Biology

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Fish 'n' HIFs: Hypoxia signalling in zebrafish models of infection and inflammation

Host: Dr Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

User Dr Philip Elks, University of Birmingham .

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Benefits of the collective: how the group protects individual members in costly decisions

User Dr Marwa El Zein.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

The role of transcription factors in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Functional interactions between components involved in alphavirus regulation

User Andres Merits, University of Tartu, Estonia.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

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 .

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

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

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Learning to read words: from novice to expert

User Kate Nation (University of Oxford).

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Linking the microbiome to the resistome in complex microbial communities

User Dr Lajos Kalmar, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 26 April 2019, 08:45-10:00

Thoughts on discussing clinical ethics with students during rotations

User Peter Fordyce, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Friday 26 April 2019, 08:45-10:00

Cellular Conversations that Control Cancer

***Please note this seminar is on a Friday***

User Thea D Tlsty, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0511.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 26 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series - CryoEM of proton pumping macromolecular machines

User John Rubinstein.

Monday 29 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

“The Robot will see you now.” Has the time for surgical robots arrived?

User Mr. Mark Slack, CMR Surgical and University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 29 April 2019, 19:30-21:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: The blastocyst and its stem cells; from mouse to human relevance

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

User Janet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada.

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Regulators of chicken B cell development – basic research and application

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

User Dr. Sonja Härtle, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich.

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

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serious Ovarian Cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Merkel cell polyomavirus: the role of the early gene products during viral life cycle and Merkel cell cancer pathogenesis

User Nicole Fischer, University of Hamburg, Germany.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

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 .

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

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

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain

User Matt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

User Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

A meta-analysis of public available 16S datasets reveals new insights into interactions between gut microbiome and parasites

User Ricardo Scotti, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 03 May 2019, 08:45-10:00

Adipose tissue from surgical waste to valuable source of mesenchymal stem cells: Bone tissue engineering prospective.

User Sara Elsayed, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 03 May 2019, 08:45-10:00

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series - Title TBC

User David Rudner, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School.

Friday 03 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Surveillance, detection and response to emerging International Health Emergencies: the role of the WHO

User Dr Oliver Morgan, World Health Organisation .

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University.

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Antigen receptor repertoires and specificities at single-cell resolution

Host: Dr Bidesh Mahata (bm11@sanger.ac.uk)

User Dr Mike Stubbington, 10X Genomics.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Karl Hoffmann, Aberystwyth University.

House Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend

User Dr Grant Stewart, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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

Thursday 09 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

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 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Talk title tbc

User Alexa Morcom .

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 10 May 2019, 08:45-10:00

Gene eating

User Dr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 13 May 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be Confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Adaptive immunity in wild songbirds

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Helena Westerdahl, Lund University,Sweden.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Skin pharmacokinetics and anti-parasitic pharmacodynamics: towards the design of new treatments for cutaneous leishmaniasis

User Dr Katrien Van Bocxlaer, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

House Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

Thursday 16 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series - Modifications of RNA: their function and role in cancer

User Tony Kouzarides, PhD FRS FMedSci, Professor of Cancer Biology, Cancer Research UK Gibb Fellow, Director of the Milner Therapeutics Institute, Member of the Department of Pathology.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Transposable elements as catalysts of cellular innovation

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Azim Surani

User Cédric Feschotte, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory

User Sarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex).

Thursday 16 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JUNIOR CLINICAL TRAINING SCHOLARS PRESENTATIONS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Friday 17 May 2019, 08:45-10:00

Spatio-temporal dynamics of cell fate specification and differentiation in the zebrafish embryo

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Philip Zegerman

User Philip W Ingham, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Imperial College London - Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Dr Bidesh Mahata (bm11@sanger.ac.uk)

User Dr David Withers, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Birmingham.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Is the child the father of the political man?

User Dr. Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway University of London.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Parasitology Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Jean-Mathieu Bart, Institute of Research for Development, France.

House Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

The clinical and biological basis of prostate cancer - from diagnosis to personalised therapy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Regulating the balance of cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation through the viral GPCR US28

User Christine O'Connor, Cleveland Clinic, USA.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Talk title tbc

User Lorina Naci (Trinity College, Dublin).

Thursday 23 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series - The 100,000 genomes project and beyond

User Tim Hubbard, Professor of Bioinformatics & Head of Department, King’s College London.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JUNIOR CLINICAL TRAINING SCHOLARS PRESENTATIONS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 24 May 2019, 08:45-10:00

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series - Towards a mechanistic understanding of cellular processes by cryo-EM

User Gaia Pigino, Research Group Leader at the MPI-CBG.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr John Herrington, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Uterine immunity one cell at a time

Host: Dr Bidesh Mahata (bm11@sanger.ac.uk)

User Dr Roser Vento-Tormo, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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

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

Inside-out: How emotions are perceived in the face

User Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning

User Milena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin).

Thursday 30 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

User Rasiqh Wadud, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 31 May 2019, 08:45-10:00

Title to be confirmed

User Michelle Miniter, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 31 May 2019, 08:45-10:00

Clinical Treatment and Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Malignant Glioma

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Studying viruses in people using mathematics

User Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge).

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Talk title tbc

User Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge).

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Friday 07 June 2019, 08:45-10:00

Governance or government? How should researchers understand the policy process?

User Professor Michael Kenny, Bennett Institite for Public Policy.

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 07 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

User Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Digitally Distracted

User Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL).

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Paediatric Malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Amos Burke, Clinical Consultant - Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teens

User Lisa-Marie Henderson (University of York).

Thursday 13 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series - Title TBC

User Xiaodong Zhang.

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

The childhood cancer genome

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Sam Behjati - Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and WTSI.

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

Thursday 20 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Chris Sander, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovative engineering: From the Antikythera Mechanism to the Square Kilometer Array

User Prof. Danielle George, University of Manchester.

House Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 24 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them. A basic research perspective

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Marc de la Roche, Lecturer - Department of Biochemistry.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

'Hitchin' a ride: how herpesviruses modulate host-cell membrane trafficking

User Dr Stephen Graham (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Lung Cancer: Part 1. Patient pathway and intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Robert Rintoul -Clinical Consultant, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Dr Frank McCaughan-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow / Honorary Consultant,Department of Biochemistry School of Clinical Medicine .

Thursday 04 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 10:30-11:30

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Raaj Praseedom - Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team..

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Raaj Praseedom.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

The AKT inhibitor Capivasertib (AZD5363): From Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Barry Davies - Director, Clinical and Translational Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

User Dr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Thursday 25 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Anna Obenauf from Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 16 September 2019, 13:00-14:00