DevBio

E. coli and the Game of Clones

Host – Kate Baker

User Professor Jukka Corander from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and University of Oslo.

Thursday 18 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

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A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

User Dr Omer Bayraktar.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

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A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

User Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

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

Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami

User Prof Sheena Radford.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

User Ms Tania Branigan.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

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Controlling the cell cycle

User Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute.

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen .

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

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

How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

User Prof Robin Dunbar.

Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

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The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint

User Neil Anthwal, Kings College London.

Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Shelby Blythe from Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA .

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

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

Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histones

User Dr Maria Christophorou.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

User Professor Frances Spalding.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

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The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

User Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

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

Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugs

User Sir Gregory Winter.

Monday 19 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

The Exoplanet Revolution

User Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

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

What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-Making

User Dr Danielle Shore .

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

User Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

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Drosophila AP patterning: networks, dynamics, evolution, and robustness

User Erik Clark, Department of Genetics.

Friday 09 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity

Host - Steve Russell

User Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge .

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

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

Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections

User Professor Sir Tom Blundell.

Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Are Revolutions Justified?

User Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

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TBA

User Hansong Ma, University of Birmingham.

Friday 02 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Epigenetic Inheritance

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

User Dr Nicola Iovino from Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

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

[CANCELLED] Birds of a Feather: the Deep History of Dinosaur Skin

User Prof Paul Barrett.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

The Genetic Revolutions

User Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division

Host - Ben Steventon

User Dr Helen Matthews from School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield .

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

Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA .

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

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

Of Odour Plumes and Synchrotrons: Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

User Andreas Schaefer.

Monday 22 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

User Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineages

Host - Zach Baker

User Professor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences .

Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

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New models to study human embryo implantation and early development

User Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute.

Friday 01 December 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

User Sir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

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TBC

User Dr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London.

Friday 24 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester .

Thursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning

User Dr Brendan Swain.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

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

Short Cuts

User Prof Ian Fleming.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

The evolution of organs and cell types.

Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli

User Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London .

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology

User Dr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN.

Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

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Circuit basis of learning and decision-making

User Dr. Marta Zlatic, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 10 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Dr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London .

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries

User Dr Tamar Makin.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

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Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological mechanical stress

User Dr. Elena Scarpa, Department of Phhysiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Friday 03 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

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The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

User Dr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Friday 27 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration

User Prof David Rubinsztein.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Yolanda Schaerli from Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne .

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.

User Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

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Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cells

User Prof. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University.

Friday 13 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery

User Prof Adam Nelson.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation

Host - John Welch

User Professor Michael Whitlock from Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .

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

Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott from the Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago .

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level

User Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University).

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B

User Dr. Courtney Hanna, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosience.

Friday 09 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians

Host - Richard Durbin

User Dr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

User Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Molecular mechanisms of oocyte specification in female germline cysts

User Dr. Dmitry Nashchekin, Gurdon Institute .

Friday 02 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

User Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Progenitor niches in the developing pancreas: regulation of cell fate and beyond

User Prof. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London.

Friday 26 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids

User Dr. Laura Pellegrini, Kings College London/ MRC LMB.

Friday 19 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

User Dr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London).

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Sticky proteins and moving genomes: a single-molecule perspective of pluripotent cell differentiation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 12 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks

Host - Henrik Salje

User Professor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Virology Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven .

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development

User Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London).

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Decision making without genes?

User Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL.

Friday 05 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer

Host - Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Serena Nik-Zainal from Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

User Dr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen).

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we age

User Prof. Melinda Duer.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:30

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

User Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

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

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Form and function during early heart development

User Richard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 10 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Dr Trevor Lawley from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish

User Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer).

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

User Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

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

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Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiation

User Walid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 03 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome

Host - Erik Clark

User Dr Mounia Lagha from Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France .

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

User Dr Marie Manceau (College De France).

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

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

Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutions

User Prof. Alison Smith.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Are we alone in the Universe?

User Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

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Encoding and decoding morphogen gradients

User Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London.

Friday 24 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Mechanism of neural differentiation

Host – Lara Busby

User Professor Kate Storey from School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

Chemical Biology in Antibiotic and Anticancer Drug Discovery

User Thomas Lanyon-Hogg.

Monday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

User Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

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

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New tricks for Rac and Rho, even after 30 years

User Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara, US.

Friday 17 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

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

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and the Reign of the Mammals

User Prof. Steve Brusatte.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

User Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

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

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

From cells to continents: Understanding how bacteria evolve and transmit

User Dr. Josephine Bryant.

Monday 06 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

The Closeting of Secrets

User Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

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

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 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Space: The Final Front-queer

User Dr. Alfredo Carpineti.

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:30

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

User Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

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

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Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injury

User Katie Long, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London.

Friday 27 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution

Host - Hansong Ma

User Professor Heidi McBride from McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal, Quebec .

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

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Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial development

User Marcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

User Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA .

Thursday 12 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Epigenetic resetting during human germline development

User Wolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute.

Friday 02 December 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans

Host – Ritwick Sawarkar

User Dr Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

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

Sustainable seafood for human health

User Dr David Willer.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

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Fit for this world - cellular properties are set during critical periods of development

User Matthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology.

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2

Host – Henrik Salje

User Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

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

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

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

Nanoscale Engineering of Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

User Prof Fang Xie.

Monday 14 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

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Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective

Host – Bianca De Sanctis

User Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

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

Bioelectronic tools to study the gut-brain axis

User Prof Roisin Owens.

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

House Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis

User Maja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany.

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Reimagining Museum Collecting & Collections in Natural History: A Decolonial Perspective

User Ms Miranda Lowe.

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

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Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species

User Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute.

Friday 28 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

User Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

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

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

Controlling the cell cycle: A new model

User Sir Paul Nurse.

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Dr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Why We Aren't Just Great Apes

User Prof Robin Dunbar.

Monday 17 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

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Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applications

User Yan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks

Host - Lin Wang

User Professor David Liu, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA.

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

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 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Climate Change and Planet Earth: A View from the Poles

User Prof Michael Meredith.

Monday 10 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

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Adherens junctions, mechanotransduction and intra-epithelial communication

User Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Friday 07 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?

Host - Frank Jiggins

User Professor Michael Turelli, from Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, CA .

Thursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Professor Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg.

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

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level

User Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 June 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

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

Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability

Host - Cahir O’Kane

User Professor Michael Coleman from Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus .

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

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Simone Reber, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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

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 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancer

User Roberta Azzarelli Wellcome, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor William Sullivan, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00

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

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

Dynamic buffering of extracellular chemokine to enable robust adaptation during directed tissue migration

User Mie Wong, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London.

Friday 13 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell division

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Fernando Monje Casas, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), Seville.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

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Cells in gels: identification of Plakoglobin as an evolutionary conserved mechanosensitive regulator of naïve pluripotency

User Timo Kohler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes

Host - Carol Edwards

User Professor Jason Wolf, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

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

Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain

User Sumru Bayin, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 29 April 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

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Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantation

User Ivan Bedzhov, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany.

Friday 18 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Controlling Drug Transport With Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

User Professor Ijeoma F. Uchegbu | UCL School of Pharmacy.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

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

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Mechanisms of organismal stress resistance in C. elegans

User Rebecca Taylor, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

User Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Atmosphere-ocean interactions: Global-scale impacts on tropospheric chemistry

User Professor Lucy Carpenter.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

User Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

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

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Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian development

User Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

User Dr Susumu Hirabayashi, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Photosynthesis on an electrode

User Dr Jenny Zhang .

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Food and Cultural History

User Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

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

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Dynamics of starvation-induced and selective autophagy in mammalian cells

User Nicholas Ktistakis, Babraham Institute.

Friday 25 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality

Hosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang

User Professor Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Food as Expression

User Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

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

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In vivo exploration of biomolecular condensates in early Drosophila development

User Tim Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Lessons for Tuberculosis Pathogenesis and Treatment from the Zebrafish

User Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan | FRS FMedSci .

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

X-rays and Food Safety

User Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

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

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Signalling dynamics of neutrophil migration at sites of tissue damage

User Milka Sarris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Protein Nutrition, Healthy Ageing and Climate Change: How Do We Combine The Three?

User Dr. Oliver Witard | University College London.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Food, Power and Society

User Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

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

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

Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting

User Kevin Chalut, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 04 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.

Host: Elves Duarte

User Dr Johannes Köster, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:30-14:30

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

Structural Bio in the 21st Century

User Sir Prof. Richard Henderson FRS | 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

User Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

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

Investigating the evolution and development of body plans and body parts in arthropods

Host - Steve Russell

User Professor Alistair McGregor, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Food and Climate Change

User Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

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

Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology.

House TBC.

Monday 06 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

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

Birdwatching through Geological Time: A Paleontological Perspective on Avian Evolution

User Dr Daniel Field.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

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

Energy and Matter at the Origin of Life

User Professor Nick Lane.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Asymmetric nuclear division in neural stem cells generates sibling nuclei that differ in size, envelope composition, and chromatin organization

User Chantal Roubinet, Postdoctoral Fellow Buzz Baum Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells

Host: Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

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

To COVID-19 Detection: How physics can be used to create novel tests for viruses

User Professor Ulrich Keyser .

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

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Towards a cellular and molecular understanding of mammalian anterior patterning

User Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford.

Friday 12 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

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

Hunting for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider

User Dr Sarah Williams .

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

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Zooming into the sarcomere: from single molecules to molecular forces

User Frank Schnorrer, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille.

Friday 05 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

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

Could we treat mental health disorders by disrupting maladaptive memories?

User Dr Amy Milton.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

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Wnt gradients: how they form and their role in tissue morphogenesis

User Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

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

Who Cares about the History of Science?

User Professor Hasok Chang.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

A finger on the pulse of regeneration

User Mekayla Storer, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

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The Physics of Can and Can't

User Professor Chiara Marletto.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Bacterial condensates under stress

Host: Rosana Collepardo

User Professor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

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

The Amazing World of RNA

User Professor Eric Miska.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

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Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids

User Dr Emma Rawlins (University of Cambridge).

Friday 15 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair

Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

The Exoplanet Revolution

User Professor Didier Queloz | 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism.

Host: John Welch

User Professor Tatiana Giraud, Departement Genetique et Ecologie Evolutives, Université Paris-Saclay.

Thursday 07 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

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Genetic and developmental basis of morphological variation in cichlid fishes

User Emília Santos, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

CANCELLED: Replication control during the cell cycle and development

User Philip Zegerman, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 04 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

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Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function

User Snezhana Oliferenko, The Francis Crick Institute.

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure

Host – Richard Durbin

User Dr Karen Miga from Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

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From Signals to Chromatin: Germ layer specification in mouse

User Sebastian Arnold, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.

Friday 21 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

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Human hypothalamic neurons for studying obesity and its relevance to neurodegeneration

User Florian Merkle, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease

Host: Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

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New roles for Golgi-derived PI(4)P-containing vesicles in mitochondrial division

User Julien Prudent, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Friday 07 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separation

Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara

User Professor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

Human Immunity – one cell at a time

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:30-14:30

Mass spectrometry: From ribosomes to receptors

User Professor Dame Carol Robinson DBE FRS FMedSci.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

The art of conversation

User Professor Antje S. Meyer.

Friday 12 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Blood Sculptures

User Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

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

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Gut induced vascular plasticity drives stem cell adaptation during intestinal regeneration

User Julia Cordero, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Friday 12 March 2021, 13:15-13:55

PP2A-B55 inhibitors Arpp19 and ENSA define the cell cycle program by controlling the temporal pattern of protein phosphorylation

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

User Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

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

Cancer evolution, immune evasion and metastasis

User Professor Charles Swanton FRCP FMedSci FAACR FRS.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Cold Blood

User Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

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

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Continued development: the plasticity of adult organs

User Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London.

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:15-13:55

House Venue to be confirmed.

This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later this year.

Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

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

Challenges in the development of therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

User Professor Dame Kay Davies.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Blood villains and heros

User Ms Rose George, Journalist.

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

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Understanding the structure-function relationships in asymmetric stem cell division

User Mayu Inaba, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut.

Friday 26 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Observing the light of the distant Universe

User Professor Licia Verde.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 18:00-19:30

Bloodlines of the British

User Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

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

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Antagonistic effects of ionising radiation in cell competition

User David Fernandez-Antoran, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Patricia Wittkopp, Biological Science Building, University of Michigan.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Technologies for scalably modeling and simulating whole cells

User Professor Jonathan Karr.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 18:00-19:30

PechaKucha - SciSoc Edition!

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Saturday 13 February 2021, 19:00-22:00

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

User Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

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

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Fluorogenetic Interrogation of Chromatin Position Effects

User Iva Tchasovnikarova, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 12 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Elly Tanaka, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

Advances in Breast Cancer: From Molecular Science to Patients in the Clinic

User Prof Anees Chagpar, Prof Carlos Caldas.

Saturday 06 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

User Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

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

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Mechanisms of membrane protein biogenesis

User Ramanujan S. Hegde, MRC Labortory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

User Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

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

Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges

Host: John Welch

User Dr Sally Otto, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .

Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Ripples from the dark side of the universe

User Professor Sir James Hough OBE FRS FRSE FInstP (Hon), University of Glasgow.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 18:00-19:30

Battle Blood

User Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

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

Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids

Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Robert Johnston, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Tips and Tricks for Inventing the Future

Last talk of term

User Mr David A. Homfray CEng CPhys FInstP FRAS FBIS, Former Head of Engineering Realisation Group at the UK Atomic Energy Authority/Culham Centre for Fusion Energy .

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 18:00-19:30

Misinformation in the Digital Age: A Panel

Please note this panel is on a Monday.

User Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, Dr Jon Roozenbeek, Professor Sander van der Linden.

Monday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Enhancers get ERKed around by chromatin remodellers during lineage commitment

User Brian Hendrich, MRC Stem Cell Institute, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Simon Myers, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:30-14:30

Can genomics improve health in Africa? Experience from sickle cell disease in Tanzania

User Professor Julie Makani Associate Professor, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Re-generating the principles of appendage regeneration in the single-cell era

User Can Aztekin, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

On the interactions between our industrial system and the natural system

User Professor Steve Evans, Director of Research, Centre for Industrial Sustainability, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Chromatin remodelling determines cell-type specific Notch activity in the developing mouse brain

User Jelle van den Ameele, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Friday 13 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

Human Cell Atlas: Mapping the human body one cell at a time

User Dr Sarah Teichmann FRS FMedSci, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Epithelial-mesenchymal cell plasticity during normal development and cancer progression

User Kyra Campbell, Dept. of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

DNA: Inspiring building blocks that made me a learner in perpetuity

User Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

House Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Imaging and reconstructing mouse development at the cellular level using light-sheet microscopy

User Kate McDole, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 30 October 2020, 13:15-13:55

New Materials for a New Age

Note that this talk is on a Wednesday

User Professor Nicola Spaldin FRS, Chair, Materials Theory, ETH Zurich.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Combustion Transition: tackling climate change at its source

In collaboration with CUSPE and CUSISS

User Mr Simon Spooner, ATKINS Infrastructure. Principal Scientist, UK Water Management. Technical Director, China Infrastructure. Honorary Professor, Nottingham University UK and Ningbo, China..

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.

Host: Marco Geymonat

User Professor Angelika Amon, MIT, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA .

Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Why is sleep good for you?

User Professor William Wisden FMedSci, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Timothy Saunders, Mechanobiology, Institute, National University of Singapore.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 09:00-10:00

Ice cores and interglacials

User Professor Eric Wolff FRS, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

User Professor Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley .

Tuesday 29 September 2020, 18:00-20:00

Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems

User Professor Ed Boyden, MIT.

Tuesday 04 August 2020, 15:00-17:00

Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of Life

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis

User Professor Phil Baran, Scripps Research.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response

Canceled

User Professor Geoffrey L Smith FRS. Head, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

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

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

User Professor Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Archaeological Mysteries

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

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

User Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

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

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

User Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris .

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

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

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

User Professor Lorna Dawson, CBE, BSC, PhD, FRSE, FRSA, F.I.Soil.Sci., ChSci Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

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 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

User Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Like the Back of Your Hand

User Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

User Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

This talk has been cancelled

User Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

User Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

The Enigma of Emotion

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

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The mechanical regulation of brain development

User Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

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

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

Natural Language Processing for Health

User Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

User Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

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

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Michael Imbeault

User Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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

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

Physics Meets Biology: How Cells Control Their shape and Why It Matters

User Professor Ewa Paluch: Professor of Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

User Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

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

The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

User Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

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

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

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

User Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

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

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

A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:15-17:15

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

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

User Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

CANCELLED: Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis

User Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London .

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Mathematics vs Dementia

User Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo

User Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

Host: Richard Durbin

User Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA .

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

User Professor Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Centre, Stanford University, Brown University.

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

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

Is Obesity a Choice?

User Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dendritic Cell Migration at Various Scales

User Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Friday 15 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

User Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

User Professor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

"CAPs in the niche" A new in vivo labelling system reveals parenchymal cells in the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features

User Luigi Ombrato The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

User Professor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

User Professor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

Friday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

User Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

User Professor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epigenetic remodelling enables adult liver regeneration and organoid formation

User Luigi Aloia The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanical scaling in blood platelets

User François Nédélec Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time?

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York .

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Dressed to Kill: What do Infectious Disease Agents Have in their Wardrobes?

User Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain

Host: Michael Imbeault

User Professor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden .

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

How To - An Evening with Randall Monroe

User Randall Munroe.

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 19:00-20:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

User Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Timing of the first lineage segregation in the early mouse embryo

User Meng Zhu, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

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 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Study of pioneer factor concentration, chromatin binding kinetics & cell-to-cell variability during genomeawakening

User Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Linking physical gut remodelling to stem cell divisions in Drosophila

User Golnar Kolahgar, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Stem cell dynamics define clone fixation and spread in human colonic epithelium

User Doug Winton, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Friday 10 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects

Host: Berta Verd

User Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

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 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cyclin B1 and the spindle assembly check point: A 15 year odyssey

User Jonathon Pines, The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London.

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh .

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

User Professor Mike Cates.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Perception of Visual Space

User Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

User Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

User Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

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

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

User Dr Anne Corcoran.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

House The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project

User Professor Alison Murdoch.

Friday 01 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Computer Vision

User Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

User Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Host: Sam Lewis

User Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

User Professor Danny Dorling.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Viewing the Universe

User Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate

User Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

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

Are we on the Road to Collapse?

User Dr Luke Kemp.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Appearance and Physical Reality

User Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Using phosphoproteomics to study context-specific signalling

User Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

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 The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Language and Artificial Intelligence

User Professor Ann Copestake.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Vision of Future Technology

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

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

RNA methylation as a new epigenetic mark in cancer

User Isaia Barbieri, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 08 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

Nuclear fusion technology

User Colin Walters.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Evolution of the Eye

User Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Gastruloids: a pluripotent stem cell-based model of early mammalian development

User Naomi Moris, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: the Shape of Things to Come

User Professor Sheila Rowan.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 18:00-20:00

Colour and Vision

User Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

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

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

Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines

Host: Jane Charlesworth

User Dr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading .

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Visions

User Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

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

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Understanding cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer

User Axel Behrens.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

House The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Academic Internships event!

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Saturday 24 November 2018, 13:00-19:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt?

User Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

User Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

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

Non coding RNA and normal botany

User David Baulcombe.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Escape from pluripotency

User Austin Smith, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

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 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division

User Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

Particle Physics & CERN

User Professor Daniela Bortoletto.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

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

Rejuvenation biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging

User Aubrey de Grey.

Saturday 03 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Time to wake up: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Reactivation

User Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

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

Influenza pandemics: past and future

User Wendy Barclay.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Constructing the mammalian embryo in vitro: from single stem cells to gastrulation

User Berna Sozen, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense

Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Dr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter .

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

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 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Using Drosophila to understand mitochondrial biology and mechanisms of neurodegeneration

User Alex Whitworth, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Friday 19 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Thomas Flatt from Department of Biology, University of Fribourg .

Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

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

Drug discovery with machine learning: Towards a new way of thinking about molecules

User Alpha Lee.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis

User Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London.

Friday 12 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules

Host: Cahir O’Kane

User Professor Andreas Prokop from Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester .

Thursday 11 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

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

CRISPR based gene drive approaches for population control of malaria mosquitoes

User Andrea Crisanti.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Building and Breaking Epithelial tubes: an Optogenetic approach

User Clare Buckley, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Hedgehog signalling in immune cells

User Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Friday 25 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Signals regulating cell fates and cell movements in the vertebrate embryo

User Sergei Sokol, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York.

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

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 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Self-organization and patterning of sensory organs in Drosophila

User François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Friday 11 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer

Host: Alexis Braun

User Professor David Glover, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Tracing the Transitions from Pluripotency to Germ Cell Fate with CRISPR Screening

User Ufuk Günesdogan, University of Göttingen, Germany.

Friday 04 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

Regulatory RNA

Host: Martyna Popis

User Professor Eric Miska from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox

User Stephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Sarah Bray from Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita

User Juan Fraire-Zamora (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona).

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Microsoft: Quantum Computing

User Anita Ramanan, Microsoft.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Improving on Nature: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Animal Enhancement

User Dr Sarah Chan, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

Animal Migration

User Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Organoid systems to study the maternal-fetal dialogue of early pregnancy

User Margherita Turco, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 09 March 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The Beginning of Our Universe and what we don't know about Physics

User Professor João Magueijo, Imperical College London.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution

User Jordi Solana (Oxford Brookes University).

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Migration in Science

User Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

Friday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The genetic framework of germline stem cell development

User Karam Teixeira, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 March 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture

Host: Michaela Frye

User Dr Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Human Brain Development Modelled in a Dish

User Dr Madeline Lancaster, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

The Partition of India and Migration

User Ms Kavita Puri, BBC.

Friday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A unifying theory of branching morphogenesis

User Edouard Hannezo, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.

Friday 23 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

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

Eukaryotic cell division and its origins

Host: Alexis Braun

User Professor Buzz Baum, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Modularity, criticality and evolvability of a developmental GRN

User Berta Verd (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Synthesising Molecular Function: Shape Matters

User Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Bristol.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Disease Migration

User Professor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

Friday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Primary liver tumor organoids: a new pre-clinical model for drug sensitivity analysis

User Laura Broutier, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales

User Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Paracelsus' Chickens - Strange Tales from the History of Chemistry

User Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Refugees and Migration

User Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Modulating developmental signals allows establishment of cultures of expanded potential stem cells

User Liu Pentao, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Friday 09 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development

Host: Alfonso Martinez Arias

User Dr Patrick Mueller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration

User Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin).

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The Particulars of Particulates: Granular Research on Dunes and Avalanches

User Dr Nathalia Vriend, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Art and Migration

User Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cell polarity remodelling by the RASSF protein family

User Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 02 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Light, Sleep & Circadian Rhythms-Biology to Therapeutics

User Professor Russell Foster, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

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

Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Andreas Wagner, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates

User Shunsuke Sogabe (University of St Andrews).

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

Immigration and Freedom

User Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

Friday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

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

DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis

Host: Eric Miska

User Dr Déborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie, Paris .

Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain centers

User Gaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

It's Not All About The Science

User Dr Anna Barnes, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Black and British Migration

User Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

User Hernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

User Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Open Data and the Future of Science

User Professor Dame Sally Davies.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanisms of filopodia regulation

User Jenny Gallop, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

Friday 24 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Providing Science Advice to the Government

User Sir Mark Walport.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

User Brian Metscher (University of Vienna).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion

User Daniel Jackson (University of Göttingen).

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Decoding the Notch signal

User Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Living in the Cold

User Professor Llyod Peck.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication

Host: Sudhakaran Prabakaran

User Dr Nancy R. Gough.

Monday 13 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cartilage by 3D bioprinting of iPS cells

User Stina Simonsson, Institute of Biomedicine, Göteborg (Sweden).

Friday 10 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

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

Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro

Hosts: Alfonso Martinez-Arias & Shlomit Edri

User Dr Anestis Tsakiridis, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield .

Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders

User Emilia Santos (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

The Exponents of Change: From Artificial Intellegence to Web Science

User Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Detecting death and damage: understanding macrophage migration in Drosophila

User Will Wood, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol.

Friday 03 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Dr Kirsten Bomblies, John Innes Centre, Norwich .

Thursday 02 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Pedagogical and Real Science - the Physics Case

User Professor Malcolm Longair.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Building a young brain on Old shoulders: A story on the most primitive ventricular brain

User Elia Benito-Gutiérrez, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Bugs, Bites and Parasites

User Professor Janet Hemingway.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates

User Andrew Gillis, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

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

Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”.

User Dr Cahir O’Kane, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Perovskite Solar Cells - New Opportunities and Challenges

User Dr Olga Malinkiewicz.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cell polarity and local condensation of biomolecular condensates

User Anthony A. Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (Germany).

Friday 13 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array

User Michael Bok (University of Bristol).

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

The Origin of the Laws of Nature

User Professor Peter Atkins.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

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

Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Professor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford .

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

User Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Time and space in insect segmentation

User Erik Clark (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A battle for mitochondrial DNA transmission

User Hansong Ma, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 09 June 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Ascl1 control of neural stem cell homeostasis in the developing and adult brain

User Noelia Urban, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 02 June 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton

User Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder).

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Assembly of embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro

User Sarah Harrison, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 26 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Bridging Crumb-mediated polarity and Hippo-mediated growth by Spectrin-bound PP2A

User Graham Thomas, Center for Celluar Dynamics, PennState.

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting the functional heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells

User Elisa Laurenti, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Variable epigenetic silencing of the repeat genome: implications for non-genetic inheritance

User Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 05 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

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

Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast

Host: Marco Geymonat

User Dr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg .

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum

User Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool).

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

The genetic analysis of population-scale data

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Gil McVean, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford .

Thursday 27 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies

User Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley).

Thursday 06 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures

User Kathryn Kavanagh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth).

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes

User Ildiko Somorjai (University of St Andrews).

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Can Future Energy Needs be met Sustainably?

User Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 20:00-21:30

Reporting from Extreme Environments

User Lyse Doucet, BBC.

Friday 10 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Human embryogenesis and the first trimester intrauterine environment

User Graham Burton, Centre for Trophoblast Research, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 March 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila

User Nicolas Gompel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Extreme Ageing

User Professor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

Friday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Transcription as a driver of epigenetic transitions during oocyte development

User Gavin Kelsey, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 03 March 2017, 13:15-13:55

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

Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Peter Keightley, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh .

Thursday 02 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

The path to delivering nuclear fusion power

User Dr Fulvio Militello.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Extreme Politics

User Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Highlights from the “Deciphering the Mechanisms of Developmental Disorders (DMDD) consortium” – novel insights into gene function during embryogenesis

User Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

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

Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Dr Isabel Gordo, Evolutionary Biology Group, Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon .

Thursday 23 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton

User Kate Criswell (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Towards earlier diagnosis for cancer of the oesophagus

User Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Extremes of the Universe

User Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Exploring the mechanisms of haematopoietic lineage progression at the single-cell level

User Ana Cvejic, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

Extreme Rowing

User Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

Friday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Pluripotency at the multicellular level

User Marta Shahbazi, PDN, University of Cambridge .

Friday 10 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

User Johannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum).

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Decoding transcriptional regulation.

Host: Alexis Braun

User Dr Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

Thursday 09 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution

User Neal Anthwal (King's College London).

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Why scientists should also be revolutionaries

User Professor David Nutt.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Dealing with Extremism

User Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in brain development and cancer

User Eugene Makeyev, Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London.

Friday 03 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

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

Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Donal O’Carroll, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

User Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

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

Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier

Host: John Welch

User Dr Nicolas Galtier, University of Montpellier .

Thursday 26 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning

User Sebastian Shimeld (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

The Science of Climate Change

User Professor Joanna Haigh.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 20:00-21:30

Extreme Weather

User Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

Friday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world

User Professor Sir Michael Marmot.

Tuesday 17 January 2017, 20:00-21:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Coping with a stressful start in life

User Alex Gould The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 02 December 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

SCISOC TALK - Our cosmic origins: everything from nothing

User Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Lung Stem Cell Niche in Health and Disease

User Joo-Hyeon Lee Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 November 2016, 13:15-13:55