eg334's list

Building and Breaking the Neural Tube

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User Clare Buckley (PDN, University of Cambridge) .

Monday 20 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

User Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom -https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkd-qsqzMuH9Tk68gRcyOhzhF_Tae1s9_G.

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKES: Eugenics, and the Misuse of Mendel

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the Devonian

User Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh).

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

Cephalo-pelvic integration in hybrid mouse models and implications for human obstructed labour

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User Eva Zaffarini (McCaig Institute, University of Calgary).

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Junctional Remodelling in Vascular Morphogenesis

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User Maria Paraskevi Kotini (Biozentrum, Basel Switzerland).

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

User Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building & on Zoom - https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcOuvrDsvGNNzMF5svFLoXHVu2MGHcTMr.

Applications of X-ray imaging in Archaeology and palaeontology

User Diamond Light Source .

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

House Hardy Building room 101.

Political ecologists on the inside: insights from attending CBD COP15

User Ellie Kirkland, Chris Sandbrook, Chloe King.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Closeting of Secrets

User Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

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 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

User Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Zoom Meeting ID: 831 416 6462 .

Divided Environment: an International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security

User Prof Jan Selby , Sheffield University.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Mechano-chemical feedbacks in plant regeneration

User Kalika Prasad (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India).

Monday 30 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

User Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

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

Title to be confirmed

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User Kyogo Kawaguchi .

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Hardy Building Room 101.

Plot: On Black Spatial Insurgency

User Dr J.T. Roane, Rutgers University.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of Morphogenesis: the case of cephalic furrow

User Pavel Tomancak (MPI CBG, Dresden, Germany & CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic).

Monday 23 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

User Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

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

The status of 3D replicas of human bones and ethical considerations

For joining virtually on Zoom, pre-register here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMudeuhrzsjE9A6AAjyZolY3T4c7dVV2FT7

User Dr Vanessa Campanacho.

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

From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution

User Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

User Dr Steven McGreevy, University of Twente.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Dynamics and mechanics of cell shape changes during cellular state changes

User Ewa Paluch, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. .

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

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

The recently discovered ties between teeth and infants in human evolution

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User Dr Leslea Hlusko.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

User Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petals

User Lucie Riglet, Sainsbury's Laboratory, Cambridge University.

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Branching morphogenesis of the lung: tales of the sculptor and the sculpture

User Katharine Goodwin (Princeton, MRC LMB) .

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

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 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

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User Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Single-cell phenomics reveals behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpinning migratory activity during mouse anterior patterning

User Shankar Srinivas, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford .

Monday 14 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Inferring the evolution of skeletal gracility in hominins and extant mammals

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User Dr Habiba Chirchir.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

User Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

The place of desire for more-than-human political ecology

User Dr Jared Margulies, University of Alabama.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Models of the Development of the Central Nervous System

User Dagmar Iber, ETH Zurich (Computational Biology) .

Monday 07 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Placental hormones and bacterias: partners in crime in the regulation of fetal growth

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User Dr Jorge Lopez-Tello.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

30% – ‘Re-percent-ing’ ocean governance

User Dr Paula Satizábal, Oldenberg University.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Submerged by 4-way junctions: how the early embryo of the brown alga Saccharina e-copes

User Bénédicte Charrier .

Monday 31 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Biological diversity among modern human populations

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User Dr Fernando Rozzi.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:30-17:30

Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?

User Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

A game of semantics: a political ecology of Kenya's tree planting targets and forest metrics

User Alasdair Neilson, Cambridge University.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cell extrusion—an exciting start to the end of life

User Jody Rosenblatt, King's College London.

Monday 24 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Why do rural people in Mali join jihadist groups? A political ecological explanation

User Professor Tor Benjaminsen, NMBU.

House HB101.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG. .

Primate responses to death: insights into death awareness

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User Dr Alecia Carter, University College London .

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 16:30-17:30

Multi-organ FGF crosstalk orchestrates the construction of the water conserving cryptonephridial complex in a beetle

User Robin Beaven, University of Edinburgh.

Monday 17 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

How tissues orchestrate growth and morphogenesis – lessons from the vertebrate retina

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User Mauricio Rocha Martins (Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal) .

Monday 17 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

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

How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)

User Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

House In person (venue TBC).

The Gendered Dimensions of Urban Wildmeat Trafficking in the Republic of Congo

User Aalayna Green (University of Cornell) .

Tuesday 21 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

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 In person in the David Attenborough Building.

Conflict resolution for the future of biodiversity conservation

User Alexandra Zimmermann (University of Oxford) .

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

4D reconstruction of developmental trajectories

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User Giovanni Dalmasso (EMBL Barcelona, Sharpe Lab) .

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Exploring variation in neural crest development among East African cichlid fishes

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User Aleksandra Marconi (Zoology Department, Santos lab) .

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

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

The trouble with relational values

User Rogelio Luque Lora (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED!!!!!! Cell invasion: a casualty of dysregulated cell extrusion

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User Jody Rosenblatt, Randall’s Division for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London..

Monday 06 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

Ringing the alarm for a liveable future: Reproductive anxiety and the climate crisis

User Katie Dow (University of Cambridge) and Heather McMullen (Queen Mary University of London).

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Organoids – how can they shed light on immune-mediated development and disease?

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User Geraldine Jowett (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) .

Monday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Differentiation of the extra-embryonic endoderm is required for development of the pluripotent epiblast

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User Antonia Weberling (PDN, Cambridge) .

Monday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

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

Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

User Dr Dorit Hockman.

House Zoom.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

House In person (venue TBC).

Ecoterritorial Turn and Relational Narratives in Latin America. From the Indianist moment to the Ecofeminist moment in the fights against Neo-extractivism

User Maristella Svampa (University of Cambridge) (in person).

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Drivers of cnidarian morphogenesis

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User Aissam Ikmi (EMBL, Heidelberg).

Monday 23 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Dr Edwige Moyroud.

Wednesday 18 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

Smart, Commodified and Encoded: Blockchain Technology for Environmental Sustainability and Nature Conservation

User Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Multicellular coordination in context

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

User Takashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands .

Monday 16 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Prof Gaspar Jékely.

Wednesday 11 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

Silk Road Urbanization: Cities, Infrastructure-led development and Global Inequality

User Elia Apostolopoulou (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cell-type-specific behaviour underlies cellular growth variability in plants

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09

User Daniel Kierzkowski Montreal University .

Monday 09 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Dr Jordi Solana.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Women, girls and biodiversity loss: an evidence and policy review

User Francesca Booker (IIED), Hilary Alison (Green Goals) and Fleur Nash (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Prof Paola Oliveri.

Wednesday 27 April 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

Composite morphogenesis: how can a tissue fold and extend at the same time

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User Matteo Rauzi (IBV, Nice).

Monday 25 April 2022, 14:30-15:30

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

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

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

Plotting the Coloniality of Conservation - reading discussion

User Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul, Ariadne Collins, Judith Krauss.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

User Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

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

The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site

User Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Getting into shape: new insights into morphological patterning from the Drosophila wing

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User Natalie Dye (POL Dresden) .

Monday 07 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

User Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Who Cares About Hornworts?

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

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

"There is no better place to lie about: Racial capitalism and the urban metabolism of water in U.S. cities

User Kate Meehan, King's College London.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

The fossil origins of eukaryotic morphogenesis: exploring the beginnings of complex multicellularity in the Holozoa

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User Paul K. Strother (Boston College) .

Monday 28 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Food and Cultural History

User Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Smart, Commodified and Encoded: Blockchain Technology for Environmental Sustainability and Nature Conservation

User Reading discussion led by Chris Sandbrook.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Mechanisms generating robustness in plant organ size and shape

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User Adrienne Roeder .

Monday 21 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Food as Expression

User Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Ringing the alarm for a liveable future: Reproductive anxiety and the climate crisis

User Heather McMullen and Katharine Dow Queen Mary University of London, Institute of Population Health Sciences, Centre for Global Public Health Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Understanding the role of the extracellular matrix: from elasticity to viscoelasticity

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User Alberto Elosegui-Artola (Francis Crick Institute & King’s College London, London, UK) .

Monday 14 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

X-rays and Food Safety

User Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

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 brain-bone connections shaping skeletal form and function: can we use bone structure to study neural development in human evolution?

User Dr Jaap Saers, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 16:30-17:30

Ethnographic citizen science: camera traps and human-fox relations in inner-city London

User Tom Fry, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Adhesion-regulated junction slippage controls cell intercalation dynamics in an Apposed-Cortex Adhesion Model

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User Alexander Nestor-Bergmann (PDN, University of Cambridge).

Monday 07 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Breaking the barrier: CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids model pathogen and drug entry to the brain

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User Laura Pellegrini (LMB, Cambridge).

Monday 07 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Food, Power and Society

User Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Before colonization (BC) and after decolonization (AD): The Early Anthropocene, the Biblical Fall, and relational pasts, presents, and futures

User Reading discussion led by Roge Luque-Lora.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Emergence of a left-right symmetric body plan during embryonic development

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User Sundar Naganathan (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) .

Monday 31 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

CADHERIN mediated AMIS localisation - Using mouse embryonic stem cells 3D culture as a model

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User Xuan Liang (PDN, Cambridge University) .

Monday 31 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

User Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction

User Helen Curry, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Characterization of a Mechanical Hotspot for Cell Plate Guidance Near an Adjacent Three-Way Junction

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User Marie-Cécile Caillaud, CR CNRS.

Monday 24 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

Food and Climate Change

User Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Control of Avian Skin Patterning

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User Marie Manceau.

Monday 06 December 2021, 14:30-15:30

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

User Dr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Talk by Annette Green

User Annette Green.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

POSTPONED*Drivers of Morphological complexity: a Cnidarian Perspective

Join the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-morphogenesis-series

User Aissam Ikmi.

Monday 29 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

User Dr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

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

Situating mental health within the nature-climate-wellbeing triple challenge: Evidence from rural Uganda

User Thomas Pienkowski.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Symplasmic auxin movement and the evolution of plant architecture

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User Yoan Coudert.

Monday 22 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

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

Urban Political Ecology

User Dr. Kate Meehan.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

To stay or leave? Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and progenitor’s segregation within the bird embryonic tail

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User Bertrand Benazeraf.

Monday 15 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

User Professor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

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

Human Evolution at the Crossroads

User Professor Katerina Harvati.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

Strange Natures

User Prof. Bill Adams.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Jamie: "A biomechanical switch regulates the transition towards homeostasis in oesophageal epithelium" Ben: "Integrating pattern formation and cell movements in our understanding of morphogenesis"

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User Ben Steventon, Jamie McGinn.

Monday 08 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

User Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

RAI Anthropology & Conservation conference debrief

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 02 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

TBC

User Professor James O’Connell and Professor Kristen Hawkes.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 16:30-17:30

Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development

User Hannah Parris, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Matteusz: "Insights into the mechanism and evolution of glial ensheathment" Renske: "Evolution of selfish multicellularity: changes in gene regulation at the origin of multicellularity"

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User Renske Vroomans; Matteusz Trylinski.

Monday 25 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

User Dr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

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

Leveraging cultural and scientific knowledge and practices for environmental conservation in Tali, Bhutan

User Bruce Huett and Riamsara Knapp.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis and cell ordering in bacterial biofilms

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User Jing Yan.

Monday 18 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

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 Goodness Paradox: How self-domestication contributes to explaining the uniquely human combination of good and evil.

User Professor Richard Wrangham.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 16:30-17:30

Only the orangutans get a life jacket: Uncommoning responsibility in a global conservation nexus

User Dr. Liana Chua.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cell shape determination: Mechanical competition vs. endogenous genetic programme

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User Maria Leptin.

Monday 11 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Mapping and deliberating values for Uplands management

User Janet Fisher, University of Edinburgh.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Building organs – emergence of form and fate through local force imbalance

https://zoom.us/j/99568066060?pwd=VjFEYVlwM2ZZY0Z6VHByY1NvRE0yZz09

User Rashmi Priya, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Monday 14 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Situating vegetal lives in political ecology: from plantationocene to planthroposcene

User Anna Lawrence, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

"Investigating the role of Syndecan, a conserved heparan sulphate proteoglycan, in the maintenance and proliferation of progenitor cells in the adult Drosophila midgut"

recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8

User Buffy Eldridge, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Monday 07 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

"Single-cell morphometrics reveals ancestral principles of notochord development"

recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8

User Toby Andrews, Department of Zoology, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 07 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Forthcoming Museum of Zoology Programme

User Dr Rosalyn Wade (University of Cambridge).

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:55-15:20

de novo gene emergence in cichlid fishes

User Emília Santos (University of Cambridge).

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:30-14:55

Stretching out the embryo - Anterior expansion and posterior addition to the notochord mechanically coordinate embryo axis elongation

https://zoom.us/j/94691632022?pwd=a1lrNi82ekE2OHFZYjNLekR3WTU5Zz09

User Susie McLaren, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 14:30-15:00

Regulation of Phyllotaxis by Auxin Transport Proteins

recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwSKckxt930

User Henrik Ahl, Sainsbury's laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

More-than-human nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland

User Guillem Rubio Ramón, University of Edinburgh.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

The roots of our ecological crisis

User Rogelio Luque-Lora, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis of the mouse and human embryo beyond implantation

https://zoom.us/j/95435060718?pwd=QzIyS0FTcXF3LzlkT2RiVjdmZDhYUT09

User Matteo Molè.

Monday 24 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

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

Subject formation through the influence of conservation governance: A feminist intersectional approach to neoliberal environmentality

User Revati Pandya, University of Wageningen.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Size sensing in biological systems- new insights from planarians

https://zoom.us/j/98275702948?pwd=ODl2MDhjb0t5ckV5bnpOdURnazRxdz09

User Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen,Germany..

Monday 17 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

User Chris Lambing, Henderson group.

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

John Muir, Indigenous erasure, and conservation reckoning

User Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Wisdom of the crowd – Mechanisms that coordinate individual cell movements for epithelial migration

https://zoom.us/j/99970909084?pwd=U0k1RUxOWnhmUlQ4cTZOL3RJNFZSQT09

User Sally Horne-Badovinac, University of Chicago.

Monday 10 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

User Prof Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

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

Stochastic gene expression drives mesophyll protoplast regeneration

https://zoom.us/j/94519300866?pwd=clh6eU83aHg5Z1QrMEpTUW14WlpLdz09

User Yuling Jiao, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

The Limits of Stewardship: land rights, legal mobilization by forest-dwelling communities and extraction in Odisha, India.

User Arpitha Kodiveri, European University Institute..

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

User Kumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

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

‘Fine-tuning cell mechanics at the onset of collective cell motion’

https://zoom.us/j/97700351610?pwd=MlRTeE5BYzZyU0Z1Wm5UdGFwMWx5dz09

User Elias H Barriga, Group Leader at Mechanisms of Morphogenesis Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal.

Monday 26 April 2021, 14:30-15:30

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

Blood Sculptures

User Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

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

How places matter: A new theory of environmental value.

User Dr Simon P. James, University of Durham.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

The evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes

https://zoom.us/j/95511029379?pwd=aXE2M29BWC9tS2lLK2I5blhaSEJFdz09

User Buzz Baum.

Monday 08 March 2021, 14:30-15:30

Cold Blood

User Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

User Krishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

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

Pacification and the engineering of ‘green’ extraction in southern Madagascar

User Dr Amber Huff, Institute of Development Studies.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Against the grain; Modeling seed growth control as an mechano-sensitive incoherent feedforward loop.

https://zoom.us/j/9605624368?pwd=VVM3d203RGRQdkNjbXFhRTYvRWJidz09

User Olivier Ali.

Monday 01 March 2021, 14:30-15:30

Blood villains and heros

User Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum

Now at 3pm

User John Ferguson, Kromdijk group.

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

Defending lands and forests: NGO histories and extraordinary violence in the Philippines.

User Dr Wolfram Dressler, University of Melbourne.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 10:00-11:00

Two signals converge on a nerve cell’s path: The interplay between chemical and mechanical signals in the developing brain

https://zoom.us/j/92408292136?pwd=WkFSM3k0MDFoT0VacHFQb0o1TG5Edz09

User Eva Pillai.

Monday 22 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Bloodlines of the British

User Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Soil fungi for us

NOTE TIME CHANGE

User Maarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia.

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

Celia’s ghosts: On biotic loss and recovery in the Pyrenees.

User Adam Searle, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

The importance of being edgy: directional growth control in Arabidopsis lateral roots

https://zoom.us/j/97556405670?pwd=ZU13RzBIY1NZQVVteVZaSWE2OVdnQT09

User Charlotte Kirchhelle.

Monday 15 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

User Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences

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

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

Landscape values, rewilding, and contested discourses of rural change in West Wales.

User Dr George Holmes, University of Leeds.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Generating order out of (pseudo)chaos during vertebrate retinal lamination

https://zoom.us/j/95883597197?pwd=NHJSZVJWQ2R6clV1Qlp1WXoyWUFqZz09

User Caren Norden.

Monday 08 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

User Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

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

From cell dynamics to robust tissue folding

https://zoom.us/j/97571586365?pwd=Tlg2TnRWWnh6andadWdIbzJsRmdHdz09

User Magali Suzanne.

Monday 01 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

User Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses

User Dr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group.

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

Cell shape, cell division and the development of early embyos

https://zoom.us/j/95172051126?pwd=YllZNXlTcTJJdDAwUkRRd0ZQbkFmQT09

User Nicolas Minc.

Monday 25 January 2021, 14:30-15:30

Battle Blood

User Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions

User Frank C. Schroeder, Cornell University.

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

First a war then a dance: How sensory organs take shape

https://zoom.us/j/94781964934?pwd=eDQvMUZjV0tTY3hYZ1drYlJmczlNQT09

User Anna Erzberger (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany).

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

Monday 18 January 2021, 14:30-16:00

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..

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

House Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here using link circulated by email.

BioAnth Seminar Series PhD research presentations

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Negotiating the panoptic gaze: power & conservation surveillance

User Trishant Simlai, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres

User Matthew Naish, Henderson Group.

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

House Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/2Gcbbou.

Assessing the locomotor behaviour of early humans using biomechanical modelling

User Dr Ashleigh Wiseman (Royal Veterinary College).

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion?

User Professor Dame Sandra Dawson.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Democratising infrastructure? Governing energy democracy in South Africa

User Dr Jon Phillips.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development

User Prof Siobhan Brady, UC Davis.

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

House Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3n5e7E8.

Assessing the double burden of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from the Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

Conservation finance in a post-covid world

User Dr Sophia Cooke, Dr Chris Sandbrook & Prof Bhaskar Vira.

Tuesday 17 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

House Online, via MS Teams.

Opportunities and challenges for an ecological Constitution in Chile

User Beatriz Bustos, University of Chile.

Wednesday 11 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

House Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/349mHZG.

Multiple burdens of malnutrition among Maya families in Yucatan and how language (Spanish vs Mayan) impact health outcomes

User Dr Inês Varela-Silva (University of Loughborough), with Hugo Azcorra, Maria Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Sabine Little.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:30-17:30

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

User Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

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

House Live on Zoom, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3ncLK75.

Communication, cooperation and culture in Shark Bay dolphins

User Stephanie King (University of Bristol).

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 16:30-17:30

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 Venue to be confirmed.

Debrief of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) conference

User -.

Tuesday 13 October 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

Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice

User An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group.

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The role of FoxN3 in the development of the chondrocranium and associated head muscles in the African Clawed-frog, Xenopus laevis

User Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Life-course health and disease: an evolutionary perspective

User Rihlat Said-Mohamed (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Response of the human gut and saliva microbiome to urbanisation in Cameroon

User Laure Segurel (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle).

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

User Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Negotiating the panoptic gaze: people, power and conservation surveillance in the Corbett tiger reserve, India

User Trishant Simlai, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

TBA

User Ines Varela-Silva (Loughborough University).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

The infrastructural other: spatial effects of the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya

User Gediminas Lesutis, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Unrecorded history: what genomes tell us about ancestry and admixture

User Aylwyn Scally (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

The Enigma of Emotion

User Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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 Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Invasive species and ecological imperialism in South America. Current interactions between wood industry, wild boars, perroquets and hunters in Uruguay

User Juan Martin Dabezies, Universidad de la República (Uruguay).

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

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 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function

User Justin Crocker, EMBL.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Gender and Extractivism in Plurinational States – An intersectional approach to mining in Bolivia and Ecuador

User Isabella M. Radhuber, University of Vienna (Austria).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

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 Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

The political ecology of polar bear conservation: a circumpolar policy trainwreck

User Doug Clark, University of Saskatchewan (Canada).

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

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 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 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

TBC

User Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Forest Governance in Guyana and Suriname

User Ariadne Collins, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry .

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

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 Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Social Assessment of Protected Areas

User Rob Small, Fauna and Flora International .

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

TBC

User Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

The Political Ecologies of Urban Macaques in India

User Anindya Sinha, Indian Institute of Science.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

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 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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Mid-Late Pleistocene human evolution in Eurasia

User Professor Chris Stringer (NHM).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Coal, custom, and constitution: worldly politics in contemporary KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

User Thomas Cousins, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

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 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

User Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Understanding the use of green spaces using social media data – possibilities and challenges

User Dr. Tuuli Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Digital Geography Lab.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

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 Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Affective economies and the atmospheric politics of lively capital

User Maan Barua, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

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 Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Zombie leopards, voodoo science and post-truth challenges to conservation

User Martin Walsh, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution

User Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Chromatin and Cell Cycle in Cell Fate Decision

User Dr. Clara Novo (Babraham) & Dr. Rodrigo Grandy (SCI).

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 18:30-20:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

The continued marginalisation of cocoa farmers: from colonialism to contemporary, climate-smart governance

User Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul University of Oxford.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

The Politics of Marine Biodiversity Data: Global and National Policies and Practices of Monitoring the Oceans

User Alice Vadrot University of Vienna.

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

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 Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

‘To dam or not to dam?’ Issues in financing and developing large hydropower.

User Judith Plummer Braeckman - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

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 Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

User Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Nature in the City: thinking 'post' ecologies in Delhi

User Suresh Babu Ambedkar University Delhi .

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Science and Policy Lectures & Seminars

Is the British Civil Service an endangered species?

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Main Lecture Theatre, Divinity School, St John’s College.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 17:30-18:45

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

3D Organoid Cultures to Study Tissue Development and Diseases

User Dr. Roberta Azzarelli (MRC) & Dr. Laura Pellegrini (LMB).

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 18:30-20:00

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 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods

User Prof Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London.

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

Sinews of Sustainable Development Distinguished Speakers Series

Britain after Brexit: How to redesign the UK's role in sustainable development

User Rt Honourable Andrew Mitchell MP.

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:45-18:45

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 Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Making sense of the world of scents

User Dr. Kelsey J.R.P. Byers (Zoology) & Dr. Erika Pinheiro de Castro (Zoology).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 18:30-20:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

TBC

User Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Who can afford (not) to mitigate? Agency, inequality, and additionality in agricultural carbon finance

User Connor Joseph Cavanagh Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

Tuesday 07 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 Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Saving forests with love? Connection with nature at a tropical deforestation frontier

User Dr. Kasia Mikolajczak.

Tuesday 16 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

A 3D cell model for developmental biology: Using gastruloids to study early developmental events

User Dr. Peter Baillie-Johnson (SCI), Dr Naomi Moris (Genetics) and Dr David Turner (Genetics).

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 18:30-20:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

User Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Single Cell Multi-Omics Technologies and Applications

User Dr Lia Chappell (Sanger) & Mr Ricard Argelaguet (EMBL-EBI).

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:30-20:00

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 Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Protecting a Beyul: Harnessing the Power of Mountain Gods and Environmental Law to Protect a Sacred Landscape

User Bruce Huett, Associate member Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Perception of Visual Space

User Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

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 Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Creating predictable gene knock-outs at scale with CRISPR/Cas9

User Dr. Luca Crepaldi (Sanger) & Dr. Felicity Allen (Sanger).

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 18:30-20:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Women, wellbeing and wildlife management areas in Tanzania

User Professor Katherine Homewood, Dept of Anthropology, UCL.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

User Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Computer Vision

User Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Homo sapiens evolution through the Asian lens

User Professor María Martinón-Torres, CENIEH.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

User Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Assembling Conservation as Territoriality in Timor-Leste.

User Dr Alexander Cullen, Lecturer in Political Ecology, Geography Department, University of Cambridge..

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Viewing the Universe

User Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

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

From Stars to Life

User Dr. Paul B Rimmer (Cavendish, LMB) and Dr Claudia Bonfio (LMB).

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-20:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

North American Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions: was it murder or climatic mayhem?

User Professor David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail

User Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Appearance and Physical Reality

User Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

New approaches to modeling technological evolution

User Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld, University of Cambridge .

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

User Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

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

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Engaging Conservation: Forest-Employed Villagers and Intervention Bureaucracies in Central India

User Adam Runacres, UCL.

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

Vision of Future Technology

User Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Tracking a killer: using ancient DNA to understand the evolutionary history of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

User Professor Anne Stone, Arizona State University.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution of the Eye

User Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Folktales, languages and genes: the plot thickens

User Dr. Jamshid Tehrani, University of Durham.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila

User Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Endangered genes and the International Seed Bank: conserving crop diversity after the Green Revolution

User Dr Helen Curry, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Colour and Vision

User Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

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 Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

The Journey of Human Early Development: from Gametes to Embryos and the Germline Specification

User Dr. Marta Shahbazi (PDN) & Dr. Naoko Irie (Gurdon).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:30-20:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

The evolution of animal construction and why it matters to anthropologists

User Dr. Sally Street, University of Durham.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Resilient Leadership: Place-Based Learning for Sustainable Transformation.

User Ajay Rastogi, Director of the Foundation for Contemplation of Nature based in Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India..

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Visions

User Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

How to train your boyfriend: Integrating evolutionary psychology and behaviourist learning theory

User Dr. Diana Fleischman, University of Portsmouth.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Digging ancient haplotypes out of modern human genomes

User Dr. Luca Pagani, University of Padova.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

User Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Cambridge.

Deadly Truths and Lively Tensions: Saving Nature in the Era of Post-Truth and Platform Capitalism

User Bram Büscher, Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

User Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

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 Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Building with DNA: From DNA Crystals to Designer Proteins and Enzymes

User Dr Ryan Brady (Cavendish) and Dr Alexander Ohmann (Cavendish) .

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project

User Dr. Susana Carvalho.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

From a white desert to a strategic resource: history of the commodification of the Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia

User Daniela Sanchez-Lopez, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Josephine Joordens.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Inheritance law and the uniform civil code in India

Time and title to be confirmed. This talk will be held in conjunction with Cambridge University India Society (CUIS) and the Cambridge Society For Economic Pluralism (CSEP)

User Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment University of Manchester.

House To be confirmed.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 00:00-00:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

New, Intelligent Systems for Disease Surveillance and Diagnosis

User Dr Nicole Wheeler (Sanger) and Dr Joshua Kaggie (Radiology).

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

The Life History of Hunting Skill in 40 Human Societies

User Professor Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute).

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis

User Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Institutionalising environmental values and valuation into policy

User Dr Jacob Phelps, Lecturer in Tropical Environmental Change and Policy, Lancaster University.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Could ‘dark logic’ help to avoid causing harm in conservation interventions?

User Peadar Brehony, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

In vivo Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network in Physiological and Pathological Conditions

User Dr. Luca Pellegrinet & Dr. Jessica Hitchcock.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Major Transitions in Evolution: When’s the Next One?

User Dr. Kit Opie (Bristol).

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity

User Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Discussion of chapters from Steven Pinker's book "Enlightenment Now"

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Music first: hunter-gatherers and the evolution of language

User Dr. Jerome Lewis (UCL).

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

User Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Bombarding with data? Drones, oil extraction and environmental justice in the Amazon

Note this talk will be held on a Wednesday, while ordinarily the Political Ecology talks are on a Tuesday.

User Murat Arsel, Murat Arsel, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

The role of early-career researchers in changing the culture of scholarly communication

User Dr. Avasthi (Hemenway Life Sciences Innovation Center at the University of Kansas), Dr Brown and Dr. Palfy (preLights) .

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 18:00-19:30

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

The Nearly Naked Ape: Human Evolution Just Got Hairier

User Tina Lasisi (Penn State) .

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Group discussion of decolonising conservation – based on a video of Paige West’s plenary session at this year’s Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) conference

User Jose Chambers.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Jason Hodgson (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

The production of an urban post-political ecology: Or, is the apocalypse really such a good thing?

Note this talk is unusually on a Monday, thereafter unless otherwise specified, PE talks will be on a Tuesday 1-2pm. As this is the first session of term, there will be a short introduction at the beginning.

User Earl Harper, University of Bristol.

Monday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

AI-driven Automated Image Analysis of Biological Data

User Andrea Dimitracopoulos (PDN).

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Our Ways: Toolmaking and the Origins of Normative Cognition

User Professor Jonathan Birch (LSE).

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry

User Dr Frank Hirth, King's College London.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies

User Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago.

Monday 17 September 2018, 14:00-15:00

Winton Discussions

The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies

User Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

House Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Using Human Studies in Health Research

User Ulla Sovio and Sarah Jackson.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 18:30-20:00

Local perceptions of Justice and Natural Resources in a Mexican fishing community

User Karen Wong-Perez, University of Cambridge.

House Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Hidden problems in the global wind industry

User Dr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

The effectiveness of wooden spears as hunting weapons

User Annemieke Milks (University College London).

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Transforming global “win-win” discourse

User Josie Chambers, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Journey to the Clinic

User Thomas Moreau and Daniel Ortmann .

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Climate crises: their social, technological and demographic impact on the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Angkor

User Charles Higham (University of Otago).

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Assemblages for sustainable development: omissions and transformations in Bolivia

User Jessica Hope, University of Bristol.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

T.H.E. G.A.P.P.P, i.e. (re) Thinking Human Evolution: Gorongosa African Paleo-Primate Project

User Susana Carvalho (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours?

User Zuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague).

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Biodiversity offsetting, urbanization and the right to nature

User Elia Apostolopoulou,University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

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 Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Targeted sequencing for in-depth characterisation of the disease phenotypes

User Kousik Kundu and Tom McKerrel.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Cultural evolution of kinship diversity: the micro and macro of talking about family

User Fiona Jordan (University of Bristol).

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Urban livestock keeping in Hanoi: policies, risks and benefits

User Johanna Lindahl, Intl. Livestock Research Institute, Uppsala University.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

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 Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

A reassessment of plant foods in Neanderthal diets

User Amanda Henry (Leiden University).

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan?

User Naoki Irie (University of Tokyo).

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Alison Richard’s Building, S1, Sidgwick Site.

Session on the Green Economy: How does politics and economics interact with respect to the environment?

User Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 12:00-14:00

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 Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Network analysis of large-scale human neuroimaging data

User Rezvan Farahibozorg and Sarah Morgan.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Title to be confirmed

User To be confirmed.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:30-17:30