanding the Evolution of Seed Plant Reproductive Adaptations Through a Fern

User Dr Andrew Plackett (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Harnessing sexual and asexual seed formation for increased seed yield

User Dr Anna Koltunow (CSIRO Agriculture and Food).

Wednesday 26 September 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Balancing acts in the control of plant cell reprogramming

User Dr Momoko Ikeuchi (RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science).

Tuesday 25 September 2018, 15:15-16:15

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Mechanics and dynamics of cell to cell adhesion in plants

User Dr Stéphane Verger (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France).

Monday 24 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Uncoupling the processes of development

User Dr Sarah Robinson (University of Bern) .

Friday 14 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Evo-devo origami: using carnivorous plants to understand 3D morphogenesis

User Dr Christopher Whitewoods (John Innes Centre).

Wednesday 12 September 2018, 13:30-14:30

Role of Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase cascade during light and submergence signaling in plants

User Professor Alok Krishna Sinha.

Thursday 02 August 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

An inorganic antioxidant in a living system impacting atmospheric and marine chemistry: Iodide in seaweeds (kelp)

Hosted by CambPlants

User Prof. Frithjof C. Kuepper from Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen.

Tuesday 17 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

37th Epigenetics Club Seminar

User Professor Kim Nasmyth; Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith.

Monday 02 July 2018, 18:00-19:00

A Sugar-based Shadow Detector for Optimal Photosynthesis Efficiency- A Role for the Plant Heterotrimeric G Protein Complex

User Alan Jones, Kenan Distinguished Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Developing and Funding a Global System for the Conservation of Crop Diversity in Genebanks

User Luigi Guarino, Crop Trust.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Interactive talk for students and Postdocs as part of the "Alternative careers in science" series

User Katherine Kahn from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Friday 01 June 2018, 14:00-16:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A Ser/Thr receptor-like kinase, Ark1, is required to maintain arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice

User Ronelle Roth, Paszkowski Lab.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics

Third "Enid MacRobbie Women in Science" lecture

User Anne Osbourne, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Younger isn’t always better: Why juvenile spermatocytes frequently mis-segregate their chromosomes

User Francesca Cole, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 10:00-11:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Multiple macroevolutionary routes to becoming a biodiversity hotspot

User Javier Igea, Tanentzap Lab.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Making a pore: Signaling and transcription-factor control of stomatal development

User Keiko Torii (University of Washington).

Friday 11 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Explosive seed dispersal

User Angela Hay, Max Planck.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

User Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Extracellular Vesicles as Key Mediators of Plant-Microbe Interactions

User Roger Innes (Indiana University).

Monday 30 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Record of abrupt changes of last climate cycle in European glacial dust deposits

User Denis-Didier Rousseau - Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique & CERES-ERTI.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Unlocking the secrets of medicinal crops: from artemisinin to morphine, why are plants still better than bugs at making these drugs?

User Ian Graham, University of York.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Auxin, glucosinolates, and drought tolerance: What's the connection?

User Mark Estelle (University of California - San Diego) .

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Science editing for fun and profit

User Chris Surridge, Nature Plants Chief Editor.

Friday 20 April 2018, 15:00-17:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

What's the point of yet another journal?

User Chris Surridge, Nature Plants Chief Editor.

Friday 20 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

(Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape

Special Seminar

User Joe Ecker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological studies.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

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

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

User ..

Saturday 07 April 2018, 10:00-17:00

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

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

User ..

Friday 06 April 2018, 13:00-18:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Land of Eagles - Albania: from closed nation to wildlife paradise - where next?

Preceded by the AGM, 18:00 to 18:30.

User Kevin Hand.

Thursday 22 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Breckland, birds and conservation

User Robert Hawkes.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Deciphering the stochastic kinetics of gene regulation

User Ido Golding (Baylor College of Medicine).

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 09:00-10:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

The importance of seed testing

User Pam Butler.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Recent developments and debates in East Asian monsoon palaeoclimatology

User Barbara Maher, Lancaster University.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Protein targeting within the chloroplast: a cell-biological view of starch biosynthesis

User Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Evolution and Engineering of Plant-Microbe Symbioses

User Jean-Michel Ané (University of Wisconsin - Madison).

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Uncoupling the processes of development

User Dr Sarah Robinson, University of Bern.

Monday 05 March 2018, 09:30-10:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED-Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-13:30

House The Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site Pembroke Street , Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

National crises, viewed in the light of personal crises

User Jared Diamond, UCLA.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 17:15-18:15

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Auxin and cytokinin regulation of root architecture - antagonism or synergy

User Eva Benkova (IST Austria).

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Theory of Cytoskeleton-driven Mechanisms

User Francois Nedelec (EMBL Heidelberg).

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 09:15-10:15

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Genotype-phenotype maps: from abstract models to protein structure and plant development

User Sebastian Ahnert (SLCU).

Monday 26 February 2018, 09:30-10:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

“This object has been temporarily removed”

User Leah Fitzpatrick.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Modeling and understanding of Quaternary climate cycles

Normal time and place

User Andrey Ganopolski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Saving our bumblebees

User Professor Dave Goulson, University of Sussex.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Dynamics of Microbial Communities

User Knut Drescher (MPI).

Monday 19 February 2018, 09:30-10:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Smuts, bunts and ergots

User Sandra Chapman.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phylogenetic hypothesis of the Oleeae tribe (Oleaceae)  Diversification and molecular evolution patterns in plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA

User Loubab Zedane, Brockington Lab.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Exhibiting Ice Age Cambridge

User Douglas Palmer.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Reconstructing deep ocean circulation pathway and strength using sediment dispersion

User Alex Piotrowski (Dept of Earth Science).

Thursday 08 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants Plant host-pathogen coevolution and exploring local adaptation of an Arabidopsis thaliana complex Resistance gene locus

User Jane Parker, MPI Cologne.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Climate change, species' abundance changes and protected areas

User Dr Aleksi Lehikoinen, Finnish Museum of Natural History .

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

On the role of the Southern Ocean in modulating (past) climate variability

Please note different time/venue

User Samuel Jaccard, University of Bern.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

From vesicles to responsive artificial tissues

User Emma Talbot, Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College, Cambridge.

Reconstructing the extent, timing and palaeoclimatic significance of Quaternary glaciations in the Mediterranean region

Please note different venue

User Phil Hughes, University of Manchester.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED-Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

How satellite imagery is transforming conservation science

User Dr Nathalie Pettorelli, Zoological Society of London.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

CANCELLED - Evolution discovers routes to exploit Brownian motion, thermal noise and structural fluctuations in protein signalling and allostery

User Professor Tom McLeish (Durham University).

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Using the auxin-inducible degron in yeast to understand the spliceosome cycle

User Gonzalo Mendoza, Smith Lab.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Towards understanding of photoacclimation in algal photosynthesis – regulation via redox and Ca2+

User Michael Hippler, University of Munster.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Coral reefs and climate change: Ecological surprises from the epicentre of the 2015-2016 El Niño

User Dr Julia Baum, University of Victoria .

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 17:00-18:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

User Louise Bacon.

Thursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00

House Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

North Atlantic variability and its link to European climate and history over the last 3000 years

Quaternary Discussion Group seminar

User Paola Moffa Sanchez, Cardiff University.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Increasing Crop Productivity Sustainably by Bioengineering Improved Photosynthetic Efficiency

User Stephen Long, University of Illinois.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Conservation 4.0 - Will robots take your job?

User Professor Kate Jones, UCL.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The evolution of photosynthetic efficiency

User Steve Kelly (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Amphibian conservation and midwife toads in Cambridge

User Steven Allain.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Identification of a suppressor of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis in rice

User Jeongmin Choi, Paszkowski Lab.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Origins of Mediterranean flora

User Harriet Allen.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

House Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Climatic controls on peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

User Angela Gallego-Sala, University of Exeter.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant intracellular immune receptors; diversity, deployment and dissection

User Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

The success and challenges of grassroots conservation initiatives in the Amazon

User Dr Judith Schleicher, University of Cambridge .

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Shepreth Hedgehog Hospital

User Robert Day.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Not just a pretty flower- an ancestral function for LEAFY in shoot development of non-seed vascular plants

User Andrew Plackett, Hibberd Lab.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

Interplay between gene expression and alternative splicing determines cold acclimation in Arabidopsis

User Prof. John W. S. Brown, University of Dundee.

Friday 03 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Plants and their uses (medicinal & otherwise)

User Gwenda Kyd.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

House Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

MIS 7, The "Ebbsfleet Interglacial": sub-stage structure and recognition in the UK record

User Francis Wenban-Smith, University of Southampton.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Managing the global land resource

User Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

The power of non-invasive approaches to conservation science

User Dr Sam Wasser, University of Washington .

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Sustainable bioenergy and biofuels from microalgae: a systems biology perspective

User Maria Huete Ortega, Smith Lab.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Katie Field - Symbiotic options for the conquest of land

User Dr Katie Field, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Lost forests of Huntingdonshire

User Jason Peters.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 18:45-20:00

House Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Volcanic eruptions, climate and humans: How lessons from the past can help us to prepare for the future

User Michael Sigl, Paul Scherrer Institut & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Highlighting industry collaborations in Plant Sciences

This is a CAMBPLANTS Industrial Talk

User CINTRIN.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Transformative transparency and a deforestation free economy: how supply chain information can improve supply chain governance and sustainability

User Dr Toby Gardner, Stockholm Environment Institute.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Britain's Hidden Marine Life

User Dr. Frances Dipper.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 18:45-20:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The surprising evolution of TTG1-WDR proteins

User Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

New technologies to characterize bacterial two-component systems and repurpose them as sensors for synthetic biology applications

User Jeff Tabor (Rice University).

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

P1/HC-ProR-suppressed HEN1 activity affects in vivo miRNA-AGO1 loading and triggering autophagic AGO1 degradation

User Prof. Shih-Shun Lin, Inst. of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University.

Friday 07 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Histone variants are essential for transmission of epigenetic information

User Dr Frederic Berger, The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Cellular Dynamics and Signaling Molecules in Pollen Tube Guidance

User Dr Tetsuya Higashiyama, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University Japan.

Wednesday 28 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

User ..

Saturday 17 June 2017, 10:00-17:00

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

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

User ..

Friday 16 June 2017, 13:00-18:00

The Biomaker Challenge: an introduction for biologists

User Prof Jim Haseloff and Dr Jenny Molloy.