Biology

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

The viral capsid, a critical determinant of Enterovirus pathogenicity

User Caroline Tapparel, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis

User Leonie Luginbuehl, Hibberd group.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-13:30

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

Processing Multi-Constituent Units during Reading: Non-alphabetic languages, word segmentation, and serialism and parallelism in oculomotor control

User Simon Liversedge (University of Central Lancashire).

Thursday 18 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

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

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Chris Preston.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

The effect of maropitant on intraoperative isoflurane requirements and postoperative nausea and vomiting in dogs: a randomized clinical trial

User Adam Swallow, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 19 October 2018, 08:45-10:00

Fur seal: secrets in their faeces

User Constanza Too Valdivieso, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Friday 19 October 2018, 08:45-10:00

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

Human cognitive neuroscience and how it is taught

User Olaf Hauk (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 22 October 2018, 16:00-17:30

House The Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Adrian Seminar Series - ANNUAL LECTURE - "Transforming thought into action using bidirectional brain-machine interfaces

User Richard Andersen, California Institute of Technology.

Monday 22 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Evolution of ant social chromosomes and bumblebee diversity

User Yannick Wurm (Queen Mary University of London).

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959

User Gareth Millward (University of Warwick).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

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

A real-life gift? The practical application of increased perceptual capacity in autism.

User Dr Anna Remington, Director, Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) UCL Institute of Education, University College London.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

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

Light Sleep

User Gero Miesenboeck.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

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

Understanding human innate immune memory

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

User Dr Andreas Schlitzer,University of Bonn.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

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

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

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

User Dr Laurent Gatto (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Trypanosoma brucei as a model for flagellar assembly

User Dr Vladimir Varga, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the ASCR, Czech Republic.

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

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Towards cancer screening using circulating DNA

User Y M Dennis Lo, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How the nutrient status of the plant controls its engagement with microorganisms

User Giles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Interference and memory capacity limitations

User Ansgar Endress (City University).

Thursday 25 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

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

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Sam Buckton.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Junior Clinical Training Scholar talks

User various, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Friday 26 October 2018, 08:45-10:00

Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Joan Morris - How safe are medicines used in pregnancy?

User Professor Joan Morris, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine.

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

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Mechanisms of forgetting

User Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 29 October 2018, 16:00-17:30

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Adrian Seminar - "Probing the molecular basis of extreme physiology using African mole-rats"

User Gary Lewin, Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

Monday 29 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony. How culture made the human mind

Zoology Graduate Student's Invited Speaker

User Kevin Laland (University of St. Andrews).

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s

User Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

User David Ferreira, University of Reading.

House British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

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 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Personal Genomics

User Dr Julian Gough (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

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

Influenza virus-host cell interactions

User Nadia Naffakh, Institut Patsur, Paris, France.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

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

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

User Max Gutierrez.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

User tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

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

Emotion

User Caitlin Hitchcock (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 05 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

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

Sensory processing in autism – Core phenotypic status?

User Dr. Caroline Robertson, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth University, Director of the Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

What makes biology so cool - the wonderful tension between diversity and generalizability

User Hannah Kokko (University of Zurich).

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

Early Science and Medicine

From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century

User Jessica Hamel-Akré (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

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

Rejuvenation biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging

User Aubrey de Grey.

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

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 Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Host MHC and genomic diversity retards experimental evolution of viral virulence

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

User Professor Wayne Potts, University of Utah.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

User Dr Katherine Lawler (MRC Institute of Metabolic Science).

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cellular Mechanisms of Immunopathology vs. Protection in Human Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

User Dr Ken Gollob, Translational Immuno-oncology Group, International Center for Research, Brazil.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

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

Vaccines for Notorious Zoonotic Viruses

User Jonathan Heeney, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Kris Verheyen, University of Ghent.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Cognition in corvids and kids

User Nicky Clayton (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

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

Getting to know British reptiles

User Terry Moore.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Spectacular Chemistry of Coal

User Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 19:00-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Mathematical Modelling of Salmonella Within-Host Dynamics

User Myrto Vlazaki, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 09 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

Epidemiology of canine lymphoma in first opinion practice

User Charles Pittaway, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Friday 09 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

Sea level rise and the implications for coastal flooding

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

User Ivan Haigh, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton.

House British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Friday 09 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

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

Functional MRI: physics and physiology

User Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Adrian Seminar - "The neuromodulatory connectome: wired and wireless networks"

User William Schaefer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

User Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

User Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

User Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

User Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Sexual conflict in ecological context

User Jen Perry (University of Oxford).

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute

User Marissa Mika (University College London).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

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

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

How space constrains evolution: lessons from bacteria and bacteriophage

User Dr Diana Fusco.

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

The mutations that drive cancer

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

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

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

Generating human kidney tissue from pluripotent stem cells

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons

User Melissa Little, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Victoria, Australia.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 10:00-11:00

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

Reconstructing Tissue Architecture by Single Cell Genomics

User Sarah Teichmann.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Emily Hodges, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, USA.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

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

Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via EEG-fMRI fusion

User Marios Philiastides (University of Glasgow).

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

User Paul Dupree, Biochemistry.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Wildlife photography

User Joshua Harris, CU Nature Society.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Stress, Neophobia and Learning in Captive Dolphins

User Critina Acasuso Rivero, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 16 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

Colibactin-producing Escherichia coli in experimental neonatal infection

User Emilie Cloup, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Friday 16 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

Bradford Hill Seminar with Dr Richard Pebody - The puzzle of influenza – what can we do?

User Dr Richard Pebody, Head of Respiratory Diseases, Public Health England.

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

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

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 Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

How to give good talks

User Tom Manly (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 19 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Adrian Seminar - "Circuit principles of memory-based behaviour choice"

User Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Monday 19 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

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

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

User Carrie Partch.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Social learning? So what! Looking for evolutionary consequences of social information use.

User Rose Thorogood (University of Cambridge and University of Helsinki).

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

User Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

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 Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

T cell intrinsic role of Arginase 2 in modulating anti-tumor immunity

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

User Professor Walter Reith, University of Geneva .

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

On malaria, mitochondria, membrane proteins & mice - Developing and employing advanced experimental genetic approaches to study Plasmodium host switching

User Dr Taco Kooij, Radboud University, The Netherlands.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

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

User Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How do betalains emerge? The consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales

User Samuel Lopez, Brockington group.

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

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

A Bayesian approach to internal models

User Mate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge).

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

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

Discovering lichens

User Mark Powell.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

User tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Friday 23 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

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 Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis

User Rogier Kievit (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Adrian Seminar - "Plasticity in neural networks"

User Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London.

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

User Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

User Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

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

Towards in vivo structural biology: solving protein structures using deep mutagenesis

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer

User Ben Lehner, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Social ecology of wild birds: networks and social learning

User Ben Sheldon (University of Oxford).

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

Early Science and Medicine

Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine

User Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

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

Atypical neurogenesis and E/I precursor imbalance in autism iPSCs

User Dr Dwaipayan Adhya, Postdoctoral Research Scientist Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Visiting Scientist, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College, London .

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 10:30-11:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Stephen Tait, University of Glasgow.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

User Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit .

Thursday 29 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

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

Emerging virus spillover - overcoming the entry-barrier

User Jonathan Ball, University of Nottingham.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

User Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

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

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

Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control

User Alexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

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

Perutz Lecture- Title to be confirmed

User Eric Gouaux.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

User Martin Beck.

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

TBC [ topic: evolution and genetics of butterfly wing patterns]

User Owen McMillan, STRI.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

How ice core isotopes record the state of the climate and how we can use this for understanding past climate variations

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

User Hans Christian, University of Bergen.

House British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Teresa Tavassoli, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Ubiquitination, membrane-trafficking and the anti-trypanosomal action of apolipoprotein-L1

User Dr Sam Alsford, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

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

User Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 09:30-10:30

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

Title to be confirmed

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Craik Club

"Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision"

User Professor Givago Souza, University of Belém, Brazil.

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

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Alarm calls and interspecific eavesdropping

User Pat Magrath (Australian National University).

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

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

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

User Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Thursday 13 December 2018, 09:30-10:30

Diary of a Diabetic cat

User Prof Clare Bryant, Prof Mike Herrtage, Dr Tim Williams.

Friday 14 December 2018, 08:45-10:00

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr Mike Scott, Department of Haematology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 03 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

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

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

Exploring self-injury in autism spectrum conditions

User Rachel Moseley, Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr Bristi Basu, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Chris Illingworth

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Title to be confirmed

User Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

User Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cell surface profiling reveals the what, where and how of a host-parasite interface

User Dr Catarina Gadelha, University of Nottingham.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr Christine Parkinson, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Jane Charlesworth

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

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

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Past, present and future of Drosophila Research

User Cambridge Fly Symposium.

House Wolfson College.

Monday 28 January 2019, 12:00-22:00

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Ben Simons

User Bi-Sen Ding, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar and Dr Helen Hatcher, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Ana Pombo, MDC Berlin.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Berta Verd

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr Ferdia Gallagher, Department of Radiology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 07 February 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 13 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Developing new genetic tools to unravel Cryptosporidium transmission

User Dr Mattie Pawlowi, University of Dundee.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Molly Przeworski from Columbia University, New York .

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

Deciphering the regulation of Plasmodium falciparum replication

User Dr Markus Ganter, Heidelberg University Hospital .

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

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

User Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Emily Bernstein, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Liquid biopsy biomarkers for early detection; general principles and specific examples

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

User Dr Charlie Massie, Early Detection Programme.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Sam Lewis

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

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

Systematic strategies for proteome mining and antimicrobial discovery

User Dr Matthew Child, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

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

User Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Thursday 07 March 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 13 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

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

User Dr Barry Davies, AstraZeneca.

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Thursday 14 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Michael Kenny - Title TBC

User Professor Michael Kenny, Director of Bennett Institute of Public Policy.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Isabelle Tardieux, Universite ́ Grenoble.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

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

User Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Martin Hemberg

User Chris Burge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Gloria Rudenko, Imperial College London.

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

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

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

User Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 28 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Tak Mak, UHN, Toronto.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Epigenetics and schistosome development and infection success

User Prof Christoph Granau, University of Perpignan via Domitia.

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

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr Charlotte Coles (University of Cambridge) Breast Cancer Programme.

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

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Dr Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

The Anne McLaren Lecture

Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins

User Janet Rossant, University of Toronto, Canada.

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

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Professor Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Karl Hoffmann, Aberystwyth University.

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

Title to be confirmed

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.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Alexis Braun

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Helen Price, Keele University.

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

Title to be confirmed

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

User Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Azim Surani

User Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University, NY, USA.

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

Title to be confirmed

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Title to be confirmed

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Chris Sander, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

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

Thursday 26 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Valerie M Weaver, University of California, San Francisco.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Amos Tanay, Weitzmann Institute.