MRC LMB Seminar list

Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture: The emerging world of microbial rhodopsins in photobiology

Keiichi Inoue, Associate Professor, The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo.

Webinar - register at https://nanoscience.oxinst.com/campaigns/sir-martin-wood-prize-lecture.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Bioelectrocatalysis in porous electrodes: The local environment may be more basic (and complex) than it appears

Sam Cobb, Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Reisner Lab.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Aylwyn Scally

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

Zoom meeting.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Local Unitarity: a representation of differential cross-sections that is locally free of infrared singularities at any order

Ben Ruijl.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

Online Lecture

Professor Tim Benton Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

"Climate change is not a game... but what if it was?"

Dr Michela Leonardi .

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:15-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Infrared renormalons in top-mass sensitive observables and kinematic distributions at the LHC

Silvia Ferrario Ravasio, University of Oxford.

https://cern.zoom.us/j/99606064308?pwd=UjZKZ1c2dTV3WHRBcWlnQ2Fld0F1dz09.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exploring the vibrational properties of anharmonic crystals

Mark Johnson (Theory of Condensed Matter).

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:30-12:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

David Furman.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 13:10-14:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Charting the Fifth Force Landscape

Hannah Banks (DAMTP).

Virtual Seminar .

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Sagar Vijay, UC Santa Barbara.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Translation defects and neurological disease

Susan L Ackerman, PhD. Professor, Cellular and Molecular Biology Steven W. Kuffler Chair of Biology University of California San Diego USA/HHMI.

Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/95280655660?pwd=RzhzSlQvWXFVS1dVdURPUUxocElkQT09 Passcode: 628922.

Tuesday 08 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids

Host: Hansong Ma

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Physics and ML

Prof. Max Tegmark (MIT).

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: John Welch

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Financial History Seminar

The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation

Professor Charles Goodhart (LSE) and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro).

Zoom.

Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

Dr Debora Sijacki. Institute of Astronomy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hunt for Exoplanets

Professor Didier Queloz, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 08 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.

Host: Ben Steventon

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf .

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Financial History Seminar

'Where's the money coming from?' Manifesto costings and fiscal credibility in British general elections, 1955-2019

Dr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 15 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Frank Jiggins

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The electron-ion collider: A collider to unravel the mysteries of visible matter

Aschenauer Elke-Caroline (BNL).

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE - title to be confirmed

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

Ms Rose George, Journalist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Financial History Seminar

Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939

William Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research).

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Professor Sadaf Farooqi - title to be confirmed

Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Department of Medicine.

Time and venue to be confirmed.

Monday 01 March 2021, 18:00-19:00

Genetics Seminar

Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair

Host: Hansong Ma

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

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 13:30-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Zoom meeting.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Financial History Seminar

HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009

Dr Eleanor Hallam, HM Treasury and Centre for Financial History.

Zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Networks for new physics

Holly Pacey (University of Cambridge).

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum Informatics amd Quantum Technologies - One day meeting

Organised by : Professor Ron Horgan and Professor Adrian Kent.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Friday 26 March 2021, 09:00-17:15

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

Zoom meeting.

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

Financial History Seminar

The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage

Dr Jenny Pleinen, German Historical Institute London.

Zoom.

Monday 03 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara

Professor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco.

Zoom meeting.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Cahir O'Kane

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

Zoom meeting.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Julia Wolf - title to be confirmed

Dr Julia Wolf, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

Time and venue to be confirmed.

Monday 08 November 2021, 18:00-19:00